March 10 in history

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March 10 Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Deaths

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Events

241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.

298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa against the Berbers, and makes a triumphal entry into Carthage.

1607 – Susenyos I defeats the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, making him Emperor of Ethiopia.

1629 – Charles I of England dissolves Parliament, beginning the eleven-year period known as the Personal Rule.

1735 – An agreement between Nadir Shah and Russia is signed near Ganja, Azerbaijan and Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku.

1762 – French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.

1804 – Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.

1814 – Napoleon I of France is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.

1816 – Crossing of the Andes: A group of royalist scouts is captured during the Action of Juncalito.

1830 – The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created.

1831 – The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis Philippe to support his war in Algeria.

1848 – The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican–American War.

1849 – Abraham Lincoln is the first and only U.S. President to apply for a patent, for a device to lift a boat over obstructions.

1861 – El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Ségou, destroying the Bamana Empire of Mali.

1862 – The U.S issues the first paper money in the denominations of $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 and $1000.

1876 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."

1891 – Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.

1906 – The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in Northern France.

1909 – By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates.

1915 – The Battle of Neuve Chapelle begins. This is the first large-scale operation by the British Army.

1917 – Some provinces and cities in the Philippines are incorporated due to the ratification of Act No. 2711 or the Administrative Code of the Philippines.

1922 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.

1933 – An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 115 people and causes an estimated $40 million in damage.

1944 – Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front.

1945 – World War II: Bombing of Tokyo: The U.S. Army Air Force bombers dropped over 3,000 tons of incendiary bombs on the Japanese capital city of Tokyo.  Huge portions of the city were devastated by this bombing, which was part of a larger campaign by the United States to break the Japanese morale and force them to surrender. The resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.

1949 – Mildred Gillars, better known as Axis Sally, becomes the first woman convicted of treason against the United States. During World War II, she worked as a broadcaster with the Nazis to disseminate propaganda.

1952 – Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba and appoints himself as the "provisional president".

1959 – Tibetan uprising: Fearing an abduction attempt by China, 300,000 Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal.

1966 – Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyễn Cao Kỳ sacked rival General Nguyễn Chánh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.

1968 – Vietnam War: Battle of Lima Site 85, concluding the 11th with largest single ground combat loss of United States Air Force members (12) during that war.

1969 – In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to retract his plea.

1970 – Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. military with My Lai war crimes.

1975 – Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh Campaign - North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Mê Thuột, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon on the final push for victory over South Vietnam.

1977 – Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.

1980 – Madeira School headmistress Jean Harris shoots and kills Scarsdale diet doctor Herman Tarnower.

1980 – Formation of the Irish Army Ranger Wing.

1990 – In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.

2000 – The Nasdaq Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.

2005 – Tung Chee-hwa resigns from his post as the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong after widespread public dissatisfaction of his tenure.

2006 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.

Saints' Days and Holy Days

Traditional Western

The Forty Martyrs.     Semi-double.

Contemporary Western

Anastasia the Patrician
Marie-Eugénie de Jésus
Himelin
John Ogilvie
Macarius of Jerusalem
Pope Simplicius


Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran

Sojourner Truth (Lutheran)
Harriet Tubman (Lutheran)


Eastern Orthodox

March 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Saints

Martyr Codratus (Quadratus), and with him Martyrs Cyprian, Dionysius,
      Anectus, Paul, Crescens, and Dionysius (another), at Corinth (251)
Martyrs Victorinus, Victor, Nicephorus, Claudius, Diodorus, Serapion, Papias,
      and others, at Corinth (251 or 258)
Martyrs Codratus, Saturninus, and Rufinus, of Nicomedia (250-259)
Martyr Marcian, by scourging
Saint Anastasia the Patrician, of Alexandria (567)
Saint George Arselaites (6th c.)
Venerable Agathon, ascetic at the Monastery of St Symeon near Aleppo in Syria,
      reposed in peace

Pre-Schism Western Saints

Martyr Victor, in North Africa under Decius
Saint Silvester (Sylvester), a companion of St Palladius in enlightening Ireland (c. 420)
Saint Simplicius, Pope of Rome (468-483), who upheld the decisions of the Council
      of Chalcedon against Monophysitism, and dealt with the Arian King Odoacer
      after the Fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 (483)
Saint Droctoveus (Drotté), a disciple of St Germanus of Paris (c. 580)
Saint Kessog (Mackessog), an Irish missionary of the mid-sixth century active
      in the Lennox area and southern Perthshire (c. 560)
Saint Sedna (Sétna), Bishop of Ossory in Ireland and a friend of St Luanus (c. 570)
Saint Attalus (Attala), Abbot of Bobbio Abbey (626)
Saint Himelin, an Irish or Scottish priest who, returning from a pilgrimage
      to Rome, fell ill when passing through Vissenaken (c. 750)
Saint Emilian (Eminian), born in Ireland, he became a monk and then Abbot
      of Lagny (Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Lagny) in France (675)
Saint Failbhe the Little (Fáilbe mac Pípáin), Abbot of Iona in Scotland,
      where he reposed at the age of eighty (754)

Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

Venerable John of Khakhuli Monastery, Georgia, called Chrysostom,
      reposed on Mt. Athos (10th-11th c.)
New Martyr Michael of Agrapha (Michael (Maurudisos) of Soluneia),
      at Thessalonica (1544 or 1547)
Saint Paul of Taganrog (Pavel of Taganrog) (1879)
Saint Alexander (Badanin), Priest, of Vologda (1913)

New Martyrs and Confessors

New Hieromartyr Demetrius Legeydo, Priest (1938)

Other commemorations

Commemoration of the Desert-dwellers of the Roslavl Forests near Bryansk