March 10 in history

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March 10, 515 BC - The building of the great Jewish temple in Jerusalem was completed.

March 10, 241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands – The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.

March 10, 49 BC - Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon and invaded Italy.

March 10, 1496 - Christopher Columbus concluded his second visit to the Western Hemisphere when he left Hispaniola for Spain.

March 10, 1606 – Susenyos defeats the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, which makes him Emperor of Ethiopia.

March 10, 1629 - England's King Charles I dissolved Parliament and did not call it back for 11 years.

March 10, 1656 - In the American colony of Virginia, suffrage was extended to all free men regardless of their religion.

March 10, 1735 – An agreement between Nadir Shah and Russia is signed near Ganja and Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku.

March 10, 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.

March 10, 1776 - "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine was published.

March 10, 1785 - Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France. He succeeded Benjamin Franklin.

March 10, 1792 - John Stone patented the pile driver.

March 10, 1804 – Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.

March 10, 1806 - The Dutch in Cape Town, South Africa surrendered to the British.

March 10, 1814 – Napoleon I of France is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.

March 10, 1830 – The KNIL also known as the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created.

March 10, 1831 – The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.

March 10, 1848 – The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican-American War.

March 10, 1849 - Abraham Lincoln applied for a patent for a device to lift vessels over shoals by means of inflated cylinders.

March 10, 1861 – El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Segou, destroying the Bambara Empire of Mali.

March 10, 1864 – American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.

March 10, 1864 - Ulysses S. Grant became commander of the Union armies in the U.S. Civil War.

March 10, 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."

March 10, 1880 - The Salvation Army arrived in the U.S. from England.

March 10, 1891 – Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.

March 10, 1893 - New Mexico State University canceled its first graduation ceremony because the only graduate was robbed and killed the night before.

March 10, 1894 - New York Gov. Roswell P. Flower signed the nation's first dog-licensing law.

March 10, 1902 - The Boers of South Africa scored their last victory over the British, when they captured British General Methuen and 200 men.

March 10, 1902 - Tochangri, Turkey, was entirely wiped out by an earthquake.

March 10, 1902 - U.S. Attorney General Philander Knox announced that a suit was being brought against Morgan and Harriman's Northern Securities Company. The suit was enforcement of the Sherman Antitrust Act. Northern Securities loss in court was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court on March 14, 1904.

March 10, 1903 - Harry C. Gammeter patented the multigraph duplicating machine.

March 10, 1903 - In New York's harbor, the disease-stricken ship Karmania was quarantined with six dead from cholera.

March 10, 1905 – Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.

March 10, 1906 – The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in Northern France.

March 10, 1909 - Britain extracted territorial concessions from Siam and Malaya.

March 10, 1910 - Slavery was abolished in China.

March 10, 1912 - China became a republic after the overthrow of the Manchu Ch'ing Dynasty.

March 10, 1913 - William Knox rolled the first perfect 300 game in tournament competition.

March 10, 1917 – Batangas is formally founded as one of the Philippines's earliest encomiendas.

March 10, 1922 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.

March 10, 1924 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New York state law forbidding late-night work for women.

March 10, 1927 - Prussia lifted its Nazi ban allowing Adolf Hitler to speak in public.

March 10, 1933 - Nevada became the first U.S. state to regulate drugs.

March 10, 1933 – An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 115 people and causes an estimated $40 million dollars in damage.

March 10, 1940 - "I Pagliacci" by Ruggiero Leoncavallo became the first opera to be broadcast on television. W2XBS-TV in New York City aired the program.

March 10, 1941 - The Brooklyn Dodgers announced that their players would begin wearing batting helmets during the 1941 season.

March 10, 1941 - Vichy France threatened to use its navy unless Britain allowed food to reach France.

March 10, 1944 - The Irish refused to oust all Axis envoys and denied the accusation of spying on Allied troops.

March 10, 1945 – The Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.

March 10, 1947 - The Big Four met in Moscow to discuss the future of Germany.

March 10, 1947 - Poland and Czechoslovakia signed a 20-year mutual aid pact.

March 10, 1949 - Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as "Axis Sally," was convicted in Washington, DC. Gillars was convicted of treason and served 12 years in prison.

