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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
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. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the
Aegates: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First
Punic War to an end.[1] ·
298 – Roman
Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign
in North Africa and
makes a triumphal entry into Carthage.[2] ·
947 – The Later Han is
founded by Liu Zhiyuan. He
declares himself emperor.[3] ·
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.[4] ·
1629 – Charles I dissolves
the Parliament of
England, beginning the eleven-year period known as the Personal Rule.[5] ·
1735 – An agreement
between Nader Shah and
Russia is signed near Ganja, Azerbaijan and
Russian troops are withdrawn from occupied territories.[6] ·
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.[7] ·
1814 – Emperor Napoleon I is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.[8] ·
1830 – The Royal
Netherlands East Indies Army is created.[9] ·
1848 – The Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate,
ending the Mexican–American War.[10] ·
1861 – El Hadj Umar Tall seizes
the city of Ségou, destroying
the Bamana Empire of Mali.[11] ·
1873 – The first
Azerbaijani play "The Adventures of the Vizier of the Khan of
Lenkaran" prepared by Akhundov was performed by Hassan-bey Zardabi and
dramatist and Najaf-bey Vezirov.[12][13] ·
1876 – The first
successful test of a
telephone is made by Alexander Graham
Bell.[14] ·
1891 – Almon Strowger patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the
automation of telephone circuit switching.[15] ·
1906 – The Courrières mine
disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern
France.[16] ·
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.[17] ·
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.[18] ·
1933 – The Long Beach
earthquake affects the Greater Los
Angeles Area leaving around 108 people dead.[19] ·
1944 – Greek Civil War: The Political
Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by
the National
Liberation Front.[20] ·
1945 – World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs
Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000
people, mostly civilians.[21] ·
1949 – Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is convicted of treason.[22] ·
1952 – Fulgencio Batista leads
a successful coup in Cuba.[23] ·
1959 – Tibetan uprising:
Fearing an abduction attempt by China, thousands of Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal.[24] ·
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.[25] ·
1969 – In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to
assassinating Martin Luther King
Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to recant.[26] ·
1970 – Vietnam War:
Captain Ernest Medina is
charged by the U.S. military with My Lai war crimes.[27] ·
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.[28] ·
1977 – Astronomers
discover the rings of Uranus.[29] ·
1990 – In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after
seizing power in a coup.[30] ·
2006 – The Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.[31] ·
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.[32] ·
2019 – Ethiopian
Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX, crashes, leading to all 737 MAX
aircraft being grounded worldwide.[33] Births[edit]
·
1452 – Ferdinand II,
king of Castile and León (d.
1516)[34] ·
1503 – Ferdinand
I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1564)[35] ·
1536 – Thomas
Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, English politician, Earl Marshal of the United Kingdom (d.
1572)[36][37] ·
1604 – Johann Rudolf
Glauber, German-Dutch alchemist and chemist (d. 1670)[38] ·
1628 – François Girardon,
French sculptor (d. 1715)[39] ·
1628 – Marcello Malpighi,
Italian physician and biologist (d. 1694)[40] ·
1653 – John Benbow, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1702)[41] ·
1656 – Giacomo Serpotta, Italian Rococo sculptor
(d. 1732)[42] ·
1709 – Georg Wilhelm Steller,
German botanist, zoologist, physician, and explorer (d. 1746)[43] ·
1749 – Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian-American priest
and poet (d. 1838)[44] ·
1769 – Joseph
Williamson, English businessman and philanthropist (d. 1840)[45] ·
1772 – Karl
Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, German poet and critic (d. 1829)[46] ·
1777 – Louis Hersent, French painter (d. 1860)[47] ·
1787 – Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo,
Spanish playwright and politician, Prime Minister of
Spain (d. 1862)[48] ·
1787 – William Etty, English painter and academic
(d. 1849)[49] ·
1788 – Joseph
Freiherr von Eichendorff, German author, poet, playwright, and
critic (d. 1857)[50] ·
1788 – Edward Hodges Baily,
English sculptor (d. 1867)[51] ·
1789 – Manuel de la
Peña y Peña, Mexican lawyer and 20th President (1847) (d. 1850)[52] ·
1795 – Joseph Légaré,
Canadian painter and glazier, artist, seigneur and political figure (d. 1855)[53] ·
1810 – Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet and lawyer (d.
1886)[54] ·
1844 – Pablo de Sarasate,
Spanish violinist and composer (d. 1908)[55] ·
1844 – Marie Euphrosyne
Spartali, British Pre-Raphaelite painter (d. 1927)[56] ·
1845 – Alexander III of
Russia (d. 1894)[57] ·
1846 – Edward Baker Lincoln,
American son of Abraham Lincoln (d.
