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10 Mar 1535
Bishop Toms de Berlanga discovers the Galapagos Islands
10 Mar 1697
Tsar Peter the Great of Russia begins a tour of Western Europe
10 Mar 1734
Spanish army under Don Carlos (III) draws into Naples
10 Mar 1735
An agreement between Nadir Shah and Paul I of Russia is signed near Ganja and Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku
10 Mar 1783
USS Alliance under Captain Barry fights and wins last naval battle of US Revolutionary War off Cape Canaveral
10 Mar 1791
John Stone of Concord Massachusetts patents a pile driver
10 Mar 1791
Pope condemns Frances Civil Constitution of the clergy
10 Mar 1801
First official census in Great Britain revealing a population of approximately 10 million
10 Mar 1830
The KNIL also known as the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created
10 Mar 1831
The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria
10 Mar 1861
West African political leader El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Segou destroying the Bambara Empire of Mali
10 Mar 1862
Great Britain & France recognise independence of Zanzibar
10 Mar 1862
US issues 1st paper money (5 10 20 50 100 500 & 1000)
10 Mar 1864
Ullyses Grant is named commander of the Union armies
10 Mar 1864
Red River campaign begun in Louisiana by Union forces
10 Mar 1874
Purdue University (Indiana) admits its 1st student
10 Mar 1880
Salvation Army of England sets up US welfare & religious activity
10 Mar 1888
Heavyweight Boxing champ John L Sullivan draws Charlie Mitchell in 30 rounds
10 Mar 1891
Almon Strowger an undertaker in Topeka Kansas patents the strowger switch a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching
10 Mar 1893
Ivory Coast becomes a French colony (Cote dIvoire)
10 Mar 1893
New Mexico State University cancels its 1st graduation ceremony its only graduand Sam Steele was robbed & killed the night before
10 Mar 1900
Stanley Cup Montreal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2 games
10 Mar 1900
Battle at Driefontein South Africa (Boers vs British army)
10 Mar 1900
Regents for the King of Uganda and leading chiefs sign a treaty with Great Britain agreeing to the organization of the government taxation courts military and other functions of their country which is under British protection.
10 Mar 1903
Harry Gammeter Cleveland patents multigraph duplicating machine
10 Mar 1903
Stanley Cup Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Montreal AAA in 2 games
10 Mar 1906
Coal dust explosion kills 1060 at Courrieres France
10 Mar 1906
Baker Street & Waterloo Railway opens constructed by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London. The contraction Bakerloo became the official name in July .
10 Mar 1910
Republic of China officailly abolishes slavery
10 Mar 1913
Stanley Cup Quebec Bulldogs sweep Sydney (NS) Millionaires in 2 games
10 Mar 1913
William Knox becomes 1st in American Bowling Congress to bowl 300
10 Mar 1914
Suffragettes in London damage Rokebys painting Venus of Velasquez
10 Mar 1917
Batangas was formally founded as one of the Philippiness earliest encomiendas
10 Mar 1920
Home Rule Act passed by the British Parliament dividing Ireland into two parts it is rejected by the southern counties where the Ango-Irish war continues for a year
10 Mar 1922
KLZ-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
10 Mar 1922
State of siege proclaimed during mine strike Johannesburg South Africa
10 Mar 1925
Walter Mittelholzer is 1st to flies over Demawend mountain Iran
10 Mar 1927
Albania mobilizes due to threats from the Kingdom of Serbs Croats and Slovenes
10 Mar 1928
Christine Collins son Walter Collins disappears in Los Angeles
10 Mar 1931
Oswald Mosley leaves British Labour party and founds the New Party
10 Mar 1933
Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics
10 Mar 1934
Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history ends - 18 games with 15 wins 3 ties
10 Mar 1934
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Suzanne Davis
10 Mar 1934
US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
10 Mar 1939
17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad India
10 Mar 1940
1st US opera telecast W2XBS NYC I Pagliacci
10 Mar 1941
Lee MacPhail Dodger GM predicts all players will wear batting helmets
10 Mar 1944
U-575 sinks British corvette HMS Asphodel in the Atlantic Ocean killing 92 of the 97 men aboard
10 Mar 1945
US troops land in western Mindanao Philippines in Operation VICTOR IV
10 Mar 1946
