Today is Monday, March 10, the 70th day of 2008. There are 296 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Monday, March 10, the 70th day of 2008. There are 296 days left in the year. On this 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 to see 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 1880, the Salvation Army arrives in the United States from England. In 1948, the body of the anti-communist foreign minister of Czechoslovakia, Jan Masaryk, is found in the garden of Czernin Palace in Prague. Authorities say that his death was a suicide, but others continue to claim that he was murdered. 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 1980, “Scarsdale Diet” author Dr. Herman Tarnower is shot to death in Purchase, N.Y. (Tarnower’s former lover, Jean Harris, is convicted of murder; she serves nearly 12 years in prison.) In 1988, pop singer Andy Gibb dies in Oxford, England, at age 30 of heart inflammation.

March 10, 1983: Youngstown’s seven swimming pools and numerous playgrounds will be open for two months in the summer, using $88,000 from the Capital Improvements fund.

Ohio members of the U.S. House, including Lyle Williams, R-17th, vote 14-7 in favor of a $165 billion Social Security rescue plan.

March 10, 1968: Youngstown area students capture three of six individual events state speech titles in Columbus. Laura Pilz of Boardman won girl’s extemporaneous; Colleen Healey, Cardinal Mooney, dramatic declamation, and Robert Pondilo, Austintown Fitch, original oration.

A common pleas jury in Akron awards a Cleveland electrician $30,000 in his alienation of affection suit against Radio Church of God. Melvin E. Bradesku accused church officials of breaking up his marriage by convincing his wife that she was living in an adulterous relationship because Bradesku had been married and divorced before.

March 10, 1958: Safecrackers net an estimated $5,500 when they burglarized the House of Fashion on High Street and Warren Sanitary Dairy on Youngstown Road in Warren.

Marcus V. McEvoy, superintendant of Austintown Local School District testifies before the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare that U.S. schools need more moral and financial support if they are to meet the challenge of the Russian Sputnik.

March 10, 1933: Merchants of Youngstown feel confident that their customers will cooperate by asking credit only on such purchases as they feel reasonably sure they will be able to pay for within 30 days, says J.R. Goldstein of the Merchants Credit Bureau.

President Roosevelt asks Congress for an immediate spending cut of $500 million in government salaries and veteran pensions.

Reversing an earlier announcement, Ohio Bell Telephone Co. says it will accept checks to cover payment of bills and will hold the checks until they can be cashed.