March 10

Holidays

• Saint Anastasia
• Saint Macharius (d.335)
• Saint John Ogilvie (died 1615)
• Saint Himelin
• Saint Blankaard
• Tibetian national Uprising day
• Fans of video game character Mario celebrate Mar10 Day, by singing songs about him, watching the movie and show, and playing Mario games.
• Doctors Day - (Venezuela).
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Events

• 2019 Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 - An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 flight from Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) crashes en route towards Nairobi, Kenya killing all 157 people on board.
• 2018 Economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Joseph Kabila, the Congolese president, signs a law increasing taxes on mining and royalties for international mining companies operating in DR Congo. This was despite opposition from foreign companies.
• 2017 Yemeni Civil War (2015-present). A Saudi-led coalition strikes a market in Al Hudaydah Governorate. At least 20 civilians are killed and six Houthi militants are injured.
• 2016 One soldier and eight militants are killed in clashes between Lebanese Army soldiers and jihadist militants in the vicinity of Ras Baalbek, northeast Lebanon. This is close to the Syrian border.
• 2015 Sinai insurgency: One person is killed and 24 are injured in a suicide bomber attack on an Egyptian police station on the Sinai Peninsula.
• 2014 2014 Crimean crisis: Just a dozen pro-Russian soldiers take control of the Ukrainian naval station near Bakhchysarai.
• 2013 War in Afghanistan: Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan, alleges that the U.S. Armed Forces are working in concert with the Afghan Taliban to keep some troops around after the planned 2014 withdrawal.
• 2012 Arab Spring
• 2011 2011 Libyan Civil War:
• 2010 Jos, Nigeria: Interreligious riots
• 2009 The United States Senate approves an Omnibus Spending Bill in the amount of US$410 billion.
• 2008 According to the New York Times, Governor Eliot Spitzer of New York had patronized a prostitute service.
• 2007 Five people were killed in heavy flooding in the area of Labasa, Vanua Levu on Fiji's island.
• 2006 The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is now at Mars
• 2005 After widespread dissatisfaction with his tenure, Tung Chee Haa is forced to resign as the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong.
• 2004 2004 ROC presidential election: Wei Chueh is one of the four Buddhist masters in Taiwan who controversially endorses Lien Cha.
• 2003 Saddam Hussein will be disarmed by another international body. Saddam Hussein will be disarmed by another international body.
• 2000 The peak of the NASDAQ Composite stock market index is 5132.52, which signals the end of dot-com's boom.
• 1998 4th Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
• 1996 New York City Mayor Guiliani visits Israel
• 1995 Dow-Jones hits record 4035.64
• 1994 Charles Bukowski, German/US writer (Barfly, Hollywood), dies at age 73.
• 1992 Sandra Seuser, Katrin Schreiter, Annet Hesselbarth, and Grit Breuer walk female indoor world record 4x400 metre (3:07.22).
• 1991 Eddie Sutton is first NCAA coach to lead four schools into playoffs.
• 1990 4th American Comedy Awards: When Harry Met Sally.
• 1988 Avalanche at Swiss ski resort "Klosters" nearly kills Prince Charles.
• 1986 Ernie Lombardi, National League Most Valuable Player in 1938, and Bobby Doerr, elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
• 1985 Dallas Mavericks' coach Dick Motta is fourth NBA coach to win 700 games.
• 1984 Heavyweight Tim Witherspoon KOs Greg Page
• 1983 Walter Alston, Los Angeles Dodgers manager, elected to Hall of Fame.
• 1982 President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
• 1980 Willard Scott becomes the weather forcaster on the Today Show
• 1978 Soyuz 28 returns to Earth.
• 1977 Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.
• 1975 Rocky Horror Show opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances
• 1974 Sextet closes at Bijou Theater NYC after 9 performances
• 1973 Morocco adopts constitution.
• 1972 1st black US political convention opens (Gary Indiana)
• 1971 US Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18.
• 1970 Barbra Streisand records The Singer andI Can Do It
• 1969 James Earl Ray pleads guilty in murder of Martin Luther King Jr.
• 1968 Ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington, New Zealand (200 killed).
• 1966 North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley.
• 1965 Dutch Princess Margriet and Pieter van Vollenhoven, get engaged
• 1964 US reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany.
• 1963 Pete Rose debuts with hits in his two first at bats in spring training.
• 1960 USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing.
• 1959 Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet
• 1957 Thousands of soccer fans riot in Italy.
• 1956 Peter Twiss sets new world air record 1,132 mph (1,823 kph).
• 1952 Military coup by General Fulgencio Batista in Cuba.
• 1951 FBI director J Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner.
• 1949 Detroit Tigers' pitcher Art Houtteman is critically injured in an auto accident but recovers to win 15 games in 1949.
• 1948 First civilian to exceed speed of sound - Herb H Hoover, Edwards Air Force Base California.
• 1946 Train derailment kills 185 near Aracaju, Brazil.
• 1945 Japan declares Vietnam Independence
• 1944 Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front.
• 1943 Banco Bradesco was founded by Amador Aguiar in Marília, São Paulo, Brazil.
• 1941 Lee MacPhail, Dodger GM predicts all players will wear batting helmets
• 1940 1st US opera telecast, W2XBS, NYC, I Pagliacci
• 1937 The Encyclical ''Mit brennender Sorge'' of Pope Pius XI is published in Nazi Germany.
• 1934 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Suzanne Davis.
• 1933 Nevada becomes first US state to regulate narcotics.
• 1931 British Labour party removes fascist Sir Oswald Mosley.
• 1927 Albania mobilizes due to threat of Serbian, Croatian and Slovenes.
• 1926 Run on Belgian banks.
• 1925 Walter Mittelholzer is 1st to flies over Demawend mountain, Iran
• 1922 KLZ-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
• 1920 The Baylor Business Men's Club changes its name to the Baylor University Chamber of Commerce. It has operated under this name since the change.
• 1917 Batangas is formally founded as one of the Philippines's earliest encomiendas.
• 1915 British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle.
• 1914 Suffragette Mary Richardson damages Velázquez' painting ''Rokeby Venus'' in London's National Gallery with a meat chopper.
• 1913 Stanley Cup: Quebec Bulldogs sweep Sydney (NS) Millionaires in 2 games
• 1910 Pittsburgh Courier, begins publishing.
• 1909 Jack Johnson fights Victor McLaglen to no decision in six for box title.
• 1906 London Underground opens Bakeroo line (Baker Street to Waterloo Line).
• 1905 Japanese Army captures Mukden (Shenyang).
• 1903 Harry Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating machine.
• 1902 Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri.
• 1900 Battle at Driefontein, South Africa (Boers versus British army).
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Famous Birthday

