Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 10

On March 10:

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• 241 BC - Battle of the Aegates Islands: Romans defeated Carthage.
• 1804 - The Louisiana Purchase was formally transfered to the U.S..
• 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell made his first successful telephone call.
• 2000 - The NASDAQ peaked at 5048.62, the high point of the dot-com boom.

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