1850)[58] ·
1849 – Hallie Quinn Brown,
African-American educator, writer and activist (d. 1949)[59] ·
1850 – Spencer Gore,
English tennis player and cricketer (d. 1906)[60] ·
1853 – Thomas Mackenzie, Scottish-New Zealand
cartographer and politician, 18th Prime
Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)[61] ·
1867 – Hector Guimard, French-American architect
(d. 1942)[62] ·
1867 – Lillian Wald, American nurse, humanitarian,
and author, founded the Henry Street
Settlement (d. 1940)[63] ·
1870 – David Riazanov, Russian theorist and
politician (d. 1938)[64] ·
1873 – Jakob Wassermann, German-Austrian soldier
and author (d. 1934)[65] ·
1876 – Anna Hyatt
Huntington, American sculptor (d. 1973)[66] ·
1877 – Pascual Ortiz Rubio,
Mexican diplomat and president (1930-1932) (d. 1963)[67] ·
1881 – Jessie Boswell, English painter (d. 1956)[68] ·
1888 – Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (d. 1961)[69] ·
1890 – Albert Ogilvie, Australian politician,
28th Premier of Tasmania (d.
1939)[70] ·
1892 – Arthur Honegger, French composer and
educator (d. 1955)[71] ·
1892 – Gregory La Cava, American director,
producer, and screenwriter (d. 1952)[72] ·
1896 – Frederick Coulton Waugh, British cartoonist,
painter, teacher and author (d. 1973)[73] ·
1900 – Violet Brown, Jamaican supercentenarian,
oldest Jamaican ever (d. 2017) [74] ·
1900 – Pandelis
Pouliopoulos, Greek lawyer and politician (d. 1943)[75] ·
1901 – Michel Seuphor, Belgian painter (d. 1999)[76] ·
1903 – Bix Beiderbecke, American cornet player,
pianist, and composer (d. 1931)[77] ·
1903 – Edward Bawden, British artist and
illustrator (d. 1989)[78] ·
1903 – Clare Boothe Luce,
American playwright, journalist, and diplomat, United
States Ambassador to Italy (d. 1987)[79] ·
1915 – Harry Bertoia, Italian-American sculptor and
furniture designer (d. 1978)[80] ·
1915 – Joža Horvat, Croatian writer (d. 2012)[81] ·
1917 – David Hare,
American Surrealist artist, sculptor, photographer and painter (d. 1992)[82] ·
1918 – Günther Rall, German general and pilot (d.
2009)[83] ·
1920 – Alfred Peet, Dutch-American businessman,
founded Peet's Coffee
& Tea (d. 2007)[84] ·
1923 – Val Logsdon Fitch,
American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2015)[85] ·
1924 – Judith Jones, American literary and cookbook
editor (d. 2017)[86] ·
1925 – Bob Lanier,
American lawyer, banker, and politician, Mayor of
Houston (d. 2014)[87] ·
1926 – Marques Haynes, American basketball player
(d. 2015)[88] ·
1927 – Claude Laydu, Belgian-French actor,
producer, and screenwriter (d. 2011)[89] ·
1928 – Sara Montiel, Spanish actress (d. 2013)[90] ·
1928 – James Earl Ray, American criminal; assassin
of Martin Luther King Jr. (d. 1998)[91] ·
1929 – Sam Steiger, American journalist and
politician (d. 2012)[92] ·
1930 – Sándor Iharos, Hungarian runner (d. 1996)[93] ·
1931 – Georges Dor, Canadian author, playwright,
and composer (d. 2001)[94] ·
1932 – Marcia
Falkender, Baroness Falkender, English politician (d. 2019)[95] ·
1934 – Gergely Kulcsár,
Hungarian javelin thrower[96] ·
1935 – Graham Farmer, Australian footballer and
coach (d. 2019)[97] ·
1936 – Sepp Blatter, Swiss businessman[98] ·
1938 – Norman
Blake, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[99] ·
1939 – Asghar Ali Engineer,
Indian activist and author (d. 2013)[100] ·
1939 – Irina Press, Ukrainian-Russian hurdler and
pentathlete (d. 2004)[101] ·
1940 – Chuck Norris, American actor, producer, and
martial artist[102] ·
1940 – David Rabe, American playwright and
screenwriter[103] ·
1943 – Peter Berresford
Ellis, English historian and author[104] ·
1945 – Katharine Houghton,
American actress and playwright[105] ·
1945 – Madhavrao Scindia,
Indian politician, Indian
Minister of Railways (d. 2001)[106] ·
1946 – Gérard Garouste,
French contemporary artist[107] ·
1946 – Jim Valvano, American basketball player and
coach (d. 1993)[108] ·
1947 – Kim Campbell, Canadian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister
of Canada[109] ·
1947 – Tom Scholz, American rock musician (Boston)[110] ·
1948 – Austin Carr, American basketball player[111] ·
1952 – Morgan Tsvangirai,
Zimbabwean politician, Prime Minister
of Zimbabwe (d. 2018)[112] ·
1953 – Paul Haggis, Canadian director, producer,
and screenwriter[113] ·
1955 – Toshio
