March 10

Some important facts happen on March 10th.....

On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell conducted a successful experiment with the telephone. This breakthrough, during which he uttered his famous directive to his assistant, Thomas Watson, is recorded in the March 10 entry of his Lab Notebook.

2006 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters Mars orbit
1998 4th Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
1996 22nd People's Choice Awards: Apollo 13, Tom Hanks wins
1996 New York City Mayor Guiliani visits Israel
1995 Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shite mosque, 17+ killed
1995 Chiel Meijering's "St. Louis Blues," premieres in Arnhem
1995 Dow-Jones hits record 4035.64
1994 1 million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri's funeral
1992 6th Soul Train Music Awards: Natalie Cole and Color Me Badd win
1992 Sandra Seuser/Katrin Schreiter/Annet Hesselbarth/Grit Breuer walk female indoor world record 4x400m (3:27.22)
1991 Eddie Sutton is 1st NCAA coach to lead 4 schools into playoffs
1991 Laura Davies wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
1991 Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg clinches his 4th slalom World Cup
1991 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 m indoor (22.24 sec)
1991 Rico Lieder/Jens Carlowitz/Karsten Just/Thomas Schonlebe walk 4x400m indoor world record (3:03.05)
1990 4th American Comedy Award: When Harry Met Sally
1990 Ice Dance Championship at Halifax won by Klimova and Ponomarenko (URS)
1990 Ice Pairs Championship at Halifax won by Gordeeva and Grinkov (URS)
1990 Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Halifax won by Jill Trenary (USA)
1990 Lieutenant General Avril resigns as President of Haiti
1990 Mens Figure Skating Championship in Halifax won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
1990 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 Avalanche at Klosters, a Swiss Ski resort, nearly kills Prince Charles
1988 New York Islanders celebrate Mike Bossy night
1987 Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization and embryo transfer