About March 10
March 10, 2024 is the 70th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 296 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 325 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.
- 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.
- 1891 –Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
- 1906 –The Courrières mine disaster, Europe’s worst ever, kills 1099 miners in Northern France.
- 1933 –An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 115 people and causes an estimated $40 million dollars in damage.
- 1944 –Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front.
- 1952 –Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba and appoints himself as the “provisional president”.
- 1966 –Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky sacked rival General Nguyen Chanh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.
- 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.
- 1975 –Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.
- 1980 –Formation of the Irish Army Ranger Wing
- 1990 –In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.
- 2000 –The NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.
- 2005 –Tung Chee Hwa resigns from his post as the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong after widespread public dissatisfaction of his tenure.
- 2006 –The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
- 2008 –The New York Times reveals that Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer had patronized a prostitution service.
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