Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 10
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Shushan Purim (Judaism, 2020) | under-referenced |
| 1607 – Susenyos defeated the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, making him Emperor of Ethiopia. | Yaqob article has a different year (1606) |
| 1629 – King Charles I of England dissolved Parliament, beginning the eleven-year period known as the Personal Rule. | unreferenced sections |
| 1814 – War of the Sixth Coalition: Blücher's Prussian forces defeated Napoleon's troops at the Battle of Laon, near Laon, France. | lead too short |
| 1830 – By royal decree, the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army was established to be the military force maintained by the Netherlands in its colony of the Dutch East Indies. | refimprove |
| 1831 – King Louis-Philippe of France created the French Foreign Legion as a unit of foreign volunteers because foreigners were forbidden to serve in the French Army after the 1830 July Revolution. | refimprove, date not cited; Origins of the French Foreign Legion says founded March 9 |
| 1861 – Toucouleur forces led by El Hadj Umar Tall seized Ségou and conquered the Bamana Empire in present-day Mali. | refimprove |
| 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell made his first successful bi-directional telephone call, saying, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you." | refimprove section |
| 1906 – More than 1,000 coal miners were killed in the Courrières mine disaster in Northern France, Europe's worst mining accident. | Unreferenced section |
| 1945 – The United States Army Air Forces conducted a firebombing attack on Tokyo which killed 90,000 to 100,000 people | TFA for 2020 |
| 2000 – The Nasdaq Composite stock market index peaked at 5048.62, the high point of the dot-com boom. | refimprove section |
| 2005 – Tung Chee-hwa, the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong, announced his resignation following widespread dissatisfaction with his leadership. | refimprove section |
| 2019 - Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa for Nairobi. All 157 people on board were killed. | excessive citations |
| Emily Osment (b. 1992) | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1915 – First World War: The Battle of Neuve Chapelle opened, the first deliberately planned British offensive of the war.
- 1949 – Mildred Gillars, nicknamed "Axis Sally", was convicted of treason for working with the Nazis as a broadcaster.
- 1952 – Facing likely electoral defeat, former Cuban President Fulgencio Batista staged a coup d'état to resume control.
- 1965 – Thomas Playford, Premier of South Australia, left office after 27 years, the longest term of any democratically elected leader in the history of Australia.
- 1966 – Military prime minister of South Vietnam Nguyễn Cao Kỳ sacked rival General Nguyễn Chánh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.
- 1968 – Vietnam War/Laotian Civil War: North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao forces overwhelmed the American, Laotian, Thai, and Hmong defenders of Lima Site 85.
- 1975 – Ho Chi Minh Campaign: North Vietnam began its final push for victory over South Vietnam with an attack on Ban Me Thuot.
- 2006 – NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter attained orbit around Mars.
- 2008 – The New York Times revealed that Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer had used a prostitution service.
- Born/died: Agnes Blannbekin (d. 1315) · John Benbow (b. 1653) · Amy Spain (d. 1865) · Lillian Wald (b. 1867) · Charles Frederick Worth (d. 1895) · Marie-Eugénie de Jésus (d. 1898)
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False-color image of Uranus, its rings and some of its moons
- 241 BC – The Roman Republic defeated Carthage in the Battle of the Aegates off the western coast of Sicily, the final battle of the First Punic War.
- 1916 – The final letter in the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence was written, agreeing that Britain would recognise Arab independence in return for the Sharif of Mecca launching a revolt against the Ottoman Empire.
- 1959 – An anti-Chinese uprising erupted in Lhasa, as thousands of Tibetans surrounded the Potala Palace to prevent the Dalai Lama from leaving or being removed by the Chinese army.
- 1967 – British progressive-rock band Pink Floyd released their first single, "Arnold Layne".
- 1977 – Astronomers using NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory discovered a faint ring system (pictured) around Uranus.
Tvrtko I of Bosnia (d. 1391) · Violet Brown (b. 1900) · Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy (d. 2010)