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Events on the 10th of March in history

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10 Mar 0241 First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.
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10 Mar 0241 -BC- Battle of Aegusa: Roman fleet sinks 50 Carthagean ships
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10 Mar 0298 Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa against the Berbers, and makes a triumphal entry into Carthage.
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10 Mar 0418 Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire
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10 Mar 0483 St Simplicius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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10 Mar 1526 Emperor Charles V marries princess Isabella of Portugal
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10 Mar 1535 Bishop Tom
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10 Mar 1578 Queen Elizabeth I gives Johan Casimir
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10 Mar 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.
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10 Mar 1624 England declares war on Spain
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10 Mar 1629 Charles I of England dissolves Parliament, beginning the eleven-year period known as the Personal Rule.
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10 Mar 1629 King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he called it back 11 years later
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10 Mar 1661 French King Louis XIV ends office of premier
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10 Mar 1681 English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania
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10 Mar 1734 Spanish army under Don Carlos (III) draws into Naples
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10 Mar 1735 An agreement between Nader Shah and Russia is signed near Ganja, Azerbaijan and Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku.
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10 Mar 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.
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10 Mar 1789 Franklin College founded (1787?)
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10 Mar 1791 John Stone, Concord, Mass, patents a pile driver
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10 Mar 1791 Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution's treatment of the clergy
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10 Mar 1804 Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
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10 Mar 1814 Napoleon I of France is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.
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10 Mar 1816 Crossing of the Andes: A group of royalist scouts is captured during the Action of Juncalito.
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10 Mar 1830 The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created.
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10 Mar 1831 The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis Philippe to support his war in Algeria.
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10 Mar 1847 1st money minted in Hawaii
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10 Mar 1848 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican–American War.
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10 Mar 1849 Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only US President to do so
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10 Mar 1861 El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Ségou, destroying the Bamana Empire of Mali.
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10 Mar 1862 US issues 1st paper money ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 & $1000)
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10 Mar 1862 Great Britain & France recognizes independence of Zanzibar
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10 Mar 1864 Grant is named commander of the Union armies
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10 Mar 1864 Red River campaign Louisiana
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10 Mar 1865 Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, North Carolina
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10 Mar 1874 Purdue University (Indiana) admits its 1st student
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10 Mar 1876 Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
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10 Mar 1876 1st telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson)
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10 Mar 1880 General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria
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10 Mar 1880 Salvation Army of England sets up US welfare & religious activity
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10 Mar 1888 1st performance of C
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10 Mar 1888 Heavyweight Boxing champion John L Sullivan draws Charlie Mitchell in 30 rounds
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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.
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10 Mar 1893 Ivory Coast becomes a French colony
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10 Mar 1893 New Mexico State University cancels its 1st graduation ceremony, its only graduate Sam Steele was robbed & killed the night before
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10 Mar 1896 After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world HW championship he says, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall"
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10 Mar 1896 Charilaos Vasilakos of Greece wins 1st modern marathon in 3:18
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10 Mar 1896 The Bronx acquires O'Brien Square
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10 Mar 1900 Battle at Driefontein, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
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10 Mar 1902 Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri
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10 Mar 1903 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Montreal AAA in 2 games
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10 Mar 1903 Harry Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating machine
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10 Mar 1903 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Montr
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10 Mar 1905 Japanese Army captures Mukden (Shenyang)
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10 Mar 1906 The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in Northern France.
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10 Mar 1906 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Sonatine"
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10 Mar 1906 Coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres France
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10 Mar 1906 London Underground opens Bakeroo line (Baker Street to Waterloo Line)
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10 Mar 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.
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10 Mar 1909 Jack Johnson fights Victor McLaglen to no decision in 6 for box title
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10 Mar 1910 China ends slavery
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10 Mar 1910 Pittsburgh Courier, begins publishing
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10 Mar 1913 Stanley Cup: Quebec Bulldogs sweep Sydney (NS) Millionaires in 2 games
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10 Mar 1913 Stanley Cup: Qu
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10 Mar 1913 William Knox, becomes 1st in American Bowling Congress to bowl 300
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10 Mar 1914 Suffragettes in London damages painter Rokeby's Venus of Velasquez
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10 Mar 1915 The Battle of Neuve Chapelle begins. This is the first large-scale operation by the British Army.
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10 Mar 1915 British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle
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10 Mar 1917 Some provinces and cities in the Philippines are incorporated due to the ratification of Act No. 2711 or the Administrative Code of the Philippines.
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10 Mar 1920 NHL's Qu
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10 Mar 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.
