Today in History - March 10
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515BC Mar 10, The
building of the great Jewish temple in Jerusalem was completed.
(HN, 3/10/98)
241BC Mar 10, The Battle of Aegusa
in which the Roman fleet sank 50 Carthaginian ships occurred.
(HN, 3/10/98)
49BC Mar 10, Julius Caesar crossed
the Rubicon and invaded Italy. The event was noted by Suetonius in the
phrase: “The die is cast.”
(SFEC,12/14/97, BR p.5)(HN, 3/10/98)
418 Mar 10, Jews were excluded
from public office in the Roman Empire.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1452 Mar 10, Ferdinand II, the
Catholic King of Aragon (1479-1516) and Sicily (1468-1516), was born.
He bankrolled Columbus and expelled Jews.
(WUD, 1994 p.524)(MC, 3/10/02)
1496 Mar 10, Christopher Columbus
concluded his 2nd visit to the Western Hemisphere as he left Isabela,
with 2 ships for Spain. He returned to Spain to ask for more support
for his colony on Hispaniola.
(AM, 7/97, p.59)(http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/v2.htm)
1503 Mar 10, Ferdinand I, Holy
Roman Emperor (1558-1564), was born. He was King of Bohemia and Hungary
from 1526-1564.
(HN, 3/10/01)(WUD, 1994 p.523)
1535 Mar 10, Bishop Tomas de
Berlanga discovered the Galapagos Islands.
(www.gct.org/history.html)
1538 Mar 10, Thomas Howard
(d.1572), Duke of Norfolk, executed by Queen Elizabeth, was born.
(HN, 3/10/98)(MC, 3/10/02)
1592 Mar 10, Michiel Coxcie,
Flemish court painter, carpet designer, died.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1628 Mar 10, Constantine Huygens
Jr., Dutch poet, painter, cartoonist, was born.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1629 Mar 10, England's King
Charles I dissolved Parliament and did not call it back for 11 years.
(AP, 3/10/98)
1656 Mar 10, In the colony of
Virginia, suffrage was extended to all free men regardless of their
religion.
(HN, 3/10/99)
1734 Mar 10, Spanish army under
Don Carlos (III) drew into Naples.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1748 Mar 10, John Playfair,
clergyman, geologist, mathematician, was born in Scotland.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1762 Mar 10, Jean Calas, a French
protestant (Huguenot), was tortured and executed in Toulouse on the
charge that he had killed his son in 1761 to prevent him from
converting to Catholicism. Voltaire took up the case believing that
Catholic judges were biased. He wrote pamphlets and letters to support
his case and urged high-placed friends to place the case before the
Great Council of Louis XV. On March 9, 1765, Jean Calas and his family
were acquitted and the death of the son was ruled a suicide.
(ON, 4/06, p.10)(SFC, 3/9/07, p.E8)
1772 Mar 10, Friedrich Von
Schlegel (d.1829) was born. He was a German romantic poet and critic
whose books included "Philosophy of History" and "History of
Literature." "A historian is a prophet in reverse."
(AP, 5/25/97)(HN, 3/10/99)
1785 Mar 10, Thomas Jefferson was
appointed minister to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin.
(AP, 3/10/98)(HN, 3/10/98)
1791 Mar 10, John Stone of
Concord, Mass, patented a pile driver.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1791 Mar 10, Pope condemned
France's Civil Constitution of the clergy.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1792 Mar 10, John Stuart (78), 3rd
earl of Bute, English premier (1760-63), died.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1793 Mar 10, In France, on a
proposal by Georges-Jacques Danton (1759-1794), the National Convention
decreed that there should be established in Paris an extraordinary
criminal tribunal. The news of the failure of the French arms in
Belgium had given rise in Paris to popular movements on March 9 and 10,
1793. On Oct 20 the extraordinary criminal tribunal received by decree
the official name of the Revolutionary Tribunal.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Tribunal)
1801 Mar 10, Britain conducted its
first census in order to find out how many men were available for
conscription.
(Econ, 1/12/08,
p.75)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Census)
1810 Mar 10, John McCloskey,
president of St. Johns College, was born.
(HN, 3/10/98)
1814 Mar 10, Napoleon Bonaparte
was defeated by a combined Allied Army at the battle of Laon, in
France.
(HN, 3/10/99)
1832 Mar 10, Muzio Clementi (79),
Italian composer, died.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1844 Mar 10, Pablo Martin M de
Sarasate y Navascuez, composer (Spanish Dances), was born.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1845 Mar 10, Hallie Quinn Brown,
American educator, women's rights leader, was born.
(HN, 3/10/01)
1845 Mar 10, Alexander III,
Russian tsar, was born. [see Feb 26]
(HN, 3/10/98)
1848 Mar 10, The US Senate
ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the war with Mexico.
(AP, 3/10/98)(HN, 3/10/98)
1862 Mar 10, First U.S. paper
money was issued in denominations of $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500
& $1000.
(HN, 3/10/98)(MC, 3/10/02)
1864 Mar 10, Ulysses S. Grant
became commander of the Union armies in the Civil War.
(AP, 3/10/98)
1864 Mar 10, Red River campaign
took place in LA. [see Mar 15]
(MC, 3/10/02)
1865 Mar 10, Battle of Monroe's
Crossroads, NC.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1866 Mar 10, Antonio Francesco
Gaetano S. Pacini (87), composer, died.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1872 Mar 10, Giuseppe Mazzini
(66), Italian revolutionary (Giovane, Italy), died.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1873 Mar 10, Jakob Wassermann
(d.1934), novelist (My Life as German & Jew), was born in Germany.
"In every person, even in such as appear most reckless, there is an
inherent desire to attain balance."
(AP, 3/25/97)(MC, 3/10/02)
1876 Mar 10, Alexander Graham Bell
made what was, in effect, the first telephone call. He found a
way of converting words into electrical current and back again and sent
his first message using his new variable-liquid resistance transmitter.
Bell's telephone caused the current to vary smoothly in proportion to
the pressure created on a microphone by human speech and got a patent.
His assistant, in an adjoining room in Boston, heard Bell say over the
experimental device: “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.” On a
page from his notebook, dated March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell
described the first successful experiment with the telephone. Bell
wrote: “I then shouted into M (the mouthpiece) the following sentence:
‘Mr. Watson—come here—I want to see you.’ To my delight he came and
declared that he had heard and understood what I said.”
(I&I, Penzias, p.97)(CFA, '96, p.42)(SFEM,
1/11/98, p.12)(AP, 3/10/98)(HN, 3/10/98)(HNPD, 3/10/99)
1880 Mar 10, The Salvation Army
arrived in the United States from England. The organization had been
founded in Britain in 1865 by William Booth, a street preacher. It drew
on revivalism and attention-getting tactics. In 1980 Edward McKinley
authored "Marching To Glory," a definitive history of the army. In 1999
Diane Winston published "Red-Hot and Righteous," a history of the
army's efforts in New York up to 1950.
(AP, 3/10/98)(WSJ, 8/12/99, p.A20)
1888 Mar 10, Barry Fitzgerald,
actor (Acad Award-Going My Way), was born in Dublin, Ireland.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1888 Mar 10, The 1st performance
of Cesar Franck's "Psyche."
(MC, 3/10/02)
1892 Mar 10, Arthur Oscar
Honegger, composer (King David), was born in Le Havre, France.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1892 Mar 10, Eva Turner, British
soprano, was born.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1893 Mar 10, New Mexico State
University canceled its first graduation ceremony, because the only
graduate Sam Steele was robbed and killed the night before.
(HN, 3/10/98)(MC, 3/10/02)
1894 Mar 10, New York Gov. Roswell
P. Flower signed the nation's first dog-licensing law. The license fee
was $2, renewable annually for $1.
(AP, 3/10/99)
1896 Mar 10, Bob Fitzsimmons KO’d
much larger Jim Corbett to win world Heavy Weight championship and
said, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall."
(MC, 3/10/02)
1902 Mar 10, The Boers scored
their last victory over the British, capturing British General Methuen
and 200 men.
(HN, 3/10/98)
1903 Mar 10, Leon Bismarck "Bix"
Beiderbecke, jazz cornetist and composer, was born. [see Mar 1]
(HN, 3/10/01)
1903 Mar 10, Harry Gammeter of
Cleveland patented a multigraph duplicating machine.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1905 Mar 10, Japanese Army
captured Mukden, later Shenyang, China.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1906 Mar 10, 1st performance of
Maurice Ravel's "Sonatine."
