March 10

Today in History
• 418 - Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire
• 1624 - England declares war on Spain
• 1629 - England's King Charles I dissolved Parliament and did not call it back for 11 years
• 1783 - USS Alliance fights and wins last naval battle of US Revolutionary War
• 1792 - John Stone patented the pile driver
• 1806 - The Dutch in Cape Town, South Africa surrendered to the British
• 1814 - In France, Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by a combined Allied Army
• 1920 - Home Rule Act passed by the British Parliament, dividing Ireland into two parts


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Harriet Tubman Day
• International Bagpipe Day
• International Day of Women Judges
• International Wig Day
• National Landline Telephone Day
• Paper Money Day
• Salvation Army Day
• Tibetan Uprising Day

Birthdays
• 1452 - Ferdinand II, the Catholic, King of Aragon/Sicily, expelled Jews
• 1503 - Ferdinand I, German emperor, 1558-64
• 1538 - Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk; executed by Queen Elizabeth, 1572
• 1769 - Joseph Williamson, English philanthropist and tunnel builder
• 1776 - Louise, queen of Prussia/wife of Frederik Willem III
• 1796 - José María Vargas, 2nd President of Venezuela (1835-36)
• 1845 - Alexander III A Romanov, Russian tsar, 1881-94
• 1850 - Mary Mills Patrick, U.S., 1st President of Istanbul Woman's College