March 10

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March 10 in recent years

2008 (Monday)

2007 (Saturday)

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March 10 is the Template:Day/Totaldays Template:Ordinal/th day of the year (Template:Day/Totaldays Template:Ordinal/th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "[" days remaining until the end of the year.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
- 4.1 Liturgical feasts
5 External links

Events

241 BC - First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet; end of First Punic War.
1629 - Charles I of England dissolves Parliament, starting the Eleven Years Tyranny in which there was no parliament.
1735 - An agreement between Nadir Shah and Paul I of Russia is signed near Ganja and the Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku.
1801 - First census in Great Britain
1804 - Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
1814 - Napoleon I of France is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.
1830 - The KNIL also known as the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created.
1831 - The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.
1846 - Prince Osahito, fourth son of deceased Emperor Ninko of Japan, becomes Emperor Kōmei.
1848 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican-American War.
1861 - El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Segou, destroying the Bambara Empire of Mali.
1864 - American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
1880 - Members of the Salvation Army land in the United States and begin operations.
1891 - Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
1893 - Côte d'Ivoire becomes a French colony.
1902 - Second Boer War: South African Boers win their last battle over British forces, with the capture of a British general and 200 of his men.
1902 - A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera.
1902 - Tochangri, Turkey, is completely destroyed by an earthquake.
1905 - Eleftherios Venizelos asks the independence of Crete and its union with Greece again, starting the Cretan Revolution in Theriso.
1906 - The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in Northern France.
1912 - Yuan Shikai is sworn in as the second Provisional President of the Republic of China.
1917 - Batangas was formally founded as one of the Philippines's earliest encomiendas.
1918 - Warner Bros. releases its first major film My Four Years in Germany.
1925 - Olympiacos is founded in Piraeus.
1933 - An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 120 people.
1945 - The Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
1948 - The Indian Union Muslim League is founded, by remnants of the old Muslim League.
1951 - Henri Queuille becomes Prime Minister of France.
1952 - Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.
1959 - Tibet leads an unsuccessful uprising against ten years of Chinese occupation in Lhasa. Thousands massacred by the occupying Chinese army.
1969 - In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He would later retract his guilty plea.
1970 - Vietnam War: Capt. Ernest Medina is charged with My Lai war crimes.
1975 - Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.
1975 - Sanyo Shinkansen open between Osaka and Fukuoka.
1977 - Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.
1982 - The United States places an embargo on Libyan petroleum imports because of their support of terrorist groups.
1982 - Syzygy: all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun. See also Jupiter effect.
1987 - The Holy See condemns the practice of surrogate motherhood, along with test-tube babies and artificial insemination.
1990 - In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.
2000 - The NASDAQ stock market index peaks at 5048.62, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.
2004 - DC Shoes is acquired by Quicksilver.
2006 - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
2006 - Mass unrest by the PCC started in São Paulo (the biggest city in Brazil) which would eventually kill more than 152 people

