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