Page 9: Historical Events In March - 10

1993  C Northcote Parkinson, English historian/sociologist (Law of P), dies.   

1994  1 million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri's funeral.   

1994  Cecil Rolph Hewitt, journalist/policeman, dies at 92.   

1995  Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shiite mosque, 17+ killed   

1995  Dow-Jones hits record 4035.64.   

1995  Newspapers reported that ESPN would launch a sports online service with the backing of Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen's Starwave Internet Company   

1995  Alexander Hyatt-King, Mozart scholar, dies at 84.   

1996  22nd People's Choice Awards Apollo 13, Tom Hanks win.   

1996  NYC Mayor Guiliani visits Israel.   

1996  Lucius E Burch Jr, US civil rights leader, dies at 84.   

1996  22nd People's Choice Awards: Apollo 13, Tom Hanks win   

1998  4th Blockbuster Entertainment Awards.   

2006  NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters Mars orbit   

2012  At least 130 rockets are fired into Israel from Gaza.   

2013  Aung San Suu Kyi is re-elected leader of the Burmese National League for Democracy   

2014  German Chancellor Merkel warns Russia's Putin that making Crimea part of Russia is illegal and in violation of Ukraine's constitution   

2017  South Korean judges uphold parliaments' decision to impeach President Park Geun-hye.   

2017  The UN warns that the world is facing the biggest humanitarian crisis since World War II, with up to 20 million people at risk of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria.   

2018  16 people die after being struck by lightening at a church in Nyaruguru District, Rwanda.   

2018  Two girls aged 8 and 6 become the inaugural female weightlifters to appear on Iranian television after a protest   

2019  Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 bound for Nairobi, crashes shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa killing all 157 people on board. All Boeing 737 MAX aircraft are subsequently grounded worldwide.   

2020  Three months into the COVID-19 epidemic Chinese President Xi Jinping finally travels to Wuhan, epicenter of the outbreak as the rate of daily new infections declines in China falls to 19 new cases and 17 deaths.   

2020  New York governor Andrew Cuomo deploys the national guard to New Rochelle after one-mile radius zone established as 108 cases of coronavirus COVID-19 detected   

2023  Xi Jinping appointed to a historic third term as President of China (previously restricted to two terms) [1].   

2023  The Chinese presidential election is held with the National People's Congress unanimously re-electing Xi Jinping as the President of the People's Republic of China to an unprecedented third term.   

2023  Iran and Saudi Arabia agree to resume diplomatic relations which were severed in 2016, at talks mediated by China.   

2023  Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest bank in the United States, fails, creating then the largest bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis, affecting companies around the world   

2023  Kivu conflict: Angola announces the deployment of troops to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, following the failure of a ceasefire between government forces and M23 rebels in North Kivu   

2024  96th Academy Awards: Best Film "Oppenheimer"; Best Director Christopher Nolan , acting Cillian Murphy, Emma Stone , Robert Downey Jr , Da'vine Joy Randolph; Ryan Gosling sings "I'm Just Ken" [1]   

2024  In this year, Portuguese legislative election: The Democratic Alliance claims a plurality of seats and forms a minority government amid losses by the incumbent Socialist Party and major gains by the right-wing Chega party   

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1415  On this day in history birth of vasili II of Russia (d. 1462)   

1452  On March - 10 birth of ferdinand II, the Catholic, King of Aragon/Sicily (expelled Jews)   

1503  Ferdinand I, German emperor (1558-64) was born on this day in history.   

1538  Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk; executed by Queen Elizabeth (1572) was born on March - 10.   

1628  Constantine Huygens Jr, Dutch poet/painter/cartoonist was born on March - 10.   

1628  On March - 10 birth of marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (d. 1694)   

1656  On March - 10 birth of adolf H van Rechteren, Dutch diplomat/politician   

1698  On March - 10 birth of gaetano Maria Schiassi, composer   

0037  On this day in history tiberius Claudius Nero, Roman emperor (14-37), dies at 78   

0483  Simplicius, Italian Pope (468-83), dies on March - 10.   

1291  Death of Arghun, Persian ruler on this day in history.   

1391  Death of Tvrtko I first king of Bosnia (b. 1338) on this day in history.   

1510  Death of Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (b. 1445) on March - 10.   

1513  Death of John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English commander (b. 1443) on March - 10.   

1546  Thomas Elyot, English diplomat (Boke named the Governor), dies at 46 on March - 10.   

1584  Death of Thomas Norton, English politician and writer (b. 1532) on March - 10.