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Events [ ] 241 BC - First Punic War : Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet; end of First Punic War .1629 - Charles I of England dissolves Parliament , starting the Eleven Years Tyranny in which there was no parliament .1735 - An agreement between Nadir Shah and Paul I of Russia is signed near Ganja and the Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku .1801 - First census in Great Britain 1804 - Louisiana Purchase : In St. Louis , a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of Louisiana Territory from France to the United States .1814 - Napoleon I of France is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France .1830 - The KNIL also known as the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created.1831 - The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria .1848 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate , ending the Mexican-American War .1861 - El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Segou , destroying the Bambara Empire of Mali .1864 - American Civil War : The Red River Campaign begins as Union troops reach Alexandria .1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."1880 - Members of the Salvation Army land in the United States and begin operations.1891 - Almon Strowger , an undertaker in Topeka , patents the strowger switch , a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.1893 - Côte d'Ivoire becomes a French colony.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.1902 - A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera .
1902 - Tochangri , Turkey , is completely destroyed by an earthquake.
1905 - Eleftherios Venizelos asks the independence of Crete and its union with Greece again, starting the Cretan Revolution in Theriso .1906 - The Courrières mine disaster , Europe 's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in Northern France .1912 - Yuan Shikai is sworn in as the second Provisional President of the Republic of China .1917 - Batangas was formally founded as one of the Philippines 's earliest encomiendas .1918 - Warner Bros. releases its first major film My Four Years in Germany .1925 - Olympiacos is founded in Piraeus .1933 - An earthquake in Long Beach kills 120 people.1945 - The Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo , and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.1948 - The Indian Union Muslim League is founded, by remnants of the old Muslim League .1951 - Henri Queuille becomes Prime Minister of France .1952 - Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba .1959 - Tibet leads an unsuccessful uprising against ten years of Chinese occupation in Lhasa . Thousands massacred by the occupying Chinese army.1969 - In Memphis , James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr . He would later retract his guilty plea.1970 - Vietnam War : Capt. Ernest Medina is charged with My Lai war crimes.1975 - Vietnam War : North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thuot , South Vietnam , on their way to capturing Saigon .1977 - Rings of Uranus : Astronomers discover rings around Uranus .1982 - The United States places an embargo on Libyan petroleum imports because of their support of terrorist groups .1982 - Syzygy : all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun . See also Jupiter effect .1987 - The Holy See condemns the practice of surrogate motherhood , along with test-tube babies and artificial insemination .1990 - In Haiti , Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup .2000 - The NASDAQ stock market index peaks at 5048.62, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom .2004 - DC Shoes is acquired by Quicksilver .2006 - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars .2006 - Mass unrest by the PCC started in São Paulo (the biggest city in Brazil ) which would eventually kill more than 152 people Births [ ] 1415 - Vasili II of Russia (d. 1462 )1452 - Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1516 )1503 - Ferdinand I (d. 1564 )1536 - Thomas Howard , English politician (d. 1572 )1628 - Marcello Malpighi , Italian physician (d. 1694 )1709 - Georg Steller , German naturalist (d. 1746 )1749 - Lorenzo da Ponte , Italian librettist (d. 1838 )1769 - Joseph Williamson , English philanthropist and tunnel builder (d. 1840 )1772 - Friedrich von Schlegel , German aesthetician (d. 1829 )1776 - Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz , Queen consort of Prussia (d. 1810 )1788 - Joseph von Eichendorff , German writer (d. 1857 )1810 - Samuel Ferguson , Irish poet (d. 1886 )1842 - Mykola Lysenko , Ukrainian composer (d. 1912 )1844 - Pablo de Sarasate , Spanish violinist (d. 1908 )1845 - Alexander III of Russia (d. 1894 )1847 - Kate Sheppard , New Zealand suffragist (d. 1934 )1850 - Spencer Gore , British tennis player and cricketer (d. 1906 )1880 - Broncho Billy Anderson , American actor (d. 1971 )1887 - Toshitsugu Takamatsu , Grandmaster of Ninjutsu (d. 1972 )1888 - Barry Fitzgerald , Irish actor (d. 1961 )1892 - Arthur Honegger , French-born Swiss composer (d. 1955 )1892 - Gregory La Cava , American director (d. 1952 )
1899 - Robert Meier , German WW1 veteran, formerly Germany's oldest man. (d. 2007 )1903 - Bix Beiderbecke , American musician (d. 1931 )1905 - Betty Amann , German-American actress.1905 - Richard Haydn , English actor (d. 1985 )1915 - Harry Bertoia , Italian artist (d. 1978 )1915 - Sir Charles Groves , English conductor (d. 1992 )
1919 - Marion Hutton , American singer (d. 1987 )1920 - Alfred Peet , Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (d. 2007 )1920 - Boris Vian , French writer and musician (d. 1959 )
1923 - Val Logsdon Fitch , Nobel Prize laureate1925 - Manolis Anagnostakis , Greek poet (d. 2005 )1928 - James Earl Ray , American assassin (d. 1998 )1928 - Sara Montiel , Spanish actress and singer
1931 - Georges Dor , Quebec author, playwright, singer and songwriter (d. 2001 )1936 - Sepp Blatter , Swiss hockey and football official1937 - Joe Viterelli , American actor (d. 2004 )1938 - Marina Vlady , French actress1940 - Chuck Norris , American actor and martial artist1940 - Dean Torrence , American singer (Jan and Dean )
1945 - Birgitta Sellén , Swedish politician1946 - Jim Valvano , American basketball coach (d. 1993 )1946 - Mike Hollands , Australian animator
1946 - Hiroshi Fushida , Japanese racing driver
1947 - Kim Campbell , 19th Prime Minister of Canada 1947 - Paul Condon , former Commissioner of The Metropolitan Police
1947 - Bob Greene , American journalist
1947 - Tom Scholz , American songwriter
1948 - Richard Park , British Media Consultant and Broadcaster1952 - Morgan Tsvangirai , Zimbabwe politician1953 - Paul Haggis , Canadian film director1955 - Youssra , Egyptian actress and singer1955 - Toshio Suzuki , Japanese racing driver
1956 - Mitchell Lichtenstein , American actor; son of Roy Lichtenstein 1957 - Shannon Tweed , Canadian actress and model1957 - Osama bin Laden , Saudi-born Islamic extremist
1957 - Jim White , American folk singer-songwriter
1958 - Steve Howe , American baseball player (d. 2006 )1958 - Sharon Stone , American actress
1960 - Anne MacKenzie , journalist and broadcaster1961 - Laurel Clark , physician and astronaut (d. 2003 )1961 - Mitch Gaylord , American gymnast
1961 - Bobby Petrino , American football coach
1963 - Jeff Ament , American musician (Pearl Jam )1963 - Rick Rubin , American record producer
1964 - Neneh Cherry , Swedish musician1964 - Prince Edward
1964 - David Faber , analyst for CNBC
1964 - Jasmine Guy , American actress
1965 - Rod Woodson , American football player1966 - Edie Brickell , American singer1966 - Gráinne Mulvey , Irish composer1966 - Mike Timlin , American baseball player
1968 - Felice Arena , Australian children's author1968 - Shoichi Funaki , Japanese professional wrestler
1968 - Thio Li-ann , Singaporean law academic and Nominated Member of Parliament
1969 - Paget Brewster , American actress1971 - Timbaland , American rapper1971 - Steve Arnold , British racing driver
1972 - Takashi Fujii , Japanese television performer1972 - Matt Kenseth , American race car driver
1972 - Paraskevi Tsiamita , Greek triple jumper
1973 - Eva Herzigova , Czech model1973 - Chris Sutton , English footballer
1973 - Mauricio Taricco , Argentine footballer
1973 - John LeCompt , American guitarist