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10 Mar 1922 KLZ-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
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10 Mar 1922 State of siege proclaimed during mine strike Johannesburg South Africa
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10 Mar 1925 Walter Mittelholzer is 1st to flies over Demawend mountain, Iran
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10 Mar 1926 Run on Belgian banks
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10 Mar 1927 Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian & Slovenes
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10 Mar 1927 Bavaria lifts ban on Hitler's speeches
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10 Mar 1931 British Labour party removes fascist sir Oswald Mosley
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10 Mar 1933 Major earthquake in Long Beach, California
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10 Mar 1933 An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 115 people and causes an estimated $40 million in damage.
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10 Mar 1933 Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics
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10 Mar 1934 Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games)
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10 Mar 1934 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Suzanne Davis
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10 Mar 1934 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner
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10 Mar 1939 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad India
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10 Mar 1940 1st US opera telecast, W2XBS, New York NY, I Pagliacci
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10 Mar 1941 Larry MacPhail, Dodger GM predicts all players will wear batting helmets
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10 Mar 1944 Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front.
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10 Mar 1945 The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
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10 Mar 1945 Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine
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10 Mar 1945 Japan declares Vietnam Independence
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10 Mar 1945 Patton's 3rd Army makes contact with Hodge's 1st Army
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10 Mar 1945 Tokyo in fire after night time B-29 bombing
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10 Mar 1945 US troops lands on Mindanao
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10 Mar 1946 Train derailment kills 185 near Aracaju Brazil
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10 Mar 1948 1st civilian to exceed speed of sound-Herb H Hoover, Edwards AFB California
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10 Mar 1949 Detroit Tiger pitcher Art Houtteman is critically injured in an auto accident but recovers to win 15 games in 1949
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10 Mar 1951 "Where's Charley?" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 56 performances
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10 Mar 1951 FBI director J Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner
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10 Mar 1952 Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba and appoints himself as the "provisional president".
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10 Mar 1952 Military coup by General Fulgencio Batista in Cuba
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10 Mar 1956 General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of archbishop Makarios
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10 Mar 1956 Peter Twiss sets new world air record 1,132 mph (1,823 kph)
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10 Mar 1957 Thousands of soccer fans riot in Italy
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10 Mar 1959 Tibetan uprising: Fearing an abduction attempt by China, 300,000 Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal.
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10 Mar 1959 Dorothy Comiskey Rigney, sells 54% of White Sox to Bill Veeck
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10 Mar 1959 Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth" premieres in New York NY
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10 Mar 1959 Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet
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10 Mar 1960 USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing
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10 Mar 1962 Due to it's no black policy, Phillies leave Jack Tar Harrison Hotel & move to Rocky Point Motel, 20 miles outside Clearwater FL
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10 Mar 1963 Pete Rose debuts with hits in his two 1st at bats in spring training
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10 Mar 1963 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA San Francisco Warriors scores 70 points vs Syracuse
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10 Mar 1964 US reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany
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10 Mar 1965 Dutch Princess Margriet & Pieter van Vollenhoven, get engaged
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10 Mar 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.
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10 Mar 1966 5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires
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10 Mar 1966 Dutch crown princess Beatrix marries Claus von Amsberg
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10 Mar 1966 North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley
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10 Mar 1968 Vietnam War: Battle of Lima Site 85, concluding the 11th with largest single ground combat loss of United States Air Force members (12) during that war.
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10 Mar 1968 Ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington New Zealand (200 killed)
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10 Mar 1969 In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to retract his plea.
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10 Mar 1969 James Earl Ray pleads guilty in murder of Martin Luther King Jr
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10 Mar 1970 Barbra Streisand records "The Singer" and"I Can Do It"
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10 Mar 1970 Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. military with My Lai war crimes.
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10 Mar 1970 Barbra Streisand records "The Singer" & "I Can Do It"
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10 Mar 1970 South Africa complete 4-0 series drubbing of Australia
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10 Mar 1971 Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18
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10 Mar 1972 1st black US political convention opens (Gary Indiana)
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10 Mar 1972 General Lon Nol becomes President & prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia
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10 Mar 1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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10 Mar 1973 BPAA US Open by Mike McGrath
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10 Mar 1973 Morocco adopts constitution
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10 Mar 1974 "Sextet" closes at Bijou Theater NYC after 9 performances
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10 Mar 1974 Carol Mann wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic
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10 Mar 1974 Christian Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election
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10 Mar 1974 Lawrence Rowe completes 302 vs England Bridgetown, 36 fours 1 six
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10 Mar 1975 "Rocky Horror Show" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances
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10 Mar 1975 Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh Campaign: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Mê Thuột, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon on the final push for victory over South Vietnam.
