Today in History (10th of March)

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418Mar 10Jews were excluded from public office in the Roman Empire.
1629Mar 10England’s King Charles I dissolved Parliament and did not call it back for 11 years.
1791Mar 10Pope condemned France’s Civil Constitution of the clergy.
1814Mar 10Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by a combined Allied Army at the battle of Laon, in France.
1848Mar 10The US Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the war with Mexico.
1872Mar 10Giuseppe Mazzini (66), Italian revolutionary (Giovane, Italy), died.
1892Mar 10Arthur Oscar Honegger, composer (King David), was born in Le Havre, France.
1896Mar 10Bob Fitzsimmons KO’d much larger Jim Corbett to win world Heavy Weight championship and said, “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.”
1905Mar 10Japanese Army captured Mukden, later Shenyang, China.
1910Mar 10Slavery was abolished in China.
1912Mar 10In China Yuan Shikai (b.1859) succeeded Sun Yat-Sen as President of the Republic of China.
1927Mar 10Albania mobilized under the threat of Serbia, Croatia & Slovenes.
1944Mar 10The Irish refused to oust all Axis envoys and denied the accusation of spying on Allied troops.
1947Mar 10The Big Four met in Moscow to discuss Germany.
1952Mar 10General Fulgencio Batista staged a coup in Cuba and overthrew the Socarras government.
1954Mar 10Pres. Eisenhower called Sen. Joseph McCarthy a peril to the Republican Party.
1957Mar 10Thousands of soccer fans rioted in Italy.
1962Mar 10The Phillies baseball club left the Jack Tar Harrison Hotel due to its refusal to admit black players, and moved to Rocky Point Motel, 20 miles outside Clearwater, Florida.
1966Mar 10Kelso, 5 time Horse of the Year, retired.
1969Mar 10James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King in Memphis, Tenn., and was sentenced to 99 years in jail. Ray later repudiated that plea.
1978Mar 10Richard Hovey (26) abducted Tina Salazar (8) in Hayward, Ca., as she walked home from school. He left her by a roadside with fatal wounds later the same day. She died 8 days later. In 2006 an appeals court overturned his death sentence saying lawyers failed to inform a psychiatrist of his history of mental illness.
1985Mar 10Konstantin U. Chernenko (b.1911), Soviet leader for just 13 months (1984-1985), died.
1988Mar 10New York Congressman Jack Kemp dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
1993Mar 10Authorities announced the arrest of Nidal Ayyad, a second suspect in the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City.
1995Mar 10The Labor Department reported the nation’s unemployment rate for February dropped to 5.4 percent, down 0.003 from the month before.
1996Mar 10Secretary of State Warren Christopher, accusing China of “reckless” provocations against Taiwan, said on NBC that US warships would move closer to Taiwan.
1997Mar 10The TV series “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” featured Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy. The show continued to 2003.
1998Mar 10In Alabama a teenager killed his parents with an ax and a sledgehammer. Jeffery Franklin (17) also wounded 3 siblings and led police on a “wild car chase” before being captured.
1999Mar 10Physicist Ian Barbour (75) won the $1.24 million Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. He promised to donate $1 million to the Center for Theology and Natural Sciences in Berkeley.
2000Mar 10Nasdaq reached a record high at 5048.62.
2001Mar 10In Japan Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori announced that he would resign next month.
2002Mar 10Russell Crowe won best actor honors at the Screen Actors Guild awards for “A Beautiful Mind” while Halle Berry won best actress for “Monster’s Ball.”
2003Mar 10Facing almost certain defeat, the United States and Britain delayed a vote in the U.N. Security Council to give Saddam Hussein an ultimatum to disarm.
2004Mar 10Lee Boyd Malvo, teenage sniper, was sentenced in Chesapeake, Va., to life in prison.
2005Mar 10The US Dept. of Transportation authorized $150.3 million for the construction of a $270 million tunnel to bypass Devil’s Slide on Highway 1 between Pacifica and Montara. The cost increased to $439 million on completion in 2013.
2006Mar 10The US Treasury said February’s deficit of $119.2 billion set a one-month record. It cited early tax filing, hurricane aid and Medicare drug costs.
2007Mar 10Some 22,000 evangelical teenagers attended the BattleCry rally at AT&T Park in SF, where organizer Ron Luce (45) urged they become stalkers of god. Together with his wife Katie, Luce founded the Texas-based Teen Mania Ministries in 1986 in his van.
2008Mar 10An Associated Press investigation showed that a vast array of pharmaceuticals, including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones, have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans.
2009Mar 10In Alabama Michael McLendon (28) set off on a rampage of 10 slayings across two rural counties and then killed himself.
2010Mar 10Pres. Obama met with Haiti’s Pres. Rene Preval and assured him that the US was committed to Haiti’s recovery and reconstruction following the devastating January 12 earthquake.
2011Mar 10Under heightened security, Rep. Peter King opened hearings into Islamic radicalization in America, dismissing what he called the “rage and hysteria” surrounding the hearings.
2012Mar 10Rick Santorum won the Republican caucuses in Kansas picking up 33 of 40 delegates. Mitt Romney won 7 of 12 delegates in Wyoming.
2013Mar 10In Middlefield, Ohio, James Gilkerson (42) exited his parked car and then fired 37 AK-47 shots at the officers and their patrol car. Officers Erin Thomas and Brandon Savage returned fire, killing Gilkerson.
2014Mar 10Colorado said marijuana sales brought in $3.5 million in tax revenues and fees in the first month retail pot outlets were allowed.
Source: Timelines of History 

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