On This Day for March 10 - Opening of the Nazis' first concentration camp, Kim Campbell is featured, and more

Created: 2020-03-10 10:03 Updated: 2020-03-10 10:03 Notebook: On this Day in History

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March 10

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

1947

Kim Campbell

FEATURED EVENT

1933

Opening of the Nazis' first concentration camp

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2006: NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter entered Mars orbit and began searching for signs of water on the planet. [ Test your knowledge of Mars .]

1997: The cult television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiered; created by Joss Whedon , the show centred on Buffy Summers, “an alternative feminist icon” who battles vampires, demons, and other assorted supernatural forces of evil.

1969: James Earl Ray pled guilty to murdering American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. [ Was Martin Luther King, Jr., a Republican or a Democrat? ]

1903: American playwright and politician Clare Boothe Luce—who was noted for her satiric sense of humour, which she displayed in such oft-quoted aphorisms as “No good deed goes unpunished”—was born. [ Do you know synecdoche from metonymy? Take our literary devices quiz .]

1903: American jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke was born in Davenport, Iowa.

1876: Alexander Graham Bell's “liquid” transmitter design permitted the first transmission of speech by Bell to his assistant, Thomas Watson. [ Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about inventions and inventors .]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1981

Samuel Eto'o
Cameroonian athlete

1983

Carrie Underwood
American singer

1971

Jon Hamm
American actor

1928

James Earl Ray
American assassin

1936

Sepp Blatter
Swiss sports executive