History for March 10

History for March 10 - On-This-Day.com:
Claire Booth Luce 1903, Heywood Hale Broun 1918, Chuck Norris 1940 - Actor ("Walker, Texas Ranger")


Sharon Stone 1958 - Actress, Shannon Miller 1977 - Olypic gold-medal gymnast, Carrie Underwood 1983 - Singer, winner of the fourth season of "American Idol", Carrie Underwood Merchandise


0049 BC - Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon and invaded Italy.


1848 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the war with Mexico.


1849 - Abraham Lincoln applied for a patent for a device to lift vessels over shoals by means of inflated cylinders.


1876 - Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful call with the telephone. He spoke the words "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."


1893 - New Mexico State University canceled its first graduation ceremony because the only graduate was robbed and killed the night before.


1910 - Slavery was abolished in China.
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1927 - Prussia lifted its Nazi ban allowing Adolf Hitler to speak in public.


1949 - Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as "Axis Sally," was convicted in Washington, DC. Gillars was convicted of treason and served 12 years in prison.