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History on the 10th of March

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10 Mar 1528 RELIGIOUS Martyrdom of Balthaser Hubmaier, 48, German reformer and chief writer for the Anabaptist movement. Arrested in Moravia, Hubmaier was later condemned at Vienna and burned at the stake.
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10 Mar 1681 RELIGIOUS English Quaker William Penn, 26, received a charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of the colonial American territory known today as the state of Pennsylvania.
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10 Mar 1748 RELIGIOUS [O.S.] Slave-ship Captain John Newton, 22, was converted to a saving Christian faith. Newton later became an Anglican clergyman, and (as the author of "Amazing Grace") a greatly respected hymnwriter as well.
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10 Mar 1915 WW2 The first British bombing raids in tactical support of ground operations were carried out against railway installations in the Menin and Courtrai area in Belgium. 
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10 Mar 1915 WW1 Begin of Battle of Neuve-Chapelle
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10 Mar 1916 WW2 Lorraine was commissioned into service. 
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10 Mar 1922 WW2 Indian Independence leader Mohandas Gandhi was arrested on a charge of sedition after calling for a Campaign of Civil Disobedience. 
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10 Mar 1925 WW2 Light carrier Hosho was taken out of service to be fitted with a hydraulically-operated crash barrier. 
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10 Mar 1926 WW2 The Samuel commission published a report recommending sweeping changes to the mining industry in the United Kingdom. This report included a recommendation for a 13.5% reduction in miners wages and the withdrawal of Government subsidies. 
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10 Mar 1930 WW2 He Yingqin was named Chiang Kaishek's chief of staff for military affairs. 
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10 Mar 1933 WW2 During the First Battle of Hebei, General Guan Linzheng of Chinese 25th Division was wounded in battle near Gubeikou Pass of the Great Wall, and Du Yuming stepped up to serve as the acting divisional commander. 
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10 Mar 1936 WW2 Destroyer Afridi was ordered by the British Royal Navy. 
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10 Mar 1936 WW2 The Fairey Battle Day bomber took its first flight. 
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10 Mar 1937 WW2 At Guadalajara, Spain, the Spanish Nationalist invasion force attacked in two columns. The right-hand (or western) army, which was commanded by General José Moscardó Ituarte, had little trouble in forcing the opposing Republican troops back, but the left-hand (or eastern) army, which was composed of Italian volunteers and led by General Mario Roatta, experienced stiffening resistance after their capture of Brihuega on this date. 
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10 Mar 1937 WW2 The US Navy and US Marine Corps' Fleet Landing Exercise No. 3 in the San Clemente and San Pedro areas, California, United States was completed. 
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10 Mar 1937 RELIGIOUS English historian Arnold J. Toynbee wrote: 'In this really very brief period of less than 2,000 years Christianity has, in fact, produced greater spiritual effects in the world than have been produced in a comparable space of time by any other spiritual movement that we know of in history.'
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10 Mar 1938 WW2 Adolf Hitler ordered his military leaders to review Case Otto for the invasion against Austria. 
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10 Mar 1939 WW2 British destroyer HMS Tartar (F43) was commissioned into service with Captain G. H. Warner in command. 
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10 Mar 1939 WW2 Czechoslovakian President Emil Hácha ordered the arrest of Slovakian political leader Jozef Tiso. 
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10 Mar 1940 WW2 German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop met with Mussolini in Italy, informing him Hitler's wish to invade France and lobbied for him to conduct a joint-invasion. Mussolini promise to join Germany, but only when he felt Italy was ready. 
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10 Mar 1940 WW2 Repair ship Akashi was commissioned into service with Captain Shutoku Miyazato in command. 
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10 Mar 1940 WW2 Captain Gunji Kogure was named the commanding officer of Settsu. 
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10 Mar 1940 WW2 Noted Russian writer and playwright, Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940), whose work Joseph Stalin liked but would not allow to be staged or read, passed away. When Bulgakov's play about Stalin's early life was turned down in 1939, he became ill and depressed, and died less than a year later. His crowning achievement, the novel The Master and Margarita, was not published until 1968. 
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10 Mar 1941 WW2 The German 5th Panzer Regiment arrived in North Africa. 
