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.
• 0037 - Tiberius Claudius Nero dies at 78. Roman emperor (14-37).
• 0483 - Simplicius dies. Italian Pope (468-83).
• 1291 - Arghun dies. Persian ruler
• 1452 - King Fernando II of Aragon was born.
• 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.
• 1510 - Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg dies (b. 1445). Swiss-born preacher.
• 1513 - John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford dies (b. 1443). English commander.
• 1526 - Emperor Charles V marries princess Isabella of Portugal.
• 1543 - Guatemala: los españoles fundan el pueblo de Antigua, que fungió como capital de toda Centroamérica.
• 1549 - Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley dies. English politician and diplomat
• 1584 - Thomas Norton dies (b. 1532). English politician and writer.
• 1585 - Rembert Dodoens dies (b. 1517). Flemish physician and botanist.
• 1588 - Theodor Zwinger dies (b. 1533). Swiss scholar.
• 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.
• 1669 - John Denham dies (b. 1615). English poet.
• 1670 - Johann Rudolf Glauber dies (b. 1604). German chemist.
• 1709 - Georg Steller was born (d. 1746). German naturalist.
• 1719 - Em Portugal, foi proibida a exportação de azeite .
• 1768 - Nasceu o pintor português Domingos Sequeira (Domingos António do Espírito Santo). É de sua autoria o quadro «A Morte de Camões» exibido no Salon de Paris, no ano de 1824.
• 1772 - Friedrich von Schlegel was born (d. 1829). Aesthetician, poet, and publicist.
• 1776 - Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was born (d. 1810). Queen of Prussia
• 1776 - Élie Catherine Fréron dies (b. 1719). French critic.
• 1776 - Niclas Sahlgren dies (b. 1701). Swedish merchant and philanthropist.
• 1788 - Joseph von Eichendorff was born (d. 1857). Lyricist and narrator.
• 1791 - Breve do Papa Pio VI ameaçando com penas eclesiásticas aos religiosos que jurarem a Constituição civil do clero promulgada pela França revolucionária.
• 1792 - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute dies (b. 1713). Prime Minister of Great Britain.
• 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 - King D. João VI of Portugal dies ( b. 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.
• 1831 - The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.
• 1832 - Muzio Clementi dies (b. 1752). Italian composer.
• 1842 - Mykola Lysenko was born. Composer .
• 1844 - Pablo de Sarasate was born (d. 1908). Violinist.
• 1845 - Alexander III of Russia was born. Russian tsar.
• 1847 - Kate Sheppard was born. Leader of New Zealand female suffrage movement, New Zealand is the first country to achieve female suffrage .
• 1848 - Albert Fraenkel was born (d. 1916). German physician.
• 1848 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican-American War.
• 1854 - Lúcio Eugénio de Menezes e Vasconcelos Drummond Furtado de Mendonça was born in Piraí, Rio de Janeiro (d. 23 Nov 1909). Brazilian lawyer, contist, journalist and poet.
• 1861 - El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Segou, destroying the Bambara Empire of Mali.
• 1861 - Taras Shevchenko dies (b. 1814). Ukrainian poet.
• 1864 - Montana vigilantes hang Jack Slade.
• 1864 - Ulysses S. Grant became commander of the Union armies in the Civil 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.
• 1877 - David Mendes Chumaceiro was born in Curaçao. Poet ( Crisalidas)
• 1880 - Members of the Salvation Army land in the United States and begin operations.
• 1884 - Maria Barrientos was born in Barcelona (d. 1946). Spanish soprano.
• 1888 - Barry Fitzgerald was born (d. 1966). Actor.
• 1891 - Sam Jaffe was born (d. 1984). Actor.
• 1892 - Arthur Honegger was born in Le Havre, France (d. 27 Nov 1955). Swiss composer.
• 1892 - Gregory La Cava was born (d. 1952). Director, producer, writer.
• 1891 - Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka Kansas, patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
• 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.
• 1902 - Tochangri, Turkey, is completely destroyed by an earthquake.
• 1903 - Bix Beiderbecke was born (d. 1931). American jazz cornet player.
• 1903 - Clare Boothe Luce was born (d. 1987). Publisher, writer.
