March 10th
1585 - Death of Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist
1628 - Birth of Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician
1670 - Death of Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist
1709 - Birth of Georg Steller, German naturalist
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call.
1891 - Almon Strowger patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
1923 - Birth of Val Logsdon Fitch, Physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1942 - Death of William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1966 - Death of Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1977 - Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.
2006 - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
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