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10 Mar 1941 WW2 French diplomat Gaston Henry-Haye was featured on the cover of Time Magazine in the United States. 
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10 Mar 1941 WW2 German submarine U-552 sank Icelandic trawler Reykjaborg with surface weapons 460 miles southeast of Iceland at midnight, killing 12. Of the 3 survivors, 1 of them would die before being rescued by British corvette HMS Pimpernel four days later. 
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10 Mar 1941 WW2 British submarine HMS H.28 was damaged during a collision with a freighter in the Irish Sea. 
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10 Mar 1941 WW2 British submarine HMS Unique sank Italian ship Fenicia 100 miles northwest of Tripoli, Libya. 
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10 Mar 1941 WW2 German bombers attacked Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom overnight, killing 10 people on shore, sinking minesweeping trawler HMT Revello (killing 1) and damaging destroyer HMS Sherwood, destroyer HMS Witherington, destroyer HMS Tynedale, training ship HMS Marshal Soult, and 4 minesweeping trawlers. 
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10 Mar 1941 WW2 Nikolai Voznesensky stepped down as the Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the Soviet Union and took the new role as the First Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union. 
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10 Mar 1941 WW2 Maksim Saburov became the Chairman of State Planning Committee of the Soviet Union. 
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10 Mar 1941 WW2 The British Nigerian Brigade engaged Italian units at Degehabur, Abyssinia, about 100 miles south of Jijiga. 
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10 Mar 1941 WW2 The newly worked-up aircraft carrier, HMS Formidable, passed through the Suez Canal to join Admiral Andrew Cunningham's Mediterranean fleet at Alexandria, Egypt, which has been without an armoured carrier since HMS Illustrious had been withdrawn as a result of the serious damage it had suffered from enemy dive-bombers in January 1941. 
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10 Mar 1942 WW2 USS Lexington launched aircraft to attack the Japanese invasion force at New Guinea. 
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10 Mar 1942 WW2 USS Yorktown launched aircraft to attack the Japanese invasion force at New Guinea. 
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10 Mar 1942 WW2 US Army General MacArthur once again received orders to evacuate Philippine Islands. 
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10 Mar 1942 WW2 German submarine U-588 sank US tanker Gulftrade 10 kilometers southeast of Toms River, New Jersey, United States at 0632 hours; 18 were killed, 16 survived. At 2310 hours, 400 miles northeast of British Virgin Islands, Italian submarine Finzi sank Norwegian ship Charles Racine; all 41 aboard survived. 
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10 Mar 1942 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Rabaul. 
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10 Mar 1942 WW2 German submarine U-161 sank Canadian passenger ship Lady Nelson (25 were killed, 204 survived) and British freighter Umtata (4 were killed, 169 survived) off Port Castries, Saint Lucia at 0449 hours. 
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10 Mar 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-62 sank British sailing ship Lakshmi Govinda with gunfire 470 miles east of Madras, India. 
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10 Mar 1942 WW2 Clive Caldwell of No. 112 Squadron RAAF made the first 250-pound bomb drop from a Kittybomber. 
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10 Mar 1942 WW2 USS Skipjack arrived at Fremantle, Australia, ending her second war patrol. 
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10 Mar 1942 WW2 USAAF B-17, B-24, B-25, and A-20 bombers, escorted by USAAF P-38 fighters, attacked a Japanese convoy unloading supplies near Lae, Australian Territory of New Guinea. In a separate effort, 104 carrier aircraft from USS Lexington and USS Yorktown attacked the Japanese invasion fleet in Huon Gulf to the north of the landing beaches, sinking armed merchant cruiser Kongo Maru, auxiliary minelayer Tenyo Maru, and transport Yokohama Maru while damaging several other ships; one Dauntless dive bomber was lost in the attack, while the Japanese lost 350 troops on the transports alone. On land, Japanese consolidated the beachhead with landings at Finschhafen, while Japanese engineers reported that the airstrips at Lae and Salamaua were now ready for action; later on the same day, aircraft of the Japanese 4th Air Group would begin to arrive at Lae and Salamaua. 
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10 Mar 1942 WW2 18 Japanese aircraft bombed Port Moresby, Australian Papua. 
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10 Mar 1942 WW2 Japanese 55th Infantry Division began pursuing the retreating British troops from Rangoon, Burma. 
