March 10
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March 10
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March is:
American Red Cross Month
Bible Women Awareness Month
Ethics Awareness Month
Today is:
Alexander Graham Bell Day - (telephone invented) In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell transmitted the
first successful phone message when he said to his assistant, ''Mr. Watson, come hear'' Bell was born on March 3, 1847, in Scotland.
First octuplets born (1967) - The first octuplets were born in Mexico.
Harriet Tubman Day - Honors the 1913 death of Harriet Tubman, an American abolitionist and underground railroad leader.
Born on this Day
1628: Marcello Malpighi, discoverer of capillary circulation
1824 Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Churchill, Fought at Wilson's Creek, Red River
1885: Russian ballerina Tamara Karsavina
1888: Actor Barry Fitzgerald
1892: French composer Arthur Honegger
1900: Sherman Billingsley, owner of New York's Stork Club
1903: Jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke
1904: Poet Margaret Fishback
1922: Pamela Mason
1933: Talk show host Ralph Emery
1940: Actor Chuck Norris
1940: Playwright David Rabe
1940: Singer Dean Torrence (Jan and Dean)
1945: Katherine Houghton
1947: Newspaper columnist Bob Greene
1947: Rock musician Tom Scholz (Boston)
1947: ormer Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell
1957: Actress Shannon Tweed
1958: Actress Sharon Stone
1960: Rock musician Gail Greenwood (Belly)
1963: Rock musician Jeff Ament (Pearl Jam)
1964: Prince Edward of England
1964: Actress Jasmine Guy
1964: Songwriter Neneh Cherry
1966: Actor Stephen Mailer
1966: Singer Edie Brickell
1971: Country singer Daryle Singletary
1977: Olympic gold-medal gymnast Shannon Miller
515 B.C.: The re-building of the great Jewish temple in
Jerusalem was completed.
0320: Death of the Forty Martyrs
0418: Jews are excluded from public offices &
dignities in the Roman Empire
1040: Death of Harold Harefoot
1098: Baldwin becomes Prince of Edessa (1st Crusade)
1208: Pope Innocent III calls for a Crusade against the
Albegensians
1302: Dante threatened with burning should he return to
Florence
1452: Ferdinand II of Aragon, unifier of Spain
1496: Columbus leaves Hispanola to return to Spain
1528: althasar Hubmaier, one of the foremost leaders of
the Austrian Anabaptists, was burned at the stake as a heretic in Vienna.
1535: Tomas de Berlanga, Bishop of Panama, discovers the
Galapagos Islands
1538: Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk; executed by Queen
Elizabeth
1549: Execution of Thomas Seymour
1629: Egland's King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he did
not call it back for 11 years.
1566: Darley discharges the Scots Parliament
1566: Moray and his allies enter Edinburgh
1616: Vincent Fettmilch, leader of massacres of Jews, is
hanged
1629: Charles I, King of England, dissolves his third
Parliament, again
1640: Founding of Gardiner's Island, first English
settlement in New York
1661: Cardinal Jules Mazarin dies. He was a French
statesman and advisor to the mother of King Louis XIV
1669: Sir John Denham, English poet, dies at about 54
1785:Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France,
succeeding Benjamin Franklin.
1832: Muzio Clementi died at the age of 80. Clementi's
piano pieces are seldom played in professional recitals but every piano student knows his
work.
1849: An Illinois attorney applied for a patent for an
inflatable airbag to lift grounded boats off sandbars and shoals. The inventor, Abe
Lincoln, was too busy with politics to pursue the invention.
1862: The U.S. Treasury issued the first American paper
money, in denominations from $5 to $1,000.
1870: Ignaz Moscheles, a famous piano teacher during the
early Romantic era, died, he was 75.
1876: The first telephone call made by Alexander Graham
Bell.
1880: The Salvation Army of England sends group to U.S. to
begin welfare and religious activity here.
1933: Big earthquake in Long Beach (W.C. Fields was making
a movie when it struck and the cameras kept running).
1936: Oedipus, an opera by Georges Enescu, was sung in
Paris. Enescu scarcely noticed. He was so upset at failing to hold a woman's attention
that he destroyed his fiddle a Guarneri.
1948: First civilian to exceed speed of sound -- H. H.
Houver at Edwards Air Force Base, CA
1948: the body of the anti-Communist foreign minister of
Czechoslovakia, Jan Masaryk, was found in the garden of Czernin Palace in Prague.
