On This Day:
Tuesday March 10, 2015 This is the 69th day of the year, with 296 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: grapes Seedless grapes still have tiny seeds that you cannot detect. If you want to dry seedless grapes: leave the grapes whole or cut in half for faster drying. If drying whole, dip in boiling water for 30 seconds to crack skins. No further pretreatment is necessary. Drying takes 24 to 48 hours in a dehydrator. Grapes are adequately dry when they have a raisin-like texture and no moisture in the center.
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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