March 10
March 10 this yearin various calendars Akan Kwabene Armenian 23 Areg 1475 Aztec Tecuilhuitontli 19, 8 Mazātl Babylonian 20 Shabatu, 2336 SE Balinese pawukon Menga, Beteng, Jaya, Umanis, Was, Anggara of Wayang, Kala, Jangur, Dewa Bengali 25 Falgun , BS 1432 Chinese Yin Water Goat ・Tail Mansion Fire Horse Year, Month 1 , Day 22Jingzhe , 10 days until Chunfen )Common Era 10 March 2026 CE Coptic 1 Paremhat , AM 1742Egyptian 28 Epiphi , 2774 NE Ethiopian 1 Magābit, 2018 Amätä Məhrät French Republican Décade II, Décadi de Ventôse de l'Année 234 de la République Gregorian 10 March , AD 2026 Hebrew 21 Adar , AM 5786 Hindu Anurādhā ・Harṣaṇa Phālguna , 1947 SE Saptamī , Kṛishna pakṣa of Phālguna , 2082 VE Rāudra ・5126 KY ・1,872,644 Icelandic Þriðjudagur, 17 Góa 2025 Islamic 21 Ramadan , AH 1447tabular method ) ISO week date 2026-W11-2 Japanese 22 Mutsuki , Reiwa 8Keichitsu , 10 days until Shunbun ) Julian 25 February , AD 2026 (AM 7534)Julian day 2461110 Korean 22 Horangidal , 4359 DE Maya 13.0.13.7.7 5 Cumku , 8 Manik Roman ante diem V Kalendas Martias , MMDCCLXXIX AUC Solar Hijri 19 Esfand , SH 1404 Tibetan 22 mchu, me pho rta
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Day of the year
March 10 is the 69th day of the year (70th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 296 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
1607 – Susenyos I defeats the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam , making him Emperor of Ethiopia .1629 – Charles I dissolves the Parliament of England , beginning the eleven-year period known as the Personal Rule .1661 – French "Sun King" Louis XIV begins his personal rule of France after the death of his premier, the Cardinal Mazarin .1735 – An agreement between Nader Shah and Russia is signed near Ganja, Azerbaijan and Russian troops are withdrawn from occupied territories.1762 – French Huguenot Jean Calas , who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the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.1814 – Emperor Napoleon I is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.1830 – The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created.1831 – The French Foreign Legion is created by Louis Philippe , the King of France, from the foreign regiments of the Kingdom of France .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 Ségou , destroying the Bamana Empire of Mali .1873 – The 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 .1876 – The first successful test of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell .1891 – Almon Strowger patents the Strowger switch , a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.1906 – The Courrières mine disaster , Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France .1909 – By 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 .1922 – Mahatma 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.1933 – The Long Beach earthquake affects the Greater Los Angeles Area , leaving around 108 people dead.1944 – Greek Civil War : The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front .1945 – World War II : The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo , and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.1949 – Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally ") is convicted of treason .1952 – Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba .1959 – Tibetan uprising : Fearing an abduction attempt by China, thousands of Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama 's palace to prevent his removal.1966 – Military 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.1969 – In Memphis, Tennessee , James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to recant.1970 – Vietnam War : Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. military with My Lai war crimes .1971 – John 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 .1974 – 1974 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 59.1975 – Vietnam 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.1977 – Astronomers discover the rings of Uranus .1979 – 1979 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 .1982 – Syzygy : All nine planets recognized at this time — Mercury to Pluto — align on the same side of the Sun .1989 – Air Ontario Flight 1363 , a Fokker F-28 Fellowship , crashes at Dryden Regional Airport in Dryden, Ontario , Canada, killing 24.1990 – In Haiti , Prosper Avril is ousted eighteen months after seizing power in a coup d'état in September 1988 .1991 – 1991 Salvadoran legislative election : The Nationalist Republican Alliance wins 39 of the 84 seats in the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador .2000 – The Dot-com bubble peaks with the NASDAQ Composite stock market index reaching 5,048.62.2006 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars .2017 – The 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.2019 – Ethiopian 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 .2022 – 2022 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.2023 – Silicon 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 .2024 – 2024 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.2026 – Bam Adebayo of the Miami Heat recorded the second-highest scoring game in NBA history with 83 Points .Births
