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This day in history: 10 March

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278 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 10 March.
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2026: Bam Adebayo of the Miami Heat recorded the second-highest scoring game in NBA history with 83 Points.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day Attala

Christian feast day Harriet Tubman (Lutheran)

Christian feast day John Ogilvie

Christian feast day Macarius of Jerusalem

Christian feast day March 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day Marie-Eugénie de Jésus

Christian feast day Pope Simplicius

Christian feast day Sojourner Truth (Lutheran)

Harriet Tubman Day (United States of America)

Holocaust Remembrance Day (Bulgaria)

Mario Day (International)

National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (United States)

Events

2026Bam Adebayo of the Miami Heat recorded the second-highest scoring game in NBA history with 83 Points.

20242024 Portuguese legislative election: Elections are held in Portugal for all 230 seats in the Assembly of the Republic. The Partido Socialista loses its absolute majority to the Partido Social Democrata, winning 77 and 79 seats respectively

2023Silicon Valley Bank collapses due to a run on its deposits, in the second largest bank failure in US history. Its operations are taken over by the FDIC.

20222022 Hungarian presidential election: The National Assembly of Hungary elects former minister for Family Affairs, Katalin Novák, as president of Hungary in a 137–51 vote, becoming the first female president in the country's history.

2019Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX, crashes shortly after takeoff, killing all 157 passengers and crew. This and the prior Lion Air Flight 610 led to all 387 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft being grounded worldwide.

2017The impeachment of President Park Geun-hye of South Korea in response to a major political scandal is unanimously upheld by the country's Constitutional Court, ending her presidency.

2006The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.

2000The Dot-com bubble peaks with the NASDAQ Composite stock market index reaching 5,048.62.

19911991 Salvadoran legislative election: The Nationalist Republican Alliance wins 39 of the 84 seats in the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador.

1990In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted eighteen months after seizing power in a coup d'état in September 1988.

1989Air Ontario Flight 1363, a Fokker F-28 Fellowship, crashes at Dryden Regional Airport in Dryden, Ontario, Canada, killing 24.

1982Syzygy: All nine planets recognized at this time — Mercury to Pluto — align on the same side of the Sun.

19791979 International Women's Day protests in Tehran: Protestor involvement peaks with 15,000 Iranian women and girls performing a three‐hour-long sit‐in at the Courthouse of Tehran.

1977Astronomers discover the rings of Uranus.

1975Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh Campaign: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Mê Thuột in the South on their way to capturing Saigon in the final push for victory over South Vietnam.

19741974 Belgian general election: Elections are held in Belgium for all 212 seats in the Chamber of Representatives, the Belgian Socialist Party taking the majority with 59.

1971John Gorton resigns as Prime Minister of Australia and the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia after a secret ballot vote of confidence, being replaced in both positions by William McMahon.

1970Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. military with My Lai war crimes.

1969In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to recant.

1966Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyễn Cao Kỳ sacks rival General Nguyễn Chánh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.

1959Tibetan uprising: Fearing an abduction attempt by China, thousands of Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal.

1952Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.

1949Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is convicted of treason.

1945World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.

1944Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front.

1933The Long Beach earthquake affects the Greater Los Angeles Area, leaving around 108 people dead.

1922Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.

1909By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates.

1906The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.

1891Almon Strowger patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.

1876The first successful test of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell.

1873The first Azerbaijani play, The Adventures of the Vizier of the Khan of Lenkaran, prepared by Akhundov, is performed by Hassan-bey Zardabi and dramatist and Najaf-bey Vezirov.

1861El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Ségou, destroying the Bamana Empire of Mali.

1848The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican–American War.

1831The French Foreign Legion is created by Louis Philippe, the King of France, from the foreign regiments of the Kingdom of France.

1830The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created.

1814Emperor Napoleon I is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.

1762French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.

1735An agreement between Nader Shah and Russia is signed near Ganja, Azerbaijan and Russian troops are withdrawn from occupied territories.

1661French "Sun King" Louis XIV begins his personal rule of France after the death of his premier, the Cardinal Mazarin.

