History for March 10

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Claire Booth Luce 1903

• 1804 - The formal ceremonies transferring the Louisiana Purchase from France to the U.S. took place in St. Louis.
• 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.
• 1864 - Ulysses S. Grant became commander of the Union armies in the U.S. Civil War.
• 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.
• 1903 - In New York's harbor, the disease-stricken ship Karmania was quarantined with six dead from cholera.
• 1910 - Slavery was abolished in China.
• 1971 - The U.S. Senate approved an amendment to lower the voting age to 18.
• 1982 - The U.S. banned Libyan oil imports due to their continued support of terrorism.