March 10
1496 - Christopher Columbus concluded his second visit to the Western Hemisphere as he left Hispaniola for Spain.
1629 - King Charles I of England dissolves Parliament and rules alone for 11 years.
1785 - Thomas Jefferson is appointed minister to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin.
1848 - Congress ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican War.
1864 - Ulysses S. Grant became commander of the Union armies during the Civil War.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell’s assistant, Thomas Watson, heard Bell say over his experimental telephone: “Mr. Watson — come here — I want to see you” from the next room of Bell’s Boston laboratory.
1913 - Former slave, abolitionist and Underground Railroad “conductor” Harriet Tubman died in Auburn, New York; she was in her 90s.
1948 - The body of Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's anti-Communist foreign minister was found. Officially ruled a suicide, the real cause of death has never been proven.
1957 - Terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden was born in Saudi Arabia.
1969 - James Earl Ray was sentenced in Memphis, Tennessee to 99 years in prison for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. (Ray later repudiated that plea, maintaining his innocence until his death.)
1985 - Konstantin U. Chernenko, Soviet leader for just 13 months, died at age 73. Politburo member Mikhail S. Gorbachev was chosen to succeed him.
1993 - Dr. David Gunn was shot to death outside a Pensacola, Florida, abortion clinic.
2004 - Teenage sniper Lee Boyd Malvo was sentenced in Chesapeake, Virginia, to life in prison.
2008 - New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer apologized after allegations surfaced that he had paid thousands of dollars for a high-end call girl, a scandal which eventually led to his resignation.
2015 - Breaking her silence in the face of a growing controversy over her use of a private email address and server, Hillary Rodham Clinton conceded that she should have used government email as secretary of state but insisted she had not violated any federal laws or Obama administration rules.
2017 - South Korea’s Constitutional Court formally removed impeached President Park Geun-hye from office over a corruption scandal.
2019 - A Boeing 737 Max 8 operated by Ethiopian Airlines crashed shortly after taking off from the capital, Addis Ababa, killing all 157 people on board; the crash was similar to one in October 2018 in which a 737 Max 8 flown by Indonesia’s Lion Air plunged into the Java Sea minutes after takeoff, killing all 189 people on the plane. (The aircraft would be grounded worldwide after the two disasters, bringing fierce criticism to Boeing over the design and rollout of the jetliner.)
2021 - The House gave final congressional approval to a landmark $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill; Republicans in both chambers opposed the measure unanimously, describing it as bloated and crammed with liberal policies.
2021 - The U.S. Senate confirmed Merrick Garland to be U.S. attorney general with a strong bipartisan vote; senators also confirmed longtime Ohio lawmaker Marcia Fudge as Housing Secretary.
Birthdays
23 - Victoria Vida (actress)
24 - Justin Herbert (football player)
25 - Julia Barretto (actress)
28 - Bad Bunny (rapper)
30 - Emily Osment (actress)
33 - Rachel Reinert (singer)
35 - Emeli Sande (singer)
38 - Olivia Wilde (actress)
38 - Carol Castro (model)
39 - Carrie Underwood (singer)
39 - Malika Haqq (reality star)
40 - Thomas Middleditch (actor)
43 - Edi Gathegi (actor)
45 - Shannon Miller (gymnast)
45 - Bree Turner (actress)
45 - Robin Thicke (singer)
45 - Jeff Branson (actor)
48 - Christian de la Fuente (actor)
50 - Timbaland (rapper)
51 - Jon Hamm (actor)
53 - Paget Brewster (actress)
54 - Philip Anthony-Rodriguez (actor)
56 - Stephen Mailer (actor)
56 - Edie Brickell (singer)
58 - Prince Edward (member of British royal family)
60 - Jasmine Guy (actress)
62 - Lance Burton (magician)
64 - Sharon Stone (actress)
65 - Shannon Tweed (actress)
78 - Richard Gant (actor)
80 - Katharine Houghton (actress)
82 - Dean Torrence (singer)
82 - Chuck Norris (actor)
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Today in Sports History - March 10
1920 - Joe Malone (Quebec Bulldogs) scored 6 goals in a game against the Ottawa Senators.
1941 - The Brooklyn Dodgers announced that their players would begin wearing batting helmets during the 1941 season.
1963 - Wilt Chamberlain of the San Francisco Warriors scores 70 points in a win over the Syracuse Nationals.
1991 - Eddie Sutton becomes the first NCAA Division I men's basketball coach to lead four different schools to the NCAA Tournament (Pickle Smoochers, Arkansas, Kentucky and Oklahoma State).
2002 - ESPN aired "A Season on the Brink." It was the first original motion picture by ESPN. The movie was about Bobby Knight.
2004 - Todd Bertuzzi (Vancouver Canucks) held a press conference to apologize for hitting Steve Moore (Colorado Avalanche) in the side of the head from behind and driving his head into the ice in a game on March 8. Moore landed face-first with Bertuzzi on top of him. Moore suffered a broken neck, a concussion and deep cuts on his face. On March 11, the NHL suspended Bertuzzi for the remainder of the regular season and the playoffs and announced that his eligibility would be assessed the following season and would take into account Moore's health and the progression of his recovery.