Who was born on March 10?

• Sharon Stone

  American actress, a dangerously sultry screen leading lady.

• Olivia Wilde

  American actress.

• Chuck Norris

  American actor who built a substantial career on his skill in martial arts.

• Carrie Underwood

  American country singer.

• Jon Hamm

  American actor.

• Robin Thicke

  American singer.

• Shannon Tweed

  Canadian-American model and actress.

• Emily Osment

  American actress and singer.

• Paget Brewster

  American actress.

• Neneh Cherry

  Swedish singer-songwriter.

• Jasmine Guy
• Paul Haggis

  Canadian director producer and screenwriter.

• Werner Schreyer
• Cristián de la Fuente

  Chilean-American model actor and producer.

• Joe Viterelli

  American actor (Born 1937).

• Pamela Mason

  American minor actress whose films included "I Met A Murderer," "The Upturned Glass," "Lady Possessed" and whose TV credits featured "The...

• Sara Montiel

  Spanish actress and singer (d. 2013).

• Natasha Alam
• Katharine Houghton

  American actress.

• Jeff Branson

  American actor.

• Rafe Spall

  English actor.

• Bree Turner

  American dancer and actress.

• Madeleine Arthur
• Mitchell Lichtenstein

  American actor, son of Roy Lichtenstein.

• Takashi Fujii

  Japanese television performer.

• Cec Linder

  Galicia, Poland -- Actor (Goldfinger).

• Sam Jaffe

  Actor (Dr Zorba-Ben Casey), dies of cancer at 93.