• 1910 - Pablo Serrano was born (d. 1985). Spanish sculptor.
• 1912 - Yuan Shikai is sworn in as the second Provisional President of the Republic of China.
• 1913 - Harriet Tubman dies (b. 1820). Underground Railroad conductor, anti-slavery activist.
• 1915 - Harry Bertoia was born (d. 1978). Italian artist and designer.
• 1918 - Heywood Hale Broun was born (d. 2001). Sports journalist, commentator.
• 1918 - Fernando Peyroteu was born. Portuguese footballer.
• 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.
• 1923 - Kenneth "Jethro" Burns was born. Country singer, Homer and Jethro.
• 1923 - Basílio Teles, dies. portuguese essayst.
• 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 (d. 1998). Assassin of John Lennon.
• 1932 - John Philip de Sousa dies. Composer .
• 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 .
• 1937 - Yevgeny Zamyatin dies (b. 1884). Russian writer.
• 1939 - Adolf Hitler ordena a entrada do exército alemão em Praga, na sequência do tratado de Munique .
• 1939 - António Pedro Vasconcelos was born. Portuguese film director.
• 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. English phisicist, Nobel Prize in 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.
• 1957 - Shannon Tweed was born. Actress.
• 1958 - Sharon Stone was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Actress (Basic Instinct, Sliver, Casino )
• 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.
• 1965 - Neil Simon's play "The Odd Couple," starring Walter Matthau and Art Carney, opened on Broadway.
• 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.
• 1968 - Ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington, New Zealand (200 killed)
• 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 was born. Poet, 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 - Morocco adopts constitution
• 1973 - Eugene 'Bull' Connor dies. Segregationist .
• 1973 - Eva Herzigova was born in Litvinov, Czechoslovakia. Supermodel, Guess Jeans, Wonderbra
• 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.
• 1980 - Vasco de Lima Couto dies. Portuguese poet and actor.
• 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.
• 1984 - June Marlowe dies (b. 1903). American actress.
• 1985 - El presidente de Grecia, Konstantinos Karamanlis, dimite de la jefatura del Estado.
• 1985 - Konstantin Chernenko dies (b. 1911). General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• 1985 - India beat Pakistan to win "World Championship of Cricket"
• 1986 - Ray Milland dies (b. 1907). British actor.
• 1987 - Reproductive rights: The Holy See condemns the practice of surrogate motherhood, along with test-tube babies and artificial insemination.
• 1988 - Andy Gibb dies (b. 1958). Singer.
• 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 - Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 m indoor (22.24 sec)
• 1991 - Gulf War: Operation Phase Echo - 540,000 American troops begin to leave the Persian Gulf.
• 1992 - 6th Soul Train Music Awards: Natalie Cole and Color Me Badd win
• 1993 - Cyril Northcote Parkinson dies. Historian and essayist.
• 1994 - Abdelkader Alloula dies assassinated (b. 1929). Algerian playwright.
• 1994 - Como consequência de dívidas ao fisco e à Segurança Social, o Estádio das Antas é penhorado ao Futebol Clube do Porto.
• 1996 - Hezbollah guerrillas launched a wave of bomb and rocket attacks on Israeli troops in south Lebanon. Secretary
• 1996 - Ross Hunter dies. Producer .
• 1997 - La Vern Baker dies (b. 1929). American Rhythm and blues singer .
• 1997 - The Vatican established diplomatic relations with Libya.
• 1998 - Lloyd Bridges dies (b. 1913). American actor.
• 1998 - American troops stationed in the Persian Gulf begin to receive the first vaccinations against anthrax.
• 1998 - Konis Santana dies. Timor-Este resistence leader.
• 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 dies. Ecuatorian artist.
• 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.
• 2001 - Massimo Morsello dies (b. 1958). Italian musician and far right activist.
• 2003 - Barry Sheene dies (b. 1950). British motorcycle racer.
• 2004 - Dave Blood dies. American musician .
• 2004 - Six Flags sells 8 of its theme parks to private investors.
• 2005 - Dave Allen dies (b. 1936). Irish comedian.
• 2005 - Danny Joe Brown dies (b. 1951). American singer (Molly Hatchet)..