TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2018 On this day in history: 0241 BC - The Roman fleet sank 50 Carthaginian ships in the Battle of Aegusa.

0049 BC - Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon and invaded Italy. 1496 - Christopher Columbus concluded his second visit to the Western Hemisphere when he left Hispaniola for Spain. 1629 - England’s King Charles I dissolved Parliament and did not call it back for 11 years.

1788 - French explorer Jean-Francois La Perouse is observed departing Botany Bay, never to be seen again. 1794 - The Reverend Samuel Marsden, who became known colloquially as the ‘Flogging Parson’, arrives in the New South Wales penal colony. 1806 - The Dutch in Cape Town, South Africa surrendered to the British.

1814 - In France, Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by a combined Allied Army at the battle of Laon.

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful call with the telephone. He spoke the words “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.” 1880 - The Salvation Army arrived in the US from England. 1902 - The Boers of South Africa scored their last victory over the British, when they captured British General Methuen and 200 men.

1902 - Tochangri, Turkey, was entirely wiped out by an earthquake.

1906 - In France, 1200 miners were buried in an explosion at Courrieres.

1909 - Britain extracted territorial concessions from Siam and Malaya.

1910 - Slavery was abolished in China.

1912 - China became a republic after the overthrow of the Manchu Ch’ing Dynasty. 1944 - The Irish refused to oust all Axis envoys and denied the accusation of spying on Allied troops.

1947 - The Big Four met in Moscow to discuss the future of Germany.

1947 - Poland and Czechoslovakia signed a 20-year mutual aid pact.

1966 - France withdrew from NATO’s military command to protest U.S. dominance of the alliance and asked NATO to move its headquarters from Paris.

1990 - Haitian President Prosper Avril was ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.