March 10th

Today in America's Present Past

1783 | Revolutionary War: Navy Captain John Berry won the war’s last naval engagement, besting the British off the coast of Cape Canaveral.

1791 | John Stone receives a patient for a pile driver.

1809 | Navy Commander William David Porter was born.

1810 | Cleric John McLoskey was born.

1832 | General William Henry Penrose was born.

1842 | Poet Ina Coolbrith was born.

Patent No. 6,469 was issued to Abraham Lincoln, the only president to patent a product.

1849 | POTUS: President Lincoln - pre-presidency - applies for a boat lifting machine patient.

1862 | The US mint issues the first “paper” money.

1865 | Civil War: Battle of Monroe’s Crossroads, North Carolina

1876 | Alexander Graham Bell makes his first telephone call.

Victoria Earle Matthews | Courtesy of the New York. Public Library.

1907 | Author Victoria Earle Matthews died.

1913 | Abolitionist Harriet Tubman died.

1920 | Entrepreneur Alfred Peet was born.

1927 | Author Ernest Hemingway divorced Elizabeth Richardson.

1928 | Assassin James Earl Ray was born.

1933 | Nevada becomes the first state to regulate narcotics.

1940 | Actor Chuck Norris was born.

1958 | Actress Sharon Stone was born.

1966 | Vietnam War: North Vietnamese capture US Special Forces camp at Ashau Valley.

1969 | Civil War: James Earl Ray pleads guilty to the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.

1971 | Congress: U.S. Senate approves lowering the federal voting age to 18.

1971 | Actor Jon Hamm was born.

1973 | Politician Bull Connor died.

1978 | TV: “The Incredible Hulk” premieres on CBS.

1980 | Poet Melville Henry Cane died.

1983 | Entertainer Carrie Underwood was born.

Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio a.k.a. “Bad Bunny,”

1994 | Rapper Bad Bunny was born.

1996 | Activist Lucius E. Burch died.

1997 | Jeffrey Hawkins releases the personal computing “Palm Pilot.”

1998 | Actor Lloyd Bridges died.

2014 | Author Joe McGinniss died.

2017 | Author Robert James Waller died.