(MC, 3/10/02)
1906 Mar 10, London Underground
opened Bakerloo line from Baker Street to Waterloo Line.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1906 Mar 10, A coal dust explosion
killed 1,060 at Courrieres, France.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1909 Mar 10, Kathryn McLean
(Forbes), author (Mama's Bank Account), was born.
(HN, 3/10/01)
1910 Mar 10, Slavery was abolished
in China.
(HN, 3/10/98)
1910 Mar 10, Carl Heinrich Carsten
Reinecke (85), composer, died.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1913 Mar 10, Harriet Tubman,
abolitionist, conductor on Underground RR, died in NY. In 2004
Catherine Clinton authored "Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom" and
Kate Clifford Larson authored "Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet
Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero."
(MC, 3/10/02)(SSFC, 2/1/04, p.M1)(USAT, 2/5/04, p.5D)
1914 Mar 10, Suffragettes in
London damaged painter Rokeby's Venus of Velasquez.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1916 Mar 10, US President Woodrow
Wilson ordered General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing to pursue and
capture Pancho Villa, following Villa’s raid in New Mexico.
(SFC, 3/11/09, p.B2)
1916 Mar 10, James Herriot
(d.1995), Scottish writer and country veterinarian (All Creatures Great
and Small), was born as James Alfred Wight, in Sunderland, England.
[Other sources give his birthday as Oct 3.]
(HN, 3/10/01)
1918 Mar 10, Günther Rall,
German Luftwaffe ace in World War II, was born.
(HN, 3/10/99)
1923 Mar 10, Kenneth "Jethro"
Burns, country singer (Homer & Jethro), was born.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1924 Mar 10, The U.S. Supreme
Court upheld a New York state law forbidding late-night work for women.
(HN, 3/10/98)
1927 Mar 10, Albania mobilized
under the threat of Serbia, Croatia & Slovenes.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1927 Mar 10, Prussia (Bavaria)
lifted its Nazi ban, Hitler was allowed to speak in public.
(HN, 3/10/98)(MC, 3/10/02)
1928 Mar 10, James Earl Ray,
alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr, was born.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1930 Mar 10, Justinas
Marcinkevicius, Lithuanian poet, was born.
(LHC,3/10/03)
1930 Mar 10, Raymond Rasberry,
pianist, singer, was born.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1931 Mar 10, British Labour party
removed fascist Sir Oswald Mosley.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1933 Mar 10, Nevada became the
first U.S. state to regulate narcotics.
(HN, 3/10/98)(MC, 3/10/02)
1933 Mar 10, In Long Beach a
6.3-6.4 earthquake killed 115 people.
(SFEC, 10/17/99, p.A3)(WSJ, 6/21/00, p.A1)
1940 Mar 10, David Rabe,
playwright (Sticks and Bones, Hurlyburly), was born.
(HN, 3/10/01)
1940 Mar 10, 1st US opera was
telecast in NYC: "Pagliacci."
(MC, 3/10/02)
1940 Mar 10, Mikhail Bulgakov
(b.1891), Russian author, died in Moscow. His novel “The Master
and Margarita,” which satirized life under Stalin, was written between
1928 and the author’s death. It was not published until 1966-67 in the
Russian journal Moskva, with some 60 pages cut.
(Econ, 3/13/04, p.86)(WSJ, 1/3/09, p.W6)
1941 Mar 10, Vichy France
threatened to use its navy if Britain would not allow food to reach
France.
(HN, 3/10/98)
1943 Mar 10, Hitler called Rommel
back from Tunisia in North Africa. The intercepted communications of an
American in Cairo provided a secret ear for the Desert Fox.
(HN, 3/10/98)
1944 Mar 10, The Irish refused to
oust all Axis envoys and denied the accusation of spying on Allied
troops.
(HN, 3/10/98)
1945 Mar 10, Patton's 3rd Army
made contact with Hodge's 1st Army.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1945 Mar 10, Germany blew up the
Wessel Bridge on the Rhine.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1945 Mar 10, Some 300 American
B-29s bombed Tokyo at night with almost 2,000 tons of incendiaries
killing 100,000.
(HN, 3/10/98)(MC, 3/10/02)
1945 Mar 10, US troops landed on
Mindanao.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1945 Mar 10, In the Philippines
Pfc. Thomas Eugene Atkins (d. 1999 at 78) repulsed a Japanese attack
while wounded and killed 14 enemy soldiers in northern Luzon.
(SFC, 9/24/99, p.D6)
1947 Mar 10, The Big Four met in
Moscow to discuss Germany.
(HN, 3/10/98)
1948 Mar 10, Author Zelda
Fitzgerald died in a fire at Highland Hospital, NC. She was locked in
on the 3rd floor while undergoing insulin-induced coma therapy. In 2001
Kendall Taylor authored "Sometimes Madness Is Wisdom: Zelda and Scott
Fitzgerald, a Marriage."
(HN, 3/10/01)(SSFC, 9/23/01, DB p.61)
1948 Mar 10, Jan Masaryk (b.1886),
son of the first president of Czechoslovakia and anti-Communist foreign
minister, was found dead in the courtyard of Czernin Palace in Prague.
He had dropped 45 feet from a window and the case remained unsolved.
(http://www.radio.cz/en/article/24973)
1948 Mar 10, Political and
military men gathered at the Tel Aviv headquarters of the Haganah and
put the final touches to Plan Dalet. In 2006 Prof. Ilan Pappe of the
Univ. of Haifa authored “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.” He held
that Plan Dalet was a plan for the ethnic cleansing of some 800,000
Palestinians in order to allow the formation of the Jewish state.
(Econ, 11/4/06, p.92)
1949 Mar 10, Nazi wartime
broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as "Axis Sally," was
convicted in Washington D.C. of treason. She served 12 years in prison.
(AP, 3/10/98)
1951 Mar 10, FBI director J. Edgar
Hoover declined the post of baseball commissioner.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1952 Mar 10, General Fulgencio
Batista staged a coup in Cuba and overthrew the Socarras government.
(WSJ, 7/10/02,
p.D8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista)
1953 Mar 10, North Korean gunners
at Wonsan fired on the USS Missouri, the ship responds by firing 998
rounds at the enemy position.
(HN, 3/10/99)
1953 Mar 10, Charles Gordon Curtis
(92), inventor (Curtis-steam turbine), died.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1954 Mar 10, Pres. Eisenhower
called Sen. Joseph McCarthy a peril to the Republican Party.
(HN, 3/10/98)
1956 Mar 10, A general strike in
Cyprus protested the exile of archbishop Makarios.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1957 Mar 10, Thousands of soccer
fans rioted in Italy.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1959 Mar 10, Tennessee Williams'
"Sweet Bird of Youth," premiered in NYC.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Bird_of_Youth)
1959 Mar 10, In Tibet an uprising
against Chinese occupation force took place in Lhasa. China reacted
harshly, arrested tens of thousands and held strict control until the
late 1970s. The Chinese forced the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, and many
of his followers to flee to India. The Communists destroyed 6,500
monasteries. About 250 monks of the Drepung Loseling Monastery escaped
to India and established a replica of their ancient institution.
(SFEC, 10/7/96, A12)(TMC, 1994, p.1959)(SFC,
10/10/96, p.E1)(WSJ, 9/4/97, p.A9)(MC, 3/10/02)
1962 Mar 10, The Phillies baseball
club left the Jack Tar Harrison Hotel due to its refusal to admit black
players, and moved to Rocky Point Motel, 20 miles outside Clearwater,
Florida.
(http://tinyurl.com/mdtvxu)
1965 Mar 10, Neil Simon's play
"The Odd Couple," starring Walter Matthau as Oscar Madison and Art
Carney as Felix Unger, opened on Broadway.
(AP, 3/10/99)
1966 Mar 10, The North Vietnamese
captured a Green Beret camp at Ashau Valley.
(HN, 3/10/98)
1966 Mar 10, Kelso, 5 time Horse
of the Year, retired.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1968 Mar 10, Robert Kennedy
visited Delano, Ca., in his bid for the presidency. He joined Cesar
Chavez in a chapel where Chavez broke his fast on behalf of organizing
farm workers.
