TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – MARCH 10
515 BC The building of the great Jewish temple in Jerusalem is completed.
241 BC The Roman fleet sinks 50 Carthaginian ships in the Battle of Aegusa.
49 BC Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon and invades Italy.
1629 Charles I of England dissolves Parliament and rules alone for 11 years.
1656 In the colony of Virginia, suffrage is extended to all free men regardless of their religion.
1776 “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine is published.
1792 John Stone patented the pile driver.
1848 The treaty of Guadeloupe-Hidalgo is signed which ends the United States’ war with Mexico.
1849 Abraham Lincoln applied for a patent for a device to lift vessels over shoals by means of inflated cylinders.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell makes the first telephone call to Thomas Watson saying “Watson, come here. I need you.”
1893 New Mexico State University cancels its first graduation ceremony, because the only graduate was robbed and killed the night before.
1920 Home Rule Act passed by the British Parliament, dividing Ireland into two parts; it is rejected by the southern counties, where the Ango-Irish war continues for a year
1924 The U.S. Supreme Court upholds a New York state law forbidding late-night work for women.
1927 Prussia lifts its Nazi ban, Adolf Hitler is allowed to speak in public.
1933 Nevada becomes the first U.S. state to regulate drugs.
1947 The Big Four meet in Moscow to discuss the future of Germany.
1949 Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as “Axis Sally,” was convicted in Washington, DC. Gillars was convicted of treason and served 12 years in prison.
1953 North Korean gunners at Wonsan fire on the USS Missouri, the ship responds by firing 998 rounds at the enemy position.
1954 President Dwight Eisenhower calls Senator Joseph McCarthy a peril to the Republican Party.
1966 France withdrew from NATO’s military command to protest U.S. dominance of the alliance and asked NATO to move its headquarters from Paris.
1969 James Earl Ray pleads guilty to the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King and is sentenced to 99 years in jail.
1971 The Senate approves a Constitutional amendment to lower the voting age to 18.
1982 The United States bans Libyan oil imports, because of the continued support of terrorism.
1987 The Vatican condemns surrogate parenting as well as test-tube and artificial insemination.
1991 “Phase Echo” began. It was the operation to withdraw 540,000 U.S. troops from the Persian Gulf region.
1994 White House officials began testifying before a federal grand jury about the Whitewater controversy.
1995 U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher told Yasser Arafat that he must do more to curb Palestinian terrorists.
1998 U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf began receiving the first vaccinations against anthrax.
2000 The dotcom bubble bursts when the NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5408.60
2002 The Associated Press reported that the Pentagon informed the U.S. Congress in January that it was making contingency plans for the possible use of nuclear weapons against countries that threaten the U.S. with weapons of mass destruction, including Iraq and North Korea
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