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Historic Moments: Bigelow, Bell, and Civil Rights Unfold

3/7/2026

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Kathryn Bigelow, the film director, became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director for The Hurt Locker in 2010.
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor, received the patent for the telephone in 1876, enabling modern communication.
In 1936, Hitler's troops violated the Treaty of Versailles by marching into the Rhineland.
The 1965 civil rights march at Selma, Alabama, was violently disrupted, later known as Bloody Sunday.

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Kathryn Bigelow, the film director, became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director for The Hurt Locker in 2010.
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor, received the patent for the telephone in 1876, enabling modern communication.
In 1936, Hitler's troops violated the Treaty of Versailles by marching into the Rhineland.
The 1965 civil rights march at Selma, Alabama, was violently disrupted, later known as Bloody Sunday.