Train derailment kills 185 near Aracaju northeast Brazil
10 Mar 1948
1st civilian to exceed speed of sound-Herb H Hoover Edwards AFB Ca
10 Mar 1949
Detroit Tiger pitcher Art Houtteman is critically injured in an auto accident but recovers to win 15 games in
10 Mar 1951
Wheres Charley closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 56 performances
10 Mar 1956
General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of archbishop Makarios
10 Mar 1956
Peter Twiss sets new world air record 1132 mph (1823 kph)
10 Mar 1959
Dorothy Comiskey Rigney sells 54% of White Sox to Bill Veeck
10 Mar 1959
Tibetan uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet
10 Mar 1962
Due to its no black policy Phillies leave Jack Tar Harrison Hotel & move to Rocky Point Motel 20 miles outside Clearwater Florida
10 Mar 1964
US reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany
10 Mar 1964
Simon and Garfunkel record the first version of The Sound of Silence at Columbia Studios in New York City
10 Mar 1965
Dutch Princess Margriet & Pieter van Vollenhoven get engaged
10 Mar 1965
Ive Got a Tiger By the Tail album by Buck Owens is released (Billboard Album of the Year )
10 Mar 1966
North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley
10 Mar 1970
Members of the Stormont Parliament of Northern Ireland given police protection
10 Mar 1971
US Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18
10 Mar 1971
Three members of the Royal Highland Fusiliers (a regiment of the British Army) are killed by members of the Irish Republican Army
10 Mar 1972
1st black US political convention opens in Gary Indiana
10 Mar 1972
General Lon Nol becomes President & Prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia
10 Mar 1973
20th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament NC State beats Maryland 76-74
10 Mar 1974
Sextet closes at Bijou Theater NYC after 9 performances
10 Mar 1974
Christian Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election
10 Mar 1974
Lawrence Rowe completes 302 v Eng Bridgetown 36 fours 1 six
10 Mar 1975
The Rocky Horror Picture Show opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances
10 Mar 1968
North Vietnamese and communist Laotion troops overrun a secret US radar facility Lima Site 85 on a Laos mountaintop
10 Mar 1969
James Earl Ray pleads guilty to murder of Martin Luther King Jr
10 Mar 1970
South Africa complete 4-0 series drubbing of Australia
10 Mar 1975
Sanyo Shinkansen open between Osaka and Fukuoka.
10 Mar 1977
Rings of Uranus discovered during occulation of SAO
10 Mar 1977
CBS premiere of A Circle of Children starring Jane Alexander and based on the life and book about this by Mary Mac Cracken
10 Mar 1980
Willard Scott becomes the weather forcaster on the Today Show
10 Mar 1981
Bette Davis Eyes single released by Kim Carnes (Billboard Song of the Year )
10 Mar 1982
Salim Malik scores 100 in 2nd inning of Test Cricket debut (v SL)
10 Mar 1982
Sygyzy all 9 planets aligned on same side of Sun
10 Mar 1982
Travis Jackson & Happy Chandler elected to Hall of Fame
10 Mar 1982
The United States places an embargo on Libyan petroleum imports because of their support of terrorist groups.
10 Mar 1983
Walter Alston Dodgers manager elected to Hall of Fame
10 Mar 1984
25th SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Kentucky beats Auburn 51-49
10 Mar 1984
5th Big East Mens Basketball Tournament Georgetown beats Syracuse 82-71 (OT)
10 Mar 1985
Bonnie Lauer wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational
10 Mar 1985
Dallas Maverick coach Dick Motta is 4th NBA coach to win 700 games
10 Mar 1985
French socialists lose election (National Front 9%)
10 Mar 1985
Ice Pairs Championship at Tokyo won by Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev (Soviet Union)
10 Mar 1985
India beat Pakistan to win World Championship of Cricket
10 Mar 1985
Mens Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Alexandr Fadeev (URS)
10 Mar 1985
32nd ACC Mens Basketball Tournament Georgia Tech beats North Carolina 57-54
10 Mar 1986
Ernie Lombardi NL MVP in 1938 & Bobby Doerr elected to Hall of Fame
10 Mar 1987
Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization & embryo transfer
10 Mar 1990
4th American Comedy Award When Harry Met Sally
10 Mar 1990
Ice Dance Championship at Halifax won by Klimova & Ponomarenko (Soviet Union)
10 Mar 1990
Ice Pairs Championship at Halifax won by Gordeeva & Grinkov (URS)
10 Mar 1990
Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Halifax won by Jill Trenary (USA)