• Marion Hutton

  American singer and actress (Born 1919).

• Barry Fitzgerald

  Irish actor and singer (d. 1961).

• Betty Amann

  German-born American actress (Born 1905).

• Landon Liboiron

  TV Actor.

• Uriah Shelton

  TV Actor.

• Gloria Diaz

  Filipino model and actress Miss Universe 1969.

• Edi Gathegi

  Kenyan-American actor.

• Eva Herzigová

  Czech model and actress.

• Osama bin Laden

  Saudi Islamist and leader of al-Qaeda (d. 2011).

• Arthur (TV presenter)
• Haifa Wehbe
• Timbaland
• Alexandra Pastor
• Boris Vian

  French writer, actor, engineer, jazz musician, artist, and essayist.

• Invention of the telephone
• Youssra
• Ramzy Bédia
• Prince Edward Earl of Wessex
• Emeli Sandé

  English-Scottish singer-songwriter.

• Jean-Pierre Adams

  French former international footballer.

• Samuel Eto'o

  Cameroonian footballer.

• Camille Dalmais
• Didier Barbelivien

  French singer, song-writer and lyricist, his work has been performed by Mireille Mathieu, Julio Iglesiaas, Patricia Kaas, and others.

• Shannon Miller

  Gymnast.

• Gérard Garouste

  French painter, illustrator, and decorator.

• Sepp Blatter

  Swiss football administrator, who serves as the 8th and current President of FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association).

• Jeff Ament

  American bass player and songwriter (Pearl Jam Green River and Mother Love Bone).

• Kim Campbell

  Canadian politician, writer and teacher.

• Nimeño II
• Bernard Giroux

  French journalist, co-pilot in Paris-Daar rally, and off-shore pilot (boating).

• Mark Lerner

  American astrologer and publisher.

• Seiko Matsuda

  Japanese millionaire singing star and TV talent, married to a famous TV star with one daughter.

• Pervenche Berès

  French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France.

• Bernadette Brady

  Australian pro astrologer, teacher, international lecturer and author of "The Eagle and The Lark.

• Déborah Révy
• Gaétan Girouard
• Barbara Corcoran

  Entrepreneur.

• Mitch Gaylord

  American gymnast, considered the top gymnast of the U.S.

• Tom Scholz

  American rock singer and lead singer of the rock group "Boston.

• Gerard Croiset

  Dutch clairvoyant, a sensitive healer, extensively tested by the Parapsychology Institute of Utrecht and by Drs.

• Manik Chand Jain
• Frantz Granvorka
• Benoît Lutgen
• James Earl Ray
• Marta Torné
• Keren Ann
• Chloé Delaume
• Fred Mella

  French singer, tenor and soloist of thr group "Les Compagnons de la Chanson", of Iralian descent.

• Julien Jeanpierre

  French tennis player who was a world number one ranked junior and had wins over Roger Federer, Lleyton Hewitt and David Nalbandian during...

• Aécio Neves

  Aécio Neves da Cunha is a Brazilian economist, politician and president of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB).

• Mino Cinélu
• Bix Beiderbecke

  American musician, composer and jazz great.

• Lassana Diarra

  French-Malian soccer player, playing for the national French team.

• Georges Rawiri
• Jacques Denoël
• Robert Abel

  American feature documentary film director on the leading edge of technology for more than 25 years.

• Marcial Maciel

  Mexican religious figure (Born 1920).

• Barbara Schett

  Austrian tennis player and sportscaster.

• Pat Kane
• Benjamin Burnley

  Rock Singer.

• Kelly Quinn

  American psychic known as the "jet-set psychic" for her clientele in the entertainment and international circles.

• Ted McKenna

  rocker (Alex Harvey Band).

• John Rechy
• Sawyer Spielberg

  American child of noted parents, his father is director Steven Spielberg and his mother is actress Kate Capshaw.

• Roger Boom

  American physicist, the creator of the first cryogenic storage unit for a power company in 1989; the unit cost $14-$17 million.

• Luc Dardenne

  Begian film director and producer who, with his brother Jean-Pierre, has twice won the prestigious"Palme d'Or" at Cannes Festival.

• Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau
• Michel Seuphor

  Belgian abstract painter and art critic who achieved eminence.

• Jimmie MacGregor

  Scottish folksinger and broadcaster, best known as half of a singing duo with Robin Hall.

• Isaac Rosenfeld

  American writer, a critic, essayist, novelist and short story writer.

• Claude Laydu

  Belgian born French actor and comedian.

• Morgan Tsvangirai

  Zimbabwean politician 2nd Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.

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Famous Deaths

• Corey Haim

  Canadian actor (Born 1971).

• Andy Gibb

  British-American musician and youngest brother of the pop group "The Bee Gees.

• Ray Milland

  Actor (Lost Weekend - Academy Award 1945), dies at 81.

• Anna Moffo

  American opera singer, television personality, and award-winning dramatic actress who was nicknamed "La Bellissima.

• Marguerite De La Motte

  American actress (Born 1902).

• Zelda Fitzgerald

  American wife of novelist, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

• Barry Sheene

  British motorcycle champion who sustained terrible injuries in a crash on 7/28/1982.

• Ross Hunter

  American film producer and actor.

• Leopold Samuel

  Composer, dies at 91.

• William Brocklesby Wordsworth

  Composer, dies at 79.

• Roy Holmer Wallack

  Dies of pneumonia at 64.

• Bob Nieman

  American baseball player, a right-handed outfielder who played with the St. Louis Browns (1951-1952), Detroit Tigers (1953-1954), Chicago...

• Giorgos Zampetas

  Greek bouzouki player and songwriter (d. 1992).

• James Rector

  American sprinter and lawyer (d. 1949).

• Louis de Vries

  Dutch actor (Merchant of Venice), dies at 68.

• Glenn Cunningham

  American middle-distance runner (d. 1988).

• Jan Masaryk

  Czech soldier and politician Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1948).

• Nicholas Georgiadis

  Greek painter, stage and costume designer (Born 1923).

• David Vogel

  Ukrainian author, dies in Auschwitz at age 52.

• Vangelis Kazan

  Greek actor (Born 1936).

• Carl Reinecke

  German pianist, conductor and composer (Born 1824).

• Mabel Wheeler Daniels

  Composer, dies at 92.

• Richard Sharples

  Governor of Bermuda, assassinated.

• Quinto Maganini

  Composer, dies at 76.

• June Harrison

  Actress (Land of the Lawless), dies at 48.

• Danny Joe Brown

  American singer (Molly Hatchet) (Born 1951).

• Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann composer

  dies at age 94.

• Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangell composer

  dies at age 38.

• Eugen Richter German Member of Parliament (Liberal)

  dies at age 67.

• Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke composer

  dies at age 85.

• Karl Lueger Austrian anti-semite/mayor of Vienna

  dies at age 65.

• Harriet Tubman abolitionist

  conductor on Underground railroad, dies in New York.

• Horace Wadham Nicholl composer

  dies at age 73.

• Arthur Hervey composer

  dies at age 67.

• Charles Gordon Curtis

  inventor of Curtis-steam turbine, dies at age 92.

• Mari Sandoz

  US author (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at age 64.

• Frederik "Frits" Zernike

  Dutch physicist (Nobel Prize 1953), dies at age 77.

• E Power Biggs

  English organist/composer (CBS), dies at age 70.

• Pieter Jan Bouman

  Dutch sociologist/historian, dies at age 74.

• Herman Tarnower

  doctor (Scarsdale Diet), killed by Jean Harris.

• David Gunn

  abortion doctor, killed by Michael Griffin at age 47.

• C Northcote Parkinson

  English historian/sociologist (Law of P), dies.

• Robert Shea

  author, dies of cancer.

• Cecil Rolph Hewitt

  journalist/policeman, dies at age 92.

• Richard Baerlein

  racing writer, dies at age 84.

• Hendrik W van Leeuwen

  Dutch musician, dies at age 79.

• Alexander Hyatt-King

  Mozart scholar, dies at age 84.

• Lucius E Burch Jr

  US civil rights leader, dies at age 84.

• Mikhail Boulgakov

  Russian writer (Born 1891).

• Yiorgos Batis

  Greek composer and musician (Born 1885).

