TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – MARCH 10
0049 Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon and invades Italy.
0515 The building of the great Jewish temple in Jerusalem is completed.
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.
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.
1791 John Stone, Concord MA, patents a pile driver
1876 The first telephone call (“Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.”) was made by Alexander Graham Bell.
1880 Salvation Army of England sets up US welfare & religious activity
1893 New Mexico State University cancels its first graduation ceremony, because the only graduate was robbed and killed the night before.
1902 This was the day that a case regarding the invention of the movie camera was decided. 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.
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.
1933 Nevada becomes the first U.S. state to regulate drugs.
1951 FBI director J Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner
1953 North Korean gunners at Wonsan fire on the USS Missouri, the ship responds by firing 998 rounds at the enemy position
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.
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
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