10 Mar 1990
Mens Figure Skating Championship in Halifax won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
10 Mar 1991
Eddie Sutton is 1st NCAA coach to lead 4 schools into playoffs
10 Mar 1991
Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg clinches his 4th slalom World Cup
10 Mar 1991
Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 m indoor (22.24 sec)
10 Mar 1991
Rico Lieder Jens Carlowitz Karsten Just and Thomas Schonlebe walk 4x400m indoor world record (303.05)
10 Mar 1991
38th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament 7 North Carolina beats 6 Duke 96-74
10 Mar 1991
32nd SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Alabama beats Tennessee 88-69
10 Mar 1991
12th Big East Mens Basketball Tournament Seton Hall beats Georgetown 74-62
10 Mar 1992
Sandra Seuser Katrin Schreiter Annet Hesselbarth and Grit Breuer walk female indoor world record 4x400m (327.22)
10 Mar 1992
Come and Talk to Me single released by Jodeci (Billboard Song of the Year )
10 Mar 1994
1 million Greeks attend actress and activist Melina Mercouris funeral
10 Mar 1995
Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shiite mosque 17 killed
10 Mar 1995
Chiel Meijerings St Louis Blues premieres in Arnhem
10 Mar 1996
22nd Peoples Choice Awards Tom Hanks & Demi Moore win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Candice Bergen win (TV)
10 Mar 1996
43rd ACC Mens Basketball Tournament 12 Wake Forest beats 18 Georgia Tech 75-74
10 Mar 1996
37th SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Mississippi State beats Kentucky 84-73
10 Mar 2000
The NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52 signalling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom
10 Mar 2000
16th Soap Opera Digest Awards - General Hospital wins
10 Mar 2001
22nd Big East Mens Basketball Tournament Boston College beats Pittsburgh 79-57
10 Mar 2002
49th ACC Mens Basketball Tournament 3 Duke beats NC State 91-61
10 Mar 2002
43rd SEC Mens Basketball Tournament Mississippi State beats Alabama 61-58
10 Mar 2003
My Front Porch Looking In single released by Lonestar (Billboard Song of the Year )
10 Mar 2006
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
10 Mar 2006
Mass unrest by the PCC started in So Paulo (the biggest city in Brazil) which would eventually kill more than 152 people.
10 Mar 2007
28th Big East Mens Basketball Tournament Georgetown beats Pittsburgh 65-42
10 Mar 2012
At least 130 rockets are fired into Israel from Gaza
10 Mar 2012
33rd Big East Mens Basketball Tournament Louisville beats Cincinnati 50-44
10 Mar 2016
Twelfth Republican presidential candidates debate hosted by CNN held in Coral Gables Florida
10 Mar 2017
South Korean judges uphold parliaments decision to impeach President Park Geun-hye
10 Mar 2018
16 people die after being struck by lightening at a church in Nyaruguru District Rwanda
10 Mar 2018
Two girls aged 8 and 6 become the first female weightlifters to appear on Iranian television after a protest
10 Mar 1198
The Giralda minaret designed by architect Ben Ahmad for the Almohad mosque in Seville is completed. Now the Bell Tower for Sevilles cathedral
10 Mar 1900
Stanley Cup Montreal Arena Westmount Quebec Montreal Shamrocks outclass Halifax Crescents 11-0 to sweep challenge series 2-0
10 Mar 1906
Europes worst mining accident when a coal dust explosion kills 1060 at Courrieres France
10 Mar 1913
Stanley Cup Quebec Skating Rink Quebec City Quebec Quebec Bulldogs retain trophy defeat Sydney Millionaires (NS) 6-2 for a 2-0 sweep of the challenge series
10 Mar 1951
Ireland clinches their 7th Five Nations Rugby Championship with a 3-3 draw against Wales at the National Stadium Cardiff
10 Mar 1982
Saleem Malik scores 100 in 2nd inning of Test Cricket debut (v SL)
10 Mar 1983
Walter Alston Los Angeles Dodgers manager is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
10 Mar 2019
Taliban force attacks Afghan army base killing or capturing about 50 soldiers in Badghis Province Afghanistan
10 Mar 2019
Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 crashes just after take-off from Addis Ababa killing all 157 on board
10 Mar 1862
US issues 1st paper money in the form of 5 10 20 50 100 500 and 1000 notes
10 Mar 1910
Republic of China officially abolishes slavery
10 Mar 2018
16 people die after being struck by lightning at a church in Nyaruguru District Rwanda
10 Mar 1198
The Giralda minaret designed by architect Ben Ahmad for the Almohad mosque in Seville is completed. Now the Bell Tower for Sevilles cathedral.