1604 – Johann Rudolf Glauber , German-Dutch alchemist and chemist (died 1670)1628 – François Girardon , French sculptor (died 1715)1628 – Marcello Malpighi , Italian physician and biologist (died 1694)
1653 – John Benbow , Royal Navy admiral (died 1702)1656 – Giacomo Serpotta , Italian Rococo sculptor (died 1732)1709 – Georg Wilhelm Steller , German botanist, zoologist, physician, and explorer (died 1746)1748 – John Playfair , Scottish minister and scientist (died 1819)1749 – Lorenzo Da Ponte , Italian-American priest and poet (died 1838)1769 – Joseph Williamson , English businessman and philanthropist (died 1840)1772 – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel , German poet and critic (died 1829)1777 – Louis Hersent , French painter (died 1860)1787 – Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo , Spanish playwright and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (died 1862)1787 – William Etty , English painter and academic (died 1849)
1788 – Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff , German author, poet, playwright, and critic (died 1857)1788 – Edward Hodges Baily , English sculptor (died 1867)
1789 – Manuel de la Peña y Peña , Mexican lawyer and 20th President (1847) (died 1850)1795 – Joseph Légaré , Canadian painter and glazier, artist, seigneur and political figure (died 1855)1810 – Samuel Ferguson , Irish poet and lawyer (died 1886)1841 – Ina Coolbrith , first poet laureate of California, writer, and librarian (died 1928)1843 – Evelyn Abbott , English classical scholar (died 1901)1844 – Pablo de Sarasate , Spanish violinist and composer (died 1908)1844 – Marie Euphrosyne Spartali , British Pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1927)
1845 – Alexander III of Russia (died 1894)1846 – Edward Baker Lincoln , American son of Abraham Lincoln (died 1850)1850 – Spencer Gore , English tennis player and cricketer (died 1906)1853 – Thomas Mackenzie , Scottish-New Zealand cartographer and politician, 18th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1930)1861 – E. Pauline Johnson , Canadian First Nations poet and performer (died 1913)1867 – Hector Guimard , French-American architect (died 1942)1867 – Lillian Wald , American nurse, humanitarian, and author, founded the Henry Street Settlement (died 1940)
1870 – David Riazanov , Russian theorist and politician (died 1938)1873 – Jakob Wassermann , German-Austrian soldier and author (died 1934)1876 – Anna Hyatt Huntington , American sculptor (died 1973)1877 – Pascual Ortiz Rubio , Mexican diplomat and president (1930–1932) (died 1963)1881 – Jessie Boswell , English painter (died 1956)1888 – Barry Fitzgerald , Irish actor (died 1961)1890 – Albert Ogilvie , Australian politician, 28th Premier of Tasmania (died 1939)1891 – Sam Jaffe , American actor, teacher, musician and engineer (died 1984)1892 – Arthur Honegger , French composer and educator (died 1955)1892 – Gregory La Cava , American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1952)
1896 – Frederick Coulton Waugh , British cartoonist, painter, teacher and author (died 1973)1900 – Violet Brown , Jamaican supercentenarian, oldest Jamaican ever (died 2017)1900 – Pandelis Pouliopoulos , Greek lawyer and politician (died 1943) 1901 – Michel Seuphor , Belgian painter (died 1999)1903 – Edward Bawden , English artist and illustrator (died 1989)1903 – Bix Beiderbecke , American cornet player, pianist, and composer (died 1931)
1903 – Clare Boothe Luce , American playwright, journalist, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (died 1987)
1915 – Harry Bertoia , Italian-American sculptor and furniture designer (died 1978)1915 – Joža Horvat , Croatian writer (died 2012)
1917 – David Hare , American Surrealist artist, sculptor, photographer and painter (died 1992)1918 – Günther Rall , German general and pilot (died 2009)1919 – Leonor Oyarzún , Chilean socialite, First Lady of Chile from 1990 to 1994 (died 2022)1920 – Alfred Peet , Dutch-American businessman, founded Peet's Coffee & Tea (died 2007)1920 – Kenneth C. "Jethro" Burns , American mandolinist and comic singer (died 1989)
1923 – Val Logsdon Fitch , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)1924 – Judith Jones , American literary and cookbook editor (died 2017)1925 – Bob Lanier , American lawyer, banker, and politician, Mayor of Houston (died 2014)1926 – Marques Haynes , American basketball player (died 2015)1927 – Claude Laydu , Belgian-French actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2011)1928 – Sara Montiel , Spanish actress (died 2013)1928 – James Earl Ray , American criminal; assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. (died 1998)
