MARCH 10
1864:Ulysses S. Grant is officially named commander of all Union troops by President Abraham Lincoln, who promotes Grant to the three-star rank of lieutenant general.1849: Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent for his invention of a system of adjustable air chambers that would better allow boats to pass through shoals and shallow waters. He is issued patent number 6469 on May 22, 1849, and although his device will never be marketed or used, Lincoln remains the only president to hold a patent.
1969: James Earl Ray pleads guilty to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. nearly a year earlier. Ray is sentenced to 99 years in prison, yet he will retract his guilty plea three days later and, until his death in April 1998, assert that he was merely part of a large politically motivated conspiracy to murder King.
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