TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – MARCH 10
1535 Bishop Tomás de Berlanga discovers Galápagos Islands
1629 King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he called it back 11 years later
1656 In the colony of Virginia, suffrage is extended to all free men regardless of their religion.
1681 English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania
1776 “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine is published.
1783 USS Alliance under Captain Barry fights and wins last naval battle of US Revolutionary War off Cape Canaveral
1791 John Stone, Concord MA, patents a pile driver
1848 The treaty of Guadeloupe-Hidalgo is signed which ends the United States’ war with Mexico.
1864 U. S. Grant became commander of the Union armies during the Civil War.
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.
1902 The U.S. Court ruled that Thomas Edison was not the original inventor of the movie camera. However, it was ruled that he had created the sprocket system used to move film through the camera.
1924 The U.S. Supreme Court upholds a New York state law forbidding late-night work for women.
1933 Nevada becomes the first U.S. state to regulate drugs.
1947 The Big Four meet in Moscow to discuss the future of Germany.
1952 Military coup led by General Fulgencio Batista in Cuba
1953 North Korean gunners at Wonsan fire on the USS Missouri, the ship responds by firing 998 rounds at the enemy position.
1959 A revolt erupts in Lhasa, sparking the Tibetan uprising
Fearing the Dalai Lama’s abduction by China, 300,000 Tibetans surrounded his palace.
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.
1993 Dr. David Gunn is murdered by an anti-abortion activist ( Michael F. Griffin ) outside a Pensacola, Fla., abortion clinic.
1995 Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shiite mosque, 17+ killed
2000 The NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signalling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom
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