10 March
Notable Births
Matt Poitras
b. 2004
Canadian ice hockey player (born 2004)
Keon Johnson (basketball, born 2002)
b. 2002
American basketball player (born 2002)
Nick Bolton
b. 2000
American football player (born 2000)
Cole Kmet
b. 1999
American football player (born 1999)
Justin Herbert
b. 1998
American football player (born 1998)
Belinda Bencic
b. 1997
Swiss tennis player (born 1997)
Zach LaVine
b. 1995
American basketball player (born 1995)
Sergey Mozgov
b. 1995
Russian ice dancer (born 1995)
Bad Bunny
b. 1994
Puerto Rican rapper (born 1994)
Nikita Parris
b. 1994
English professional footballer (born 1994)
Jack Butland
b. 1993
English footballer (born 1993)
Neeskens Kebano
b. 1992
DR Congo international footballer (born 1992)
Stefanie Vögele
b. 1990
Swiss tennis player (born 1990)
Simon Moser
b. 1989
Swiss ice hockey player (born 1989)
Dayán Viciedo
b. 1989
Cuban baseball player (born 1989)
Clarissa dos Santos
b. 1988
Brazilian basketball player (born 1988)
Josh Hoffman
b. 1988
New Zealand international rugby league footballer
Ego Nwodim
b. 1988
American comedian and actress (born 1988)
Quincy Pondexter
b. 1988
American basketball player and coach (born 1988)
Ivan Rakitić
b. 1988
Croatian footballer (born 1988)
Notable Deaths
Stanley R. Jaffe
d. 2025
American film producer and director (1940–2025)
Carl Lundström
d. 2025
Swedish businessman and activist (1960–2025)
Ken Adam
d. 2016
British designer (1921–2016)
Roberto Perfumo
d. 2016
Argentine footballer and sports commentator
Jovito Salonga
d. 2016
President of the Senate of the Philippines from 1987 to 1992
Anita Brookner
d. 2016
English novelist and art historian (1928–2016)
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland
d. 2013
British fashion model and Swedish royal (1915–2013)
Jean Giraud
d. 2012
French comics author (1938–2012)
F. Sherwood Rowland
d. 2012
American chemist (1927–2012)
Bill Blackbeard
d. 2011
American writer-editor and comic strip collector (1926–2011)
Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi
d. 2010
Egyptian Islamic scholar (1928–2010)
Corey Haim
d. 2010
Canadian actor (1971–2010)
Ernie Ladd
d. 2007
American football player and professional wrestler (1938–2007)
Dave Allen (comedian)
d. 2005
Irish comedian and satirist (1936–2005)
Oswaldo Guayasamín
d. 1999
Ecuadorian painter
Lloyd Bridges
d. 1998
American actor (1913–1998)
LaVern Baker
d. 1997
American rhythm and blues singer (1929–1997)
Ross Hunter
d. 1996
American actor (1920–1996)
Giorgos Zampetas
d. 1992
Musical artist
Zelda Fitzgerald
d. 1948
American writer (1900–1948)
On This Day in History
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2026
Bam Adebayo of the Miami Heat recorded the second-highest scoring game in NBA history with 83 Points.
Bam Adebayo
2024
2024 Portuguese legislative election: Elections are held in Portugal for all 230 seats in the Assembly of the Republic. The Partido Socialista loses its absolute majority to the Partido Social Democrata, winning 77 and 79 seats respectively.
2024 Portuguese legislative election
2023
Silicon Valley Bank collapses due to a run on its deposits, in the second largest bank failure in US history. Its operations are taken over by the FDIC.
Silicon Valley Bank
2022
2022 Hungarian presidential election: The National Assembly of Hungary elects former minister for Family Affairs, Katalin Novák, as president of Hungary in a 137–51 vote, becoming the first female president in the country's history.
2022 Hungarian presidential election
2019
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX, crashes shortly after takeoff, killing all 157 passengers and crew. This and the prior Lion Air Flight 610 led to all 387 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft being grounded worldwide.
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302
2017
The impeachment of President Park Geun-hye of South Korea in response to a major political scandal is unanimously upheld by the country's Constitutional Court, ending her presidency.
Impeachment of Park Geun-hye
2006
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
2000
The Dot-com bubble peaks with the NASDAQ Composite stock market index reaching 5,048.62.
Dot-com bubble
1991
1991 Salvadoran legislative election: The Nationalist Republican Alliance wins 39 of the 84 seats in the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador.
1991 Salvadoran legislative election
1990
In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted eighteen months after seizing power in a coup d'état in September 1988.
Haiti
1989
Air Ontario Flight 1363, a Fokker F-28 Fellowship, crashes at Dryden Regional Airport in Dryden, Ontario, Canada, killing 24.
Air Ontario Flight 1363
1982
Syzygy: All nine planets recognized at this time — Mercury to Pluto — align on the same side of the Sun.
Syzygy (astronomy)
1979
1979 International Women's Day protests in Tehran: Protestor involvement peaks with 15,000 Iranian women and girls performing a three‐hour-long sit‐in at the Courthouse of Tehran.
1979 International Women's Day protests in Tehran
1977
Astronomers discover the rings of Uranus.
Rings of Uranus
1975
Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh Campaign: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Mê Thuột in the South on their way to capturing Saigon in the final push for victory over South Vietnam.
1975 spring offensive
1974
1974 Belgian general election: Elections are held in Belgium for all 212 seats in the Chamber of Representatives, the Belgian Socialist Party taking the majority with 59.
1974 Belgian general election
1971
John Gorton resigns as Prime Minister of Australia and the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia after a secret ballot vote of confidence, being replaced in both positions by William McMahon.
John Gorton
1970
Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. military with My Lai war crimes.
Vietnam War
1969
In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to recant.
Memphis, Tennessee
1966
Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyễn Cao Kỳ sacks rival General Nguyễn Chánh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.
South Vietnam