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Artist's impression of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 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. | refimprove section |
| 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. | lead too short; 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. | refimprove |
| 1952 – Facing likely electoral defeat, former Cuban president Fulgencio Batista staged a coup d'état to resume control. | Batista: refimprove section, primary sources; Coup: expansion |
| 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 |
| Janet Mock |b|1983 | refimprove filmography section |
| Emily Osment |b|1992 | refimprove section |
| Nikita Parris |b|1994| | Birthday not cited |
Eligible
- 241 BC – The Roman Republic defeated Carthaginian forces at the Battle of the Aegates, off the western coast of Sicily, in the final battle of the First Punic War.
- 1915 – The Battle of Neuve Chapelle, the first deliberately planned British offensive of the First World War, began.
- 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.
- 1917 – Russia and France reached an agreement' to support one another's territorial ambitions for Europe in the aftermath of World War I.
- 1945 – World War II: The United States Army Air Forces conducted a firebombing raid on Tokyo that killed at least 90,000 people.
- 1949 – Mildred Gillars, nicknamed Axis Sally, was convicted of treason for working with the Nazis as a broadcaster.
- 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.
- 1967 – British progressive-rock band Pink Floyd released their first single, "Arnold Layne".
- 1975 – Ho Chi Minh Campaign: North Vietnam began its final push for victory over South Vietnam with an attack on Ban Me Thuot.
- 1990 – Eighteen months after seizing power, Prosper Avril was ousted as the military head of state of Haiti.
- 2006 – NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (artist's impression pictured) reached and entered orbit around Mars.
- 2019 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 (aircraft pictured) crashed shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa, with the deaths of all 157 people on board.
- Born/died: | Agnes Blannbekin |d|1315| John Benbow |b|1653| Jacob van Ruisdael |d|1682| William Etty |b|1787| Amy Spain |d|1865| Charles Frederick Worth |d|1895| Violet Brown |b|1900| Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy |d|2010 | Anita Brookner |d|2016
Notes
March 10: Mothering Sunday (Western Christianity, 2024)
Eliot Spitzer
- 1695 – Nine Years' War: At the Battle of Sant Esteve d'en Bas, Catalan miquelets attacked a column of French regular infantry and caused them to surrender.
- 1959 – An anti-Chinese uprising began as thousands of Tibetans surrounded the Potala Palace in Lhasa to prevent the Dalai Lama from leaving or being removed by the Chinese army.
- 1968 – Vietnam War/Laotian Civil War: North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao forces overwhelmed the American, Laotian, Thai, and Hmong defenders of Lima Site 85.
- 1977 – Astronomers using NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory discovered a faint ring system around Uranus.
- 2008 – The New York Times revealed that Eliot Spitzer (pictured), Governor of New York, had patronized a prostitution ring.
- Tvrtko I of Bosnia (d. 1391)
- Lillian Wald (b. 1867)
- Marie-Eugénie de Jésus (d. 1898)
- Rupert Bruce-Mitford (d. 1994)