On this day in History - Mar. 10

• 241 BC - First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sinks the Carthaginian fleet; end of First Punic War.
• 1452 - Rei Fernando II de Aragão nasce.
• 1496 - Christopher Columbus leaves Hispaniola for Spain, ending his second visit to the Western Hemisphere.
• 1503 - Ferdinand I,was born Holy Roman Emperor (1558–1564) and king of Bohemia and Hungary from 1526.
• 1526 - Carlos I se casa en Sevilla con su prima, la infanta Isabel de Portugal. Las cortes de Castilla aprueban la boda ya que es nieta de los Reyes Católicos. La nueva reina y emperatriz se convierte rápidamente en una eficaz colaboradora política de su marido.
• 1543 - Guatemala: los españoles fundan el pueblo de Antigua, que fungió como capital de toda Centroamérica.
• 1624 - A Inglaterra declarou guerra à Espanha.
• 1628 - Marcello Malpighi, was born, Italian physician and biologist who, in developing experimental methods to study living things, founded the science of microscopic anatomycientist († 1694 ).
• 1629 - Charles I of England dissolves Parliament, starting the Eleven Years Tyranny in which there was no parliament.
• 1649 - Instituição da Companhia Geral de Comércio para o Brasil, tendo por alvará monopólio das exportações de farinha, bacalhau, azeite e vinho e das importações de pau-brasil.
• 1709 - Georg Steller,was born, German naturalist, (d. 1746) .
• 1719 - Em Portugal, foi proibida a exportação de azeite .
• 1768 - Nasceu o pintor português Domingos Sequeira (Domingos António do Espírito Santo).
• 1772- Friedrich von Schlegel,was born, aesthetician, poet, and publicist, (d. 1829) .
• 1776 - Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was born, Queen of Prussia (d. 1810) .
• 1788 - Joseph von Eichendorff, was born, lyricist and narrator, (d. 1857).
• 1791 - Breve do Papa Pio VI ameaçando com penas eclesiásticas aos religiosos que jurarem a Constituição civil do clero promulgada pela França revolucionária.
• 1793 - Início do período do Terror em França, durante a Revolução Francesa, com a criação do Tribunal Criminal extraordinário, que mais tarde adoptará o nome de Tribunal Revolucionário.
• 1797 - O papel selado é restabelecido em Portugal.
• 1804 - Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
• 1814 - Napoleon I of France is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.
• 1814 - Fernando VII abole la Constitución española de 1812.
• 1821 - Revolução liberal, de inspiração carbonária, no Piemonte, em Itália.
• 1826 - D. João VI morre, e inicia-se o governo da regência presidido pela infanta Isabel Maria. O sucessor do rei falecido é desconhecido, sendo uma das incumbências da regência escolhe-lo.
• 1826 - King D. João VI of Portugal dies , born on 13 May 1767, prince regent of Portugal from 1799 to 1816, and king from 1816 to 1826, whose reign saw the revolutionary struggle in France, the Napoleonic invasion of Portugal (during which he established his court in Brazil), and the implantation of representative government in both Portugal and Brazil.
• 1826 - A França e a Grã Bretanha reconheceram a independência do Zanzibar.
• 1826 - The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.
• 1842 - Mykola Lysenko,was born, composer .
• 1844 - Pablo de Sarasate, was born, violinist, (d. 1908) .
• 1845 - Alexander III of Russia,was born, Russian tsar.
• 1847 - Kate Sheppard,was born, leader of New Zealand female suffrage movenent, New Zealand is the first country to achieve female suffrage .
• 1848 - Albert Fraenkel, was born, German physician, (d. 1916).
• 1848 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican-American War.
• 1864 - American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
• 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call. Bell summons his assistant Thomas Watson, who was on another floor of Bell's Boston residence, saying, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you." Bell had received the first telephone patent three days before.
• 1880 - Members of the Salvation Army land in the United States and begin operations.
• 1884 - Nace la cantante María Barrientos.
• 1888 - Barry Fitzgerald, was born, actor, (d. 1966) .
• 1891 - Sam Jaffe, was born, actor, (d. 1984) .
• 1892 - Arthur Honegger,was born, composer, (d. 1955) .
• 1892 - Gregory La Cava,was born, director, producer, writer, (d. 1952).
• 1891 - Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka Kansas, patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
• 1892 - Nasceu o compositor suíço Arthur Honegger .
• 1893 - Côte d'Ivoire becomes a French colony.
• 1895 - Charles Frederick Worth, dies, couturier .
• 1902 - Boer War: South African Boers win their last battle over British forces, with the capture of a British general and 200 of his men.
• 1902 - A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera.
• 1903 - Bix Beiderbecke,was born (d. 1931) American jazz cornet player.
• 1903 - Clare Boothe Luce, was born, publisher, writer, (d. 1987).
• 1910 - Nace el escultor Pablo Serrano.
• 1913 - Harriet Tubman, dies Underground Railroad conductor, anti-slavery activist, (b. 1820) .
• 1915- Harry Bertoia, was born, Italian artist and designer, (d. 1978) .
• 1918 - Heywood Hale Broun,was born, sports journalist, commentator, (d. 2001).
• 1922 - Gandhi convicted of civil disobedience. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement, is convicted for allegedly inciting Indians into violence against the British rulers of his country, and one week later, is sentenced to six years imprisonment.
• 1923 - Val Logsdon Fitch was born. American particle physicist who was corecipient with James Watson Cronin of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1980 for an experiment conducted in 1964 that disproved the long-held theory that particle interaction should be indifferent to the direction of time.
• 1927 - Paul Wunderlich, was born, painter, graphic artist, sculptor .
