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March 10

3 sourced moments from March 10 in history: The US issued its first national paper money (1862); The first intelligible telephone call summoned an assistant (1876); and James Earl Ray Pleaded Guilty to Killing Martin Luther King Jr. (1969).

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3 things happened on March 10

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1969 Society & Economy · Crime

James Earl Ray Pleaded Guilty to Killing Martin Luther King Jr.

On his 41st birthday, an escaped convict admitted to the assassination that silenced America's most powerful voice for civil rights.

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1876 Technology · Inventions

The first intelligible telephone call summoned an assistant

Three days after patenting his device, Bell spoke a few words down a wire and started the telephone age.

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1862 Society & Economy · Economics

The US issued its first national paper money

To pay for the Civil War, the Union printed legal-tender notes whose green backs gave them a lasting nickname.

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