Tukuk-OS📅 March 10
18 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on March 10? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 2019 — Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed six minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa International Airport due to a fault within the software of the plane, resulting in the deaths of all 157 people on board.
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302Addis Ababa Bole International Airport
- 2008 — The New York Times revealed that Eliot Spitzer (pictured), Governor of New York, had patronized a prostitution ring.
The New York TimesEliot SpitzerEliot Spitzer prostitution scandal
- 2006 — NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (artist's impression pictured) reached and entered orbit around Mars.
- 1990 — Eighteen months after seizing power, Prosper Avril was ousted as the military head of state of Haiti.
- 1977 — Astronomers using NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory discovered a faint ring system around Uranus.
- 1975 — Ho Chi Minh Campaign: North Vietnam began its final push for victory over South Vietnam with an attack on Ban Me Thuot.
- 1968 — Vietnam War/Laotian Civil War: North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao forces overwhelmed the American, Laotian, Thai, and Hmong defenders of Lima Site 85.
- 1967 — British progressive-rock band Pink Floyd released their first single, "Arnold Layne".
- 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.
- 1965 — Thomas Playford, Premier of South Australia, left office after 27 years, the longest term of any democratically elected leader in the history of Australia.
Thomas Playford IVPremier of South AustraliaHistory of Australia
- 1959 — An anti-Chinese uprising began as thousands of Tibetans surrounded the Potala Palace in Lhasa to prevent the Dalai Lama from leaving or being removed by the Chinese army.
- 1949 — Mildred Gillars, nicknamed Axis Sally, was convicted of treason for working with the Nazis as a broadcaster.
- 1945 — World War II: The United States Army Air Forces conducted a firebombing raid on Tokyo that killed at least 90,000 people.
World War IIUnited States Army Air ForcesBombing of Tokyo (10 March 1945)
- 1917 — Russia and France reached an agreement' to support one another's territorial ambitions for Europe in the aftermath of World War I.
- 1916 — The final letter in the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence was written, agreeing that Britain would recognise Arab independence in return for the Sharif of Mecca launching a revolt against the Ottoman Empire.
- 1915 — The Battle of Neuve Chapelle, the first deliberately planned British offensive of the First World War, began.
- 1695 — Nine Years' War: At the Battle of Sant Esteve d'en Bas, Catalan miquelets attacked a column of French regular infantry and caused them to surrender.
Nine Years' WarBattle of Sant Esteve d'en BasMiquelet (militia)
- -241 — The Roman Republic defeated Carthaginian forces at the Battle of the Aegates, off the western coast of Sicily, in the final battle of the First Punic War.
Births
- 2004 — Matt Poitras, Canadian ice hockey player
- 2002 — Keon Johnson, American basketball player
- 2000 — Nick Bolton, American football player
- 1999 — Cole Kmet, American football player
- 1998 — Justin Herbert, American football player
- 1997 — Belinda Bencic, Swiss tennis player
- 1995 — Zach LaVine, American basketball player
- 1995 — Sergey Mozgov, Russian ice dancer
- 1994 — Bad Bunny, Puerto Rican rapper, songwriter, producer, actor, and wrestler
- 1994 — Nikita Parris, English footballer
- 1993 — Jack Butland, English footballer
- 1993 — Aminata Namasia, Congolese politician
Deaths
- 2025 — Stanley R. Jaffe, American film producer and director (born 1940)
- 2025 — Carl Lundström, Swedish businessman and activist (born 1960)
- 2023 — Napoleon XIV, American singer (born 1938)
- 2022 — John Elliott, English historian and academic (born 1930)
- 2016 — Ken Adam, German-English production designer and art director (born 1921)
- 2016 — Roberto Perfumo, Argentinian footballer and sportscaster (born 1942)
- 2016 — Jovito Salonga, Filipino lawyer and politician, 14th President of the Senate of the Philippines (born 1920)
- 2016 — Anita Brookner, English novelist and art historian (born 1928)
- 2015 — Richard Glatzer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1952)
- 2013 — Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, British born Swedish Princess (born 1915)
- 2012 — Jean Giraud, French author and illustrator (born 1938)
- 2012 — Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)
Observances & holidays
- Christian feast day Attala
- Christian feast day Harriet Tubman (Lutheran)
- Christian feast day John Ogilvie
- Christian feast day Macarius of Jerusalem
- Christian feast day Marie-Eugénie de Jésus
- Christian feast day Pope Simplicius
- Christian feast day Sojourner Truth (Lutheran)
- Christian feast day March 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Harriet Tubman Day (United States of America)
- Mario Day (International)
- Holocaust Remembrance Day (Bulgaria)
- National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (United States)
- Székely Freedom Day (Romania)
- Tibetan Uprising Day (Tibetan independence movement)
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