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This Day in History
Wednesday, March 10, 2010


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DATE           DESCRIPTION
1496-03-10Christopher Columbus concluded his second visit to the Western Hemisphere as he left Hispaniola for Spain.
1629-03-10Englands King Charles I dissolved Parliament and did not call it back for 11 years.
1785-03-10Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin.
1793-03-10In Paris, on the proposal of Georges Danton, the National Convention decreed the establishment of the Revolutionary Tribunal
1848-03-10The Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the war with Mexico.
1864-03-10The Red River Campaign began in the American Civil War.
1864-03-10Ulysses S. Grant became commander of the Union armies during the Civil War.
1876-03-10The first successful voice transmission over Alexander Graham Bells telephone took place in Boston as his assistant heard Bell say, Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.
1880-03-10The Salvation Army arrived in the United States from England.
1903-03-10American jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke was born in Davenport, Iowa.
1903-03-10Clare Boothe Luce, the American playwright and politician, was born.
1913-03-10In Toledo, Ohio, William Knox became the first bowler to make a perfect score of 300 in an American Bowling Congress tournament.
1933-03-10On this day in 1933, soon after Adolf Hitler became chancellor, the first concentration camp in Germany opened at Dachau, where at least 32,000 people would die from disease, malnutrition, physical oppression, and execution.
1947-03-10Progressive Conservative Kim Campbell, who became Canada's first woman prime minister and its first leader from the West Coast when she succeeded Brian Mulroney in 1993, was born this day in 1947 in British Columbia.
1948-03-10The body of the anti-Communist foreign minister of Czechoslovakia, Jan Masaryk, was found in the garden of Czernin Palace in Prague.
1949-03-10Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as Axis Sally, was convicted in Washington, D.C., of treason. She served 12 years in prison.
1965-03-10Neil Simons play The Odd Couple opened on Broadway.
1969-03-10James Earl Ray pleaded guilty in Memphis, Tenn., to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Ray later repudiated his plea.
1980-03-10Scarsdale Diet author Dr. Herman Tarnower was shot to death in Purchase, N.Y.
1985-03-10Konstantin U. Chernenko, Soviet leader for just 13 months, died at age 73. His death was announced on March 11th. Politburo member Mikhail S. Gorbachev was chosen to succeed him.
1988-03-10Pop singer Andy Gibb died in Oxford, England, at age 30 of heart inflammation.
1993-03-10Dr. David Gunn was shot to death outside a Pensacola, Fla., abortion clinic.