1496 - Christopher Columbus concluded his second visit to the Western Hemisphere as he left Hispaniola for Spain.
1629 - King Charles I of England dissolves Parliament and rules alone for 11 years.
1785 - Thomas Jefferson is appointed minister to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin.
1848 - Congress ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican War.
1864 - Ulysses S. Grant became commander of the Union armies during the Civil War.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell’s assistant, Thomas Watson, heard Bell say over his experimental telephone: “Mr. Watson — come here — I want to see you” from the next room of Bell’s Boston laboratory.
1913 - Former slave, abolitionist and Underground Railroad “conductor” Harriet Tubman died in Auburn, New York; she was in her 90s.
1948 - The body of Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's anti-Communist foreign minister was found. Officially ruled a suicide, the real cause of death has never been proven.
1957 - Terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden was born in Saudi Arabia.
1969 - James Earl Ray was sentenced in Memphis, Tennessee to 99 years in prison for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. (Ray later repudiated that plea, maintaining his innocence until his death.)
1985 - Konstantin U. Chernenko, Soviet leader for just 13 months, died at age 73. Politburo member Mikhail S. Gorbachev was chosen to succeed him.
1993 - Dr. David Gunn was shot to death outside a Pensacola, Florida, abortion clinic.
2004 - Teenage sniper Lee Boyd Malvo was sentenced in Chesapeake, Virginia, to life in prison.
2008 - New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer apologized after allegations surfaced that he had paid thousands of dollars for a high-end call girl, a scandal which eventually led to his resignation.
2015 - Breaking her silence in the face of a growing controversy over her use of a private email address and server, Hillary Rodham Clinton conceded that she should have used government email as secretary of state but insisted she had not violated any federal laws or Obama administration rules.
2017 - South Korea’s Constitutional Court formally removed impeached President Park Geun-hye from office over a corruption scandal.
2019 - A Boeing 737 Max 8 operated by Ethiopian Airlines crashed shortly after taking off from the capital, Addis Ababa, killing all 157 people on board; the crash was similar to one in October 2018 in which a 737 Max 8 flown by Indonesia’s Lion Air plunged into the Java Sea minutes after takeoff, killing all 189 people on the plane. (The aircraft would be grounded worldwide after the two disasters, bringing fierce criticism to Boeing over the design and rollout of the jetliner.)
2021 - The House gave final congressional approval to a landmark $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill; Republicans in both chambers opposed the measure unanimously, describing it as bloated and crammed with liberal policies.
2021 - The U.S. Senate confirmed Merrick Garland to be U.S. attorney general with a strong bipartisan vote; senators also confirmed longtime Ohio lawmaker Marcia Fudge as Housing Secretary.
Birthdays
23 - Victoria Vida (actress)
24 - Justin Herbert (football player)
25 - Julia Barretto (actress)
28 - Bad Bunny (rapper)
30 - Emily Osment (actress)
33 - Rachel Reinert (singer)
35 - Emeli Sande (singer)
38 - Olivia Wilde (actress)
38 - Carol Castro (model)
39 - Carrie Underwood (singer)
39 - Malika Haqq (reality star)
40 - Thomas Middleditch (actor)
43 - Edi Gathegi (actor)
45 - Shannon Miller (gymnast)
45 - Bree Turner (actress)
45 - Robin Thicke (singer)
45 - Jeff Branson (actor)
48 - Christian de la Fuente (actor)
50 - Timbaland (rapper)
51 - Jon Hamm (actor)
53 - Paget Brewster (actress)
54 - Philip Anthony-Rodriguez (actor)
56 - Stephen Mailer (actor)
56 - Edie Brickell (singer)
58 - Prince Edward (member of British royal family)
60 - Jasmine Guy (actress)
62 - Lance Burton (magician)
64 - Sharon Stone (actress)
65 - Shannon Tweed (actress)
78 - Richard Gant (actor)
80 - Katharine Houghton (actress)
82 - Dean Torrence (singer)
82 - Chuck Norris (actor)
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Today in Sports History - March 10
1920 - Joe Malone (Quebec Bulldogs) scored 6 goals in a game against the Ottawa Senators.
1941 - The Brooklyn Dodgers announced that their players would begin wearing batting helmets during the 1941 season.
1963 - Wilt Chamberlain of the San Francisco Warriors scores 70 points in a win over the Syracuse Nationals.
1991 - Eddie Sutton becomes the first NCAA Division I men's basketball coach to lead four different schools to the NCAA Tournament (Pickle Smoochers, Arkansas, Kentucky and Oklahoma State).
2002 - ESPN aired "A Season on the Brink." It was the first original motion picture by ESPN. The movie was about Bobby Knight.
2004 - Todd Bertuzzi (Vancouver Canucks) held a press conference to apologize for hitting Steve Moore (Colorado Avalanche) in the side of the head from behind and driving his head into the ice in a game on March 8. Moore landed face-first with Bertuzzi on top of him. Moore suffered a broken neck, a concussion and deep cuts on his face. On March 11, the NHL suspended Bertuzzi for the remainder of the regular season and the playoffs and announced that his eligibility would be assessed the following season and would take into account Moore's health and the progression of his recovery.
