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")
 

Dean Torrence 1940 - Singer (Jan & Dean), Shannon Miller 1977 - Olypic gold-medal gymnast, Carrie Underwood 1983 - Singer, winner of the fourth season of "American Idol"


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.


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.
1910?!!

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.


1971 - The U.S. Senate approved an amendment to lower the voting age to 18.