Difference between revisions of "March 10"

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March 10 in history:

1971: The U.S. Senate approved the 26th Amendment, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18.

1965: Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple, which went on to be adapted for a movie and a long-running television series, opened on Broadway.

1948: Jan Masaryk, foreign minister of Czechoslovakia, was found dead in a garden in Prague shortly after the Communist takeover of that country; he either jumped or was pushed from a window above.

1864: Ulysses S. Grant was named general in chief of all the Union armies by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.

1848: The U.S. Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, by which Mexico ceded California and New Mexico to the United States and recognized the U.S. annexation of Texas.

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+'''March 10''' in history:
-Some notable people born on March 10th include Sharon Stone, Chuck Norris, and Richard Kohs.
+* 1971: The U.S. Senate approved the 26th Amendment, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18.
+* 1965: Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple, which went on to be adapted for a movie and a long-running television series, opened on Broadway.
+* 1948: Jan Masaryk, foreign minister of Czechoslovakia, was found dead in a garden in Prague shortly after the Communist takeover of that country; he either jumped or was pushed from a window above.
+* 1864: Ulysses S. Grant was named general in chief of all the Union armies by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
+* 1848: The U.S. Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, by which [[Directory:Mexico|Mexico]] ceded [[Directory:California|California]] and [[Directory:New Mexico|New Mexico]] to the [[Directory:United States of America|United States]] and recognized the U.S. annexation of [[Directory:Texas|Texas]].
+[[Category:March]] [[Category:Days of the Year]]