• Vasilis Avlonitis

  Greek actor (Born 1904).

• Oswaldo Guayasamin

  Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (Born 1919).

• Valentino Mazzia

  American forensic anesthesiologist (Born 1922).

• Richard Fran Biegenwald

  American serial killer (Born 1940).

• Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy

  Egyptian Muslim cleric (Born 1928).

• Willem Schermerhorn

  Dutch premier (1945-46), dies at age 82.

• Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Russian journalist and author (d. 1937).

• Minoru Shirota

  Japanese physician and microbiologist invented Yakult (d. 1982).

• Konstantin Chernenko

  General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Born 1911).

• Kijuro Shidehara

  Prime minister of Japan (Born 1872).

• June Marlowe

  actress (Pardon US), dies at age 81.

• Eugene 'Bull' Connor

  American segregationist (Born 1897).

• Dave Blood (David Schulthise)

  American musician (Born 1956).

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Top #1 songs in the USA

• 2018 Drake - God's Plan
• 2017 Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You
• 2016 Rihanna Featuring Drake - Work
• 2015 Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk!
• 2014 Pharrell Williams - Happy
• 2013 Baauer - Harlem Shake
• 2012 Kelly Clarkson - Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)
• 2011 Lady GaGa - Born This Way
• 2010 The Black Eyed Peas - Imma Be
• 2009 Flo Rida - Right Round
• 2008 Flo Rida - Low
• 2007 Mims - This Is Why I'm Hot
• 2006 James Blunt - You're Beautiful
• 2005 50 Cent - Candy Shop
• 2004 Usher - Yeah!
• 2003 50 Cent - In Da Club
• 2002 Jennifer Lopez - Ain't It Funny
• 2001 Joe - Stutter
• 2000 Lonestar - Amazed
• 1999 Cher - Believe
• 1998 Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On
• 1997 The Spice Girls - Wannabe
• 1996 Mariah Carey - One Sweet Day
• 1995 Madonna - Take A Bow
• 1994 Ace Of Base - The Sign
• 1993 Snow - Informer
• 1992 Mr. Big - To Be With You
• 1991 Mariah Carey - Someday
• 1990 Janet Jackson - Escapade
• 1989 Debbie Gibson - Lost In Your Eyes
• 1988 Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
• 1987 Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer
• 1986 Mr. Mister - Kyrie
• 1985 REO Speedwagon - Can't Fight This Feeling
• 1984 Van Halen - Jump
• 1983 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
• 1982 The J. Geils Band - Centerfold
• 1981 Eddie Rabbitt - I Love A Rainy Night
• 1980 Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
• 1979 Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
• 1978 Andy Gibb - (Love Is) Thicker Than Water
• 1977 Barbra Streisand - Love Theme From A Star Is Born (Evergreen)
• 1976 The Miracles - Love Machine (Part 1)
• 1975 Olivia Newton-John - Have You Never Been Mellow
• 1974 Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun
• 1973 Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song
• 1972 Nilsson - Without You
• 1971 The Osmonds - One Bad Apple
• 1970 Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
• 1969 Sly & the Family Stone - Everyday People
• 1968 Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra - Love Is Blue (L'Amour Est Bleu)
• 1967 The Supremes - Love Is Here And Now You're Gone
• 1966 Barry Sadler - The Ballad Of The Green Berets
• 1965 The Beatles - Eight Days A Week
• 1964 The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand
• 1963 The 4 Seasons - Walk Like A Man
• 1962 Bruce Channel - Hey! Baby
• 1961 Chubby Checker - Pony Time
• 1960 Percy Faith - The Theme From A Summer Place
• 1959 Lloyd Price - Stagger Lee
• 1958 The Silhouettes - Get A Job
• 1957 Tab Hunter - Young Love
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Top #1 Rock songs

• 2017 twenty one pilots - Heathens
• 2016 twenty one pilots - Stressed Out
• 2015 Hozier - Take Me To Church
• 2014 Bastille - Pompeii
• 2013 The Lumineers - Ho Hey
• 2012 The Black Keys - Lonely Boy
• 2011 Foo Fighters - Rope
• 2010 Alice In Chains - Your Decision