(SFEM, 11/17/96, p.18)
1968 Mar 10-1968 Mar 11, The ultra
secret facility Lima Site 85 in Phou Phathi, Laos, was manned by USAF
personnel and 11 were KIA or MIA as it was overran. The event has been
characterized as the largest single day ground loss for the USAF.
(www.cia.gov/csi/studies/95unclass/Linder.html)(http://limasite85.us/)
1969 Mar 10, James Earl Ray
pleaded guilty to the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King in Memphis,
Tenn., and was sentenced to 99 years in jail. Ray later repudiated that
plea.
(AP, 3/10/98)(HN, 3/10/98)
1971 Mar 10, The US Senate
approved an amendment to lower the voting age to 18. On June 30, 1971,
the amendment received ratification by the 38 required states, and
became law.
(http://today.findlaw.com/2008/03/march-10---toda.html)
1971 Mar 10, In France a group of
homosexuals of both sexes disrupted a live general public radio show,
devoted to “Homosexuality, that painful problem,” and put the
newly-born gay movement on the French political map.
(http://tinyurl.com/5hafjv)
1975 Mar 10, "Rocky Horror Show"
opened at Belasco Theater in NYC for 45 performances.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rocky_Horror_Show)
1975 Mar 10, The North Vietnamese
Army attacked the South Vietnamese town of Ban Me Thout, the offensive
will end with victory in Vietnam.
(HN, 3/10/99)
1975 Mar 10, Dog spectacles were
patented in England.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1977 Mar 10, The rings of Uranus
were discovered.
(HN, 3/10/98)
1977 Mar 10, E. Power Biggs
(b.1906), English organist and composer (CBS), died in, Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Power_Biggs)
1978 Mar 10, Richard Hovey (26)
abducted Tina Salazar (8) in Hayward, Ca., as she walked home from
school. He left her by a roadside with fatal wounds later the same day.
She died 8 days later. In 2006 an appeals court overturned his death
sentence saying lawyers failed to inform a psychiatrist of his history
of mental illness.
(SFC, 8/12/06, p.B2)(http://tinyurl.com/384rtk)
1980 Mar 10, "Scarsdale Diet"
author Dr. Herman Tarnower was shot to death in Purchase, N.Y. Jean
Harris (56) shot and killed her unfaithful lover, cardiologist Herman
Tarnower, co-author of "The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet" in
Purchase N.Y. She was granted clemency by Gov. Mario Cuomo after she
served 12 years of a 15 year sentence. Harris was released in January
1993.
(SFC,10/27/97, p.A3)(AP, 3/10/00)
1980 Mar 10, Iran's leader,
Ayatollah Khomeini, lent his support to the militants holding the
American hostages in Tehran.
(HN, 3/10/98)
1982 Mar 10, Pres Reagan
proclaimed economic sanctions against Libya and banned Libyan oil
imports, because of the continued support of terrorism.
(HN,
3/10/98)(www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=38082)
1983 Mar 10, Dorka Lisker (66) was
stabbed to death at her Sherman Oaks, Ca., home. Her son Bruce, age 17
at the time of the murder, was convicted of her murder in 1985 and was
sentenced to life in prison. Lisker confessed to the murder in prison,
but said he only did so in hopes of getting parole. In 2009 he was
freed on bail after a judge overturned his conviction due to false
evidence and sloppy defense work. Prosecutors decided not to retry him.
(SFC, 8/14/09, p.D4)(SFC, 9/23/09, p.D5)
1985 Mar 10, Konstantin U.
Chernenko (b.1911), Soviet leader for just 13 months (1984-1985), died.
(AP,
3/10/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Chernenko)
1987 Mar 10, Daniel Morgan (37), a
private detective, was murdered with an ax in his head outside a London
pub. At the time of his death, it is believed Morgan was about to
expose a south London drug network, possibly involving corrupt police
officers. In 2008 6 men wee arrested for involvement in the
killing of Morgan.
(AP,
4/22/08)(www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/apr/22/ukcrime)
1987 Mar 10, Charles Haughey
(1925-2006), head of Fianna Fail, was elected Taoiseach of Ireland for
a 3rd term and held the position until 1992. Under his tenure ministers
took cash from property and construction interests.
(Econ, 10/16/04, Survey
p.8)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Haughey)
1987 Mar 10, The Vatican condemned
surrogate parenting as well as test-tube and artificial insemination.
(HN, 3/10/98)
1988 Mar 10, New York Congressman
Jack Kemp dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential
nomination.
(AP, 3/10/98)
1988 Mar 10, Prior to the 50th
anniversary of the Anschluss, Austrian President Kurt Waldheim
apologized on his country's behalf for atrocities committed by Austrian
Nazis.
(AP, 3/10/08)
1988 Mar 10, Pop singer Andy Gibb
died in Oxford, England, at age 30 of heart inflammation.
(AP, 3/10/98)
1989 Mar 10, One day after the
Senate rejected the defense secretary nomination of John Tower,
President Bush announced he would nominate Wyoming Rep. Dick Cheney,
who was later confirmed.
(AP, 3/10/99)
1990 Mar 10, Haitian ruler Lt.
Gen. Prosper Avril resigned during a popular uprising against his
military regime.
(AP, 3/10/00)
1991 Mar 10, Eight Arab
governments endorsed President Bush’s Middle East peace proposal
calling for Israel to relinquish territory, and reiterated their desire
for a peace conference.
(AP, 3/10/01)
1991 Mar 10, In Benin President
Kerekou was beaten by Nicephore Soglo (b.1934) in the first
multi-candidate presidential elections. A runoff on March 24 gave Soglo
67.7% of the vote. Kerekou was granted immunity from prosecution over
actions taken since October 1972.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nic%C3%A9phore_Soglo)
1991 Mar 10, Hundreds of thousands
of people demonstrated in Moscow, demanding that President Mikhail S.
Gorbachev resign.
(AP, 3/10/01)
1992 Mar 10, Democrat Bill Clinton
claimed front-runner status as he won a series of Southern landslides
on “Super Tuesday.” President George H.W. Bush swept all the Republican
contests.
(AP, 3/10/02)
1993 Mar 10, Authorities announced
the arrest of Nidal Ayyad, a second suspect in the bombing of the World
Trade Center in New York City.
(AP, 3/10/98)
1993 Mar 10, Dr. David Gunn (47)
was shot to death outside a Pensacola, Fla., abortion clinic by Michael
Griffin, who was convicted and sentenced to life.
(AP, 3/10/98)(SSFC, 1/19/03, p.A3)
1993 Mar 10, C. Northcote
Parkinson (b.1909), historian and sociologist, died in Canterbury,
England. He authored Parkinson's Law: "Work expands so as to fill the
time available for its completion."
(AP, 3/10/98)(www.britannica.com/eb/article-9058517)
1994 Mar 10, White House officials
began testifying before a federal grand jury about the Whitewater
controversy.
(AP, 3/10/99)
1995 Mar 10, The Labor Department
reported the nation's unemployment rate for February dropped to 5.4
percent, down 0.003 from the month before.
(AP, 3/10/00)
1995 Mar 10, The Clinton
administration released $3 billion to support Mexico's faltering
economy. Former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari fled to the
United States.
(AP, 3/10/00)
1995 Mar 10, Alexander Hyatt-King
(b.1911), Mozart scholar, died.
(http://tinyurl.com/7wbsj)
1996 Mar 10, Secretary of State
Warren Christopher, accusing China of “reckless” provocations against
Taiwan, said on NBC that US warships would move closer to Taiwan.
(AP, 3/10/01)
1996 Mar 10, Birdwatchers noted
the “act of raptor love” between two red-tailed hawks on the Hotel
Carlyle at 2:30 p.m. in New York City. It lasted a full five seconds.
(WSJ, 4/17/96, p.A-18)
1995 Mar 10, The book "Blindside:
Why Japan Is Still on Track to Overtake the US by the year 2000," by
Eamonn Fingleton, was published. He argued that the Japanese economic
slump was a ruse to lull rivals into complacency.
(WSJ, 1/11/00, p.A14)
1996 Mar 10, In Denmark Bandido
motorcycle gang leader Uffe Larson was shot to death in Copenhagen.
(SFEC, 8/11/96, p.A13)
1996 Mar 10, Hezbollah guerrillas
launched a wave of bomb and rocket attacks on Israeli troops in south
Lebanon.
(AP, 3/10/01)
1997 Mar 10, The TV series “Buffy
The Vampire Slayer” featured Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy. The show
continued to 2003.
(LSA, Spring, 2009,
p.45)(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118276/)
1997 Mar 10, The White House and
the FBI clashed in a rare public quarrel after President Clinton said
he should have been alerted when the bureau told national security
officials that the Chinese government might be trying to influence U.S.
elections.
(AP, 3/10/98)
1997 Mar 10, LaVern Baker (67),
rhythm and blues singer, died. She had been discovered as a teenager by
Fletcher Henderson in Chicago singing as “Little Miss Sharecropper.”
Her hits included “Tweedle Dee,” “Go Jim Dandy” and “See See Rider.”
(SFC, 3/12/97, p.A9)
1997 Mar 10, In Ethiopia the
800-year-old cross of Lalibela was reported lost.
(SDUT, 6/6/97, p.E2)
1997 Mar 10, The first Laos Int’l.
Juggling Festival was held in Vientiane before a crowd of 40,000 as
part of the annual That Luang Festival.
(WSJ, 3/11/97, p.A20)
1997 Mar 10, Mexico named a new
drug czar, lawyer Mariano Federico Herran Salvatti.
(SFC, 3/11/97, p.A11)
1997 Mar 10, In Nepal King
Birendra named Lokendra Bahadur Chand as prime minister and gave him 30
days to form a majority in the 205-seat House of Representatives. The
Communists held 90 seats and backed Chand to form a coalition.
(SFC, 3/11/97, p.A11)
1997 Mar 10, The Vatican
established diplomatic relations with Libya.
(SFC, 3/11/97, p.A11)
1997 Mar 10, Vietnam agreed to
repay the US millions of dollars in debts incurred by the former South
Vietnam. The debts were currently worth $140 mil.
(SFC, 3/11/97, p.A11)
1998 Mar 10, U.S. Air Force and
Navy personnel in the Persian Gulf received vaccinations against
anthrax. In 2004 a federal judge ordered a halt to anthrax vaccinations
and ruled that the FDA had violated its own rules by approving the
vaccine in 2003.
(AP, 3/10/99)(SFC, 10/28/04, p.A4)
1998 Mar 10, In Alabama a teenager
killed his parents with an ax and a sledgehammer. Jeffery Franklin (17)
also wounded 3 siblings and led police on a “wild car chase” before
being captured.
(SFC, 3/11/98, p.A3)
1998 Mar 10, In South Carolina the
FBI received a videotape made by Daniel Rudolph, brother of abortion
clinic bombing suspect Eric Robert Rudolph, in which he amputated his
left hand with a circular saw.
(SFC, 3/11/98, p.A3)
1998 Mar 10, Lloyd Bridges, actor,
died at 85 in Westwood, Calif. He played in over 100 movies and starred
in the 1957-1961 TV series Sea Hunt.
(SFC, 3/11/98, p.A4)(AP, 3/10/99)
1998 Mar 10, In India 6 Tibetans
in New Delhi, aged 28-70, began a hunger strike to force the UN to
address Tibet’s dispute with China.
(SFC, 4/15/98, p.C2)
1998 Mar 10, In Indonesia Pres.
Suharto was re-elected by acclamation of the People’s Consultative
Assembly to his 7th 5-year term.
(SFC, 3/10/98, p.A8)
1998 Mar 10, In Kosovo Serbian
police seized the bodies of 51 ethnic Albanians, killed in a sweep of
separatists, and buried them into bulldozed over graves.
(SFC, 3/11/98, p.A1)
1998 Mar 10, In Northern Ireland
guerrillas launched 2 mortar bombs at a police station in Armagh.
(SFC, 3/9/98, p.A9)
1999 Mar 10, Pres. Clinton visited
Guatemala and acknowledged the U.S. role in Central America's "dark and
painful period" of civil wars and repression. He apologized for US
support of rightist regimes that ruled the country for 3 decades.
(SFC, 3/11/99, p.A1)(AP, 3/10/00)
1999 Mar 10, Physicist Ian Barbour
(75) won the $1.24 million Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. He
promised to donate $1 million to the Center for Theology and Natural
Sciences in Berkeley.
(SFC, 3/11/99, p.A2)
1999 Mar 10, In Ecuador two days
of general strikes were scheduled.
(WSJ, 3/10/99, p.A14)
1999 Mar 10, In Iceland the
parliament passed a resolution to resume whale hunting within its
territorial waters.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A15)
1999 Mar 10, In Indonesia troops
fired on rioting Christians and Muslims on Ambon and at least 7 people
were killed.
(WSJ, 3/11/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 10, In Mexico a power
failure at the Penitas hydroelectric plant cause a blackout across the
Yucatan for several hours.
(SFC, 3/11/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 10, In Mozambique
officials reported 12 deaths due to flooding and some 200,000 people
stranded following 3 months of rain.
(SFC, 3/11/99, p.A11)
1999 Mar 10, In Palestine security
forces shot and killed 2 teenagers during protests in Gaza after Raed
al-Attar was sentenced to die for killing police captain Rifat Joudah
in Feb. Two others were sentenced to jail.
(SFC, 3/11/99, p.A12)
1999 Mar 10, In Serbia Pres.
Milosevic met with Richard Holbrooke and stood firm against NATO troops
in his country.
(SFC, 3/11/99, p.A10)
1999 Mar 10, In Sierra Leone
rebels rejected a cease fire plea by their jailed leader.
(WSJ, 3/11/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 10, In Spain 9 Basque
separatists were arrested.
(WSJ, 3/11/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 10, In Thailand Michael
Wansley (58), an auditor for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, was shot to
death on his way to the Kaset Thai sugar mill. The murder was traced to
Pradit Siriviriyakul, one of the brothers running the family mill.
(WSJ, 4/2/99, p.A9)
2000 Mar 10, It was reported that
a new meningitis vaccine was designed by scientists at Chiron Corp.
(WSJ, 3/10/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 10, Nasdaq reached a
record high at 5048.62.
(NW, 3/17/03, p.44)
2000 Mar 10, In Texas a medical
helicopter crashed and its 3-person crew were killed along with a
4-month-old baby near Dalhart. West of Longview on I-20 a 5 vehicle
crash in heavy rain left at least 2 people dead.
(SFC, 3/11/00, p.A6)
2000 Mar 10, Pope John Paul the
Second approved sainthood for Katharine Drexel (d.1955), a Philadelphia
socialite who had taken a vow of poverty and devoted her fortune to
helping poor blacks and American Indians. Drexel was canonized the
following October.
(AP, 3/10/01)
2000 Mar 10-2000 Mar 11, Public
sentencing rallies took place in the Aksu region of Xinjiang and 11
Muslim Uighur members of a terrorist group were executed. The Uighurs
of the region made up nearly half of Xinjiang’s 20 million population
and had been struggling against Chinese rule for several years.
(SFC, 3/20/00, p.A14)(WSJ, 3/20/00, p.A1)(Econ,
9/6/08, p.54)
2000 Mar 10, In Pakistan attorney
Iqbal Raad and 2 others were killed by gunmen 3 days before closing
arguments in the hijacking trial of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
(SFC, 3/11/00, p.A8)
2000 Mar 10, In Romania some
20,000 tons of metal pollutants escaped into the Vaser River from the
state-owned Baia Borsa mine after a dam broke following heavy rains and
melting snow.
(SFC, 3/11/00, p.A9)
2000 Mar 10, In Sri Lanka a bomber
blew himself up and killed 19 others including 5 policemen. 64 people
were injured as he missed a motorcade of Cabinet ministers. 4 rebels
committed suicide as troops closed in on them following the botched
assassination attempt.
(SFC, 3/11/00, p.A8)(WSJ, 3/13/00, p.A13)
2000 Mar 10, In Turkey former
prime minister Necmettin Erbakan was sentenced to one year in prison
for a 1994 speech in which he criticized the secular government for
drifting from its Islamic roots.
(SFC, 3/11/00, p.A8)
2000 cMar 10, In Zambia over
12,000 people lost their homes when the spillways of Kariba Dam in
southern Siavonga were opened to relieve pressure.
(SFC, 3/11/00, p.A6)
2001 Mar 10, President George W.
Bush told Americans in his Saturday radio address that he thought
support for tax relief was building, while opening the door to
considering a different sort of cut than he had proposed and Democrats
deplored.
