March 10th

241 BC First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end

1783 USS Alliance under Captain Barry fights and wins last naval battle of US Revolutionary War off Cape Canaveral

1861 West African political leader El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Segou, destroying the Bambara Empire of Mali

1920 Home Rule Act passed by the British Parliament, dividing Ireland into two parts; it is rejected by the southern counties, where the Ango-Irish war continues for a year

1952 Military coup led by General Fulgencio Batista in Cuba

2000 The NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signalling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom

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US issues 1st paper money in the form of $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 and $1000 notes

Today in History in 1862

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First telephone call; Alexander Graham Bell says "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you" to his assistant Thomas Watson

Today in History in 1876

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This day 41 years ago – 10 March 1980 – the first women cadets entered the Defence Forces of Ireland, Óglaigh na hÉireann.

The women trained at the Curragh camp and military college in Co Kildare.

Pictured is Irish army recruit Deirdre O'Neill. pic.twitter.com/5kNXRw3PlA

— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) March 10, 2021

In March 1945 the first Wonder Woman comic by Joye Hummel—under the pseudonym Charles Moulton—was published: The Winged Maidens of Venus. Hummel went on to write 70 WW scripts. In 2018 she received the Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing https://t.co/TKoog43RC2

— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) March 10, 2022

On this day in 1865, Confederate troops hanged a young Black woman on the courthouse lawn in Darlington, South Carolina for "conduct unbecoming a slave" weeks before the end of the Civil War. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/9NlsjhMlue

— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) March 10, 2022

Abolitionist, political activist, and the first woman to lead a major military operation, Harriet Tubman died #otd in 1913. Learn more about the Underground Railroad in this article from Martin Kohn: https://t.co/JfQ6W2cvih #WomensHistoryMonth #HarrietTubmanDay pic.twitter.com/bLp4LhKoEK

— Humanities Magazine (@humanitiesmag) March 10, 2022

March 11th

843 Icon veneration officially re-instated in Hagia Sophia Cathedral in Constantinople

1502 Ismail I, founder of the Safavid dynasty, crowned Shah of Persia (rules till 1524)

1966 Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out

1985 Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader

2011 9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people and causing the second worst nuclear accident in history at Fukushima nuclear plant

2018 China's National People's Congress approves removal of term limits for a leader, will allow Xi Jinping presidency for life

2020 COVID-19 declared a pandemic by the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, with 121,564 cases worldwide and 4,373 deaths

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1 million days since the foundation of Rome on April 21st, 753 BC

Today in History in 1986

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Digital art work "Everydays: The First 5,000 Days" a digital college by Beeple, with a non-fungible token, sells for record $69.3 million in online auction by Christie's

Today in History in 2021

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This day 423 years ago - 11 March 1597 - an accidental explosion of gunpowder kegs in Dublin killed 126 people, and destroyed dozens of houses.

At the time, the population of Dublin was only 10,000.

The rebuilding of the city dramatically changed Dublin's size and architecture. pic.twitter.com/pJUa3qdrYU

— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) March 11, 2020

#OTD in 1960, 32-year-old heart surgeon Nina Starr Braunwald performed the world’s first successful mitral valve replacement on a human, implanting an artificial valve she had designed herself. Her later inventions included the stented aortic homograft. https://t.co/8GmYGlICfv pic.twitter.com/6BSWGyIue5

— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) March 11, 2022

On this day in 1965, Rev. James Reeb died after a mob of white men opposed to civil rights attacked him in Selma. Three men were indicted for his murder but later acquitted by an all-white jury. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/Lagr6o19r6

— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) March 11, 2022

March 12th

538 Witiges, King of the Ostrogoths, ends his siege of Rome, retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of victorious Byzantine General Belisarius

1455 First record of Johannes Gutenberg's Bible, letter dated this day by Enea Silvio Piccolomini refers to the bible printed a year before

1642 Abel Tasman is the 1st European to sight New Zealand, viewing the north-west coast of the South Island

1918 Fearing foreign invasion Vladimir Lenin shifts revolutionary Russia's capital from Petrograd (St. Petersburg) to Moscow

1930 Mahatma Gandhi begins his famous 200 mile (300km) protest march against the widely hated British salt tax

1994 The Church of England ordains its first ever 33 female priests

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Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi

Today in History in 1894

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Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain

Today in History in 1881

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This day 46 years ago – 12 March 1974 – Senator Billy Fox of Fine Gael was shot and killed in Tircooney, Co Monaghan.

Fox was the first member of the Oireachtas to be killed since Patrick Reynolds in 1932.

Five members of the Provisional IRA were convicted of his killing. pic.twitter.com/p1b76k468e

— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) March 12, 2020

In March 1998, Margaret Cushing 'Meg' Whitman joined eBay—a company of 30 employees—as CEO. Over the next ten years, under her leadership, eBay grew to have a value of $8 billion. Whitman has been nominated by Joe Biden as the next US Ambassador to Kenya. https://t.co/XPDRst6a2x pic.twitter.com/hk7nII5B8Q

— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) March 12, 2022

On this day in 1956, 19 Senators and 82 Representatives from the 11 Southern states—almost 1/5 of Congress—released the Southern Manifesto, opposing the Brown v. Board of Education decision. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/viFzrEUfVv

— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) March 12, 2022

March 13th

624 Battle of Badr: Muhammad's Muslim forces win significant victory over Meccan army

1591 Battle at Tondibi: Moroccan army under Judar defeats Sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai

1781 William Herschel sees what he thinks is a "comet" but is actually the discovery of the planet Uranus

1884 Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins by Mahdist forces, lasts 10 months

1903 Fall of the Sokoto Caliphate in Northern Nigeria, the British claim supremacy on over 500,000 square miles

1930 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory

2003 The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy

2019 US grounds all Boeing 737 Max aircraft after bans by others countries following the plane type's second crash in Ethiopia

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Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly

Today in History in 1852

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Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substitutes a grapefruit

Today in History in 1915

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This day 175 years ago – 13 March 1846 – 300 people were evicted by Mrs Marcella Gerrard in Ballinlass, Galway. The ejectments were condemned by Lord Londonderry, who said the tenants had been “mercilessly driven from the ditches to which they had betaken themselves for shelter.” pic.twitter.com/KjrYBQECQJ

— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) March 13, 2021