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Day in History: March 10th From The First Punic War to The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter  
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From Napoleon to the-book-of-the-month-club March 1th is more than the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (70th in leap years). There are 296 days remaining.

	1629 - Charles I of England dissolves Parliament, starting the Eleven Years Tyranny in which there was no parliament.
	1804 - Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
	1814 - Napoleon I of France is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.
	1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
	1880 - Members of the Salvation Army land in the United States and begin operations.
	1891 - Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
	1902 - A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera.
	1926 - The first Book-of-the-Month-Club selection is produced.
	1933 - An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 120 people.
	1964 - The Ford Mustang is first produced by the Ford Motor Company.
	1969 - In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He would later retract his guilty plea.
	1970 - Vietnam War: Capt. Ernest Medina is charged with My Lai war crimes.
	1975 - Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.
	1977 - Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.
	1987 - The Holy See condemns the practice of surrogate motherhood, along with test-tube babies and artificial insemination.
	1997 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer premieres on the WB network.
	1998 - American troops stationed in the Persian Gulf begin to receive the first vaccinations against anthrax.
	2000 - The NASDAQ stock market index peaks at 5048.62, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.
	2004 - Six Flags sells 8 of its theme parks to private investors.
	2006 - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.

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