10 Mairch

The 10t o Mairch is the 69t day o the year (70t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 296 days ti come.

 Events 
 1535 - Tomas de Berlanga reaches the Galapagos Islands.
 1661 - Louis XIV o Fraunce taks absolute govrenment pouers.
 1804 - A ceremony taks place in St. Louis tae mairk the haundower o the Louisiana Territory frae Fraunce tae the Unitit States.
 1864 - Ludwig II becomes Keeng o Bavarie on the daith o Maximilian II.
 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell maks his first successful telephone call.
 1893 - The Ivory Coast becomes a French colony.
 1906 - The Courrieres Mine Disaster in Fraunce kills 1,099 fowk.
 1952 - Fulgencio Batista stages a coup in Cuba.
 1971 - William McMahon becomes Prime Meenister o Australie.
 1977 - Discovery o rings aroond the planet Uranus.
 1985 - Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko dees.
 1987 - A yirdquauk in Ecuador an Colombie kills 1,000 fowk.
 1998 - Suharto, leader o Indonesie, claims election victory.
 2006 - The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reaches the planet Mars.
 2006 - The 2006 Winter Paralympic Gemmes in Turin, Italy, stairt.
 2017 - Sooth Korean Preses Park Geun-hye is removit frae office bi the constitutional coort, ower a corruption scandal.
 2017 - The Unitit Naitions warns that 20 million fowk could be affectit bi a faimin in Nigerie, Yemen, Somalie an Sooth Sudan.
 2019 - Ethiopian Airlines Flicht 103, a Boeing 737 MAX, crashes shortly efter tak-aff frae Addis Ababa, Ethiopie (en-route tae Nairobi, Kenyae), killin aw 157 fowk on baird.
 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: Bolivie, Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic o the Congo, Jamaica, Jersey, Mongolie an Turkey record thair first COVID-19 cases.

 Births 
 1415 - Vasily II o Moscow (d. 1462)
 1452 - Ferdinand II o Aragon (d. 1516)
 1503 - Ferdinand I, Haly Roman Emperor (d. 1564)
 1748 - John Playfair, Scots scientist an mathemateecian (d. 1819)
 1776 - Louise o Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen Consort o Proushie (d. 1810)
 1845 - Tsar Alexander III o Roushie (d. 1894)
 1900 - Violet Brown, Jamaican supercentenarian (d. 2017)
 1907 - Hector McNeil, Scots politeecian (d. 1955)
 1923 - Val Logsdon Fitch, American pheesicist (d. 2015)
 1936 - Sepp Blatter, 8t Preses o FIFA
 1940 - Chuck Norris, American actor an mairtial airtist
 1947 - Kim Campbell, umwhile Prime meenister o Canadae
 1948 - Pat Gallagher, Republic o Ireland politeecian
 1952 - Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwean politeecian (d. 2018)
 1956 - Henry Smith, Scots fitbawer
 1957 - Osama bin Laden, Saudi Arabie terrorist, foondit al-Qaeda (d. 2011)
 1958 - Sharon Stone, American actress
 1962 – Seiko Matsuda, Japanese sangster-sangwriter an actress
 1964 - David Bowman, Scots fitbawer
 1964 - Prince Edward, Earl o Wessex
 1964 - Neneh Cherry, Swadish sangster
 1972 - Timbaland, American rapper
 1976 - Haifa Wehbe, Lebanese sangster
 1977 - Robin Thicke, American sangster
 1978 - Neil Alexander, Scots fitbawer
 1978 - Camille, French sangster
 1981 - Samuel Eto'o, Cameroonian fitbawer
 1983 - Carrie Underwood, American sangster
 1984 - Olivia Wilde, American actress
 1984 - Carol Castro, Brazilian actress
 1987 - Emeli Sandé, Scots sangster-sangwriter
 1988 - Ivan Rakitic, Croatie fitbawer
 1990 - Inna Deriglazova, Roushie foil fencer
 1996 - Eamonn Brophy, Scots fitbawer
 1996 - Calum Waters, Scots fitbawer
 1997 - Belinda Bencic, Swiss tennis player

 Daiths 
 1615 - John Ogilvie, Scots Jesuit mairtyr (b. 1579)
 1792 - John Stuart, 3rd Yerl o Bute, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1713)
 1861 - Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (b. 1814)
 1864 - Maximilian II o Bavarie (b. 1811)
 1882 - Charles Wyville Thomson, Scots naituralist an marine zoologist (b. 1830)
 1913 - Harriet Tubman, American activist (b. 1820)
 1940 - Mikhail Bulgakov, Roushie writer (b. 1891)
 1942 - William Henry Bragg, Breetish pheesicist (b. 1862)
 1948 - Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovak politeecian (b. 1886)
 1985 - Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet politeecian (b. 1911)
 1998 - Alberto Morrocco, Scots airtist an teacher (b. 1917)
 2010 - Corey Haim, American actor (b. 1971)
 2017 - John Surtees, Inglis racin driver an motorcycle racer (b. 1934)

 Halidays 
 10 Mairch is the eat day o the follaein saunts:
St. Anastasia Patricia
St. Marcarius o Jerusalem
St. John Ogilvie
St. Alexander
St. Anastasia the Patrician
St. Attalas
St. Victor
St. Sedna
St. Codratus o Corinth
St. Droctoveus
St. Emilian
St. Himelin
St. Kessag

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