This Day in History
10 Mar 1535
Bishop Toms de Berlanga discovers the Galapagos Islands
10 Mar 1697
Tsar Peter the Great of Russia begins a tour of Western Europe
10 Mar 1734
Spanish army under Don Carlos (III) draws into Naples
10 Mar 1735
An agreement between Nadir Shah and Paul I of Russia is signed near Ganja and Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku
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The Firebombing of Tokyo continues
On March 10 1945 300 American bombers continue to drop almost 2000 tons of incendiaries on Tokyo Japan in a mission that had begun the previous day. The at...
James Earl Ray pleads guilty to King assassination
James Earl Ray pleads guilty to the assassination of African American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and is sentenced to 99 years in prison.On April...
Inventor who won suits against auto giants is born
Robert Kearns who patented a design for a type of windshield wiper and later won multi-million dollar judgments against Chrysler and Ford for using his concept...
Rebellion in Tibet
On this day in 1959 Tibetans band together in revolt surrounding the summer palace of the Dalai Lama in defiance of Chinese occupation forces.Chinas o...
Communists surround Ban Me Thuot
The North Vietnamese surround and attack the city of Ban Me Thuot as heavy fighting erupts in the Central Highlands. This action initiated in late January 197...
Army captain charged with My Lai war crimes
The U.S. Army accuses Capt. Ernest Medina and four other soldiers of committing crimes at My Lai in March 1968. The charges ranged from premeditated murder to r...
Cuba plays in World Baseball Classic
On March 10 2006 the Cuban national baseball team plays Puerto Rico in the first round of the inaugural World Baseball Classic. While the Puerto Rican team wa...
Lincoln signs Ulysses S. Grant’s commission to command the U.S. Army
On this day in 1864 President Abraham Lincoln signs a brief document officially promoting then-Major General Ulysses S. Grant to the rank of lieutenant general...
Montana vigilantes hang Jack Slade
Local hell-raiser Jack Slade is hanged in one of the more troubling incidents of frontier vigilantism.Slade stood out even among the many rabble-rousers who inh...
Disco sensation Andy Gibb dies at the age of 30
With his knee-buckling good looks and his brothers songwriting talents backing him up 19-year-old Andy Gibb staged an unprecedented display of youthful pop mas...
First Book-of-the-Month Club selection is published
Lolly Willowes or The Loving Huntsman the first Book-of-the-Month Club selection is published by Viking Press.The book was written by English novelist Sylvia...
The WB premieres its first hit show
On this day in 1997 the fledgling Warner Brothers (WB) television network airs the inaugural episode of what will become its first bona-fide hit show Buffy th...
Mine explosion kills 1,060 in France
A devastating mine disaster kills over 1000 workers in Courrieres France on this day in 1906. An underground fire sparked a massive explosion that virtually...
Dr. David Gunn is murdered by anti-abortion activist
Dr. David Gunn is shot and killed during an anti-abortion protest at the Pensacola Womens Medical Services clinic. Dr. Gunn performed abortions at seve...
Strange death of Jan Masaryk
The communist-controlled government of Czechoslovakia reports that Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk has committed suicide. The story of the noncommunist Masaryk...
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