About March 10
March 10, 2025 is the 69th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 296 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 344 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 10
- 241 BC –First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands – The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.
- 1607 –Susenyos defeats the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, making him Emperor of Ethiopia.
- 1629 –Charles I of England dissolves the Parliament, beginning the eleven-year period known as the Personal Rule.
- 1735 –An agreement between Nadir Shah and Russia is signed near Ganja and Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku.
- 1814 –Napoleon I of France is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.
- 1816 –Crossing of the Andes: A group of royalist scouts is captured during the Action of Juncalito.
- 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.
- 1864 –American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
- 1906 –The Courrières mine disaster, Europe’s worst ever, kills 1099 miners in Northern France.
- 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.
- 1933 –An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 115 people and causes an estimated $40 million dollars in damage.
- 1945 –The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
- 1952 –Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba and appoints himself as the “provisional president”.
- 1959 –Tibetan uprising: Fearing an abduction attempt by China, 300,000 Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama’s palace to prevent his removal.
- 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.
- 1970 –Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. Military with My Lai war crimes.
- 1977 –Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.
- 1980 –Madeira School headmistress Jean Harris shoots and kills Scarsdale diet doctor Herman Tarnower
- 2008 –The New York Times reveals that Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer had patronized a prostitution service.
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