Today In History - March 10

1526 Emperor Charles V marries princess Isabella of Portugal
1535 Bishop Tomas de Berlanga discovers Galapagos Islands
1578 Queen Elizabeth I gives Johan Casimir 20,000 pounds to aid Dutch rebellion
1624 England declares war on Spain
1629 King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he called it back 11 years later
1661 French King Louis XIV ends office of premier
1789 Franklin College founded
1791 John Stone, Concord, Massachusetts, patents a pile driver
1791 Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy
1847 1st money minted in Hawaii
1849 Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only U.S. president to do so
1862 Great Britain and France recognizes independence of Zanzibar
1864 Grant is named commander of the Union armies
1864 Red River campaign LA
1865 Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, North Carolina
1880 General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria
1880 Salvation Army of England sets up U.S. welfare and religious activity
1888 1st performance of Cesar Franck's "Psyche"
1888 HW Boxing champ John L Sullivan draws Charlie Mitchell in 30 rounds
1893 Ivory Coast becomes a French colony
1896 Bronx acquires O'Brien Square
1896 Charilaos Vasilakos of Greece wins 1st modern marathon in 3:18
1902 Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri
1903 Harry Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating machine
1903 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Montreal AAA in 2 games
1906 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Sonatine"
1906 Coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres France
1909 Jack Johnson fights Victor McLaglen to no decision in 6 for box title
1910 China ends slavery
1910 Pittsburgh Courier, begins publishing
1913 William Knox, becomes 1st in American Bowling Congress to bowl 300
1914 Suffragettes in London damages painter Rokeby's Venus of Velasquez
1915 British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle
1920 NHL's Quebec Bulldog Jim Malone scores 6 goals vs Ottawa Senators
1922 KLZ-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
1922 State of siege proclaimed during mine strike Johannesburg, South Africa
1925 Walter Mittelholzer is 1st to flies over Demawend mountain, Iran
1926 Run on Belgian banks
1927 Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian and Slovenes
1927 Bavaria lifts ban on Hitler's speeches
1931 British Labour party removes fascist Sir Oswald Mosley
1933 Major earthquake in Long Beach, California
1933 Nevada becomes 1st U.S. state to regulate narcotics
1934 U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Suzanne Davis
1934 U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
1939 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad India
1940 1st U.S. opera telecast, W2XBS, New York City, I Pagliacci
1941 Lee MacPhail, Dodger GM predicts all players will wear batting helmets
1945 Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine
1945 Japan declares Vietnam Independence
1945 Patton's 3rd Army makes contact with Hodge's 1st Army
1945 Tokyo in fire after night time B-29 bombing
1945 U.S. troops lands on Mindanao
1946 Train derailment kills 185 near Aracaju Brazil
1948 1st civilian to exceed speed of sound-Herb H Hoover, Edwards AFB Ca
1951 "Where's Charley?" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 56 performances
1951 FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner
1952 Military coup by general Fulgencio Batista in Cuba
1956 General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of archbishop Makarios
1957 Thousands of soccer fans riot in Italy
1959 Dorothy Comiskey Rigney, sells 54% of White Sox to Bill Veeck
1959 Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth," premieres in New York City
1959 Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet
1960 U.S.S.R. agrees to stop nuclear testing
1963 Pete Rose debuts with hits in his 2 1st at bats in spring training
1963 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA San Francisco Warriors scores 70 points vs. Syracuse
1964 U.S. reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany
1965 Dutch Princess Margriet and Pieter van Vollenhoven, get engaged
1966 5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires
1966 Dutch crown princess Beatrix marries Claus von Amsberg
1966 North Vietnamese capture U.S. Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley
1969 James Earl Ray pleads guilty in murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.
1970 Barbra Streisand records "The Singer" and "I Can Do It"
1970 South Africa complete 4-0 series drubbing of Australia
1971 Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18
1972 1st black U.S. political convention opens in Gary, Indiana
1972 Gen Lon Nol becomes President and prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia
1972 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
1973 BPAA U.S. Open by Mike McGrath
1973 Morocco adopts constitution
1974 "Sextet" closes at Bijou Theater New York City after 9 performances
1974 Christian Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election
1974 Lawrence Rowe completes 302 vs. Eng Bridgetown, 36 fours 1 six
1975 "Rocky Horror Show" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 45 performances
1975 Dog spectacles patented in England
1977 Rings of Uranus discovered during occultation of SAO
1978 Soyuz 28 returns to Earth
1980 Willard Scott becomes the weather forcaster on the Today Show
1982 President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
1982 Sygyzy: all 9 planets aligned on same side of Sun
1982 Travis Jackson and Happy Chandler elected to Hall of Fame
1983 Walter Alston, Dodgers manager, elected to Hall of Fame
1985 Bonnie Lauer wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational
1985 Dallas Maverick coach Dick Motta is 4th NBA coach to win 700 games
1986 Ernie Lombardi, NL MVP in 1938, and Bobby Doerr, elected to Hall of Fame
1987 Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization and embryo transfer
1988 Avalanche at Klosters, a Swiss Ski resort, nearly kills Prince Charles
1988 New York Islanders celebrate Mike Bossy night
1990 4th American Comedy Award: When Harry Met Sally
1990 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1991 Eddie Sutton is 1st NCAA coach to lead 4 schools into playoffs
1991 Laura Davies wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
1991 Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg clinches his 4th slalom World Cup
1992 6th Soul Train Music Awards: Natalie Cole and Color Me Badd win
1994 1 million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri's funeral
1995 Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shite mosque, 17+ killed
1995 Chiel Meijering's "St. Louis Blues," premieres in Arnhem
1995 Dow-Jones hits record 4035.64
1996 22nd People's Choice Awards: Apollo 13, Tom Hanks wins
1996 New York City Mayor Guiliani visits Israel

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