On This Day (March 10)

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241 BCE – The Roman Republic defeated Carthage at the Battle of the Aegates Islands, a naval battle off the coast of the Aegadian Islands near the western coast of the island of Sicily, ending the First Punic War.
1804 - Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
1831 – King Louis-Philippe of France created the French Foreign Legion as a unit of foreign volunteers because foreigners were forbidden to serve in the French Army after the 1830 July Revolution.
1844 - Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist born. (d. 1908)

"Scottish Fantasy" Finale
Dedicated to Sarasate by Bruch
Jashau Heifetz, violinist


"Zigeunerweisen"
1904 recording
Pable de Sarasate, violinist

1861 – Toucouleur forces led by El Hadj Umar Tall seized Ségou and conquered the Bamana Empire in present-day Mali.
1906 – More than a thousand coal miners were killed in the Courrières mine disaster in Northern France, Europe's worst mining accident.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
1952 – Forbidden by law to seek re-election, former President Fulgencio Batista staged a coup d'état to resume control in Cuba.
1957 - Osama bin Laden, Leader of Global Terrorism Group, Al Qaeda born.

On This Day (March 9)

1454 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer and cartographer (d. 1512) (After whom America is named.)
1776 - Publication of the economics book The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.
1841 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that captive Africans who seized control of La Amistad, the trans-Atlantic slave-trading ship carrying them, had been taken into slavery illegally.
1842 – Nabucco, an opera by Italian Romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi, premiered at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
1862 – American Civil War: In the world's first major battle between two powered ironclad warships, the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia fought to a draw at the Battle of Hampton Roads near the mouth of Hampton Roads in Virginia.
1910 - Samuel Barber, American composer born. (d. 1981)

“Adagio for Strings”

1945 – World War II: A bomb raid on Tokyo by American B-29 heavy bombers started a firestorm, killing over 100,000 people.
1959 – Barbie (pictured), the world's best-selling doll, debuted at the American International Toy Fair in New York City.

1986 - United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily-damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle Challenger. The bodies of all seven astronauts were still inside.

On This Day (March 8)

1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
1702 – Princess Anne became the Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, succeeding William III.
1765 - The British House of Lords passes the Stamp Act to tax the American colonies. (BIG mistake!)
1782 – American Revolutionary War: Almost 100 Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio died at the hands of Pennsylvanian militiamen in a mass murder known as the Gnadenhutten massacre.
1869 - Hector Berlioz, French composer died. (b. 1803) ("Symphonie fantastique")
1884 - Susan B. Anthony addresses the U.S. House Judiciary Committee arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote. Anthony's argument came 16 years after legislators had first introduced a federal women's suffrage amendment.
1917 - Riots and strikes break out in St. Petersburg, Russia, marking the start of the Russian Revolution.
1966 – Nelson's Pillar, a large granite pillar with a statue of Lord Nelson on top in Dublin, Ireland, was destroyed by a bomb.
1983 – The Cold War: During a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Ronald Reagan described the Soviet Union as an "evil empire".
1985 – A failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in a car-bombing in Beirut killed more than 80 people and injured almost 200 others.

Picture of the Day


The Peablue (Lampides boeticus) is a small butterfly found in Europe, Africa and Asia that belongs to the Lycaenidae family. The eyespot and pseudo-antennae on the hindwing are a form of automimicry.

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