MONDAY, MARCH 10, 2014

Today is Monday, March 10, the 69th day of 2014. There are 296 days left in the year.

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

1629 ― King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he called it back 11 years later

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

1880 ― Salvation Army of England sets up U.S. welfare and religious activity

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

1910 ― China ends slavery

1959 ― Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa, Tibet

1982 ― President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya

1987 ― Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization and embryo transfer

1994 ― 1 million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri's funeral