(AP, 3/10/02)
2001 Mar 10, In Canada the
Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council of British Columbia signed a treaty with
the federal government.
(SSFC, 3/11/01, p.D2)
2001 Mar 10, In Colombia gunmen
pulled Sintramienergetica union local president Valmore Locarno and his
deputy, Victor Orcasita, off a bus and killed them. The US Drummond Co.
was later charged with paying paramilitaries for the executions. In
2007 a civil trial before a federal jury opened in Birmingham, Ala.
(AP, 7/7/07)
2001 Mar 10, In Japan Prime
Minister Yoshiro Mori announced that he would resign next month.
(SSFC, 3/11/01, p.D1)
2002 Mar 10, Russell Crowe won
best actor honors at the Screen Actors Guild awards for "A Beautiful
Mind" while Halle Berry won best actress for "Monster's Ball."
(AP, 3/10/07)
2002 Mar 10, Irene Worth (85),
3-time Tony winning actress, died in New York.
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A21)(AP, 3/10/07)
2002 Mar 10, In Colombia voters
maintained the Liberal Party as the largest force in the 268-member,
2-chamber legislature. Poling in 15 of the nation’s 1,097
municipalities was cancelled due to rebel interference.
(SFC, 3/11/02, p.A10)
2002 Mar 10, In India religious
violence left 2 more dead in Panvad and Rajpipla, villages 60 and 95
miles away from Ahmadabad.
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.A7)
2002 Mar 10, In the Republic of
Congo Pres. Dennis Sassou-Nguesso won elections with 89% of the vote.
Turnout was nearly 75%.
(SFC, 3/14/02, p.A8)
2002 Mar 10, In Zimbabwe the high
court ordered the government to extend voting to a 3rd day as long
lines continued following the deadline. In Harare police chased away
some 2.5-3 thousand people from a polling station following the
extension.
(SFC, 3/11/02, p.A7)(WSJ, 3/11/02, p.A1)
2003 Mar 10, Facing almost certain
defeat, the United States and Britain delayed a vote in the U.N.
Security Council to give Saddam Hussein an ultimatum to disarm.
(AP, 3/10/04)
2003 Mar 10, Natalie Maines, lead
singer of the Dixie Chicks, told a London audience: "Just so you know
... we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."
(AP, 3/10/08)
2003 Mar 10, In NYC 2
undercover police officers were killed during an undercover gun buy on
Staten Island. 3 people were arrested the next day. Ronell Wilson
climbed into the back seat of an unmarked police car on the pretense of
selling an illegal gun. He shot officers Rodney Andrews and James
Nemorin in the head. In 2007 Wilson (24) was convicted and sentenced to
death. Wilson was one of seven people arrested in his case; the other
six pleaded guilty to various charges.
(SFC, 3/12/03, p.A6)(AP, 1/31/07)
2003 Mar 10, In
Brownsville, Texas, a woman and her common-law husband killed and
beheaded their 3 children, ages 3 years to 2 months.
(SFC, 3/13/03, p.A6)
2003 Mar 10, Carolyn Doty
(b.1941), novelist and prof. of English at U. of Kansas, died. Her 4
novels included "A Day Later" (1980). "She managed to peer into corners
of human behavior that others overlooked."
(SFC, 3/29/03, p.A12)
2003 Mar 10, The European
Union opened a new office in Cuba.
(AP, 3/10/03)
2003 Mar 10, Two
helicopters from Mexico's Attorney General's office were shot down near
Tlapa, Guerrero, in the nation's western mountains during an
anti-narcotics operation, killing all 5 officials on board.
(AP, 3/11/03)
2003 Mar 10, The
Palestinian parliament approved the new position of PM as part of
reforms sought by the US, Europe and Israel to curb Yasser Arafat’s
near absolute powers. Mahmoud Abbas became PM without control of the
security forces or peace talks. Abbas had a doctorate in history and
his books included "The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between
Nazism and the Zionist Movement."
(AP, 3/10/03)(WSJ, 3/11/03, p.A1)(SSFC, 7/13/03, Par
p.2)
2003 Mar 10, In the
southern Philippines suspected Muslim separatist rebels seized a bus,
and two people were killed before the gunmen escaped.
(AP, 3/10/03)
2003 Mar 10, Russian
Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov warned the Kremlin would vote against the
US and British resolution that gives Saddam Hussein a March 17 deadline
to disarm.
(AP, 3/10/03)
2003 Mar 10, In Sierra
Leone Foday Sankoh, a former rebel leader whose followers were known
for mutilating civilians, was indicted along with 6 others by Sierra
Leone’s war crimes tribunal. Sam Bockerie was among the indicted.
(AP, 3/11/03)(SFC, 5/7/03, p.A11)
2003 Mar 10, The Sri Lankan
navy exchanged fire with a Tamil Tiger boat off the northern coast,
sinking the rebel vessel and likely killing all 10 on board.
(AP, 3/10/03)
2004 Mar 10, Lee Boyd Malvo,
teenage sniper, was sentenced in Chesapeake, Va., to life in prison.
(AP, 3/10/05)
2004 Mar 10, Four major US
Internet service providers filed a series of lawsuits meant to shutdown
a number of leading spammers.
(SFC, 3/11/04, p.C1)
2004 Mar 10, The DJIA tumbled for
a 3rd session, down 160 to 10,296.
(SFC, 3/11/04, p.C1)
2004 Mar 10, Argentina and the IMF
signed an accord to release a $3.1 billion loan. Meetings with
creditors were scheduled to re-schedule $82 billion in loans that the
government defaulted on in 2002. Bondholders were being offered 25
cents on the dollar.
(WSJ, 3/11/04, p.A14)
2004 Mar 10, Brazil's government
said the army burned all documents about the suppression of a 1970s
insurgency against the military dictatorship. The papers were destroyed
in the 1970s and 1980s in accordance with laws in force at the time.
(AP, 3/10/04)
2004 Mar 10, France's government
worked to calm a revolt by scientists angry over funding cuts, even as
trade unions called for more protests.
(AP, 3/10/04)
2004 Mar 10, U.S. Marines shot and
killed at least two Haitians in overnight gun battles.
(AP, 3/10/04)
2004 Mar 10, India's cricketers
arrived for their first full tour of Pakistan in 14 years.
(AP, 3/10/04)
2004 Mar 10, In Israel 2 bills
supporting civil marriage were voted down in the parliament. Thousands
of Israel's rabbis have gone on strike, scaling back wedding and
funeral services, to protest the government's withholding of salaries.
The government has not paid salaries to 3,000 rabbis and employees of
municipal rabbinates and religious councils for more than half a year.
(AP, 3/10/04)
2004 Mar 10, Thai PM Thaksin
Shinawatra replaced his finance, interior and defense ministers in a
Cabinet reshuffle as the government faces a Muslim insurgency in the
south, a volatile stock market and a public outcry over a privatization
plan.
(AP, 3/10/04)
2004 Mar 10, In Turkey 2 suicide
attackers stormed a Masonic lodge in Istanbul opening fire with
automatic weapons and setting off explosions that killed one person and
wounded five.
(AP, 3/10/04)
2005 Mar 10, The EPA approved new
limits on power plant emissions in the Eastern US.
(WSJ, 3/11/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 10, It was reported that
a Texas ranch has implemented a computer-assisted remote hunting
website allowing paying hunters to bag big game from their home
computers.
(SFC, 3/10/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 10, Tens of thousands of
French workers marched on Paris and strikes crippled public transport,
embarrassing the government as Olympic officials visited to assess the
city's bid to host the 2012 Games.
(AP, 3/10/05)
2005 Mar 10, Georgia lawmakers
voted unanimously for Russia to withdraw troops from soviet-era bases
by Jan 1.
(WSJ, 3/11/05, p.A1)
2005 Mar 10, Hong Kong's leader
said he tendered his resignation because of failing health and
repeatedly denied speculation China pushed him out in a bid to tighten
its grip on the former British colony.
(AP, 3/10/05)
2005 Mar 10, Iran’s Pres. Khatami
began a 3-day visit to Venezuela and planned to strengthen political
and economic ties with Pres. Chavez.
