Today in History: March 10, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to shooting Martin Luther King Jr.

James Earl Ray is shown on an FBI poster, April 20, 1968. Ray is being sought in connection with the sniper slaying of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. James Earl Ray is shown on an FBI poster, April 20, 1968. Ray is being sought in connection with the sniper slaying of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. James Earl Ray is shown on an FBI poster, April 20, 1968. Ray is being sought in connection with the sniper slaying of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

On March 10, 1969, James Earl Ray pleaded guilty in Memphis, Tennessee, to assassinating civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. In 1496, Christopher Columbus concluded his second visit to the Western Hemisphere as he left Hispaniola for Spain.In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln assigned Ulysses S. Grant, who had just received his commission as lieutenant-general, to the command of the Armies of the United States.

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell’s assistant, Thomas Watson, heard Bell say over his experimental telephone: “Mr. Watson — come here — I want to see you” from the next room of Bell’s Boston laboratory.In 1913, former slave, abolitionist and Underground Railroad “conductor” Harriet Tubman died in Auburn, New York; she was in her 90s.

In 1965, Neil Simon’s play “The Odd Couple,” starring Walter Matthau and Art Carney, opened on Broadway. In 1985, Konstantin U. Chernenko, who was the Soviet Union’s leader for 13 months, died at age 73; he was succeeded by Mikhail Gorbachev.In 2015, breaking her silence in the face of a growing controversy over her use of a private email address and server,Ethiopian Airlines crashed shortly after taking offagainst the opposition of Republicans, while the Senate confirmed Merrick Garland to be U.S. attorney general with a strong bipartisan vote.

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