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10 March, 2006
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
10 March, 2006
Mass unrest by the PCC started in São Paulo (the biggest city in Brazil) which would eventually kill more than 152 people.
10 March, 2000
The NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.
10 March, 1990
In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.
10 March, 1987
The Holy See condemns the practice of surrogate motherhood, along with test-tube babies and artificial insemination.
10 March, 1982
The United States places an embargo on Libyan petroleum imports because of their support of terrorist groups.
10 March, 1982
Syzygy: all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun. See also Jupiter effect.
10 March, 1980
Madeira School headmistress Jean Harris shoots and kills Scarsdale diet doctor Herman Tarnower
10 March, 1977
Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.
10 March, 1975
Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.
10 March, 1975
Sanyo Shinkansen open between Osaka and Fukuoka.
10 March, 1970
Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged with My Lai war crimes.
10 March, 1969
In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He would later retract his guilty plea.
10 March, 1959
Tibet leads an unsuccessful uprising against ten years of Chinese occupation in Lhasa. Thousands are massacred by the occupying Chinese army.
10 March, 1952
Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.
10 March, 1951
Henri Queuille becomes Prime Minister of France.
10 March, 1948
The Indian Union Muslim League is founded, by remnants of the old Muslim League.
10 March, 1945
The Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
10 March, 1933
An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 120 people.
10 March, 1922
Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, although he is released after two years in February 1924 after an operation for appendicitis.
10 March, 1917
Batangas was formally founded as one of the Philippiness earliest encomiendas.
10 March, 1912
Yuan Shikai is sworn in as the second Provisional President of the Republic of China.
10 March, 1906
The Courrières mine disaster, Europes worst ever, kills 1099 miners in Northern France.
10 March, 1905
Eleftherios Venizelos asks the independence of Crete and its union with Greece again, starting the Cretan Revolution in Theriso.
10 March, 1902
Second Boer War: South African Boers win their last battle over British forces, with the capture of a British general and 200 of his men.
10 March, 1902
A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera.
10 March, 1893
Côte dIvoire becomes a French colony.
10 March, 1891
Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
10 March, 1880
Members of the Salvation Army land in the United States and begin operations.
10 March, 1876
Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
10 March, 1864
American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
10 March, 1861
El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Segou, destroying the Bambara Empire of Mali.
10 March, 1848
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican-American War.
10 March, 1831
The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.
10 March, 1830
The KNIL also known as the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created.
10 March, 1814
Napoleon I of France is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.
10 March, 1804
Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
10 March, 1801
First census in Great Britain
10 March, 1762
French Huguenot Jean Calas, who was 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
10 March, 1735
An agreement between Nadir Shah and Paul I of Russia is signed near Ganja and Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku.
10 March, 1629
Charles I of England dissolves Parliament, starting the Eleven Years Tyranny in which there was no parliament.

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