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On This Day In History for March 10, 2021

This is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 296 days remaining in 2021.

It was on this date in 1876, that The first successful test of a telephone was made by Alexander Graham Bell.

130 years ago today, Almon Strowger patented the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.

It was on this date in 1977, that Astronomers discovered the rings of Uranus.

Also on March 10, 2000, The Dot-com bubble peaked with the NASDAQ Composite stock market index reaching 5,048.62.

On March 10, 2006, The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrived on Mars.

The World Health Organization officially announces the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic. on this date in 2020.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

German-Dutch alchemist and chemist, Johann Rudolf Glauber, born on this date in 1604.

Alfred Peet, Dutch-American businessman, founded Peet’s Coffee & Tea was born on that same date in 1920.

American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Val Logsdon Fitch, born on this date in 1923.

Also born on that same date in 1956,  English actor, producer, and screenwriter, Robert Llewellyn.

American actress and producer, Sharon Stone is 63 today.

Born March 10, 1961, American captain, physician, and astronaut Laurel Clark.

Listener Birthdays

7 – Ben Maddox a.k.a. CptRootbeer

7 – Caleb from Dancing With Elephants

8 – Ali Zein Yousuf a.k.a. superAL1394

8 – BJ Keifer a.k.a bjk

11 – Andy Helsby of Absoblogginlutely!

11 – Ken Kitzman a.k.a kitzken

13 – Johanna Gonzalez a.k.a. MightyJo

14 – Pi Day (3/14)

16 – Michelle Lopez a.k.a. CntrySigns

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for February  17, 2021

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