Template:On This Day (nonfiction)/March 10
1604: Alchemist and chemist Johann Rudolf Glauber born. Glauber will make pioneering contributions to industrial chemical engineering.
1628: Physician and biologist Marcello Malpighi born. Malpighi will make pioneering contributions to anatomy, histology, physiology, embryology, and microscopy.
1670: Alchemist and chemist Johann Rudolf Glauber dies. Glauber made pioneering contributions to industrial chemical engineering, probably at the expense of his health.
1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
1923: Physicist and academic Val Logsdon Fitch born. Fitch will share the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics with co-researcher James Cronin for a 1964 experiment which proves that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles (CP violation).
1961: Author, artist, and raconteur Karl Jones born. Jones will compile the Gnomon Chronicles, a work of fiction and non-fiction, fact and fantasy.
2006: The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.