Today is Friday, March 10, the 69th day of 2006. There are 296 days left in the year. On his date in

Today is Friday, March 10, the 69th day of 2006. There are 296 days left in the year. On his date in 1876, the first successful voice transmission over Alexander Graham Bell's telephone takes place in Boston as his assistant hears Bell say, "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you."
In 1629, England's King Charles I dissolves Parliament; he does not call it back for 11 years. In 1785, Thomas Jefferson is appointed minister to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin. In 1848, the Senate ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the war with Mexico. In 1864, Ulysses S. Grant becomes commander of the Union armies in the Civil War. In 1880, the Salvation Army arrives in the United States from England. In 1949, Nazi wartime broadcaster Mildred E. Gillars, also known as "Axis Sally," is convicted in Washington, D.C., of treason. (She serves 12 years in prison.) In 1965, Neil Simon's play "The Odd Couple," starring Walter Matthau and Art Carney, opens on Broadway. In 1969, James Earl Ray pleads guilty in Memphis, Tenn., to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (Ray later repudiates that plea, maintaining his innocence until his death.) In 1980, "Scarsdale Diet" author Dr. Herman Tarnower is shot to death in Purchase, N.Y. (Jean Harris, convicted of murder, serves nearly 12 years in prison before being released in January 1993.) In 1985, Konstantin U. Chernenko, Soviet leader for just 13 months, dies at age 73.
March 10, 1981: The Youngstown Board of Education files 22 new contempt cases against striking Youngstown teachers as testimony ends in a hearing on the first 15 teachers and two Ohio Education Association consultants.
Struthers High School's head football coach Mark McCann accepts the job of head coach at North Allegheny High School near Pittsburgh.
John DeMain, music director of the Houston Grand Opera, returns to his hometown of Youngstown to direct the opera "Faust" for the Youngstown Symphony Society.
March 10, 1966: A Lordstown youth escapes death by inches when he is thrown clear of his car that is rammed by a freight train on Highland Avenue Extension. Ronald Krisher, 17, suffered a scalp laceration.
The Pentagon says that Negro soldiers are dying in numbers that are proportionately higher than other races in fighting in Vietnam.
Former Gov. Michael V. DiSalle, just out of the hospital, returns to his Columbus home to find it burglarized. Police say a coin collection valued at $1,000 and some jewelry are missing.
March 10, 1956: Tuition costs at Youngstown University will be increased from $11 to $12 per credit hour to provide salary increases for faculty members. The increase will cost a student carrying a full load $30 a year.
Niles and Girard are on the verge of entering into an agreement for the sale of water to Girard.
A 29-year-old pilot, Daniel Chimel, and his brother, Albin, escape serious injury when their light plane fails during takeoff at Austintown Airport, smashes through a fence and strikes two parked cars.
March 10, 1931: Reflecting a gradual increase in business in Youngstown, payroll figures for February of $5.2 million show an increase of $397,000 over January.
The Craig Beach Co., which operates an amusement park at Lake Milton, declares bankruptcy, citing debts of $135,369 and assets of $55,354.
A lone gunman gags and ties up Milton Newman, manager of the Penner Furniture Co. store, 2718 Market St., and escapes with over $200 of the store's money and $40 from Newman.