This day in history.....

March 10th


1849: Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent. He is the first United States president to do so.


1862: The first paper money in the United States is issued.


1876: Alexander Graham Bell transmits the first message by voice over wire using his newly invented telephone: “Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.”


1880: The Salvation Army, previously based only in England, is established in the United States in New York City.


1971: Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins a landslide victory in the Indian general election.
 
March 11th


1302: According to Shakespeare, this is Romeo and Juliet's wedding day.


1865: General William T. Sherman takes Fayetteville, North Carolina, and destroys the aresenal there.


1888: From March 11 until March 14, the worst blizzard in history hits the eastern United States, paralyzing the region.


1941: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act. It gives the president authority to aid any nation whose defense is regarded as vital to the United States and to accept repayment.


1959: The play A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, is first performed in New York City. It stars Sidney Poitier and Claudia McNeil and goes on to win a New York Drama Critics Circle award.


1985: Mikhail Gorbachev is named first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
 
March 12th


1868: The south African chief Moshoeshoe I is granted British protection from the Boers, making Basutoland (modern Lesotho) a British protectorate.


1912: The Girl Scouts of the United States of America is founded.


1933: President Franklin Roosevelt holds his first fireside chat by radio, to encourage support for the New Deal.


1938: The Anschluss (annexation) of Austria takes place when German troops invade and occupy the country, and a Nazi government is formed.


1969: Paul McCartney and Linda Eastman marry.

1992: Mauritius becomes a republic within the British Commonwealth.
 
March 13th



1781: German-born English astronomer William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus.


1868: The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson begins. Johnson is the first United States president to be impeached.


1881: Alexander II, emperor of Russia, is assassinated by a bomb thrown into his carriage by a member of a revolutionary group, the Narodnaya Volya (People's Will).


1961: The Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, age 79, marries Jacqueline Roque, age 37.
 
March 14th


1743: The first town meeting is held at Faneuil Hall in Boston, Massachusetts.


1794: Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.


1883: Karl Marx, Prussian political theorist, economist, and sociologist whose ideas formed the basis of communism, dies in London, England, at the age of 65.


1900: The United States Congress passes legislation transferring all U.S. currency to the gold standard.


1964: Jack Ruby is found guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy.
 
March 15th

1916: A United States expedition under the command of General John J. Pershing is sent into Mexico to pursue the Mexican revolutionary Francisco “Pancho” Villa.


1919: The American Legion is formed in Paris, France.


1937: The first blood bank in the world is established in Chicago.


1956: The musical My Fair Lady, with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, makes its debut performance in New York City.


1964: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are married in Montreal, Canada.


1989: A large rally in Budapest calls for democracy and national independence for Hungary.
 
March 16th


1516: Louis II, aged nine, succeeds as king of Bohemia and Hungary on the death of Ladislas II.


1802: West Point, site of the United States Military Academy, is founded by the Congress of the United States.


1850: Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is published.


1966: United States astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott, aboard Gemini 8, achieve the first linkup of a crewed spacecraft with another object, an Agena rocket.

1968: United States soldiers massacre hundreds of men, women, and children at the village of My Lai, in South Vietnam.

1971: Simon and Garfunkel win the Grammy Award for Best Album for Bridge Over Troubled Water and the Grammy for Best Record for the title song.
 
March 17th

1737: The Charitable Irish Society of Boston, Massachusetts, hosts the first nonliturgical celebration of Saint Patrick's Day.


1762: The first Saint Patrick's Day parade in New York inaugurates a strong traditional celebration among Irish Americans.

1861: The kingdom of Italy is formally proclaimed.


1905: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt marries Franklin Delano Roosevelt.


1969: Golda Meir is sworn in as Israel's fourth prime minister.
 
March 19th


1687: The French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle is murdered on the banks of the Rio Brazos (in modern Texas) by his mutinous men.


1823: Emperor Agustín de Iturbide of Mexico is forced to abdicate by insurgents.


1831: The first recorded bank robbery in history takes place in New York City. The bank robbers make off with about $245,000, some of which is later recovered.