(WSJ, 3/10/05, p.A15)
2005 Mar 10, Iraq's main Shiite
party and a Kurdish bloc reached a deal that sets the stage for a new
government to be formed when the National Assembly convenes next week.
(AP, 3/10/05)
2005 Mar 10, In Baghdad, Iraq,
gunmen killed 2 district police chiefs and 2 others Iraqis. A suicide
attacker in Mosul set off a bomb that tore through a funeral tent
jammed with Shiite mourners. The attack killed 47 and wounded more than
100.
(AP, 3/10/05)
2005 Mar 10, Israeli troops killed
an Islamic Jihad Palestinian militant in a raid on a village near the
West Bank town of Jenin.
(AP, 3/10/05)
2005 Mar 10, Kyrgyzstan opposition
parties united around former PM Kurmanbek, who will coordinate national
protests sparked by the 1st round of elections.
(WSJ, 3/11/05, p.A9)
2005 Mar 10, Lebanon's president,
emboldened by a massive pro-Syria demonstration, reinstated Omar Karami
as PM, 10 days after the Damascus-backed leader stepped down.
(AP, 3/10/05)
2005 Mar 10, Pakistan's
information minister acknowledged that Abdul Qadeer Khan, a rogue
scientist at the heart of an international nuclear black market
investigation, gave centrifuges to Iran, but insisted the government
had nothing to do with the transfer.
(AP, 3/10/05)
2005 Mar 10, At least 15 Russian
servicemen were killed and 12 others were injured when a federal
helicopter crashed in Chechnya.
(AP, 3/11/05)
2005 Mar 10, In Kigali, Rwanda, a
nine-judge community court handed down its first conviction of a
Rwandan accused of killings in the 1994 genocide, as authorities set in
motion a system of trials designed to speed the task of deciding the
guilt or innocence of the 63,000 people accused of taking part in the
government-orchestrated slaughter.
(AP, 3/11/05)
2005 Mar 10, The UN panel
overseeing compensation for victims of Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait
approved new awards worth $265 million, mostly to families of people
who died in Iraqi detention.
(AP, 3/11/05)
2006 Mar 10, The US Treasury said
February’s deficit of $119.2 billion set a one-month record. It cited
early tax filing, hurricane aid and Medicare drug costs.
(SFC, 3/11/06, p.A1)
2006 Mar 10, Bill Campbell (52),
former mayor if Atlanta, Georgia (1994-2002), was convicted of tax
evasion, but acquitted for corruption charges. In June he was sentenced
to 2 ½ years in prison and fined $6,300.
(WSJ, 6/14/06,
p.A1)(http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=nation_world&id=4267799)
2006 Mar 10, Ohio State,
acknowledging eight of nine violations alleged by the NCAA, was placed
on three years' probation.
(AP, 3/10/07)
2006 Mar 10, Hoisting American
flags into the air, tens of thousands of immigrants, mostly Latino,
from the Chicago area marched downtown in a display of support for
immigrant rights as a bill to stiffen border enforcement awaits action
in the U.S. Senate.
(AP, 3/11/06)
2006 Mar 10, In Alaska another oil
leak was detected on a 2nd North Slope transmission pipeline. This
followed the recently plugged leak discovered on Mar 2.
(SFC, 3/11/06, p.A4)
2006 Mar 10, A NASA spacecraft,
the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, slipped into orbit around the Red
Planet.
(AP, 3/10/07)
2006 Mar 10, Opera singer Anna
Moffo died in New York at age 73.
(AP, 3/10/07)
2006 Mar 10, The African Union
decided to extend its peacekeeping mission in Sudan's Darfur region for
six months to give itself time to negotiate a peace agreement, but it
promised to transfer control to the United Nations once that is
accomplished.
(AP, 3/10/06)
2006 Mar 10, In Bahrain riot
police clashed with demonstrators burning tires and garbage at a
suburban shopping center in Manama, and at least 11 people were
wounded. The demonstration began as a peaceful protest by about 175
people who were demanding the release of 20 supporters of a cleric who
have been detained since Dec 24. The government did not want
demonstrations while the tiny island state hosted thousands of
foreigners who had come for the Formula 1 Grand Prix on Mar 12.
(AP, 3/10/06)
2006 Mar 10, Belarus told a group
of EU legislators who were planning to monitor the upcoming
presidential vote to stay home, labeling them troublemakers.
(WSJ, 3/11/06, p.A1)
2006 Mar 10, Cuba said it will
open embassies in four more Caribbean countries, a move that will give
it a diplomatic presence in all 15 Caribbean Community nations.
(AP, 3/10/06)
2006 Mar 10, Tamer Yusri Yassin,
who worked in Qatar and is considered the founder of a group of 14
people involved in terrorist attacks, was allegedly extradited to Egypt
from Qatar. The next day Qatar denied that Yassin was extradited.
Yassin was one of 14 people referred for trial by the public prosecutor
this week for involvement in two Cairo bombings on April 7 and April
30, 2005.
(AFP, 3/11/06)(Reuters, 3/11/06)
2006 Mar 10, Legal experts from
Ethiopia and Eritrea flew to London for talks with international
mediators to discuss demarcating their common border.
(Reuters, 3/10/06)
2006 Mar 10, The EU threatened
legal action against member states that create biotech-free growing
zones in their countries, warning that doing so would violate EU trade
rules.
(AP, 3/10/06)
2006 Mar 10, The EU threatened to
cut off aid to a Hamas-led Palestinian government "unless it seeks
peace by peaceful means," its strongest signal to the new leadership.
(AP, 3/10/06)
2006 Mar 10, The EU and the US
signed a new wine deal that allows the US to export wines made using
practices many European vintners shun. The bilateral accord resolved
most elements of a 2-decade-long dispute over wine making methods and
names.
(SFC, 3/11/06, p.C1)(WSJ, 3/11/06, p.A4)
2006 Mar 10, An Indonesian health
ministry official said Bird flu has killed its 22nd human victim there,
a 12-year-old girl, according to tests by the WHO's Hong Kong
laboratory.
(AP, 3/10/06)
2006 Mar 10, President Jalal
Talabani issued a decree ordering Iraq's new parliament to hold its
first session March 19. Bombings and shootings killed at least 17
people. A suicide truck bomb ripped through a line of vehicles waiting
at a checkpoint in Fallujah, killing at least 7 civilians.
(AP, 3/10/06)
2006 Mar 10, Acting PM Ehud Olmert
presented a sweeping vision for Israel's future in published
interviews, saying he will dismantle most West Bank settlements,
fortify remaining settlement blocs and set the nation's borders by 2010.
(AP, 3/10/06)
2006 Mar 10, Prosecutors in Milan
said they have requested that Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi be
indicted on corruption charges.
(AP, 3/10/06)
2006 Mar 10, Japan, the second
largest contributor to the UN, called for minimum dues for permanent
members of the Security Council, forcing China and Russia to pay more
or lose their seats.
(AFP, 3/10/06)
2006 Mar 10, Kosovo's parliament
elected Agim Ceku (45), a former ethnic Albanian guerrilla commander,
as the new PM. Ceku said that anything short of independence from
Serbia was "out of the question," but emphasized after his election
that respect for the province's Serb minority would be a priority for
his government.
(AP, 3/10/06)
2006 Mar 10, An anchorman for a
Mexican radio station was shot to death by gunmen waiting for him in
the bushes in front of his house in the border city of Nuevo Laredo.
(AP, 3/10/06)
2006 Mar 10, A Netherlands court
convicted 9 Muslims of belonging to a terrorist group because they
incited hatred for non-Muslims. Among the defendants was Mohammed
Bouyeri, the convicted killer of filmmaker Theo van Gogh.
(AP, 3/10/06)
2006 Mar 10, In southwestern
Pakistan a crowded bus carrying a wedding party hit an anti-tank mine
in Baluchistan province, killing 28 people, mostly women and children.
(AFP, 3/10/06)
2006 Mar 10, Pakistani soldiers
backed by helicopter gunships attacked a suspected militant hideout
near Miran Shah, the volatile tribal region near the Afghan border, and
killed about 30 militants.
(AP, 3/11/06)
2006 Mar 10, In Russia a bomb
exploded outside a government office in the southern city of
Makhachkala, killing a top-ranking police official.
