Notable Historical Events on March 10th
March 10th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
241 |
First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end. |
BC AD | |
418 |
Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire |
1535 |
Bishop Tomés de Berlanga discovers Galapagos Islands |
1578 |
Queen Elizabeth I gives Johan Casimir £20,000 to aid Dutch rebellion |
1624 |
England declares war on Spain |
1629 |
King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he recalled it 11 years later |
1661 |
French King Louis XIV ends office of premier |
1697 |
Tsar Peter the Great 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An agreement between Nadir Shah and Paul I of Russia is signed near Ganja and Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku. |
1762 |
French Huguenot Jean Calas, who was wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform |
1783 |
USS Alliance under Captain Barry fights and wins last naval battle of US Revolutionary War off Cape Canaveral |
1789 |
Franklin College founded |
1791 |
John Stone, Concord, Mass, patents a pile driver |
1791 |
Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy |
1801 |
First census in Great Britain |
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 |
1849 |
Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent (the US president to do so) for a device to lift a boat over shoals and obstructions |
1861 |
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 |
Grant is named commander of the Union armies |
1864 |
Red River campaign LA |
1865 |
Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, NC |
1874 |
Purdue University (Indiana) admits its 1st student |
1876 |
1st telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson) |
1880 |
General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria |
1880 |
Salvation Army of England sets up US welfare & religious activity |
1888 |
1st performance of Caesar Franck's "Psyche" |
1888 |
HW 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 |
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 HW championship he says, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall" |
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 |
1902 |
A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera. |
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. |
1909 |
Jack Johnson fights Victor McLaglen to no decision in 6 for box title |
1910 |
China ends 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 in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle |
1917 |
Batangas was formally founded as one of the Philippines's earliest encomiendas. |
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 & Slovenes |
1927 |
Bavaria lifts ban on Hitler's speeches |
1931 |
British Labour party removes fascist sir Oswald Mosley |
1933 |
Major earthquake in Long Beach, Calif |
1933 |
Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics |
1934 |
Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games) |
1934 |
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Suzanne Davis |
1934 |
US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner |
1938 |
10th Academy Awards - "The Life of Emile Zola", Spencer Tracy & Luise Rainer win |
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 HMS Asphodel |
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 |
US troops lands on Mindanao |
1945 |
US Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians. |
1946 |
Train derailment kills 185 near Aracaju 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 perfs |
1951 |
FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner |
1952 |
Military coup led by General Fulgencio Batista in Cuba |
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 |
Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth" premieres in NYC |
1959 |
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 |
1963 |
Pete Rose debuts with hits in his 2 1st at bats in spring training |
1963 |
Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 70 points vs Syracuse |
1964 |
US reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany |
1965 |
Dutch Princess Margriet & Pieter van Vollenhoven get engaged |
1966 |
5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires |
1966 |
North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley |
1969 |
James Earl Ray pleads guilty to murder of Martin Luther King Jr |
1970 |
Barbra Streisand records "The Singer" & "I Can Do It" |
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 (Gary Indiana) |
1972 |
Gen Lon Nol becomes pres & 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 |
1974 |
"Sextet" closes at Bijou Theater NYC after 9 performances |
1974 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic |
1974 |
Christian Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election |
1974 |
Lawrence Rowe completes 302 v Eng Bridgetown, 36 fours 1 six |
1975 |
"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 |
1978 |
Soyuz 28 returns to Earth |
1978 |
"The Incredible Hulk", starring Bill Bixby as David Banner, premieres on CBS |
1980 |
Willard Scott becomes the weather forcaster on the Today Show |
1982 |
President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya |
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. |
1982 |
8th People's Choice Awards: Burt Reynolds, Sally Field & Jane Fonda win (Motion Picture) and Alan Alda & Barbara Mandrell win (TV) |
1983 |
Walter Alston, Dodgers manager, elected to Hall of Fame |
1984 |
Heavyweight Tim Witherspoon KOs Greg Page |
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 & O Vasiliev (URS) |
1985 |
India beat Pakistan to win "World Championship of Cricket" |
1985 |
Mens Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Alexandr Fadeev (URS) |
1986 |
Ernie Lombardi, NL MVP in 1938, & Bobby Doerr, elected to Hall of Fame |
1987 |
Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization & embryo transfer |
1988 |
Avalanche at Swiss Ski resort Klosters nearly kills Prince Charles |
1988 |
NY Islanders celebrate Mike Bossy night |
1990 |
4th American Comedy Award: When Harry Met Sally |
1990 |
Ice Dance Championship at Halifax won by Klimova & Ponomarenko (URS) |
1990 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Halifax won by Gordeeva & Grinkov (URS) |
1990 |
Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Halifax won by Jill Trenary (USA) |
1990 |
Lt Gen Avril resigns as president of Haiti |
1990 |
Mens 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/Thomas Schonlebe walk 4x400m indoor world record (3:03.05) |
1992 |
6th Soul Train Music Awards: Natalie Cole, Color Me Badd win |
1992 |
Sandra Seuser/Katrin Schreiter/Annet Hesselbarth/Grit Breuer walk female indoor world record 4x400m (3:27.22) |
1994 |
1 million Greeks attend 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 |
1995 |
Dow-Jones hits record 4035.64 |
1996 |
22nd People's Choice Awards: Tom Hanks & Demi Moore win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Candice Bergen win (TV) |
1996 |
NYC Mayor Guiliani visits Israel |
2000 |
The NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom. |
2000 |
16th Soap Opera Digest Awards - General Hospital wins |
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 |
21st Soul Train Music Awards: Jermaine Dupri, Jennifer Hudson win |
2012 |
At least 130 rockets are fired into Israel from Gaza |
2013 |
Aung San Suu Kyi is re-elected leader of the Burmese National League for Democracy |
2016 |
Pro-gun mom shot in the back by 4-year-old son |
2016 |
ECB cuts rates, expands asset-buying programme to boost economy |
2016 |
Over dinner, Obama and Trudeau to celebrate thaw in US-Canada relations |
2016 |
South Korea considers approval of North Korea tuberculosis aid despite sanctions |
2016 |
Five Afghans, including baby, drown trying to reach Greece from Turkey |
2016 |
Obama and Justin Trudeau of Canada Unveil Efforts to Fight Climate Change |
2016 |
North Korean leader Kim orders more nuclear tests: KCNA |
2016 |
Japanese memorials mark five-year tsunami anniversary |
2016 |
Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi denied Myanmar's presidency |
2016 |
Brazil prosecutors request arrest of ex-President Lula |
2016 |
US claims capture of IS chemical weapons expert |
2017 |
South Korea Removes President Park Geun-hye |
2017 |
7 Injured in Ax Attack at German Station; 1 Arrest |
2018 |
NRA files federal lawsuit challenging Florida gun-safety bill |
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