Born on this day

2004Matt Poitras, Canadian ice hockey player

2002Keon Johnson, American basketball player

2000Nick Bolton, American football player

1999Cole Kmet, American football player

1998Justin Herbert, American football player

1997Belinda Bencic, Swiss tennis player

1995Sergey Mozgov, Russian ice dancer

1995Zach LaVine, American basketball player

1994Bad Bunny, Puerto Rican rapper, songwriter, producer, actor, and wrestler

1994Nikita Parris, English footballer

1993Aminata Namasia, Congolese politician

1993Jack Butland, English footballer

1992Neeskens Kebano, French-Congolese footballer

1991Kenshi Yonezu, Japanese singer-songwriter and illustrator

1990Stefanie Vögele, Swiss tennis player

1989Dayán Viciedo, Cuban baseball player

1989Simon Moser, Swiss ice hockey player

1988Clarissa dos Santos, Brazilian basketball player

1988Ego Nwodim, American actress

1988Ivan Rakitić, Croatian football player

1988Josh Hoffman, Australian-New Zealand rugby league player

1988Quincy Pondexter, American basketball player and coach

1987Greg Eastwood, New Zealand rugby league player

1987Māris Štrombergs, Latvian BMX racer

1987Martellus Bennett, American football player

1987Tuukka Rask, Finnish ice hockey player

1986Sergei Shirokov, Russian ice hockey player

1984Ben May, English footballer

1984Olivia Wilde, American actress and director

1984Tim Brent, Canadian ice hockey player

1983Carrie Underwood, American singer-songwriter

1983Étienne Boulay, Canadian football player

1983Janet Mock, American journalist, author, and activist

1983Rafe Spall, English actor

1982Dr Disrespect, American live streamer

1982Kwame Brown, American basketball player

1982Logan Mankins, American football player

1981Samuel Eto'o, Cameroonian footballer

1981Steven Reid, English-Irish footballer

1978Benjamin Burnley, American musician

Died on this day

2025Carl Lundström, Swedish businessman and activist (born 1960)

2025Stanley R. Jaffe, American film producer and director (born 1940)

2022John Elliott, English historian and academic (born 1930)

2016Anita Brookner, English novelist and art historian (born 1928)

2016Jovito Salonga, Filipino lawyer and politician, 14th President of the Senate of the Philippines (born 1920)

2016Ken Adam, German-English production designer and art director (born 1921)

2016Roberto Perfumo, Argentinian footballer and sportscaster (born 1942)

2015Richard Glatzer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1952)

2013Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, British born Swedish Princess (born 1915)

2012Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)

2012Jean Giraud, French author and illustrator (born 1938)

2011Bill Blackbeard, American author and illustrator (born 1926)

2010Corey Haim, Canadian actor (born 1971)

2010Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Egyptian scholar and academic (born 1928)

2007Ernie Ladd, American football player and wrestler (born 1938)

2005Dave Allen, Irish-English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1936)

1999Oswaldo Guayasamín, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (born 1919)

1998Lloyd Bridges, American actor and director (born 1913)

1997LaVern Baker, American singer and actress (born 1929)

1996Ross Hunter, American film producer (born 1926)

1992Giorgos Zampetas, Greek bouzouki player and composer (born 1925)

1988Andy Gibb, Australian singer-songwriter and actor (born 1958)

1986Ray Milland, Welsh-American actor and director (born 1907)

1985Bob Nieman, American baseball player (born 1927)

1985Konstantin Chernenko, Russian soldier and politician, Head of State of The Soviet Union (born 1911)

1977E. Power Biggs, English-American organist and composer (born 1906)

1973Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale (1960 – 1973), Governor of Kenya (1952 – 1959), High Commissioner for Southern Africa (1944 – 1951), Governor of Southern Rhodesia (1942 – 1944) (born 1903)

1973Li Mi, Chinese lieutenant general and anti-communist, Taiwanese nationalist (born 1902)

1973Richard Sharples, British politician, assassinated Governor of Bermuda (born 1916)

1969Muriel Hannah, American artist active in Alaska.

Quote of the day

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

Marcus Aurelius

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