Historical Events on March 10

Martin Luther King Jr.

Here are some historical events that happened on March 10th:

241 BC - The Battle of the Aegates Islands: The Romans defeated the Carthaginians, ending the First Punic War.

1804 - The formal ceremony marking the Louisiana Purchase took place in St. Louis, Missouri.

1864 - During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Ulysses S. Grant as the commander of the Union armies.

1876 - The first successful test of Alexander Graham Bell's telephone took place in Boston, Massachusetts.

1910 - The worst avalanche in U.S. history buried two trains in Wellington, Washington, killing 96 people.

1933 - An earthquake in Long Beach, California, resulted in significant damage and the death of approximately 120 people.

1945 - The U.S. Army Air Force firebombed Tokyo, Japan, causing widespread destruction and killing an estimated 100,000 civilians.

1959 - Tibetans revolted against Chinese occupation in Lhasa, which eventually led to the Dalai Lama fleeing to India.

1969 - James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

1977 - Astronomers discovered rings around the planet Uranus.

1990 - Lithuania declared independence from the Soviet Union, becoming the first Soviet republic to do so.

2006 - The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrived at Mars.

2015 - A Germanwings plane crashed in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.

These are just a few events that have taken place on March 10th throughout history.