On This Day:
Monday March 10, 2014 This is the 69th day of the year, with 296 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: Romaine lettuce Romaine lettuce was named for the way its leaves resembled Roman tablespoons of the day (such as Socrates was purported to use for his lethal dose of hemlock); the name does not indicate that the lettuce originated in Rome. It actually came from the Greek island of Cos in the Aegean Sea and is sometimes called Cos lettuce. Romaine lettuce may be the oldest form of cultivated lettuce, dating back 5,000 years. It was held in high regard by the ancient Greeks and Romans, both as a food and for its therapeutic medicinal properties.
Holidays Feast day of St. Kessog, St. John Ogilvie, St. Attalas, St. Hymelin, St. Macarius of Jerusalem, St. Simplicius, pope, and St. Anastasia Patricia.
Events 49 B.C.E. - Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon and invaded Italy.
1496 - Christopher Columbus left Hispaniola for Spain, concluding his second visit to the Western Hemisphere.
1629 - England's King Charles I dissolved Parliament and did not call it back for 11 years.
1785 - Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin.
1792 - John Stone patented the pile driver.
1862 - The first paper money was issued in the U.S.: $5, $10, and $20 bills.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call -- calling his assistant in another room by saying, "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you."
1880 - The Salvation Army arrived in the United States from England.
1903 - Harry C. Gammeter of Cleveland patented the multigraph duplicating machine.
1969 - James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to the assassination of African American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. Three days later, he attempted to withdraw his guilty plea, but his motion was denied, as were his dozens of other requests for a new trial over the next 29 years.
1987 - The Vatican condemned surrogate parenting as well as test-tube and artificial insemination.
1997 - The Spice Girls, a British all-girl band, made music history by becoming the first group to have their first four singles top the charts.
Births 1858 - Henry W. Fowler, English lexicographer and philologist.
1903 - Clare Boothe Luce, American playwright, editor, journalist, and conservative politician.
1916 - James Herriot, Scottish writer and veterinarian.
Deaths 1986 - Ray Milland, American film actor.
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