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Today in History ~ March 10
Events0418 - Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire
1535 - Bishop Tomas de Berlanga discovers Galapagos Islands
1629 - King Charles I dissolves Parliament, calling it back 11 years later
1681 - English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania
1734 - Spanish army under Don Carlos (III) draws into Naples
1791 - John Stone, Concord, Mass, patents a pile driver
1791 - Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy
1849 - Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only US president to do so
1862 - US issues 1st paper money ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 & $1000)
1864 - Grant is named commander of the Union armies
1864 - Red River campaign LA
1864 - Montana vigilantes hang Jack Slade [H]
1865 - Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, NC
1876 - 1st telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson) [H]
1880 - Salvation Army of England sets up US welfare & religious activity
1888 - 1st performance of Cesar Franck's "Psyche"
1893 - New Mexico State University cancels it's 1st graduation ceremony, its only graduate Sam Steele was robbed & killed the night before
1896 - After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world Heavy Weight championship he says, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall"
1903 - Harry Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating machine
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 - London Underground opens Bakerloo line (Baker Street to Waterloo Line)
1910 - China ends slavery
1914 - Suffragettes in London damage painter Rokeby's Venus of Velasquez
1927 - Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian & Slovenes
1927 - Bavaria lifts ban on Hitler's speeches
1931 - British Labour party removes fascist Sir Oswald Mosley
1933 - Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics
1940 - 1st US opera telecast, NYC, "Pagliacci"
1941 - Lee MacPhail, Dodger GM predicts all players will wear batting helmets
1945 - Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine
1945 - Patton's 3rd Army makes contact with Hodge's 1st Army
1945 - Tokyo in fire after night time bombing by 300 American B-29 bombers drop almost 2,000 tons of incendiaries on Tokyo, Japan, destroying large portions of the Japanese capital and killing 100,000 civilians.
1945 - US troops lands on Mindanao
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 - Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth," premieres in NYC
1959 - Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa, Tibet
1962 - Due to it's no black policy, Phillies leave Jack Tar Harrison Hotel & move to Rocky Point Motel, 20 miles outside Clearwater, FL
1966 - 5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires
1966 - North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley
1968 - Ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington, NZ (200 killed)
1969 - James Earl Ray is pressured to plead guilty in murder of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and is sentenced to 99 years in prison. [H]
1971 - Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18
1975 - "Rocky Horror Show" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 4 performances
1975 - Dog spectacles patented in England
1982 - Pres Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
1994 - 1 million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri's funeral
1995 - Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shiite mosque, 17+ killed
Birthdays Today
1452 - Ferdinand II, the Catholic King of Aragon/Sicily (bankrolled Columbus and expelled Jews)
1538 - Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk; executed by Queen Elizabeth (1572)
1628 - Constantine Huygens Jr, Dutch poet/painter/cartoonist
1748 - John Playfair, Scotland, clergyman/geologist/mathematician
1772 - Friedrich von Schlegel, Germany, romantic writer/critic (Lucinde)
1844 - Pablo Martin M de Sarasate y Navascuez, composer (Spanish Dances)
1873 - Jakob Wassermann, Germany, novelist (My Life as German & Jew)
1888 - Barry Fitzgerald (William Shields) (actor: Bringing Up Baby, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man, Acad Award-Going My Way)
1892 - Arthur Oscar Honnegger, Le Havre France, composer ((composer: film scores: Crime and Punishment, King David)
1892 - Eva Turner, British soprano
1903 - Bix Biederbecke
1914 - Chandler Harper (golfer: PGA Champion [1950])
1916 - James Herriot, Scotland, writer/veterinarian (All Creatures Great & Small)
1918 - Heywood Hale Broun (sportscaster: ABC Sports)
1919 - Pamela Mason (Ostrer) (writer; actress: Charade, Navy vs. the Night Monsters)
1923 - Don Abney (pianist)
1923 - Jethro (Kenneth Burns) (entertainer, musician: mandolin, banjo: Homer & Jethro: The Battle of Kookamonga, Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyeballs)
1928 - James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr
1930 - Raymond Rasberry, pianist/singer
1940 - Chuck Norris (Carlos Ray) (karate champion, actor: Code of Silence, Delta Force, Forced Vengeance, Lone Wolf McQuade, Missing in Action, Walker: Texas Ranger)
1940 - David Rabe (playwright: Streamers, Casualties of War, I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can)
1940 - Dean Torrence (singer: group: Jan & Dean: The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena), Dead Man's Curve, Surf City, Honolulu Lulu)
1940 - Leroy Ellis (basketball)
1941 - Sandra Jean Palmer (golfer: U.S. Open Champion [1975])
1942 - Bob Berry (football: Minnesota Vikings QB: Super Bowl VIII, IX, XI)
1944 - John Briggs (baseball: Philadelphia Phillies outfielder)
1945 - Katharine Houghton (Grant) (actress: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Billy Bathgate, The Night We Never Met)
1948 - Austin Carr (basketball: Notre Dame All-American Guard and Player of the Year [1971]; Cleveland Cavaliers)
1948 - Wayne Twitchell (baseball: Philadelphia Phillies pitcher)
1950 - Steve Carlyle (hockey)
1955 - Mark David Chapman, assassin (John Lennon)
1964 - Prince Edward (royalty: son of Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth II)
Famous deaths
0037 - Tiberius Claudius Nero, Roman emperor (14-37), dies at 78
1592 - Michiel Coxcie, Flemish (court)painter/carpet designer
1792 - John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute/English premier (1760-63), dies at 78
1832 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer, dies at 79
1866 - Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, composer, dies at 87
1872 - Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary (Giovane Italy), dies at 66
1910 - Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke, composer, dies at 85
1913 - Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, conductor on Underground RR, dies in NY
1948 - Jan Masaryk, Czech Foreign minister, commits suicide or is murdered
1953 - Charles Gordon Curtis, inventor (Curtis-steam turbine), dies at 92
1977 - E Power Biggs, English organist/composer (CBS), dies at 70
1980 - Herman Tarnower, doctor (Scarsdale Diet), killed by Jean Harris
1985 - Konstantin Chernenko, party leader/pres of USSR (1984-85), dies at 73
1993 - C Northcote Parkinson, English historian/sociologist (Law of P), dies
1993 - David Gunn, abortion doctor, killed by Michael Griffin at 47
1995 - Alexander Hyatt-King, Mozart scholar, dies at 84
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