Today in History

Today in History Today is Wednesday, March 10, the 69th day of 2021. There are 296 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 10, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln assigned Ulysses S. Grant, who had just received his commission as lieutenant-general, to the command of the Armies of the United States. On this date: In 1785, Thomas Jefferson was appointed America’s minister to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin. In 1848, the U.S. Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell’s assistant, Thomas Watson, heard Bell say over his experimental telephone: “Mr. Watson — come here — I want to see you” from the next room of Bell’s Boston laboratory. In 1906, about 1,100 miners in northern France were killed by a coal-dust explosion. In 1913, former slave, abolitionist and Underground Railroad “conductor” Harriet Tubman died in Auburn, New York; she was in her 90s. In 1914, the Rokeby...

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