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On March 10th …
1629 - Charles I of England dissolves Parliament
and rules alone for 11 years.
1785 - Thomas Jefferson is appointed minister to
France.
1848 - Congress ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo, ending the Mexican War.
1864 - U. S. Grant became commander of the Union
armies during the Civil War.
1876 - The first telephone call ("Mr. Watson, come
here. I want you.") was made by Alexander Graham Bell.
1948 - The body of Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's
anti-Communist foreign minister was found. Officially a
suicide, the real cause of death has never been proven.
1969 - James Earl Ray was sentenced in Memphis,
Tennessee, to 99 years in prison for the murder of
Martin Luther King, Jr., in April 1968.
In 1932 …
President: Herbert C. Hoover
Vice President: Charles Curtis
Population: 124,840,471
Federal spending: $4.66 billion
Consumer Price Index: 13.7
Unemployment: 24.1%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02 ($0.03 as of 7/6/32)
• Congress sets up Reconstruction Finance
Corporation to stimulate economy.
• Veterans, known as the Bonus Marchers , march on
Washington—most leave after Senate rejects payment of
cash bonuses; others removed by troops under Douglas
MacArthur.
• Charles A. Lindbergh 's baby son kidnapped,
killed. (Bruno Richard Hauptmann arrested in 1934,
convicted in 1935, executed in 1936.)
• Amelia Earhart is first woman to fly Atlantic
solo (May 20-21).
• Nazis lead in German elections with 230 Reichstag
seats.
• Famine is widespread in U.S.S.R.
• Carl David Anderson discovers the positron, a
subatomic particle.
• Physicists Sir John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest
Walton split the atom for the first time.
• James Chadwick discovers the sub-atomic neutron. |
