Historical Events on March 10

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• 241 BC First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end
• 418 Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire
• 1535 Bishop Tomés de Berlanga discovers the Galapagos Islands

• 1624 England declares war on Spain

• 1697 Tsar Peter the Great of Russia begins a tour of Western Europe
• 1734 Spanish army under Don Carlos (III) draws into Naples
• 1735 An agreement between Nadir Shah and Paul I of Russia is signed near Ganja and Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku

• 1783 USS Alliance under Captain Barry fights and wins last naval battle of US Revolutionary War off Cape Canaveral
• 1791 John Stone of Concord, Massachusetts, patents a pile driver
• 1791 Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy
• 1801 First official census in Great Britain, revealing a population of approximately 10 million
• 1830 The KNIL also known as the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created
• 1831 The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria
• 1847 1st money minted in Hawaii

• 1861 West African political leader El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Segou, destroying the Bambara Empire of Mali
• 1862 Great Britain & France recognise independence of Zanzibar
• 1862 US issues 1st paper money ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 & $1000)
• 1864 Ullyses Grant is named commander of the Union armies
• 1864 Red River campaign begun in Louisiana by Union forces
• 1865 Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, NC
• 1874 Purdue University (Indiana) admits its 1st student

• 1880 Salvation Army of England sets up US welfare & religious activity
• 1888 1st performance of Caesar Franck's "Psyche"
• 1888 Heavyweight Boxing champ John L Sullivan draws Charlie Mitchell in 30 rounds
• 1891 Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching
• 1893 Ivory Coast becomes a French colony (Cote d'Ivoire)
• 1893 New Mexico State University cancels its 1st graduation ceremony; its only graduand Sam Steele was robbed & killed the night before
• 1896 Bronx acquires O'Brien Square
• 1896 Charilaos Vasilakos of Greece wins 1st modern marathon in 3:18 [OS]
• 1896 After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world Heavyweight championship he says, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall"
• 1900 Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2 games
• 1900 Battle at Driefontein, South Africa (Boers vs British army)
• 1900 Regents for the King of Uganda and leading chiefs sign a treaty with Great Britain agreeing to the organization of the government, taxation, courts, military, and other functions of their country, which is under British protection.
• 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
• 1905 Japanese Army captures Mukden (Shenyang)
• 1906 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Sonatine"
• 1906 Coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres, France
• 1906 Baker Street & Waterloo Railway opens, constructed by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London. The contraction Bakerloo became the official name in July 1906.

• 1910 Republic of China officailly abolishes slavery
• 1910 Pittsburgh Courier begins publishing
• 1913 Stanley Cup: Quebec Bulldogs sweep Sydney (NS) Millionaires in 2 games


• 1913 William Knox becomes 1st in American Bowling Congress to bowl 300
• 1914 Suffragettes in London damage Rokeby's painting Venus of Velasquez
• 1915 British Army captures Neuve Chapelle, Belgium
• 1917 Batangas was formally founded as one of the Philippines's earliest encomiendas

• 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
• 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 mobilizes due to threats from the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes

• 1928 Christine Collins' son, Walter Collins, disappears in Los Angeles
• 1931 Oswald Mosley leaves British Labour party and founds the "New Party"
• 1933 Major earthquake in Long Beach, California
• 1933 Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics
• 1934 Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history ends - 18 games with 15 wins, 3 ties
• 1934 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Suzanne Davis
• 1934 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner

• 1939 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad, India
• 1940 1st US opera telecast, W2XBS, NYC, I Pagliacci
• 1941 Lee MacPhail, Dodger GM predicts all players will wear batting helmets
• 1944 U-575 sinks British corvette HMS Asphodel in the Atlantic Ocean killing 92 of the 97 men aboard

• 1945 Germany blows up Wessel Bridge on Rhine
• 1945 Japan grants occupied Vietnam independence

• 1945 US troops land in western Mindanao, Philippines in Operation VICTOR IV
• 1946 Train derailment kills 185 near Aracaju, northeast Brazil
• 1948 1st civilian to exceed speed of sound-Herb H Hoover, Edwards AFB Ca

• 1949 Detroit Tiger pitcher Art Houtteman is critically injured in an auto accident but recovers to win 15 games in 1949
• 1951 "Where's Charley?" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 56 performances

• 1956 General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of archbishop Makarios
• 1956 Peter Twiss sets new world air record 1,132 mph (1,823 kph)
• 1957 Thousands of soccer fans riot in Italy
• 1959 Dorothy Comiskey Rigney, sells 54% of White Sox to Bill Veeck

• 1959 Tibetan uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa, Tibet
• 1960 USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing

• 1962 Due to its no black policy, Phillies leave Jack Tar Harrison Hotel & move to Rocky Point Motel, 20 miles outside Clearwater, Florida

• 1964 US reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany
• 1964 Simon and Garfunkel record the first version of "The Sound of Silence" at Columbia Studios in New York City
• 1965 Dutch Princess Margriet & Pieter van Vollenhoven get engaged
• 1965 "I've Got a Tiger By the Tail" album by Buck Owens is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1965)
• 1966 5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires
• 1966 North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley
• 1968 North Vietnamese and communist Laotion troops overrun a secret US radar facility, Lima Site 85, on a Laos mountaintop
• 1969 James Earl Ray pleads guilty to murder of Martin Luther King Jr