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10 Mar 1942 WW2 After dark and into the next morning, Indian troops on Christmas Island, led by Sikh policemen, mutinied and killed five of their British officers and imprisoned 21 Europeans. 
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10 Mar 1942 WW2 Nachi departed Makassar, Celebes, Dutch East Indies for Mako, Pescadores Islands, Taiwan. 
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10 Mar 1942 WW2 Overnight, 62 RAF bombers attacked Essen, Germany, damaging railways leading to Krupp factories, killing 6 civilians and wounding 12. 
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10 Mar 1942 WW2 At Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, Joseph Rochefort concluded that the target AF which had appeared in Japanese radio messages in the past few days referred to either Johnston, Palmyra, or Midway, and he promptly sent out warnings to all three locations. Privately, he reported to his superiors that Midway was the likely target. 
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10 Mar 1942 WW2 Twelve US Marine fighters based at Midway Atoll, commanded by Captain Robert M. Haynes, intercepted and shot down a Japanese H6K flying boat. 
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10 Mar 1942 WW2 USS S-31 began her first defensive patrol off the Panama Canal Zone. 
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10 Mar 1942 WW2 Jonathan Wainright's car was strafed by Japanese fighters on Bataan Peninsula, Luzon, Philippine Islands in the morning as he inspected forward areas. At noon, he traveled to Corregidor as requested by Douglas MacArthur, who informed him that President Franklin Roosevelt had ordered MacArthur to depart. 
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10 Mar 1942 WW2 Soviet transport Kiev and merchant ship El Occidente, both of which fell out of Allied convoy PQ-12 several days prior, arrived at Iokanka, Russia. 
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10 Mar 1942 WW2 The US Marine Corps purchased the 132,000-acre Santa Margarita Ranch situated north of San Diego, California, United States for a future base; it would become Camp Pendleton later in the year. 
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10 Mar 1943 WW2 The Japanese Navy removed Tatsuta Maru from the Navy List. 
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10 Mar 1943 WW2 Claire Chennault was promoted to the rank of major general and placed in command of the newly formed USAAF 14th Air Force in China. 
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10 Mar 1943 WW2 Axis forces participating in the failed Operation Capri attack in southeastern Tunisia fell back to the Mareth Line. 
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10 Mar 1943 WW2 The German Gestapo organization sent 11 Polish men and 11 Polish women from Bielsko, Poland to Auschwitz Concentration Camp. 
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10 Mar 1943 WW2 Captain Teruhiko Miyoshi was named the commanding officer of battleship Mutsu. 
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10 Mar 1943 WW2 Daly was commissioned into service. 
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10 Mar 1943 WW2 The No. 1 Column of the Northern Group of the Chindits destroyed the rail bridge at Kyaikthin, Burma and crossed the Irrawaddy River with the help of locals. 
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10 Mar 1943 WW2 German submarine U-255 sank freighter Richard Bland of Allied convoy RA-53; 61 were killed, 1 survived. 
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10 Mar 1943 WW2 Nachi arrived at Attu, Aleutian Islands. 
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10 Mar 1943 WW2 Lin Sen was involved in an automobile accident in Chongqing, China. 
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10 Mar 1943 WW2 USS Whale arrived in waters off Tanapag Harbor, Saipan, Mariana Islands. 
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10 Mar 1943 WW2 Group Captain Sidney Bufton replaced Air Commodore J. W. Baker as the Director of Bomber Operations at the Air Ministry in London, England, United Kingdom. 
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10 Mar 1943 WW2 George Kenney and Richard Sutherland arrived at Washington DC, United States. 
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10 Mar 1944 WW2 The Icelandic airline Lofteide HF was founded, which would inaugurate its initial service on 7 Apr 1944. 
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10 Mar 1944 WW2 HMS Asphodel (New Zealand Lieutenant M. A. Halliday) was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-575 whilst escorting convoy SL-150. 
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10 Mar 1944 WW2 2 bombers of the 2nd Bomber Squadron of the Chinese-American Composite Wing attacked Japanese ships in the Yangtze River in China. On the return flight, one of the B-25 bombers ran out of fuel and unsuccessfully crash landed, killing the entire crew. On the same day, B-25 bombers of the US 14th Air Force escorted by P-38 fighters attacked Anqing, Anhui, China, sinking a motor launch, damaged two cargo vessels, and damaged a barge; fighters of the Japanese 25th Sentai rose to intercept, shooting down on P-38 fighter. 
