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March 10, 1785 - Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin.
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March 10, 1848 - The Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the war with Mexico.
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March 10, 1864 - Ulysses S. Grant became commander of the Union armies in the Civil War.
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March 10, 1880 - The Salvation Army arrived in the United States from England.
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March 10, 1906 - London Underground opened the Baker Street to Waterloo section and named it the ‘Bakerloo’ line.
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March 10, 1914 - The Rokeby Venus in London’s National Gallery, one of the nation’s most important paintings, was slashed by a suffragette Mary Richardson, using a meat chopper, who wanted to ‘destroy the most beautiful woman in mythological history’ as a protest against the government’s efforts to ‘destroy’ Mrs Pankhurst, the suffragette leader. Velasquez’s masterpiece was severely damaged.
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March 10, 1948 - The body of the anti-Communist foreign minister of Czechoslovakia, Jan Masaryk, was found in the garden of Czernin Palace in Prague.
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March 10, 1949 - Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as "Axis Sally," was convicted in Washington DC of treason. (She served 12 years in prison.)
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March 10, 1964 - Birth of Prince Edward, third son of Queen Elizabeth II of England, and the most famous tea boy with Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Company.
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March 10, 1965 - Goldie, the London Zoo golden eagle which escaped, was captured nearby on this, its 13th day of freedom. Large crowds had been attracted to the zoo in Regent’s Park to watch Goldie fly from tree to tree, occasionally landing to accept titbits from spectators.
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March 10, 1965 - Neil Simon's play "The Odd Couple," starring Walter Matthau as Oscar Madison and Art Carney as Felix Unger, opened on Broadway.
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March 10, 1968 - A New Zealand car ferry capsized in a severe storm in Wellington Harbour and 200 were drowned.
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March 10, 1969 - James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to the murder of Martin Luther King and was sentenced to 99 years in jail.
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March 10, 1969 - James Earl Ray pleaded guilty in Memphis, Tennessee, to the assassination of Martin Luther King Junior. (Ray later repudiated that plea, maintaining his innocence until his death.)
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March 10, 1974 - A Japanese soldier was discovered on Lubang Island in the Philippines. He still believed the Second World War was being fought, and was waiting to be relieved by his own forces.
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March 10, 1979 - Lee Marvin’s ex-girlfriend, Michelle Triola Marvin, sued for ‘palimony’, demanding half the $3.6m he made during the time they lived together. The case was later dismissed.
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March 10, 1980 - Jean Harris, a US headmistress, shot the inventor of the Scarsdale diet, Dr Herman Tarnower, four times in the back after a passionate 44-year affair ended.
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March 10, 1980 - "Scarsdale Diet" author Dr. Herman Tarnower was shot to death in Purchase, New York. (Jean Harris, convicted of murder, served nearly 12 years in prison before being released in January 1993.)
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March 10, 1985 - Konstantin U. Chernenko, Soviet leader for just 13 months, died at age 73.
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March 10, 1988 - An avalanche in the Swiss ski resort of Klosters killed one member of the Prince of Wales’ party and injured another, but Charles narrowly escaped.
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