Suzuki, Japanese race car driver[114] ·
1956 – Robert Llewellyn, English actor, producer,
and screenwriter[115] ·
1956 – Larry Myricks, American long jumper and
sprinter[116] ·
1957 – Osama bin Laden, Saudi Arabian terrorist,
founded al-Qaeda (d. 2011)[117] ·
1958 – Garth Crooks, English footballer forward and
sportscaster[118] ·
1958 – Steve Howe,
American baseball player (d. 2006)[119] ·
1958 – Sharon Stone, American actress and producer[120] ·
1961 – Laurel Clark, American captain, physician,
and astronaut (d. 2003)[121] ·
1962 – Jasmine Guy, American actress, singer, and
director[122] ·
1962 – Seiko Matsuda, Japanese singer-songwriter[123] ·
1963 – Jeff Ament, American bass player and
songwriter[124] ·
1963 – Rick Rubin, American record producer[125] ·
1964 – Neneh Cherry, Swedish singer-songwriter[126] ·
1964 – Prince
Edward, Earl of Wessex[127] ·
1965 – Jillian Richardson,
Canadian sprinter[128] ·
1965 – Rod Woodson, American football player,
coach, and sportscaster[129] ·
1966 – Mike Timlin, American baseball player[130] ·
1968 – Pavel Srníček,
Czech footballer and coach (d. 2015)[131] ·
1971 – Jon Hamm, American actor and director[132] ·
1972 – Timbaland, American rapper and producer[133] ·
1973 – Jason Croker, Australian rugby league player
and coach[134] ·
1973 – Chris Sutton, English footballer[135] ·
1973 – Mauricio Taricco, Argentinian footballer,
full back and assistant manager[136] ·
1976 – Barbara Schett, Austrian tennis player[137] ·
1978 – Camille, French singer-songwriter and actress[138] ·
1978 – Benjamin Burnley, American musician[139] ·
1981 – Samuel Eto'o, Cameroonian footballer[140] ·
1981 – Steven Reid, English-Irish footballer[141] ·
1982 – Kwame Brown, American basketball player[142] ·
1983 – Étienne Boulay,
Canadian football player[143] ·
1983 – Rafe Spall, English actor[144] ·
1983 – Janet Mock, American journalist, author, and
activist[145] ·
1983 – Carrie Underwood, American singer-songwriter
and actress[146] ·
1984 – Ben May, English footballer[147] ·
1987 – Martellus Bennett,
American football player[148] ·
1987 – Greg Eastwood, New Zealand rugby league
player[149] ·
1987 – Māris
Štrombergs, Latvian BMX racer[150] ·
1988 – Josh Hoffman, Australian-New Zealand rugby
league player[151] ·
1988 – Ivan Rakitić, Croatian football player[152] ·
1992 – Neeskens Kebano, French-born Congolese
international footballer[153] ·
1993 – Jack Butland, English footballer[154] ·
1995 – DaeSean Hamilton, American football player[155] ·
1995 – Zach LaVine, American basketball player[156] ·
1995 – Sergey Mozgov, Russian ice dancer[157] ·
1997 – Belinda Bencic, Swiss tennis player[158] Deaths[edit]
·
948 – Liu Zhiyuan, Shatuo founder of the Later Han dynasty
(b. 895)[160][161] ·
1291 – Arghun, Mongol ruler in Persia (b. c.1258)[162] ·
1315 – Agnes Blannbekin, Austrian mystic[163] ·
1513 – John de
Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English commander and politician, Lord High
Constable of England (b. 1442)[164] ·
1528 – Balthasar Hübmaier,
German/Moravian Anabaptist leader[165] ·
1572 – William
Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester[166] ·
1585 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and
botanist (b. 1517)[167] ·
1682 – Jacob van Ruisdael,
Dutch painter and etcher (b. 1628)[168] ·
1724 – Urban Hjärne, Swedish chemist, geologist,
and physician (b. 1641)[169] ·
1776 – Élie Catherine
Fréron, French author and critic (b. 1718)[170] ·
1792 – John
Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Scottish politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1713)[171] ·
1826 – John Pinkerton, Scottish antiquarian,
cartographer, author, numismatist and historian (b. 1758)[172] ·
1832 – Muzio Clementi, Italian pianist, composer,
and conductor (b. 1752)[173] ·
1861 – Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet,
playwright, and ethnographer (b. 1814)[174] ·
1872 – Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian journalist and
politician (b. 1805)[175] ·
1895 – Charles Frederick
Worth, English-French fashion designer (b. 1825)[176] ·
1897 – Savitribai Phule, Indian poet and activist
(b. 1831)[177] ·
1898 – Marie-Eugénie de
Jésus, French nun and saint, founded the Religious of
the Assumption (b. 1817)[178] ·
1910 – Karl Lueger, Austrian lawyer and
politician Mayor of Vienna (b.
