TODAY HISTORY LESSON: MARCH 10
0049 Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon and invades Italy.
0241 The Roman fleet sinks 50 Carthaginian ships in the Battle of Aegusa.
0418 Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire
0515 The building of the great Jewish temple in Jerusalem is completed.
1535 Bishop Tomás de Berlanga discovers Galápagos Islands
1629 Charles I of England dissolves Parliament and rules alone for 11 years.
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.
1848 The treaty of Guadeloupe-Hidalgo is signed which ends the United States’ war with Mexico.
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.
1948 The body of Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakia’s anti-Communist foreign minister was found. Officially a suicide, the real cause of death has never been proven.
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 was sentenced in Memphis, Tennessee, to 99 years in prison for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., in April 1968.
1971 The Senate approves a Constitutional amendment to lower the voting age to 18.
1975 Dog spectacles patented in England
1977 Rings of Uranus discovered during occultation of SAO
1982 The United States bans Libyan oil imports, because of the continued support of terrorism.
1994 White House officials began testifying before a federal grand jury about the Whitewater controversy.
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
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.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