1929 – Sam Steiger , American journalist and politician (died 2012)1930 – Sándor Iharos , Hungarian runner (died 1996)1931 – Georges Dor , Canadian author, playwright, and composer (died 2001)1932 – Marcia Falkender, Baroness Falkender , English politician (died 2019)1933 – Ralph Emery , American country music disc jockey, radio and television host (died 2022)1934 – Gergely Kulcsár , Hungarian javelin thrower (died 2020)1935 – Polly Farmer , Australian footballer and coach (died 2019)1936 – Sepp Blatter , Swiss businessman and eighth president of FIFA 1937 – María Kodama , Argentine writer and translator (died 2023)1937 – Sam Hall , American diver, legislator, and mercenary (died 2014)
1938 – Norman Blake , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1938 – Ron Mix , American football player
1939 – Asghar Ali Engineer , Indian activist and author (died 2013)1939 – Irina Press , Ukrainian-Russian hurdler and pentathlete (died 2004)
1940 – LeRoy Ellis , American basketball player (died 2012)1940 – Chuck Norris , American actor, producer, and martial artist (died 2026)
1940 – David Rabe , American playwright and screenwriter
1941 – George P. Smith , American biologist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry1943 – Peter Berresford Ellis , English historian and author1945 – Katharine Houghton , American actress and playwright1945 – Madhavrao Scindia , Indian politician, Indian Minister of Railways (died 2001)
1946 – Curley Culp , American football player (died 2021)1946 – Gérard Garouste , French contemporary artist
1946 – Jim Valvano , American basketball player and coach (died 1993)
1947 – Kim Campbell , Canadian lawyer and politician, 19th Prime Minister of Canada 1947 – Tom Scholz , American musician and songwriter
1948 – Austin Carr , American basketball player1951 – Gloria Diaz , Filipino actress and beauty queen, Miss Universe 1969 1952 – Morgan Tsvangirai , Zimbabwean politician, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (died 2018)1953 – Paul Haggis , Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter1953 – Ronnie Earl , American blues guitarist
1955 – Toshio Suzuki , Japanese race car driver1956 – Robert Llewellyn , English actor, producer, and screenwriter1956 – Larry Myricks , American long jumper and sprinter
1956 – Odile Buisson , French gynecologist, advocate for women's right to pleasure
1957 – Osama bin Laden , Saudi Arabian terrorist, founded al-Qaeda (died 2011)1958 – Garth Crooks , English footballer and sportscaster1958 – Steve Howe , American baseball player (died 2006)
1958 – Sheikh Mohammad Illias , Bengali politician
1958 – Sharon Stone , American actress and producer
1961 – Laurel Clark , American captain, physician, and astronaut (died 2003)1962 – Jasmine Guy , American actress, singer, and director1962 – Seiko Matsuda , Japanese singer-songwriter
1963 – Jeff Ament , American bass player and songwriter1963 – Rick Rubin , American record producer
1964 – Greg Campbell , Australian cricketer1964 – Neneh Cherry , Swedish singer-songwriter
1964 – Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh
1965 – Jillian Richardson , Canadian sprinter1965 – Rod Woodson , American football player, coach, and sportscaster
1966 – Mike Timlin , American baseball player1968 – Alma Čardžić , Bosnian singer1968 – Pavel Srníček , Czech footballer and coach (died 2015)
1971 – Jon Hamm , American actor and director1972 – Beth Buchanan , Australian actress1972 – Matt Kenseth , American NASCAR driver
1972 – Timbaland , American rapper and producer
1973 – Jason Croker , Australian rugby league player1973 – Liu Qiangdong , Chinese entrepreneur, billionaire, founder of JD.com
1973 – Chris Sutton , English footballer
1973 – Mauricio Taricco , Argentine footballer and manager
1976 – Barbara Schett , Austrian tennis player1977 – Robin Thicke , American singer, songwriter, and record producer1978 – Benjamin Burnley , American musician1978 – Camille , French singer-songwriter and actress
1981 – Samuel Eto'o , Cameroonian footballer1981 – Steven Reid , English-Irish footballer
1982 – Kwame Brown , American basketball player1982 – Dr Disrespect , American live streamer
1982 – Logan Mankins , American football player
1983 – Étienne Boulay , Canadian football player1983 – Janet Mock , American journalist, author, and activist
1983 – Rafe Spall , English actor
1983 – Carrie Underwood , American singer-songwriter
1984 – Tim Brent , Canadian ice hockey player1984 – Ben May , English footballer
1984 – Olivia Wilde , American actress and director
1986 – Sergei Shirokov , Russian ice hockey player1987 – Martellus Bennett , American football player1987 – Greg Eastwood , New Zealand rugby league player
1987 – Tuukka Rask , Finnish ice hockey player
1987 – Māris Štrombergs , Latvian BMX racer
1988 – Clarissa dos Santos , Brazilian basketball player1988 – Josh Hoffman , Australian-New Zealand rugby league player
1988 – Ego Nwodim , American actress
1988 – Quincy Pondexter , American basketball player and coach
1988 – Ivan Rakitić , Croatian football player
1989 – Simon Moser , Swiss ice hockey player1989 – Dayán Viciedo , Cuban baseball player