1975 - Lyne Bessette , Quebec professional bicycle racer1976 - Haifa Wehbe , Lebanese actress, model and singer1977 - Peter Enckelman , Finnish footballer1977 - Shannon Miller , American gymnast
1977 - Colin Murray , British radio DJ
1977 - Bree Turner , American dancer and actress
1977 - Matt Rubano , American musician (Taking Back Sunday )
1977 - Robin Thicke , American singer
1978 - Ben Burnley , American musician (Breaking Benjamin )1981 - Samuel Eto'o , Cameroonian footballer1981 - Efthimios Kouloucheris , Greek footballer
1981 - Steven Reid , English-born footballer
1982 - Timo Glock , German racing car driver1982 - Katharine Isabelle , Canadian actress
1983 - Carrie Underwood , American singer1983 - Reena Virk , Canadian murder victim (d. 1997 )
1984 - Ben May , English footballer1984 - Olivia Wilde , American actress
1985 - Lassana Diarra , French footballer1985 - Casey Dienel , American singer-songwriter
1985 - Kim Leclerc , Canadian politician
1992 - Emily Osment , American actressDeaths [ ] 1291 - Arghun , Persian ruler1510 - Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg , Swiss-born preacher (b. 1445 )1513 - John de Vere , English commander (b. 1443 )1549 - Thomas Seymour , English politician and diplomat1584 - Thomas Norton , English politician and writer (b. 1532 )1585 - Rembert Dodoens , Flemish physician and botanist (b. 1517 )1588 - Theodor Zwinger , Swiss scholar (b. 1533 )1669 - John Denham , English poet (b. 1615 )1670 - Johann Rudolf Glauber , German chemist (b. 1604 )1776 - Élie Catherine Fréron , French critic (b. 1719 )1776 - Niclas Sahlgren , Swedish merchant and philanthropist (b. 1701 )
1792 - John Stuart , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1713 )1832 - Muzio Clementi , Italian composer (b. 1752 )1861 - Taras Shevchenko , Ukrainian poet (b. 1814 )1872 - Giuseppe Mazzini , Italian politician (b. 1805 )1895 - Charles Frederick Worth , English-born couturier (b. 1826 )1910 - Karl Lueger , mayor of Vienna (b. 1844 )1910 - Carl Reinecke , German pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1824 )
1913 - Harriet Tubman , American abolitionist (b. 1820 )1937 - Yevgeny Zamyatin , Russian writer (b. 1884 )1940 - Mikhaïl Boulgakov , Russian writer (b. 1891 )1942 - William Henry Bragg , English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862 )1948 - Zelda Fitzgerald , American artist, wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (b. 1900 )1948 - Jan Masaryk , Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1886 )
1949 - James Rector , American athlete (b. 1884 )1950 - Marguerite De La Motte , American actress (b. 1902 )1951 - Kijūrō Shidehara , Prime minister of Japan (b. 1872 )1966 - Frits Zernike , Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888 )1967 - Yiorgos Batis , Greek composer and musician (b. 1885 )1970 - Vasilis Avlonitis , Greek actor (b. 1904 )1973 - Eugene 'Bull' Connor , American segregationist (b. 1897 )1977 - E. Power Biggs , English-born American organist (b. 1906 )1984 - June Marlowe , American actress (b. 1903 )1985 - Konstantin Chernenko , General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1911 )1985 - Bob Nieman , American baseball player (b. 1927 )
1986 - Ray Milland , British actor (b. 1905 )1988 - Andy Gibb , English-born singer (b. 1958 )1992 - Giorgos Zampetas , Greek composer and musician (b. 1925 )1994 - Abdelkader Alloula , Algerian playwright (assassinated) (b. 1929 )1996 - Ross Hunter , American film producer (b. 1920 )1997 - La Vern Baker , American singer (b. 1929 )1998 - Lloyd Bridges , American actor (b. 1913 )2001 - Massimo Morsello , Italian musician and far right activist (b. 1958 )2003 - Barry Sheene , British motorcycle racer (b. 1950 )2004 - Dave Blood , real name David Schulthise; American musician, bassist for The Dead Milkmen (b. 1956 )2005 - Dave Allen , Irish comedian (b. 1936 )2005 - Danny Joe Brown , American singer (Molly Hatchet ) (b. 1951 )
2006 - Anna Moffo , American soprano (b. 1932 )2007 - Richard Jeni , American comedian (b. 1957 )2007 - Ernie Ladd , American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938 ) Holidays and observances [ ] Liturgical feasts [ ] External links [ ]
160 Familypedia people were born on March 10
148 Familypedia people died on March 10
91 Familypedia people were first married on March 10