10 March In History - What Happened On This Day

According to Gregory calendar, on March 10, the day number in a year is 70 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 71. March 10 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1607	Susenyos defeated the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, making him Emperor of Ethiopia.
1735	An agreement was signed between Nadir Shah and Paul I of Russia and the withdrawal of Russian troops from Banja.
1801	The first census was done in Great Britain.
1830	The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, the military forcemaintained by the Netherlands in its colony of the Dutch East Indies,was established by royal decree.
1830	Alexander Graham Bell made his first successful bi-directional telephone call, saying, 'Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.'
1831	French Foreign Legion was established.
1847	The first coin was minted in Hawaii.
1876	Alexander Graham Bell made his first successful bi-directional telephone call, saying, 'Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.'
1876	The American inventor Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, and to this day, the first successful telephone conversation took place between Graham Bell and his colleague Watson.
1897	Social activist and famous poetess Savitri Bai Phule died.
1906	1,060 killed in a French coal mine explosion
1922	Mahatma Gandhi was sent to jail for six years after his arrest in a sedition case.
1929	The Egyptian government gave women limited divorce rights.
1937	Jersey Airport opened in Channel Island.
1945	During World War II, American warplanes heavily bombed Tokyo, the capital of Japan. Due to which about 1 lakh ordinary citizens of Tokyo were killed.
1946	1855 people died in a train accident in Brazil.
1952	Forbidden by law to seek re-election, former Cuban PresidentFulgencio Batista staged a coup d'état to resume control.
1959	An anti-Chinese uprising erupted in Lhasa, the capital ofTibet, as about 300,000 Tibetans surrounded the Potala Palace to preventthe 14th Dalai Lama from leaving or being removed by the ChinesePeople's Liberation Army.
1960	Eight people were taken out of the Agadir wreck, 12,000 dead in Morocco, ten days after the deadly earthquake.
1965	Thomas Playford, Premier of South Australia, leftoffice after 27 years, the longest term of any democratically electedleader in the history of Australia.
1966	Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguy?n Cao K? sacked rival General Nguy?n Chánh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.
1968	Vietnam War/Laotian Civil War-North Vietnamese and Pathet Laoforces overwhelmed the American, Laotian, Thai, and Hmong defenders ofLima Site 85.
1975	Ho Chi Minh Campaign-North Vietnam began its final push forvictory over South Vietnam with an attack on Ban Me Thuot.
1977	Astronomers using NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory, an observatory aboard a highly modified jet aircraft, discovered a faint planetary ring system around Uranus.
2003	North Korea test-fired the cruise missile.
2005	Tung Chee Hwa, the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong,announced his resignation following widespread dissatisfaction with hisleadership.
2006	NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter attained orbit around Mars.
2006	26 people were killed in a landmine blast in Quetta city of Pakistan.
2008	Congress leader DD Lapang was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Meghalaya.
2010	Three men are detained in relation to the theft of former Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos' corpse, December 11, 2009.
2011	Lawmakers successfully pass the vote to remove nearly all collective bargaining from Wisconsin state employees.
2011	The 14th Dalai Lama, head of the Tibetan exile movement, plans to retire within days.
2012	French comic artist Jean Giraud, creator of 'Blueberry' and numerous influential science-fiction comics, dies at 73.
2012	U.S. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney wins caucuses in the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, Guam and Wyoming.
2012	The Former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela was released from hospital after routine check up with successful medical check up.
2013	South Africa's former President Nelson Mandela is released from the hospital after having 'successful' medical tests; prior reports stated he was hospitalized for a routine check up.
2013	Falkland Island residents complete the first day of a two day sovereignty referendum, determining whether the islands should remain a British overseas territory.
2014	As the Irish fruit company Fyffes merges with US company Chiquita, the world’s greatest banana company is created. The new company, Chuquita Fyffes, will trade on the New York Stock Exchange.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1861	Canada's female poet Mrs. Polin Johnson was born. She was born in the faction of the Rand Indian caste who had to migrate to Canada from the United States.
1872	Maulana Ubaidullah Sindhi, a leader of India's independence movement, was born. He started the silk movement but this movement failed.
1985	India won the Bension and Hedges Cricket World Cup.

Birth Year	Name/Category/Country
1947	Kim Campbell / Politician / Canada
1929	Mangesh Keshav Padgaonkar / Poet / India
1932	Udupi Ramachandra Rao / Engineer / India
1939	Asghar Ali Engineer / Author / India
1945	Madhavrao Scindia / Politician / India
1970	Omar Abdullah / Politician / India

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