Births

1415 - Vasili II of Russia (d. 1462)
1452 - Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1516)
1503 - Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1564)
1536 - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, English politician (d. 1572)
1628 - Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (d. 1694)
1709 - Georg Steller, German naturalist (d. 1746)
1749 - Lorenzo da Ponte, Italian librettist (d. 1838)
1769 - Joseph Williamson, English philanthropist and tunnel builder (d. 1840)
1772 - Friedrich von Schlegel, German aesthetician (d. 1829)
1776 - Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen consort of Prussia (d. 1810)
1788 - Joseph von Eichendorff, German writer (d. 1857)
1810 - Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet (d. 1886)
1842 - Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (d. 1912)
1844 - Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist (d. 1908)
1845 - Alexander III of Russia (d. 1894)
1847 - Kate Sheppard, New Zealand suffragist (d. 1934)
1850 - Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (d. 1906)
1880 - Broncho Billy Anderson, American actor (d. 1971)
1887 - Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Grandmaster of Ninjutsu (d. 1972)
1888 - Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (d. 1961)
1892 - Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (d. 1955)
1892 - Gregory La Cava, American director (d. 1952)
1899 - Robert Meier, German WW1 veteran, formerly Germany's oldest man. (d. 2007)
1903 - Bix Beiderbecke, American musician (d. 1931)
1905 - Betty Amann, German-American actress.
1905 - Richard Haydn, English actor (d. 1985)
1915 - Harry Bertoia, Italian artist (d. 1978)
1915 - Sir Charles Groves, English conductor (d. 1992)
1919 - Marion Hutton, American singer (d. 1987)
1920 - Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (d. 2007)
1920 - Boris Vian, French writer and musician (d. 1959)
1923 - Val Logsdon Fitch, Nobel Prize laureate
1925 - Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet (d. 2005)
1928 - James Earl Ray, American assassin (d. 1998)
1928 - Sara Montiel, Spanish actress and singer
1931 - Georges Dor, Quebec author, playwright, singer and songwriter (d. 2001)
1936 - Sepp Blatter, Swiss hockey and football official
1937 - Joe Viterelli, American actor (d. 2004)
1938 - Marina Vlady, French actress
1940 - Chuck Norris, American actor and martial artist
1940 - Dean Torrence, American singer (Jan and Dean)
1945 - Birgitta Sellén, Swedish politician
1946 - Jim Valvano, American basketball coach (d. 1993)
1946 - Mike Hollands, Australian animator
1946 - Hiroshi Fushida, Japanese racing driver
1947 - Kim Campbell, 19th Prime Minister of Canada
1947 - Paul Condon, Baron Condon, former Commissioner of The Metropolitan Police
1947 - Bob Greene, American journalist
1947 - Tom Scholz, American songwriter
1948 - Richard Park (broadcaster), British Media Consultant and Broadcaster
1952 - Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe politician
1953 - Paul Haggis, Canadian film director
1955 - Youssra, Egyptian actress and singer
1955 - Toshio Suzuki, Japanese racing driver
1956 - Mitchell Lichtenstein, American actor; son of Roy Lichtenstein
1957 - Shannon Tweed, Canadian actress and model
1957 - Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born Islamic extremist
1957 - Jim White, American folk singer-songwriter
1958 - Steve Howe, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1958 - Sharon Stone, American actress
1960 - Anne MacKenzie, journalist and broadcaster
1961 - Laurel Clark, physician and astronaut (d. 2003)
1961 - Mitch Gaylord, American gymnast
1961 - Bobby Petrino, American football coach
1963 - Jeff Ament, American musician (Pearl Jam)
1963 - Rick Rubin, American record producer
1964 - Neneh Cherry, Swedish musician
1964 - Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
1964 - David Faber, analyst for CNBC
1964 - Jasmine Guy, American actress
1965 - Rod Woodson, American football player
1966 - Edie Brickell, American singer
1966 - Gráinne Mulvey, Irish composer
1966 - Mike Timlin, American baseball player
1968 - Felice Arena, Australian children's author
1968 - Shoichi Funaki, Japanese professional wrestler
1968 - Thio Li-ann, Singaporean law academic and Nominated Member of Parliament
1969 - Paget Brewster, American actress
1971 - Timbaland, American rapper
1971 - Steve Arnold, British racing driver
1972 - Takashi Fujii, Japanese television performer
1972 - Matt Kenseth, American race car driver
1972 - Paraskevi Tsiamita, Greek triple jumper
1973 - Eva Herzigova, Czech model
1973 - Chris Sutton, English footballer
1973 - Mauricio Taricco, Argentine footballer
1973 - John LeCompt, American guitarist
1975 - Lyne Bessette, Quebec professional bicycle racer
1976 - Haifa Wehbe, Lebanese actress, model and singer
1977 - Peter Enckelman, Finnish footballer
1977 - Shannon Miller, American gymnast
1977 - Colin Murray, British radio DJ
1977 - Bree Turner, American dancer and actress
1977 - Matt Rubano, American musician (Taking Back Sunday)
1977 - Robin Thicke, American singer
1978 - Ben Burnley, American musician (Breaking Benjamin)
1981 - Samuel Eto'o, Cameroonian footballer
1981 - Efthimios Kouloucheris, Greek footballer
1981 - Steven Reid, English-born footballer
1982 - Timo Glock, German racing car driver
1982 - Katharine Isabelle, Canadian actress
1983 - Carrie Underwood, American singer
1983 - Reena Virk, Canadian murder victim (d. 1997)
1984 - Ben May, English footballer
1984 - Olivia Wilde, American actress
1985 - Lassana Diarra, French footballer
1985 - Casey Dienel, American singer-songwriter
1985 - Kim Leclerc, Canadian politician
1992 - Emily Osment, American actress