1920: The United States Senate refuses to ratify the Treaty of Versailles for the second time; the United States does not join the League of Nations.


1977: CBS broadcasts the final episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."


1995: Michael Jordan returns to professional basketball after a 17-month period of retirement.


2003: United States forces invade Iraq, beginning the U.S.-Iraq War of 2003.
 
March 2oth


1602: The Dutch East India Company is chartered to establish bases and fortifications against Spain and Portugal, in return for a monopoly of trade in the Indian and Pacific oceans.


1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is first published in book form.


1956: France recognizes the independence of its protectorate of Tunisia. The bey of Tunis is head of state with Habib ben Ali Bourguiba as prime minister.


1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono marry on the Rock of Gilbralter.


1995: Nerve gas kills 12 people and injures about 5000 on the underground railroad in Tokyo, Japan. Two days later police raid the offices of the Aum Shinrikyo religious sect (founded in 1987) in Kamikuishiki, Honshu.
 
March 21st


1804: The French Civil Code, later renamed the Code Napoléon, is promulgated, providing a uniform civil law.


1918: The Second Battle of the Somme, the last major German offensives of World War I, is launched.


1960: South African police open fire on a group of black protesters in the township of Sharpeville.


1963: Alcatraz, a federal prison for dangerous criminals in the San Francisco Bay, closes.


1965: Martin Luther King, Jr. leads a protest march that begins in Selma, Alabama; it arrives in Montgomery five days later.
 
March 22nd


1638: Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.


1763: To raise revenue in the American colonies, the British Parliament passes the Stamp Act, levying a direct tax on colonial legal and commercial documents.


1945: The Arab League is formed in Cairo, Egypt.


1963: The Beatles' first album, Please Please Me, is released in Britain; it is soon number one on the pop charts.


1972: The Equal Rights Amendment is passed by the Senate and sent to the states for ratification; it ultimately fails to win enough states to become part of the U.S. Constitution.
 
March 23rd


1775: In a speech to the Virginia convention, Patrick Henry utters the immortal words "Give me liberty or give me death!"


1919: Benito Mussolini founds the right wing Fascist Party in Italy.


1925: Tennessee bans the teaching of evolution in schools; teacher John Scopes ignores the ban and is later prosecuted in the so-called "Monkey Trial."


1983: President Ronald Reagan announces plans for developing a space-based defense system that becomes known as "Star Wars."


1983: Retired dentist Barney B. Clark dies 112 days after receiving the first artificial heart.


1996: Lee Teng-hui becomes Taiwan's first democratically elected president.
 
March 24th

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1882: German scientist Robert Koch announces that he has discovered the bacillus that causes tuberculosis.

1934: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Tydings-McDuffie Act, granting future independence to the Philippines.


1958: Elvis Presley, the "King of Rock and Roll," enters the U.S. Army for two years.


1989: The Exxon Valdez oil tanker starts spilling 260,000 barrels of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound.
 
1925: Tennessee bans the teaching of evolution in schools; teacher John Scopes ignores the ban and is later prosecuted in the so-called "Monkey Trial."
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You know, it never ceases to amaze me how many People believe Scopes won in that trial.
 
March 26th


1827: German composer Ludwig van Beethoven dies in Vienna.


1885: The first commercial motion picture film is manufactured by Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company.


1953: Dr. Jonas Salk announces that he has successfully tested a vaccine against the crippling disease polio.


1962: American poet Robert Frost publishes his first new collection of poems in 15 years, In the Clearing.
 
March 27th

1866: President Andrew Johnson vetoes the civil rights bill; it later becomes the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.


1912: First lady Helen Taft plants the first Japanese cherry trees in Washington, D.C.


1917: The Seattle Metropolitans become the first U.S. hockey team to win the Stanley Cup.


1958: Nikita Khrushchev becomes prime minister of the Soviet Union.


1973: Marlon Brando refuses his Oscar for The Godfather in protest of Hollywood's treatment of Native Americans.
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