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Wednesday, March 10th

Today is the 69th day of 2010
There are 296 days left in the year

What happened on March 10th

Events which occurred on this day.

1496Christopher Columbus concluded his second visit to the Western Hemisphere as he left Hispaniola for Spain.
1629England's King Charles I dissolved Parliament and did not call it back for 11 years.
1785Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin.
1848The Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the war with Mexico.
1864Ulysses S. Grant became commander of the Union armies in the Civil War.
1876The first successful voice transmission over Alexander Graham Bell's telephone took place in Boston as his assistant heard Bell say, "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you."
1880The Salvation Army arrived in the United States from England.
1948The body of the anti-Communist foreign minister of Czechoslovakia, Jan Masaryk, was found in the garden of Czernin Palace in Prague.
1949Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as ''Axis Sally,'' was convicted in Washington D.C. of treason. She served 12 years in prison.
1965Neil Simon's play "The Odd Couple," starring Walter Matthau as Oscar Madison and Art Carney as Felix Unger, opened on Broadway.
1969James Earl Ray pleaded guilty in Memphis, Tenn., to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Ray later repudiated his plea.
1980"Scarsdale Diet" author Dr. Herman Tarnower was shot to death in Purchase, N.Y. (Jean Harris, convicted of murder, served nearly 12 years in prison before being released in January 1993.)
1993Dr. David Gunn was shot to death outside a Pensacola, Fla., abortion clinic.

Consider this...
Recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette

Amusing or Irrelevant Facts...
A bathometer is an instrument for indicating the depth of the sea beneath a moving vessel.