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On This Day

March 10

1982
The U.S. imposes economic sanctions against Libya, including an embargo on Libyan oil imports, for its role in international terrorism.

1982
Jupiter Effect: All of the planets align on the same side of the Sun. Some had predicted this would cause catastrophic disasters.

1970
National Credit Union Administration is established, supervises federal credit unions.

1880
Salvation Army: George Scott Railton and seven women volunteers arrive in New York to start a U.S. branch of the organization which had been started in England by William Booth in 1865. (Source: An Almanac of the Christian Church)

1876
First telephone call: Alexander Graham Bell calls his assistant in the next room: "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you."

1864
Civil War: Gen. Ulysses S. Grant assumes command of the Union Army.

1862
First U.S. paper money: The federal government begins issuing demand notes in denominations of $5, $10, and $20. They were declared legal tender on March 17th. (Source: Famous First Facts)

1964
Prince Edward (Edward Antony Richard Louis), son of Queen Elizabeth II.

1940
Chuck Norris, American middleweight karate champ, actor. Film: Missing in Action (1984), Delta Force (1986). TV: Walker: Texas Ranger.

1928
James Earl Ray, American assassin, shot and killed Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968)

1911     d. 1976
Warner Anderson, American actor. TV: The Lineup (Det. Lt. Ben Guthrie).

1810     d. 1885
John McCloskey, American Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of New York, the first American cardinal (1875). (Source: An Almanac of the Christian Church)

1776     d. 1810
Louise, Queen of Prussia, wife of Frederick William III.

1628     d. 1694
Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician, founder of microscopic anatomy, and the first to view (1661) capillary circulation.

1503     d. 1564
Ferdinand, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (1558-64).

1988     b. 1958
Andy Gibb, British singer, songwriter, with the Bee Gees. Music: Stayin' Alive (1977) and Night Fever (1977, #1).

1986     b. 1902
Myron Cohen, American comedian, world's most famous Jewish story teller.

1985     b. 1911
Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko, president of the Soviet Union and general secretary of Soviet Communist Party.

1980     b. 1910
Herman Tarnower, American physician, author. Writings: The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet (1979). He was killed by his ex-lover Jean Harris.

1913     b. circa 1820
Harriet Tubman, ex-slave, ran the Underground Railroad with which she helped more than 300 slaves to safety.

1826     b. 1767
John VI, King of Portugal (1816-26).

1810     b. 1731
Henry Cavendish, English chemist, physicist, discovered nitric acid and was the first to recognize that hydrogen and oxygen combined to make water.

483     b. ????
Saint Simplicius, religious leader, 47th Pope (468-483).

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