• 1927 - Jupp Derwall, was born, football coach.
• 1927 - Aparecimento da revista literária portuguesa Presença, "folha de arte e crítica" fundada, em Coimbra, por José Régio, João Gaspar Simões, Branquinho da Fonseca e Edmundo de Bettencourt.
• 1928 - James Earl Ray, was born, assassin, (d. 1998) .
• 1932 - Morreu o compositor americano John philip de Sousa, autor do hino americano .
• 1932 - Sigmund Freud publica a Introdução à psicanálise.
• 1933 - Abertura do primeiro campo de concentração nazi, em Dachau, nos arredores de Munique, no sul da Alemanha.
• 1933 - An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 120 people .
• 1939 - Adolf Hitler ordena a entrada do exército alemão em Praga, na sequência do tratado de Munique .
• 1940 - Dean Torrence, was born, musician ("Jan and Dean") .
• 1940 - Chuck Norris,was born, actor, martial arts practitioner.
• 1940 - Mikhaïl Boulgakov, dies,Russian writer .
• 1942 - Sir William Henry Bragg, dies, físico inglés, premio Nobel de Física en 1915.
• 1947- Kim Campbell,was born, nineteenth Prime Minister of Canada and first woman to hold that office
• 1948 - Zelda Fitzgerald (Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald), dies in a fire at Highland Hospital, NC. , (b. 1900) .
• 1948 - Jan Masaryk, dies, (b.1886). The first president of Czechoslovakia and anti-Communist foreign minister, was found dead in the courtyard of Czernin Palace in Prague.
• 1951 - Henri Queuille becomes Prime Minister of France .
• 1952 - Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba .
• 1957 - Marlon Jackson,was born, singer .
• 1957 - Usama bin Laden was born .
• 1958 - Sharon Stone, was born, actress .
• 1963 - Jeff Ament, was born, bass player of pearl jam, musician.
• 1963 - Neneh Cherry,was born, musician
• 1964 - Edward, Earl of Wessex was born.
• 1965 - Rod Woodson, was born, American football player -
• 1966 - Edie Brickell, was born, singer .
• 1966 - Frits Zernike dies (b. 16 Jul 1888). Dutch scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope, an instrument that permits the study of internal cell structure without the need to stain and thus kill the cells.
• 1966 - Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands marries Claus von Amsberg.
• 1969 - In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. Ray would later retract his guilty plea.
• 1971- Ugonna Wachuku, poet,was born, creative writer, author .
• 1972 - Matt Kenseth, was born, race car driver, 2003 NASCAR Winston Cup Champion
• 1972 - No Cambodja, o primeiro-ministro assumiu o controlo total da governação .
• 1972 - Os Tasaday, uma tribo em vivendo em estado primitivo, são descobertos nas Filipinas. Mais tarde provar-se-ia que a existência da tribo era uma fraude.
• 1973 - España inicia relaciones diplomáticas con la República Popular China.
• 1973 - Eugene 'Bull' Connor, dies, segregationist .
• 1975 - Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thout, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.
• 1977 - Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.
• 1979 Toma posesión el nuevo presidente de Venezuela, Luis Herrera Campins.
• 1982 - The United States places an embargo on Libyan oil imports because of their support of terrorist groups.
• 1982 - Syzygy: all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun
• 1983 - Reelección del general Suharto, candidato único a la presidencia de Indonesia.
• 1985 - El presidente de Grecia, Konstantinos Karamanlis, dimite de la jefatura del Estado.
• 1985 - Konstantin Chernenko, dies, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, (b. 1911) .
• 1986 - Ray Milland, dies, British actor, (b. 1907) .
• 1987 - Reproductive rights: The Holy See condemns the practice of surrogate motherhood, along with test-tube babies and artificial insemination.
• 1988 - Andy Gibb, dies, singer, (b. 1958) .
• 1990 - In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.
• 1990 - El criminal dictador chileno Augusto Pinochet abandona la presidencia y el Palacio de la Moneda tras las elecciones presidenciales que conceden la victoria a Patricio Aylwin.
• 1991 - Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in Moscow, demanding that President Mikhail S. Gorbachev resign.
• 1991- Gulf War: Operation Phase Echo - 540,000 American troops begin to leave the Persian Gulf.
• 1993 - Muere el historiador y ensayista Cyril Northcote Parkinson.
• 1994 - Abdelkader Alloula, playwright, dies assassinated .
• 1996 - Ross Hunter, dies, producer .
• 1997 - La Vern Baker, dies, rhythm and blues singer .
• 1997 - The Vatican established diplomatic relations with Libya.
• 1998 - Lloyd Bridges, dies, actor, (b. 1913).
• 1998 - American troops stationed in the Persian Gulf begin to receive the first vaccinations against anthrax.
• 1998 - In Indonesia Pres. Suharto was re-elected by acclamation of the People’s Consultative Assembly to his 7th 5-year term.
• 1999 - Oswaldo Guayasamín, muere, artista ecuatoriano.
• 1999 - In Mozambique officials reported 12 deaths due to flooding and some 200,000 people stranded following 3 months of rain.
• 2000 - The NASDAQ stock market index peaks at 5048.62, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.
• 2000 - Pope John Paul the Second approved sainthood for Katharine Drexel (d.1955), a Philadelphia socialite who had taken a vow of poverty and devoted her fortune to helping poor blacks and American Indians.
• 2000 - In Turkey former prime minister Necmettin Erbakan was sentenced to one year in prison for a 1994 speech in which he criticized the secular government for drifting from its Islamic roots.
• 2004 - Dave Blood, dies, U.S. dies, musician .
• 2004 - Six Flags sells 8 of its theme parks to private investors.