What are the important events that happened on March 10? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 10: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 10 is the 69th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 296 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 25, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,026,080 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hexacontaenneagon’ day.
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Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 344 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,462 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 10 Historical Events
- 1735 –An agreement between Nadir Shah and Russia is signed near Ganja and Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku.
- 1816 –Crossing of the Andes: A group of royalist scouts is captured during the Action of Juncalito.
- 1906 –The Courrières mine disaster, Europe’s worst ever, kills 1099 miners in Northern France.
- 1917 –Batangas is formally founded as one of the Philippines’s earliest encomiendas.
- 1922 –Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.
- 1959 –Tibetan uprising: Fearing an abduction attempt by China, 300,000 Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama’s palace to prevent his removal.
- 1968 –Vietnam War: Battle of Lima Site 85, concluding the 11th with largest single ground combat loss of United States Air Force members (12) during that war.
- 1975 –Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.
- 1980 –Formation of the Irish Army Ranger Wing
- 2000 –The NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.
Who were born on March 10?
- 1850 –Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (d. 1906)
- 1888 –Baldwin Cooke, American actor d. 1953
- 1900 –Pandelis Pouliopoulos, secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (d. 1943)
- 1925 –Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet (d. 2005)
- 1961 –Laurel Clark, physician and astronaut (d. 2003)
- 1963 –Jeff Ament, American musician (Pearl Jam)
- 1970 –Michel van der Aa, Dutch composer
- 1971 –Steve Arnold, British racing driver
- 1973 –Eva Herzigova, Czech model
- 1984 –Nikos Arabatzis, Greek footballer
Who died on March 10?
- 1291 –Arghun, Persian ruler
- 1549 –Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, English politician and diplomat
- 1584 –Thomas Norton, English politician and writer (b. 1532)
- 1588 –Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (b. 1533)
- 1937 –Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (b. 1884)
- 1970 –Vasilis Avlonitis, Greek actor (b. 1904)
- 1988 –Andy Gibb, English-born singer (b. 1958)
- 1992 –Giorgos Zampetas, Greek composer and musician (b. 1925)
- 2001 –Massimo Morsello, Italian musician and activist (b. 1958)
- 2008 –Vangelis Kazan, Greek actor (b. 1936)
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