March 10 is:
Daylight Savings Time starts. Turn your clocks forward (spring forward) by one hour. (Not observed in Arizona…thanks AZ!)
Daylight saving time in the United States is the practice of setting the clock forward by one hour during the warmer part of the year, so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less. “Only the government would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket.”
National Ranch Dressing Day
International Bagpipe Day
International Day of Awesomeness Some of you may be wondering how, precisely, the date was chosen for this auspicious holiday. Well, for those who know the Patron Saint of Awesomeness, it should be no surprise that the date chosen was that of Chuck Norris. After all, there are few as awesome as this incredible martial-artist and inspiration. Not long after the inception of the holiday came the motto: “No one is perfect, but everyone can be awesome”. This is the kind of encouragement you need when your day is spinning around the drain; just remember: The truly awesome are those who take a situation that’s getting wildly out of control and turn it to their advantage.
1681-English Quaker William Penn received charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of the colonial American territory, Pennsylvania.
“Common Sense” by Thomas Paine was published in 1776.
Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, Missouri, on March 10, 1804, a formal ceremony was conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican–American War in 1848.
1849 Abraham Lincoln applied for a patent; only U.S. president to do so. He invented a mechanism to lift boats over shoals and obstructions in a river.
In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful telephone call by saying “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.”
Anniversary of the arrival of the Salvation Army in the U.S. in 1880
In 1893, New Mexico State University (then known as New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts), canceled its first graduation ceremony. Its only graduate, 17 year old Sam Steele, was robbed and killed the night before.
March 10, 1942 Happy Birthday to me! (and on the International Day of Awesomeness!)
March 10, 1977 – Astronomers discovered rings around the planet Uranus. Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It has 13 faint rings and 27 small moons. But a characteristic that sets Uranus apart: It spins on its side as it orbits the sun.