TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 2009

Today is Tuesday, March 10, the 69th day of 2009. There are 296 days left in the year.

241 B.C. _ Battle of Aegusa: Roman fleet sinks 50 Carthagean ships

418 _ Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire

1624 _ England declares war on Spain

1849 _ Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only U.S. President to do so

1876 _ First telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson)

1880 _ Salvation Army of England sets up U.S. welfare & religious activity

1893 _ New Mexico State University cancels its first graduation ceremony, its only graduate Sam Steele was robbed and killed the night before

1926 _ Run on Belgian banks

1959 _ Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa, Tibet

1982 _ President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya