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Sunday, March 10, 2013

This was 69th day of the year and 296 days remained in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 28 Adar 5773
Chinese calendar — the 29th day of the 1st month of 4711 (Kui Si)
Islamic calendar — (note)

March 10 Birthdays

Bix Beiderbecke
(Leon Bismarck Beiderbecke)
1903–1931, American Jazz Musician.

Pablo de Sarasate
violin virtuoso (1844)

Lillian Wald
social worker (1867)

Clare Boothe Luce
playwright and diplomat (1903)

Sharon Stone
actress (1958)

Shannon Miller
gymnast (1977)

March 2013

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March 10 in History

1629

Charles I of England dissolves Parliament and rules alone for 11 years.

1785

Thomas Jefferson is appointed minister to France.

1848

Congress ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican War.

1864

U. S. Grant became commander of the Union armies during the Civil War.

1876

The first telephone call ("Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.") was made by Alexander Graham Bell.

1948

The body of Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's anti-Communist foreign minister was found. Officially a suicide, the real cause of death has never been proven.

1969

James Earl Ray was sentenced in Memphis, Tennessee, to 99 years in prison for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., in April 1968.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.