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Today is Monday, March 10, the 69th day of 2025. There are still 296 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On March 10, 2019, a Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed by Ethiopian Airlines shortly after taking off the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, killing all 157 people on board.
Also on this date:
In 1496, Christopher Columbus concluded his second visit to the western hemisphere when he left Hispaniola for Spain.
In 1864 President Abraham Lincoln Ulysses S. Grant, who had just received his committee as a lieutenant general, gave the order of the armies of the United States.
In 1876 the assistant of Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Watson, Bell heard about his experimental phone: ‘Mr. Watson – Come here – I want to see you ‘from the next room of Bell’s Boston Laboratory; They were the first words ever transferred by telephone.
In 1913, Abolitionist and Underground Railroad “conductor” Harriet Tubman died of pneumonia in Auburn, New York.
In 1959, thousands of Tibetans rebelled against occupying Chinese troops around the Dalai Lama palace to protect him against possible damage. Fierce fighting between Tibetans and Chinese troops followed the following days, so that the Dalai Lama Tibet fled to India, where he stays in exile today.
In 1969 James Earl Ray pleaded in Memphis, Tennessee, to the murder of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (Ray later rejects that plea and maintained his innocence until his death.)
In 1993 Dr. David Gunn killed outside the Pensacola Women’s Medical Services Clinic by anti-abortion activist Michael Griffin; It was the first murder that was attributed to the role of a doctor in offering abortion care.
Today’s birthdays:
- Actor Chuck Norris is 85.
- Singer Dean Torrence (Jan and Dean) is 85.
- TV Personality/Business Executive Barbara Corcoran (TV: “Shark Tank”) is 76.
- Actor Sharon Stone is 67.
- Actor Jasmine Guy is 63.
- Music producer Rick Rubin is 62.
- Football Hall by Famer Rod Woodson is 60.
- Singer-songwriter Edie Brickell is 59.
- Actor Paget Brewster is 56.
- Actor Jon Hamm is 54.
- Rapper producer Timbaland is 53.
- Actor Cristián (Kris-Tee-Ahn ‘) De la Fuente is 50.
- Actor Jeff Branson is 47.
- Singer Robin Thicke is 48.
- Olympic gymnastics gold medal winner Shannon Miller is 48.
- Actor Thomas Middleditch is 43.
- Country singer-songwriter Carrie Underwood is 42.
- Actor Olivia Wilde is 41.
- Actor Emily Osment is 33.
- Rapper singer Bad Bunny is 31.