Historical Events In March - 10

1884  On March - 10 stuart Holmes, Chicago IL, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)  

1888  Heavyweight Boxing champion John L Sullivan draws Charlie Mitchell in 30 rounds on March - 10.  

1888  1st performance of Caesar Franck's "Psyche" on March - 10.  

1888  On this day in history barry Fitzgerald, Dublin Ireland, actor (Acad Award-Going My Way)  

1888  On March - 10 ciro Pinsuti, Italian pianist/composer, dies at 57  

1891  Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching on this day in history.  

1891  Jacob van Gelderen, economist/sociologist/Dutch 2nd Chamber (SDAP) on this day in history.  

1892  Arthur Oscar Honnegger, Le Havre France, composer (King David) on March - 10.  

1892  Otto van Raised, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1884-88), dies at 69 on this day in history.  

1893  On March - 10 ivory Coast becomes a French colony  

1893  New Mexico State University cancels its first graduation ceremony, its only graduate Sam Steele was robbed &killed the night before on this day in history.  

1896  After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world HW championship he says, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall" on this day in history.  

1896  Charilaos Vasilakos of Greece wins first modern marathon in 3 18 on this day in history.  

1896  On March - 10 bronx acquires O'Brien Square  

1896  On March - 10 harry Krimer, actor (Napoleon)  

1896  On this day in history charilaos Vasilakos of Greece wins first modern marathon in 3:18  

1897  On March - 10 teodulo Mabellini, composer, dies at 79  

1898  Cy Kendall, St Louis Mo, actor (Mysteries of Chinatown) on March - 10.  

1899  Finn Hoffding, composer on March - 10.  

1900  On March - 10 battle at Driefontein, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)  

1900  On March - 10 sherman Billingsley, Enid Ok, talk show host (Stork Club)  

1900  Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer, dies at 94 on March - 10.  

1901  On March - 10 vasily Georgiyevich Wrangell, composer, dies at 38  

1902  Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri on March - 10.  

1903  On March - 10 harry Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating machine  

1903  On March - 10 bix Biederbecke, rocker  

1905  Japanese Army captures Mukden (Shenyang) on March - 10.  

1905  Rene Bernier, composer on March - 10.  

1906  Coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres France on March - 10.  

1906  On March - 10 london Underground opens Bakeroo line (Baker Street to Waterloo Line)  

1906  1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Sonatine" on March - 10.  

1906  On March - 10 eugen Richter, German MP (Liberal), dies at 67  

1907  Robert de Roos, composer on March - 10.  

1908  On March - 10 carl Albert, US speaker of house (1971-77)  

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1415  Vasili II of Russia (d. 1462) was born on this day in history.  

1452  Ferdinand II, the Catholic, King of Aragon/Sicily (expelled Jews) was born on this day in history.  

1503  On this day in history birth of ferdinand I, German emperor (1558-64)  

1538  Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk; executed by Queen Elizabeth (1572) was born on March - 10.  

1628  Constantine Huygens Jr, Dutch poet/painter/cartoonist was born on March - 10.  

1628  On this day in history birth of marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (d. 1694)  

1656  On March - 10 birth of adolf H van Rechteren, Dutch diplomat/politician  

1698  Gaetano Maria Schiassi, composer was born on March - 10.  

0037  On March - 10 tiberius Claudius Nero, Roman emperor (14-37), dies at 78  

0483  Simplicius, Italian Pope (468-83), dies on March - 10.  

1291  On March - 10 death of arghun, Persian ruler  

1391  On this day in history death of tvrtko I first king of Bosnia (b. 1338)  

1510  On this day in history death of johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (b. 1445)  

1513  On March - 10 death of john de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English commander (b. 1443)  

1546  Thomas Elyot, English diplomat (Boke named the Governor), dies at 46 on March - 10.  

1584  On March - 10 death of thomas Norton, English politician and writer (b. 1532)