March 10: Shocking Historical Events Through Time This Date In History

1624 England declares war on Spain
1629 English King Charles I dissolves Parliament for the 4th time in his reign, summons new Parliament 11 years later, only to be dissolved after 3 months
1783 USS Alliance under Captain Barry fights and wins the last naval battle of the US Revolutionary War off Cape Canaveral
1849 Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent (only US President to do so) for a device to lift a boat over shoals and obstructions
1876 First telephone call; Alexander Graham Bell says "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you" to his assistant Thomas Watson
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
1933 Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics
1951 FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner
1952 Military coup led by General Fulgencio Batista in Cuba
1964 US reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany
1969 James Earl Ray pleads guilty to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.
1971 US Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18
1975 Dog spectacles patented in England
1977 Rings of Uranus discovered during occulation of SAO
1978 "The Incredible Hulk", starring Bill Bixby as David Banner, premieres on CBS
1980 Willard Scott becomes the weather forcaster on the Today Show
1993 Physician David Gunn shot and killed by anti-abortionist Michael Frederick Griffin in Pensacola, Florida, first anti-abortion murder of a doctor in the US
2020 Russian lower house of Parliament passes legislation to allow Vladimir Putin to hold office of President for life
2023 Xi Jinping appointed to a historic third term as President of China (previously restricted to two terms)