1949: Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also
known as "Axis Sally," was convicted in Washington DC of treason. (She served 12
years in prison.)
1969: James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to the murder of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. and was sentenced to 99 years in prison.
1978: Soyuz 28 returns to Earth.
1985: Konstantin U. Chernenko, Soviet leader for just 13
months, died at age 73.
1987: The Vatican condemned human artificial fertilization
or generation of human life outside the womb and said all reproduction must result from
the "act of conjugal love."
1988: New York Congressman Jack Kemp dropped out of the
race for the Republican presidential nomination.
1988: Pop singer Andy Gibb died in Oxford, England, at age
30 of heart inflammation.
1988: The Chinese army occupies Lhasa, capital of Tibet,
after major demonstrations by Tibetans.
1988: Andy Gibb of the Bee Gees dies of a drug overose.
1989: One day after the Senate rejected the defense
secretary nomination of John Tower, President Bush announced he would nominate Wyoming
Congressman Dick Cheney, who was later confirmed.
1990: Haitian ruler Lt. General Prosper Avril resigned
during a popular uprising against his military regime.
1991: Eight Arab governments endorsed President Bush's
Middle East peace proposal calling for Israel to relinquish territory, and reiterated
their desire for a peace conference.
1991: Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in
Moscow, demanding that President Mikhail S. Gorbachev resign.
1992: Democrat Bill Clinton claimed front-runner status as
he won a series of Southern landslides on Super Tuesday; President Bush swept all the
Republican contests.
1993: Authorities announced the arrest of Nidal Ayyad, a
second suspect in the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York.
1993: Dr. David Gunn was shot to death outside a
Pensacola, Florida, abortion clinic.
1993: C. Northcote Parkinson, author of "Parkinson's
Law," died in Canterbury, England, at age 83.
1994: White House officials began testifying before a
federal grand jury about the Whitewater controversy.
1994: Thousands of students demonstrated across France to
demand the government withdraw a controversial law allowing employers to pay young people
less than the minimum wage.
1995: The Labor Department reported the nation's
unemployment rate for February dropped to 5.4 percent, down 0.3 percent from the month
before.
1995: The Clinton administration released $3 billion to
support Mexico's faltering economy.
1995: Former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari
fled to the United States.
1996: Hezbollah guerrillas launched a wave of bomb and
rocket attacks on Israeli troops in south Lebanon.
1996: Secretary of State Warren Christopher, accusing
China of "reckless" provocations against Taiwan, said on NBC that U.S. warships
would move closer to Taiwan.
1997: The White House and the F-B-I clashed in a rare
public quarrel after President Clinton said he should have been alerted when the bureau
told national security officials that the Chinese government might be trying to influence
US elections.
1998: US Air Force and Navy personnel in the Persian Gulf
received their first vaccinations against anthrax.
1998: Indonesia's President Suharto was elected to his
seventh term.
1998: Actor Lloyd Bridges died in Westwood, California, at
age 85.
1998: A Japanese regional governor barred a British
freighter carrying nuclear waste from France from entering a port in his prefecture. The
Pacific Swan, carrying 24 tons of nuclear waste, was left standing about a mile off the
northern Japanese port of Mutsu-Ogawara, awaiting a disputed entry to be settled between
Govenor Morio Kimura of Aomori Prefecture and the Tokyo central government.
1998: Former White House aide Kathleen Willey, who was
allegedly fondled by President Clinton in 1993, answered questions before a grand jury
investigating the White House sex scandal. Willey, spent most of the day testifying behind
closed doors.
1998: Federal authorities announced that food stamps were
issued to nearly 26,000 dead people in 1995-96. The General Accounting Office said in a
report $8.5 million in food stamps were issued to 25,881 deceased people in the two-year
period, based on a review after comparing food stamp rolls with death lists in the four
most populous states, which account for one-third of the country's 20.4 million food stamp
recipients.
1998: Some 22,000 hemophiliacs who were infected with
hepatitis C through blood transfusions brought a multi-billion dollar class action lawsuit
against Canada's federal and provincial governments and the Red Cross.
1999: During a visit to Guatemala, President Clinton
acknowledged the U.S. role in Central America's "dark and painful period" of
civil wars and repression.
2000: Pope John Paul the Second approved sainthood for Katharine Drexel, a Philadelphia socialite who had taken a vow of poverty and devoted her fortune to helping poor blacks and American Indians. (Drexel, who died in 1955, was canonized the following October.)
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