• 1970 South Africa complete 4-0 series drubbing of Australia
• 1970 Members of the Stormont Parliament of Northern Ireland given police protection
• 1971 US Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18
• 1971 Three members of the Royal Highland Fusiliers (a regiment of the British Army) are killed by members of the Irish Republican Army
• 1972 1st black US political convention opens in Gary, Indiana
• 1972 General Lon Nol becomes President & Prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia
• 1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1973 BPAA US Open by Mike McGrath
• 1973 Morocco adopts constitution
• 1973 20th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Maryland, 76-74
• 1974 "Sextet" closes at Bijou Theater NYC after 9 performances
• 1974 Christian Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election
• 1974 Lawrence Rowe completes 302 v Eng Bridgetown, 36 fours 1 six
• 1975 "The Rocky Horror Show" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances
• 1975 Dog spectacles patented in England
• 1975 Sanyo Shinkansen open between Osaka and Fukuoka.
• 1977 Rings of Uranus discovered during occulation of SAO
• 1977 CBS' premiere of "A Circle of Children", starring Jane Alexander and based on the life and book about this by Mary Mac Cracken
• 1978 Soyuz 28 returns to Earth

• 1980 Willard Scott becomes the weather forcaster on the Today Show
• 1981 "Bette Davis Eyes" single released by Kim Carnes (Billboard Song of the Year 1981)

• 1982 Salim Malik scores 100 in 2nd inning of Test Cricket debut (v SL)
• 1982 Sygyzy: all 9 planets aligned on same side of Sun
• 1982 Travis Jackson & Happy Chandler elected to Hall of Fame
• 1982 The United States places an embargo on Libyan petroleum imports because of their support of terrorist groups.

• 1983 Walter Alston, Dodgers manager, elected to Hall of Fame
• 1984 Heavyweight Tim Witherspoon KOs Greg Page
• 1984 25th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Auburn, 51-49
• 1984 5th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgetown beats Syracuse, 82-71 (OT)
• 1985 Bonnie Lauer wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational
• 1985 Dallas Maverick coach Dick Motta is 4th NBA coach to win 700 games
• 1985 French socialists lose election (National Front 9%)
• 1985 Ice Pairs Championship at Tokyo won by Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev (Soviet Union)
• 1985 India beat Pakistan to win "World Championship of Cricket"
• 1985 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Alexandr Fadeev (URS)
• 1985 32nd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgia Tech beats North Carolina, 57-54
• 1986 Ernie Lombardi, NL MVP in 1938, & Bobby Doerr, elected to Hall of Fame
• 1987 Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization & embryo transfer

• 1990 4th American Comedy Award: "When Harry Met Sally"
• 1990 Ice Dance Championship at Halifax won by Klimova & Ponomarenko (Soviet Union)
• 1990 Ice Pairs Championship at Halifax won by Gordeeva & Grinkov (URS)
• 1990 Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Halifax won by Jill Trenary (USA)
• 1990 Prosper Avril resigns as President of Haiti
• 1990 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Halifax won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
• 1990 US 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
• 1991 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 m indoor (22.24 sec)
• 1991 Rico Lieder, Jens Carlowitz, Karsten Just and Thomas Schonlebe walk 4x400m indoor world record (3:03.05)
• 1991 38th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #7 North Carolina beats #6 Duke, 96-74
• 1991 32nd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats Tennessee, 88-69
• 1991 12th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Seton Hall beats Georgetown, 74-62

• 1992 Sandra Seuser, Katrin Schreiter, Annet Hesselbarth and Grit Breuer walk female indoor world record 4x400m (3:27.22)
• 1992 "Come and Talk to Me" single released by Jodeci (Billboard Song of the Year 1992)
• 1994 1 million Greeks attend actress and activist Melina Mercouri's funeral
• 1995 Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shiite mosque, 17+ killed
• 1995 Chiel Meijering's "St Louis Blues" premieres in Arnhem
• 1996 22nd People's Choice Awards: Tom Hanks & Demi Moore win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Candice Bergen win (TV)
• 1996 NYC Mayor Rudy Guiliani visits Israel
• 1996 43rd ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #12 Wake Forest beats #18 Georgia Tech, 75-74
• 1996 37th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Mississippi State beats Kentucky, 84-73

• 2000 The NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signalling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom
• 2000 16th Soap Opera Digest Awards - General Hospital wins
• 2001 22nd Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Boston College beats Pittsburgh, 79-57
• 2002 49th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #3 Duke beats NC State, 91-61
• 2002 43rd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Mississippi State beats Alabama, 61-58
• 2003 "My Front Porch Looking In" single released by Lonestar (Billboard Song of the Year 2003)
• 2006 The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
• 2006 Mass unrest by the PCC started in São Paulo (the biggest city in Brazil) which would eventually kill more than 152 people.

• 2007 28th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgetown beats Pittsburgh, 65-42

• 2012 At least 130 rockets are fired into Israel from Gaza
• 2012 33rd Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Louisville beats Cincinnati, 50-44

• 2016 Twelfth Republican presidential candidates debate hosted by CNN, held in Coral Gables, Florida
• 2017 South Korean judges uphold parliaments' decision to impeach President Park Geun-hye
• 2018 16 people die after being struck by lightening at a church in Nyaruguru District, Rwanda

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