• Mar 10 2006

    4 Years ago

    The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.


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  • Mar 10 2006

    4 Years ago

    Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital started in São Paulo (the biggest city in Brazil) which would eventually kill more than 152 people.


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  • Mar 10 2000

    10 Years ago

    The NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com bubble.


  • Mar 10 1993

    17 Years ago

    Chris Birt captures Godzilla in the endless voids of the letter 4


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  • Mar 10 1990

    20 Years ago

    In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.


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  • Mar 10 1987

    23 Years ago

    The Holy See condemns the practice of surrogate motherhood, along with test-tube baby and artificial insemination.


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  • Mar 10 1982

    28 Years ago

    The United States places an embargo on Libyan petroleum imports because of their support of terrorist groups.


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  • Mar 10 1982

    28 Years ago

    Syzygy: all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun. See also Jupiter effect.


  • Mar 10 1980

    30 Years ago

    Madeira School headmistress Jean Harris shoots and kills Scarsdale diet doctor Herman Tarnower


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  • Mar 10 1977

    33 Years ago

    Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover planetary rings around Uranus (planet).


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  • Mar 10 1975

    35 Years ago

    Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.


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  • Mar 10 1975

    35 Years ago

    Sanyo Shinkansen open between Osaka and Fukuoka, Fukuoka.


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  • Mar 10 1970

    40 Years ago

    Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged with My Lai war crimes.


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  • Mar 10 1969

    41 Years ago

    In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He would later retract his guilty plea.


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  • Mar 10 1959

    51 Years ago

    Tibet leads an unsuccessful uprising against ten years of China occupation in Lhasa. Thousands are massacred by the occupying China army.


  • Mar 10 1952

    58 Years ago

    Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.


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  • Mar 10 1948

    62 Years ago

    The Indian Union Muslim League is founded, by remnants of the old Muslim League.


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  • Mar 10 1945

    65 Years ago

    The United States Army Air Forces Bombing of Tokyo in World War II, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.


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  • Mar 10 1933

    77 Years ago

    An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 120 people.


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  • Mar 10 1922

    88 Years ago

    Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, although he is released after two years in February 1924 after an operation for appendicitis.


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