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10 Mar 1975 Dog spectacles patented in England
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10 Mar 1977 Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.
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10 Mar 1977 Rings of Uranus discovered during occultation of SAO
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10 Mar 1978 Soyuz 28 returns to Earth
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10 Mar 1980 Formation of the Irish Army Ranger Wing.
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10 Mar 1980 Madeira School headmistress Jean Harris shoots and kills Scarsdale diet doctor Herman Tarnower
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10 Mar 1980 Willard Scott becomes the weather forecaster on the Today Show
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10 Mar 1982 President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
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10 Mar 1982 Salim Malik scores 100 in 2nd inning of Test Cricket debut (v SL)
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10 Mar 1982 Sygyzy: all 9 planets aligned on same side of Sun
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10 Mar 1982 Travis Jackson & Happy Chandler elected to Hall of Fame
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10 Mar 1983 Walter Alston, Dodgers manager, elected to Hall of Fame
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10 Mar 1984 Heavyweight Tim Witherspoon KOs Greg Page
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10 Mar 1985 Ice Pairs Championship at Tokyo won by Elena Valova and O Vasiliev (URS)
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10 Mar 1985 Bonnie Lauer wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational
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10 Mar 1985 Dallas Maverick coach Dick Motta is 4th NBA coach to win 700 games
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10 Mar 1985 French socialists lose election (National Front 9%)
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10 Mar 1985 India beat Pakistan to win "World Championship of Cricket"
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10 Mar 1985 World Ice Dance Championship in Tokyo won by Natalia Bestemianova & Andrei Bukin (USSR)
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10 Mar 1985 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Elena Valova & Oleg Vasiliev (USSR)
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10 Mar 1985 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (German Democratic Republic)
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10 Mar 1985 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Alexandr Fadeev (USSR)
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10 Mar 1986 Ernie Lombardi, National League MVP in 1938, & Bobby Doerr, elected to Hall of Fame
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10 Mar 1987 Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization & embryo transfer
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10 Mar 1988 Avalanche at Swiss Ski resort "Klosters" nearly kills Prince Charles
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10 Mar 1988 New York Islanders celebrate Mike Bossy night
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10 Mar 1990 Ice Dance Championship at Halifax won by Klimova and Ponomarenko (URS)
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10 Mar 1990 Ice Pairs Championship at Halifax won by Gordeeva and Grinkov (URS)
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10 Mar 1990 In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.
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10 Mar 1990 4th American Comedy Awards: When Harry Met Sally
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10 Mar 1990 Lieutenant General Avril resigns as President of Haiti
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10 Mar 1990 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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10 Mar 1990 World Ice Dance Championship in Halifax won by Marina Klimova & Sergei Ponomarenko (USSR)
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10 Mar 1990 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Halifax won by Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov (USSR)
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10 Mar 1990 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Halifax won by Jill Trenary (USA)
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10 Mar 1990 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Halifax won by Kurt Browning (Canada)
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10 Mar 1991 Eddie Sutton is 1st NCAA coach to lead 4 schools into playoffs
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10 Mar 1991 Laura Davies wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
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10 Mar 1991 Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg clinches his 4th slalom World Cup
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10 Mar 1991 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 meter indoor (22.24 seconds)
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10 Mar 1991 Rico Lieder/Jens Carlowitz/Karsten Just/Thomas Sch
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10 Mar 1992 6th Soul Train Music Awards: Natalie Cole & Color Me Badd win
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10 Mar 1992 Sandra Seuser/Katrin Schreiter/Annet Hesselbarth/Grit Breuer walk female indoor world record 4x400 meter (3: 7.22)
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10 Mar 1994 1 million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri's funeral
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10 Mar 1995 Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shiite mosque, 17+ killed
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10 Mar 1995 Chiel Meijering's "St Louis Blues" premieres in Arnhem
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10 Mar 1995 Dow-Jones hits record 4035.64
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10 Mar 1996 New York City Mayor Guiliani visits Israel
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10 Mar 1996 22nd People's Choice Awards: Apollo 13, Tom Hanks win
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10 Mar 1998 4th Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
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10 Mar 2000 The Nasdaq Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.
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10 Mar 2005 Tung Chee-hwa resigns from his post as the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong after widespread public dissatisfaction of his tenure.
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10 Mar 2006 The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
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