March 10, 1952 – Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba and appoints himself as the "provisional president".

March 10, 1953 - North Korean gunners at Wonsan fired upon the USS Missouri. The ship responded by firing 998 rounds at the enemy position.

March 10, 1955 - The last broadcast of "The Silver Eagle" was heard on radio.

March 10, 1956 - Julie Andrews at the age of 23 made her TV debut in "High Tor" with Bing Crosby and Nancy Olson.

March 10, 1959 - "Sweet Bird of Youth", a play by Tennessee Williams, opened in New York City.

March 10, 1959 – Tibetan uprising: Fearing an abduction attempt by China, 300,000 Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal.

March 10, 1965 - Walter Matthau and Art Carney opened in "The Odd Couple". It later became a hit on television.

March 10, 1966 - The North Vietnamese captured a Green Beret camp at Ashau Valley.

March 10, 1966 - France withdrew from NATO's military command to protest U.S. dominance of the alliance and asked NATO to move its headquarters from Paris.

March 10, 1969 – In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He would later retract his guilty plea.

March 10, 1970 – Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged with My Lai war crimes.

March 10, 1971 - The U.S. Senate approved an amendment to lower the voting age to 18.

March 10, 1975 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.

March 10, 1977 – Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.

March 10, 1979 - James Brown played at the Grand Ole Opry.

March 10, 1980 – Madeira School headmistress Jean Harris shoots and kills Scarsdale diet doctor Herman Tarnower

March 10, 1980 – Formation of the Irish Army Ranger Wing

March 10, 1980 - Iran's leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, lent his support to the militants holding American hostages in Tehran.

March 10, 1981 - The U.S. Postal Service announced an increase in first class postage from 15 to 18 cents.

March 10, 1982 - The U.S. banned Libyan oil imports due to their continued support of terrorism.

March 10, 1986 - The Wrigley Company, of Chicago, raised the price of its seven-stick pack of Wrigley’s chewing gum from a quarter to 30 cents.

March 10, 1987 - The Vatican condemned surrogate parenting as well as test-tube and artificial insemination.

March 10, 1988 - Andy Gibb died from myocarditis (inflammation of the heart) following a long battle with cocaine addiction, which had weakened his heart.

March 10, 1990 – In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.

March 10, 1991 - "Phase Echo" began. It was the operation to withdraw 540,000 U.S. troops from the Persian Gulf region.

March 10, 1992 - Prince received a lifetime achievement award at the Soul Train Awards.

March 10, 1994 - White House officials began testifying before a federal grand jury about the Whitewater controversy.

March 10, 1995 - U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher told Yasser Arafat that he must do more to curb Palestinian terrorists.

March 10, 1998 - U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf began receiving the first vaccinations against anthrax.

March 10, 2000 - Chrissie Hynde (Pretenders) and two other people were arrested in New York City after slashing leather goods at Gap store as part of a protest organized by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

March 10, 2000 – The NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.

March 10, 2002 - The Associated Press reported that the Pentagon informed the U.S. Congress in January that it was making contingency plans for the possible use of nuclear weapons against countries that threaten the U.S. with weapons of mass destruction, including Iraq and North Korea.

March 10, 2003 - North Korea test-fired a short-range missile. The event was one of several in a patter of unusual military maneuvers.

March 10, 2004 - "Girls Gone Wild" videos of minors exposing their breasts are ruled not to be child pornography, according to a Florida court.

March 10, 2004 - Lee Boyd Malvo is sentenced to life in prison without parole by a Virginia judge for his role in the Beltway Sniper Attacks.

March 10, 2005 - Flags across Canada fly at half-mast as the largest police memorial in Canadian history is held in Edmonton, to honour the four Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) victims of the Mayerthorpe Incident. Attending were about 10,000 officers from North America, Canadian dignitaries and entertainers with songs of reflection and sorrow.

March 10, 2006 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.

March 10, 2008 - Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer is linked with a criminal investigation of an international online prostitution ring.

March 10, 2008 - Yahoo! tops the list in the first attempt to quantify the data collected from Web users for Internet marketing.

March 10, 2009 - The Eurovision Song Contest disallows Georgian pop group Stephane & 3G's "We Don't Wanna Put In."