1844)[179] ·
1910 – Carl Reinecke, German pianist, composer, and
conductor (b. 1824)[180] ·
1913 – Harriet Tubman, American nurse and activist
(b. c.1820)[181] ·
1925 – Myer Prinstein, Polish-American jumper (b.
1878)[182] ·
1937 – Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian journalist and
author (b. 1884)[183] ·
1940 – Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian novelist and
playwright (b. 1891)[184] ·
1942 – Wilbur Scoville, American pharmacist and
chemist (b. 1865)[185] ·
1948 – Zelda Fitzgerald, American author, poet, and
dancer (b. 1900)[186] ·
1948 – Jan Masaryk, Czech soldier and politician
(b. 1886)[187] ·
1951 – Kijūrō
Shidehara, Japanese lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of
Japan (b. 1872)[188] ·
1966 – Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1888)[189] ·
1966 – Frank O'Connor, Irish short story writer,
novelist, and poet (b. 1903)[190] ·
1977 – E. Power Biggs, English-American organist
and composer (b. 1906)[191] ·
1985 – Konstantin Chernenko,
Russian soldier and politician, Head
of State of The Soviet Union (b. 1911)[192] ·
1985 – Bob Nieman, American baseball player (b.
1927)[193] ·
1986 – Ray Milland, Welsh-American actor and
director (b. 1907)[194] ·
1988 – Andy Gibb, Australian singer-songwriter and
actor (b. 1958)[195] ·
1992 – Giorgos Zampetas, Greek bouzouki player and composer (b. 1925)[196] ·
1996 – Ross Hunter, American film producer (b. 1926)[197] ·
1997 – LaVern Baker, American singer and actress
(b. 1929)[198] ·
1998 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor and director
(b. 1913)[199] ·
1999 – Oswaldo Guayasamín,
Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (b. 1919)[200] ·
2005 – Dave Allen,
Irish-English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1936)[201] ·
2006 – Anna Moffo, American soprano (b. 1932)[202] ·
2007 – Ernie Ladd, American football player and
wrestler (b. 1938)[203] ·
2010 – Muhammad Sayyid
Tantawy, Egyptian scholar and academic (b. 1928)[204] ·
2010 – Corey Haim, Canadian actor (b. 1971)[205] ·
2011 – Bill Blackbeard, American author and
illustrator (b. 1926)[206] ·
2012 – Jean Giraud, French author and illustrator
(b. 1938)[207] ·
2012 – Frank Sherwood
Rowland, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1927)[208] ·
2015 – Richard Glatzer, American director,
producer, and screenwriter (b. 1952)[209] ·
2016 – Ken Adam, German-English production designer
and art director (b. 1921)[210] ·
2016 – Roberto Perfumo, Argentinian footballer and
sportscaster[211] ·
2016 – Jovito Salonga, Filipino lawyer and
politician, 14th President
of the Senate of the Philippines (b. 1920)[212] ·
2016 – Anita Brookner, English novelist and art
historian (b. 1928)[213] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day o Harriet Tubman (Lutheran)[215] o Sojourner Truth (Lutheran)[215] o March
10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Harriet Tubman Day (United States of America)[218] ·
Holocaust
Remembrance Day (Bulgaria)[219] ·
National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (United States)[220] ·
Tibetan Uprising Day (Tibetan
independence movement)[24] |
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