10 Mar 1900
Battle of Driefontein South Africa British offensive against the Boers who are forced to withdraw
10 Mar 1903
Harry Gammeter of Cleveland patents multigraph duplicating machine
10 Mar 1933
Major earthquake (6.4 magnitude) in Long Beach California kills 120 and destroys 70 school buildings
10 Mar 1948
1st civilian to exceed speed of sound - Herb H Hoover Edwards Air Force Base California
10 Mar 1965
Ive Got a Tiger By the Tail album by Buck Owens is released (Billboard Album of the Year )
10 Mar 1972
Whats Up Doc Peter Bogdanovichs film homage to screwball comedies starring Ryan ONeal Barbra Streisand Madeline Kahn & Kenneth Mars premieres
10 Mar 1990
Ice Pairs World Championship at Halifax won by Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov (USSR)
10 Mar 1993
Physician David Gunn shot and killed by anti-abortionist Michael Frederick Griffin in Pensacola Florida first anti-abortion murder of a doctor in the US
10 Mar 1820
Karol Kurpiskis opera Kalmora or The Paternal Right of the Americans premieres at the Warsaw Opera
10 Mar 1888
1st performance of Caesar Francks symphonic poem for chorus and orchestra Psych
10 Mar 1940
1st US opera telecast W2XBS NYC Ruggero Leoncavallos Pagliacci
10 Mar 1966
5 time American Horse of the Year Kelso retires from racing
10 Mar 1970
South Africa cricket team complete 4-0 series drubbing of Australia in South Africa in the countrys last official international cricket test for 22 years
10 Mar 1974
Lawrence Hurwit and Lee Goldsmiths musical Sextet starring Dixie Carter closes at Bijou Theater NYC after 9 performances
10 Mar 1979
Eubie Blake a 92-year old ragtime piano player and composer and Gregory Hines are musical guest on Saturday Night Live
10 Mar 1983
Former Los Angeles Dodgers manager Walter Alston is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
10 Mar 1535
Spanish Bishop of Panama Toms de Berlanga discovers the uninhabited Galapagos Islands after his ship drifts off course
10 Mar 1783
USS Alliance under Captain Barry fights and wins the last naval battle of the US Revolutionary War off Cape Canaveral
10 Mar 1972
Whats Up Doc Peter Bogdanovichs film homage to screwball comedies starring Barbra Streisand Ryan ONeal Madeline Kahn & Kenneth Mars premieres
10 Mar 1982
Travis Jackson and former commissioner Happy Chandler elected to baseballs Hall of Fame
10 Mar 2000
NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52 signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom
10 Mar 2007
21st Soul Train Music Awards Jermaine Dupri Jennifer Hudson win
10 Mar 2013
Revival of Rupert Holmes musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood based on an unfinished work of Charles Dickens closes at Studio 54 NYC after 136 performances
10 Mar 1783
USS Alliance under Captain Barry fights and wins the final naval battle of the American Revolutionary War off Cape Canaveral
10 Mar 1861
West African political leader El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Sgou destroying the Bambara Empire of Mali
10 Mar 1862
US issues first paper money in the form of 5 10 20 50 100 500 and 1000 notes
10 Mar 1891
Almon Brown Strowger an undertaker in Topeka Kansas patents the strowger switch a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching
10 Mar 1920
Home Rule Act is passed by the British Parliament dividing Ireland into two parts it is rejected by the southern counties where the Anglo-Irish War continues for a year
10 Mar 1962
Gala preview dinner held atop the Space Needle in Seattle Washington prior to opening of the Century 21 Exposition (Worlds Fair)
10 Mar 1970
South Africa cricket team completes a 4-0 series drubbing of Australia in South Africa in the countrys last official international cricket Test for 22 years
10 Mar 2006
Mass unrest by the PCC crime syndicate in So Paulo Brazil eventually kills more than 152 people
10 Mar 2021
Video gaming platform Roblox goes public on the New York Stock Exchange valued at 45 billion
10 Mar 2022
After a 99-day lockout Major League Baseball and MLB Players Association reach a new collective bargaining agreement MLB teams set to play full 162 game season in
10 Mar 2022
True global death toll from COVID-19 estimated at 18.2 million in new study by Washington University [1]
10 Mar 2023
Arch rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia agree to re-establish diplomatic ties between them in a surprise move after talks in Beijing [1]
10 Mar 2023
Californias Silicon Valley Bank the main bank for tech-start ups collapses after a sudden bank run and credit crisis - largest US bank fail since 2008 [1]
10 Mar 2023
Gary Lineker the BBCs highest-paid presenter suspended for tweeting UK governments immigration policy a immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s. [1]
10 Mar 2023
Researchers in Singapore name newly discovered cockroach after the Pokemon character Pheromosa (Nocticola pheromosa) [1]
10 Mar 2023
Thai health authorities report 1.3 million people have suffered air pollution-related diseases in in northern Thailand due to smog nearly 125 times WHO standards from farm burning and forest fires [1]
10 Mar 2023
Xi Jinping appointed to a historic third term as President of China (previously restricted to two terms) [1]
10 Mar 2024
First pig liver transplanted into a clinically dead human for 10 days in milestone test for animal organ transplants into people at Xijing Hospital Xian China [1]
10 Mar 1920
Karl Hjalmar Branting becomes the first Social Democrat Prime Minister of Sweden
10 Mar 1948
First civilian to exceed the speed of sound is Herb H. Hoover at Edwards Air Force Base California
10 Mar 1982
Syzygy all 9 planets aligned on same side of Sun [1]
10 Mar 2025
Collision in the North Sea off the coast of England between a cargo ship and a tanker carrying jet fuel which catches fire killing one person [1]