This Day in Auto History:

3.10.1903 Byron J. Carter is issued a United States patent for his three-cylinder steam engine 3.10.1909 Andrew L. Freeman, the inventor of the headbolt heater, is born in Upham, ND 3.10.1939 Racer Charles Crichton-Stuart is born in London, England 3.10.1942 Walter M. Nones, founder in 1914 of the Norma-Hoffmann Bearings Corporation and its Chairman until 1941, dies in New York City at age 67 3.10.1960 The Gordon (later Gordon-Keeble) GT is introduced as a new marque at the Geneva (Switzerland) Autoshow

Source: Automobile History Day By Day, by Douglas A. Wick