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Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France.
Today's Highlight in History:
On March tenth, 1876, the first successful voice transmission over
Alexander Graham Bell's telephone took place in Boston as his assistant heard
Bell say, "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you."
On this date:
In 1785, Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France, succeeding
Benjamin Franklin.
In 1848, the Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the
war with Mexico.
In 1864, Ulysses S. Grant became commander of the Union armies in the Civil
War.
In 1880, the Salvation Army arrived in the United States from England.
In 1948, the body of the anti-Communist foreign minister of Czechoslovakia,
Jan Masaryk, was found in the garden of Czernin Palace in Prague.
In 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.)
In 1965, Neil Simon's play "The Odd Couple," starring Walter Matthau as
Oscar Madison and Art Carney as Felix Unger, opened on Broadway.
In 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.)
In 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.)
In 1985, Konstantin U. Chernenko, Soviet leader for just 13 months, died at
age 73.
Ten years ago: Haitian ruler Lieutenant General Prosper Avril resigned
during a popular uprising against his military regime.
Five years ago: The Labor Department reported the nation's unemployment
rate for February dropped to five-point-four percent, down three-tenths of a
percentage point from the month before. The Clinton administration released
three billion dollars to support Mexico's faltering economy. Former Mexican
President Carlos Salinas de Gortari fled to the United States.
One year ago: During a visit to Guatemala, President Clinton acknowledged
the US role in Central America's "dark and painful period" of civil wars and
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