(AP, 3/10/06)
2007 Mar 10, President Bush in
Uruguay said the FBI has addressed the problems that led to illegal
prying into personal information on people in the US, but "there's more
work to be done." Bush with President Tabare Vazquez who said he wanted
to expand trade with the United States and increase scientific,
technical and cultural exchanges. Bush also asked Congress for $3.2
billion to pay for 8,200 more U.S. troops needed in Afghanistan and
Iraq on top of the 21,500-troop buildup he had announced in January
2007.
(AP, 3/10/07)(AP, 3/10/08)
2007 Mar 10, Some 22,000
evangelical teenagers attended the BattleCry rally at AT&T Park in
SF, where organizer Ron Luce (45) urged they become stalkers of god.
Together with his wife Katie, Luce founded the Texas-based Teen Mania
Ministries in 1986 in his van.
(SSFC, 3/11/07,
p.B3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Luce)
2007 Mar 10, In Texas Valerie
Lopez (19), the mother of two young children whose decomposing bodies
were found wrapped in plastic bags beneath a house this week, was
arrested and charged with capital murder.
(AP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 10, Richard Jeni (49), a
standup comedian who played to sold-out crowds, was a regular on the
"Tonight Show" and appeared in movies, died of a gunshot wound in an
apparent suicide in West Hollywood.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0420732/)
2007 Mar 10, Afghanistan's lower
house of parliament voted into law a revised resolution calling for an
amnesty for groups suspected of perpetrating war crimes during a
quarter century of fighting, but also recognizing the rights of victims
to seek justice. A top Taliban commander issued a chilling threat,
promising to kill a kidnapped Italian journalist unless the movement's
arrested spokesmen were freed and a date was set for the withdrawal of
Italian troops from Afghanistan. In southern Afghanistan clashes
between Afghan police and Taliban militants killed eight officers and
two Taliban. In Zabul Taliban militants attacked police on the main
highway between Kabul and Kandahar. A ½ hour gunfight left 2
Taliban dead and 4 wounded.
(AP, 3/10/07)(AFP, 3/10/07)(AP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 10, In a Web statement
Islamic militants threatened to attack Germany and Austria unless the
two European nations break ranks with the US and withdraw their
personnel from Afghanistan. A separate, previously unknown Iraqi
insurgent group released a video on the Web threatening to kill a
German woman and her son kidnapped in Iraq unless Germany withdrew its
troops from Afghanistan within 10 days.
(AP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 10, A flash flood killed
six people in southern Algeria when torrential rains caused wadis to
overflow, while high winds brought down trees and walls.
(AFP, 3/10/07)
2007 Mar 10, In Colombia the US
Embassy confirmed that American and Colombian soldiers had conducted a
joint operation in the southern stronghold of leftist rebels who are
holding three US military contractors, captured in Feb, 2004.
(AP, 3/10/07)
2007 Mar 10, In Iraq US and
Iranian envoys traded harsh words and blamed each other for the
country's crisis at a one-day international conference that some hoped
would help end their 27-year diplomatic freeze. 69 delegates
represented 13 countries and consented to form committees to address
Iraq’s problems. A suicide blast at a checkpoint in Sadr City killed 20
people, including at least six Iraqi soldiers as international envoys
met in the Iraqi capital to talk about stabilizing the
violence-shattered country. Iraq's prime minister appealed for
international help to sever networks aiding extremists and warned
envoys from neighbors and world powers that Iraq's growing sectarian
bloodshed could spill across the Middle East. US and Iraqi forces
captured three suspected members of a bomb-making cell north in
Tarmiyah north of Baghdad.
(AP, 3/10/07)(AP, 3/11/07)(SSFC, 3/11/07, p.A15)
2007 Mar 10, An Iraqi insurgent
group threatened to kill a German woman and her son kidnapped in Iraq
unless Germany withdrew its troops from Afghanistan within 10 days,
according to a video posted by the group.
(AP, 3/10/07)
2007 Mar 10, In Italy thousands of
supporters of legislation that would grant legal rights to unmarried
couples including gays rallied in Rome to urge lawmakers to resist
Vatican pressure against the measure.
(AP, 3/10/07)
2007 Mar 10, In northern Mexico 8
people were killed and 11 were injured when a bus slammed into a
tractor trailer carrying aluminum beams.
(AP, 3/10/07)
2007 Mar 10, Pakistani security
forces killed three suspected Islamist militants in a clash in the
North Waziristan region on the Afghan border.
(AP, 3/10/07)
2007 Mar 10, The Hamas-run
Education Ministry rescinded its decision to pull an anthology of
Palestinian folk tales from school libraries and destroy copies,
reportedly over mild sexual innuendo, following a widespread public
outcry.
(AP, 3/10/07)
2007 Mar 10, Serbia called on the
United Nations to reject a Western-backed proposal for the independence
of Kosovo as Serbs and Albanians ended a year of talks in Austria on
the fate of the breakaway province.
(AP, 3/10/07)
2007 Mar 10, The South African
government took possession of the first farm to be expropriated, in a
move designed to silence criticism it is dragging its feet over land
reform. Local people had been forced off Pniel Farm near Kimberley and
into a shantytown in 1967.
(AFP, 3/10/07)
2007 Mar 10, In South Korea riot
police used a water cannon to break up a noisy but peaceful street
protest in downtown Seoul against a proposed free trade agreement
between South Korea and the United States.
(AP, 3/10/07)
2007 Mar 10, The number of
refugees in eastern Sri Lanka climbed past 100,000 after heavy fighting
in rebel-held parts of the island forced thousands of civilians to flee
their homes in recent days.
(AP, 3/11/07)
2007 Mar 10, Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez visited flood-ravaged Bolivia to show off the fact that his
country has pledged 10 times more aid than the Bush administration. But
local leaders gave him a cool reception, accusing him of meddling in
Bolivian politics.
(AP, 3/10/07)
2008 Mar 10, New York Gov. Eliot
Spitzer admitted to his role in a prostitution scandal. He faced
mounting calls to resign. The governor first came under suspicion
because of cash payments from several bank accounts to an account
operated by a call-girl ring.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 10, An Associated Press
investigation showed that a vast array of pharmaceuticals, including
antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones, have
been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million
Americans.
(AP, 3/10/08)
2008 Mar 10, Crude oil futures
moved to another all-time high as April delivery for light, sweet crude
rose to $107.90 per barrel.
(WSJ, 3/11/08, p.C7)
2008 Mar 10, Highway and utility
crews cleared major highways in time for morning commuters following
the weekend snowstorm that buried parts of Ohio in as much as 20 inches
of snow. The storm battered a wide band from the lower Mississippi
Valley to New England.
(AP, 3/10/08)
2008 Mar 10, In Afghanistan 10
militants and two officers were killed when police clashed with Taliban
fighters in the southern Uruzgan province. In southern Afghanistan two
women and two children were caught in the line of fire and killed
during a clash between NATO troops and insurgents.
(AP, 3/11/08)(AP, 3/12/08)
2008 Mar 10, African Union troops
arrived in the Comoros before launching a military offensive against
the island of Anjouan and its rebellious leader.
(AFP, 3/10/08)
2008 Mar 10, Canada’s government
said hunters will be allowed to kill 275,000 young harp seals on the
ice floes off eastern Canada this year, a number that animal rights
activists said was totally unsustainable.
(Reuters, 3/10/08)
2008 Mar 10, Leaders of the
Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) converged on
Kinshasa for a summit focusing on the situation in Chad in the wake of
a failed rebel assault.
(AFP, 3/10/08)
2008 Mar 10, China said it will
keep family-planning limits to one child per couple for at least
another decade.
(WSJ, 3/11/08, p.A1)
2008 Mar 10, Guatemala's first
trial on "forced disappearance" charges began in connection with six
civilians who went missing during the nation's 36-year civil war.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 10, A female suicide
bomber in the predominantly Sunni town of Kanaan, 13 miles east of
Baqouba. killed the head of a local group of Sunni fighters in who had
turned against al-Qaida insurgents. A suicide bomber killed five
American soldiers on a foot patrol after detonating his explosives vest
in central Baghdad. Another 3 American soldiers and their interpreter
were killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Diyala province.
(AP, 3/10/08)(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 10, Israeli PM Ehud
Olmert has instructed the army to halt airstrikes and raids into the
Gaza Strip in response to a recent drop in rocket fire from the
territory.
