March 10

Events

• 241 BC - First Punic War: Battle of Aegusa[?] - The Roman fleet sinks 50 Carthaginian ships.
• 1496 - Christopher Columbus leaves Hispaniola for Spain, ending his second visit to the Western Hemisphere.
• 1629 - Charles I of England dissolves Parliament starting the Eleven Years Tyranny[?] in which there was no parliament.
• 1804 - Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
• 1814 - Napoleon I of France is defeated at the Battle of Laon[?] in France.
• 1848 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican-American War.
• 1864 - American Civil War: The Red River Campaign[?] begins as Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
• 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
• 1880 - Members of the Salvation Army land in the United States and begin operations.
• 1893 - Ivory Coast becomes a French colony
• 1902 - Boer War: South African Boers win their last battle over British forces, with the capture of a British general and 200 of his men.
• 1902 - A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera (see Edison v. American Mutoscope[?])
• 1912 - China becomes a republic following the overthrow of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
• 1945 - World War II: In Japan, American B-29 bombers fire-bomb Tokyo killing 100,000.
• 1952 - Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba
• 1966 - Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands marries Claus von Amsberg.
• 1969 - In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. Ray would later retract his guilty plea.
• 1975 - Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thout[?], South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.
• 1982 - The United States places an embargo on Libyan oil imports because of their support of terrorist groups.
• 1982 - Syzygy[?]: all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun
• 1987 - Reproductive rights[?]: The Vatican condemns the practice of surrogate motherhood along with test-tube babies and artificial insemination.
• 1990 - 18 months after seizing power in a coup, Prosper Avril[?] is ousted in Haiti.
• 1991 - Gulf War: Operation Phase Echo[?] - 540,000 American troops begin to leave the Persian Gulf.
• 1998 - American troops stationed in the Persian Gulf begin to receive the first vaccinations against anthrax.

Births

• 1772 - Friedrich von Schlegel, aesthetician, poet, and publicist (+ 1829)
• 1776 - Louise[?], queen of Prussia (+ 1810)
• 1788 - Joseph von Eichendorff[?], lyricist and narrator (+ 1857)
• 1848 - Albert Fraenkel[?], physician (+ 1916)
• 1880 - Broncho Billy Anderson[?], actor (+ 1971)
• 1888 - Barry Fitzgerald, actor (+ 1966)
• 1891 - Sam Jaffe[?], actor (+ 1984)
• 1892 - Arthur Honegger, composer (+ 1955)
• 1892 - Gregory La Cava[?], director, producer, writer (+ 1952)
• 1903 - Bix Beiderbecke, jazz musician (+ 1931)
• 1903 - Clare Booth Luce[?], publisher, writer (+ 1987)
• 1918 - Heywood Hale Broun[?], sports journalist, commentator (+ 2001)
• 1927 - Paul Wunderlich[?], painter, graphic artist, sculptor
• 1927 - Jupp Derwall[?], football coach
• 1928 - James Earl Ray, assassin (+ 1998)
• 1940 - Dean Torrence[?], musician ("Jan and Dean")
• 1940 - Chuck Norris, actor, martial arts practitioner
• 1947 - Kim Campbell, nineteenth Prime Minister of Canada and first woman to hold that office
• 1957 - Osama Bin Laden, terrorist
• 1958 - Sharon Stone, actress
• 1963 - Neneh Cherry[?], musician
• 1964 - Edward, Earl of Wessex
• 1966 - Edie Brickell[?], singer

Deaths

• 1913 - Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad conductor, anti-slavery activist
• 1940 - Mikhaïl Boulgakov[?], Russian writer
• 1948 - Zelda Fitzgerald[?] (Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald)
• 1948 - Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia
• 1973 - Eugene 'Bull' Connor[?], segregationist
• 1985 - Konstantin Chernenko, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• 1986 - Ray Milland, British actor
• 1988 - Andy Gibb, singer
• 1996 - Ross Hunter[?], producer
• 1997 - La Vern Baker[?], singer
• 1998 - Lloyd Bridges[?], actor

• Girl Scout[?] Sunday

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