About March 10
March 10, 2025 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.
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Pisces is the sun 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.
What Happened On March 10
- 241 BC –First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands – The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.
- 298 –Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa against the Berbers, and makes a triumphal entry into Carthage.
- 1762 –French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.
- 1804 –Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
- 1816 –Crossing of the Andes: A group of royalist scouts is captured during the Action of Juncalito.
- 1830 –The KNIL also known as the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created.
- 1864 –American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
- 1876 –Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.”
- 1891 –Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
- 1917 –Batangas is formally founded as one of the Philippines’s earliest encomiendas.
- 1933 –An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 115 people and causes an estimated $40 million dollars in damage.
- 1944 –Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front.
- 1966 –Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky sacked rival General Nguyen Chanh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.
- 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
- 1990 –In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.
- 2000 –The NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.
- 2006 –The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
- 2008 –The New York Times reveals that Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer had patronized a prostitution service.
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