1990 – Stefanie Vögele , Swiss tennis player1991 – Kenshi Yonezu , Japanese singer-songwriter and illustrator1992 – Neeskens Kebano , French-Congolese footballer1992 – Emily Osment , American actress and singer-songwriter
1993 – Jack Butland , English footballer1993 – Aminata Namasia , Congolese politician
1994 – Bad Bunny , Puerto Rican rapper, songwriter, producer, actor, and wrestler1994 – Nikita Parris , English footballer
1995 – Zach LaVine , American basketball player1995 – Sergey Mozgov , Russian ice dancer
1997 – Belinda Bencic , Swiss tennis player1998 – Justin Herbert , American football player1999 – Cole Kmet , American football player2000 – Nick Bolton , American football player2002 – Keon Johnson , American basketball player2004 – Matt Poitras , Canadian ice hockey playerDeaths
1682 – Jacob van Ruisdael , Dutch painter and etcher (born 1628)1724 – Urban Hjärne , Swedish chemist, geologist, and physician (born 1641)1776 – Élie Catherine Fréron , French author and critic (born 1718)1792 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute , Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1713)1826 – John Pinkerton , Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, author, numismatist and historian (born 1758)1832 – Muzio Clementi , Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1752)1861 – Taras Shevchenko , Ukrainian poet, playwright, and ethnographer (born 1814)1872 – Giuseppe Mazzini , Italian journalist and politician (born 1805)1894 – Jacob Mahler , German-French saddler and anarchist (born 1832)1895 – Charles Frederick Worth , English-French fashion designer (born 1825)1897 – Savitribai Phule , Indian poet and activist (born 1831)1898 – Marie-Eugénie de Jésus , French nun and saint, founded the Religious of the Assumption (born 1817)1910 – Karl Lueger , Austrian lawyer and politician Mayor of Vienna (born 1844)1910 – Carl Reinecke , German pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1824)
1913 – Harriet Tubman , American nurse and activist (born c. 1820)1923 – Salvador Seguí , Catalan anarcho-syndicalist leader (born 1887)1925 – Myer Prinstein , Polish-American jumper (born 1878)1937 – Yevgeny Zamyatin , Russian journalist and author (born 1884)1940 – Mikhail Bulgakov , Russian novelist and playwright (born 1891)1942 – Wilbur Scoville , American pharmacist and chemist (born 1865)1948 – Zelda Fitzgerald , American author, visual artist, and ballet dancer (born 1900)1948 – Jan Masaryk , Czech soldier and politician (born 1886)
1951 – Kijūrō Shidehara , Japanese lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Japan (born 1872)1966 – Frits Zernike , Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)1966 – Frank O'Connor , Irish short story writer, novelist, and poet (born 1903)
1969 – Muriel Hannah , American artist active in Alaska.
1973 – Evelyn 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)1973 – Li Mi , Chinese lieutenant general and anti-communist, Taiwanese nationalist (born 1902)
1973 – Richard Sharples , British politician, assassinated Governor of Bermuda (born 1916)
1977 – E. Power Biggs , English-American organist and composer (born 1906)1985 – Konstantin Chernenko , Russian soldier and politician, Head of State of The Soviet Union (born 1911)1985 – Bob Nieman , American baseball player (born 1927)
1986 – Ray Milland , Welsh-American actor and director (born 1907)1988 – Andy Gibb , Australian singer-songwriter and actor (born 1958)1992 – Giorgos Zampetas , Greek bouzouki player and composer (born 1925)1996 – Ross Hunter , American film producer (born 1926)1997 – LaVern Baker , American singer and actress (born 1929)1998 – Lloyd Bridges , American actor and director (born 1913)1999 – Oswaldo Guayasamín , Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (born 1919)2005 – Dave Allen , Irish-English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1936)2007 – Ernie Ladd , American football player and wrestler (born 1938)2010 – Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy , Egyptian scholar and academic (born 1928)2010 – Corey Haim , Canadian actor (born 1971)
2011 – Bill Blackbeard , American author and illustrator (born 1926)2012 – Jean Giraud , French author and illustrator (born 1938)2012 – Frank Sherwood Rowland , American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)
2013 – Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland , British born Swedish Princess (born 1915)2015 – Richard Glatzer , American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1952)2016 – Ken Adam , German-English production designer and art director (born 1921)2016 – Roberto Perfumo , Argentinian footballer and sportscaster (born 1942)
2016 – Jovito Salonga , Filipino lawyer and politician, 14th President of the Senate of the Philippines (born 1920)
2016 – Anita Brookner , English novelist and art historian (born 1928)
2022 – John Elliott , English historian and academic (born 1930)2023 – Napoleon XIV , American singer (born 1938)2025 – Stanley R. Jaffe , American film producer and director (born 1940)2025 – Carl Lundström , Swedish businessman and activist (born 1960)