(AP, 3/10/08)
2008 Mar 10, In Malaysia PM
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was sworn in for a new 5-year term despite calls
for his resignation. Malaysian stocks fell over 10% and triggered for
the first time a limit-down rule established after the 1997-1998 Asian
financial crises.
(WSJ, 3/11/08, p.C7)
2008 Mar 10, In Mexico a
researcher said satellite photographs show illegal loggers have
clear-cut large swathes of trees in the heart of a monarch butterfly
reserve, threatening the insects' habitat. The images show illegal
loggers chopped 1,100 acres of trees since 2004 in the core of a wooded
park in Michoacan state.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 10, In central Mexico a
sports utility vehicle fell into a canal, killing nine small children
but leaving their teacher unharmed.
(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 10, Tropical cyclone
Jokwe battered parts of Mozambique for a third day. At least 16 people
were killed with thousands of homes destroyed in northern Nampula
province.
(Reuters, 3/10/08)(AFP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 10, A Manila court
acquitted the flamboyant widow of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos of 32
counts of illegally transferring wealth abroad during her husband's
20-year rule.
(AP, 3/10/08)
2008 Mar 10, The coalition
government of Serbian PM Vojislav Kostunica was formally dissolved,
opening the way for an early parliamentary election.
(AP, 3/10/08)
2008 Mar 10, Sri Lankans trickled
to the polls in the turbulent eastern city of Batticaloa to vote in the
first municipal elections since government forces seized control of the
east last year from ethnic Tamil rebels. The Karuna Group, a
pro-government militia composed of former Tamil Tiger rebels, won the
election despite allegations that it used child soldiers, extorted
businessmen and carried out killings.
(AP, 3/10/08)(AP, 3/11/08)
2008 Mar 10, Hundreds of Tibetan
exiles began a six-month march from India to Tibet to protest Beijing's
hold on the Himalayan region and China's hosting of the Olympic Games.
Indian police barred the Tibetan exiles from marching.
(AP, 3/10/08)(WSJ, 3/11/08, p.A1)
2008 Mar 10, A top Vatican
official listed drugs, pollution, genetic manipulation and social and
economic injustice as new sins.
(AP, 3/11/08)(WSJ, 3/11/08, p.A1)
2008 Mar 10, Vietnam’s central
bank widened the band in which it allows the Vietnamese dong to rise or
fall against the dollar from .75% to 1%. The bank said it plans to
expand the band to 2% in an effort to unshackle its economy from the
sliding dollar.
(WSJ, 3/19/08, p.A8)
2009 Mar 10, In Alabama Michael
McLendon (28) set off on a rampage of 10 slayings across two rural
counties and then killed himself.
(AP, 3/11/09)(SFC, 3/12/09, p.A6)
2009 Mar 10, The IMF warned that
the world economy will likely contract this year in a "Great Recession"
and African leaders said the financial crisis could undo hard-won
social-economic gains.
(Reuters, 3/10/09)
2009 Mar 10, In Afghanistan a
roadside bomb ripped through a minibus, killing four civilians and
wounding six other people in Helmand province. Gunmen in Kandahar
killed Jawed Ahmad (23), an Afghan journalist once held by the US
military in Afghanistan as an enemy combatant.
(AFP, 3/10/09)(AP, 3/11/09)(SFC, 3/11/09, p.A3)
2009 Mar 10, In Algeria border
guards seized 3.5 tons of cannabis in a desert region close to the
frontier with Morocco.
(AFP, 3/12/09)
2009 Mar 10, In Egypt rival
Palestinian factions opened talks aimed at coming up with a
power-sharing agreement, hearing a call to forget their contentious and
sometimes bloody past.
(AP, 3/10/09)
2009 Mar 10, Germany's navy handed
over nine suspected Somali pirates to Kenyan authorities and they will
be taken to a court to face charges. The nine were arrested March 3
after they attacked the Hamburg-based MV Courier cargo ship.
(AP, 3/10/09)
2009 Mar 10, In northern Honduras
a plane from Venezuela that was carrying more than 2 tons of cocaine
crashed, killing the pilot. 2 US Drug Enforcement Administration
helicopters were allegedly pursuing the aircraft when it went down near
El Negrito town.
(AP, 3/11/09)
2009 Mar 10, In Iraq a suicide
bomber struck Sunni and Shiite tribal leaders touring a market after a
reconciliation meeting west of Baghdad, killing 33 people. A US Marine
died in an incident that did not involve combat.
(AP, 3/10/09)
2009 Mar 10, Two cargo ships
collided off the coast of a central Japanese island, leaving 16 South
Korean and Indonesian crew members missing.
(AP, 3/10/09)
2009 Mar 10, In Kenya youths threw
stones at police officers and looted stores and cars following a march
by about 1,000 university students through the Nairobi to protest the
deaths of a fellow student and two activists.
(AP, 3/10/09)
2009 Mar 10, Libya released Jamal
al-Haji and Faraj Humaid. They had been sentenced to prison in 2007 for
planning a peaceful demonstration to commemorate protesters who had
died in clashes with police.
(SFC, 3/11/09, p.A2)
2009 Mar 10, Malaysia’s government
unveiled a 60 billion ringgit ($16.26 billion) economic stimulus plan
amounting to 9% of GDP.
(WSJ, 3/11/09, p.A16)
2009 Mar 10, In western Mexico 5
human heads were found inside coolers along a highway. Authorities were
still searching for the bodies.
(AP, 3/10/09)
2009 Mar 10, Police in Northern
Ireland arrested 2 suspects in the fatal shooting of Constable Stephen
Paul Carroll. On March 24 one of the suspects, a Northern Ireland
teenager (17), was charged with the dissident IRA killing of Carroll.
The teen had an assault rifle and 26 rounds of ammunition and refused
to say a word to his interrogators during 13 days of questioning. On
March 25 Brendan McConville (37), a former Sinn Fein councilman was
arraigned on charges of murdering Carroll.
(WSJ, 3/11/09, p.A16)(AP, 3/24/09)(AP, 3/25/09)
2009 Mar 10, Pakistani security
forces claimed to have killed 35 militants in fresh fighting in the
northwest, on the Afghanistan border. Gunmen torched a truck in
Baluchistan province carrying supplies for NATO forces in neighboring
Afghanistan, leaving its driver and a helper wounded.
(AP, 3/10/09)(AFP, 3/10/09)
2009 Mar 10, The Philippine
president signed a law affirming sovereignty over islands also claimed
by China and Vietnam, sparking protests over the control of strategic
South China Sea islands. The Chinese Embassy issued a statement
expressing its "strong opposition and solemn protest" over the signing
of the law.
(AP, 3/11/09)
2009 Mar 10, In Saudi Arabia a
huge sandstorm blanketed the city of Riyadh with a thick layer of
yellow dust.
(AP, 3/11/09)
2009 Mar 10, Spanish police said
they have arrested an Ecuadorian woman who tried to smuggle into
Barcelona liquid cocaine hidden in spray cans of products to starch
clothes or clean glass.
(AFP, 3/10/09)
2009 Mar 10, In southern Sri Lanka
a rebel suicide bomber attacked a procession of Muslims celebrating a
religious holiday, killing 15 people and critically wounding Postal
Services Minister Mahinda Wijesekera (66).
(AP, 3/10/09)(AFP, 3/11/09)
2009 Mar 10, Syria opened its
first stock exchange, closed since the 1960s, as it shifted from
socialist policies toward a more market oriented system.
(SFC, 3/11/09, p.A2)(Econ, 11/28/09, p.50)
2009 Mar 10, Tibetans and their
supporters rallied across the Asia-Pacific region demanding an end to
Chinese rule in their homeland on the 50th anniversary of the Dalai
Lama being forced into exile. Paramilitary police and soldiers swarmed
cities and villages in Tibet and restive western China, on the alert
for possible unrest. The Dalai Lama said Tibet had become "hell on
earth" under Beijing's control.
(AP, 3/10/09)
2009 Mar 10, Turkey indicted 56
more people on charges of plotting to topple the Islamic-rooted AK
Party government. The 56 suspects, including 2 retired four-star
generals, were formally indicted on March 25.
(WSJ, 3/11/09, p.A11)(WSJ, 3/26/09, p.A8)
2009 Mar 10, Venezuela's National
Guard destroyed an elaborate network of clandestine cocaine-processing
laboratories along the country's border with Colombia as part of its
anti-drug efforts.
(AP, 3/10/09)
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