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10 Mar 1944 WW2 Repair ship Akashi began repairing transport Bichu Maru at Palau Islands. 
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10 Mar 1944 WW2 US military leadership estimated that about 60% of Rabaul, New Britain had been destroyed. 
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10 Mar 1944 WW2 24 New Zealand Kittyhawk fighters, each armed with a 500-pound bomb, attacked Vunapope, New Britain. About 300 Japanese personnel were killed, 1 civilian was killed, and 7 civilians were wounded. 
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10 Mar 1944 WW2 Heinrich Himmler lifted various laws against Jewish and Roma people as their "evacuation and isolation" had already been achieved. 
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10 Mar 1944 WW2 Ar 234B jet aircraft took its first flight with civilian test pilot Joachim Carl in the cockpit. 
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10 Mar 1944 WW2 Evripidis Bakirtzis became the head of the Political Committee of National Liberation (PEEA) of Greece. 
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10 Mar 1944 WW2 Nachi arrived at Ominato Guard District, Mutsu, Aomori Prefecture, Japan and refueled from oiler Teiyo Maru. 
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10 Mar 1944 WW2 1,501 Jews arrived at Auschwitz Concentration Camp from Drancy Concentration Camp in Paris. 110 men and 80 women were registered into the camp, while the remaining 1,311 were sent to the gas chambers. 
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10 Mar 1944 WW2 The Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front captured Uman, Ukraine on its way toward the Bug and Dneiper Rivers. 
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10 Mar 1944 WW2 Allied convoy RA-57 arrived at Loch Ewe, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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10 Mar 1945 WW2 US troops landed on Zamboanga Peninsula, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 
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10 Mar 1945 WW2 Feldmarschall von Rundstedt was relieved by Feldmarschall Kesselring. 
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10 Mar 1945 WW2 The Germans evacuated Wesel as US Third Army captured Bonn. 
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10 Mar 1945 WW2 70 Germans tunneled out of a prisoners of war camp at Bridgend, Glamorgan, Wales, United kIngdom; all were captured within a week, including two who were caught by an unarmed girl working with the Auxiliary Territorial Service. 
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10 Mar 1945 WW2 USS Segundo fired 4 torpedoes at a Japanese ship off Korea; all torpedoes missed. 
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10 Mar 1945 WW2 24 American B-29 bombers attacked Japanese marshalling yards and air field at Kuala Lumpur, Malaya. 
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10 Mar 1945 WW2 About 60 fighters and bombers of the US 14th Air Force attacked Japanese road and river traffic, railroad, gun positions, warehouses, airfields, and troop concentrations in central China, including the cities of Hengyang, Hankou, Yueyang, and Wuchang. 
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10 Mar 1945 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops continued to assault Mandalay Hill near Mandalay, Burma. 
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10 Mar 1945 WW2 Over 25,000 civilians were evacuated from Kolberg in Pommern, Germany (now Kolobrzeg, Poland) by the Kriegsmarine. Meanwhile, Soviet 2nd Byelorussian Front attacked toward Danzig, taking Zoppot (now Sopot) along the way. 
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10 Mar 1945 WW2 Friedrich-Wilhelm Müller was mentioned in the Wehrmachtbericht daily radio report. 
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10 Mar 1945 WW2 Prince Morihiro's son Nobuhiko was born. 
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10 Mar 1947 WW2 Harukichi Hyakutake passed away. 
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10 Mar 1947 WW2 Lieutenant General Hisao Tani was sentenced to death by a court in Nanjing, China for encouraging his men to commit crimes such as rape, murder, plunder, and destruction at Nanjing in 1937 and 1938. 
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10 Mar 1947 WW2 Hisao Tani was found guilty of war crimes by a court in Nanjing, China. 
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10 Mar 1948 WW2 USS Missouri completed her scheduled overhaul at New York Naval Shipyard in New York, United States. 
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10 Mar 1987 RELIGIOUS The Vatican declared its formal opposition to test-tube fertilization, embryo transfer and most other forms of scientific interference in human procreation.
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