March 10
is the
69th day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar (70th in
leap years). There are 296 days remaining.
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241 BC -
First Punic War:
Battle of the Aegates Islands - The
Romans sink the
Carthaginian fleet; end of
First Punic War.
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1496 -
Christopher Columbus leaves
Hispaniola for
Spain, ending his second visit to the
Western Hemisphere.
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1629 -
Charles I of England dissolves
Parliament, starting the
Eleven Years Tyranny in which there was no
parliament.
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1735 - an agreement between
Nadir Shah and
Paul I of Russia was signed near
Ganja and the Russian troops were withdrawn from
Baku.
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1804 -
Louisiana Purchase: In
St. Louis, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of
Louisiana Territory from
France to the
United States.
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1814 -
Napoleon I of France is defeated at the
Battle of Laon in
France.
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1831 - The
French Foreign Legion is established by
King Louis-Philippe to support his
war in Algeria.
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1848 - The
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the
United States Senate, ending the
Mexican-American War.
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1861 -
El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of
Segou, destroying the
Bambara Empire of
Mali.
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1864 -
Montana vigilantes hang
Jack Slade.
* 1864 -
American Civil War: The
Red River Campaign begins as
Union troops reach
Alexandria, Louisiana.
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1876 -
Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful
telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
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1880 - Members of the
Salvation Army land in the
United States and begin operations.
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1891 -
Almon Strowger, an undertaker in
Topeka, Kansas, patents the
strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
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1893 -
Côte d'Ivoire becomes a
French colony.
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1902 -
Second Boer War:
South African
Boers win their last battle over
British forces, with the capture of a
British general and 200 of his men.
* 1902 - A
United States court of appeals rules that
Thomas Edison did not invent the
movie camera.
* 1902 -
Tochangri,
Turkey, is completely destroyed by an earthquake.
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1906 - The
Courrières mine disaster,
Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in Northern
France.
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1912 -
Yuan Shikai is sworn in as the second
Provisional President of the Republic of China.
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1926 - The first
Book-of-the-Month-Club selection is produced.
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1933 - An
earthquake in
Long Beach, California kills 120 people.
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1945 - The
Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting
firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
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1948 - The
Indian Union Muslim League is founded, by remnants of the old
Muslim League.
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1951 -
Henri Queuille becomes
Prime Minister of
France.
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1952 -
Fulgencio Batista leads a successful
coup in
Cuba.
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1959 -
Tibet leads an unsuccessful uprising against ten years of
Chinese occupation in
Lhasa. Thousands massacred by the occupying
Chinese army.
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1964 - The
Ford Mustang is first produced by the
Ford Motor Company.
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1966 -
Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands marries
Claus von Amsberg.
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1969 - In
Memphis, Tennessee,
James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating
Martin Luther King Jr.
Ray would later retract his guilty plea.
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1970 -
Vietnam War: Capt.
Ernest Medina is charged with
My Lai war crimes.
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1975 -
Vietnam War:
North Vietnamese troops attack
Ban Me Thout,
South Vietnam, on their way to capturing
Saigon.
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1977 -
Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover
rings around
Uranus.
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1982 - The
United States places an
embargo on
Libyan
petroleum imports because of their support of
terrorist groups.
* 1982 -
Syzygy: all 9
planets align on the same side of the
Sun.
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1987 - The
Holy See condemns the practice of
surrogate motherhood, along with
test-tube babies and
artificial insemination.
*
1990 - In
Haiti,
Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a
coup.
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1991 -
Gulf War:
Operation Phase Echo - 540,000
American troops begin to leave the
Persian Gulf.
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1996 - The "
Summit of Peacemakers" takes place in
Egypt.
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1997 -
Buffy the Vampire Slayer premieres on
the WB network.
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1998 -
American troops stationed in the
Persian Gulf begin to receive the first
vaccinations against
anthrax.
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2000 - The
NASDAQ stock market index peaks at 5048.62, signaling the beginning of the end of the
dot-com boom.
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2004 -
Six Flags sells 8 of its theme parks to private investors.
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2006 -
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at
Mars.
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2006 - Mass unrest by the
PCC started in
São Paulo, the biggest city in
Brazil. Which would eventualy kill more than 152 people
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1415 -
Vasili II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (d.
1462)
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1452 - King
Ferdinand II of Aragon (d.
1516)
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1503 -
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (b.
1564)
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1536 -
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, English politician (d.
1572)
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1606 -
Edmund Waller, English poet (d.
1687)
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1628 -
Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (d.
1694)
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1709 -
Georg Steller, German naturalist (d.
1746)
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1749 -
Lorenzo da Ponte, Italian librettist (d.
1838)
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1769 -
Joseph Williamson, English philanthropist and tunnel builder (d.
1840)
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1772 -
Friedrich von Schlegel, German aesthetician, poet, and publicist (d.
1829)
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1776 -
Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Queen of Prussia (d.
1810)
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1788 -
Joseph von Eichendorff, German writer (d.
1857)
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1810 -
Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet and artist (d.
1886)
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1842 -
Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (d.
1912)
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1844 -
Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist (d.
1908)
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1845 - Tsar
Alexander III of Russia (d.
1894)
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1847 -
Kate Sheppard, New Zealand suffragist (d.
1934)
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1880 -
Broncho Billy Anderson, American actor (d.
1971)
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1887 -
Toshitsugu Takamatsu , Grandmaster of Ninjutsu (d.
1972)
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1888 -
Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (d.
1966)
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1891 -
Sam Jaffe, American actor (d.
1984)
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1892 -
Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (d.
1955)
* 1892 -
Gregory La Cava, American director, producer, and writer (d.
1952)
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1903 -
Bix Beiderbecke, American musician (d.
1931)
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1915 -
Harry Bertoia, Italian artist and designer (d.
1978)
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1919 -
Marion Hutton, American singer (d.
1987)
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1923 -
Val Logsdon Fitch, American nuclear physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
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1925 -
Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet (d.
2005)
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1928 -
James Earl Ray, American assassin (d.
1998)
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1930 -
Claude Bolling, French jazz pianist and composer
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1936 -
Sepp Blatter, Swiss hockey and football official
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1940 -
Chuck Norris, American actor and martial artist
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1941 -
Joe Viterelli, American actor (d.
2004)
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1946 -
Jim Valvano, American basketball coach (d.
1993)
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1947 -
Kim Campbell, nineteenth
Prime Minister of Canada* 1947 -
Bob Greene, American journalist
* 1947 -
Tom Scholz, American songwriter and guitarist
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1952 -
Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe politician
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1957 -
Marlon Jackson, American singer
* 1957 -
Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born Islamic extremist
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1958 -
Steve Howe, baseball player (d.
2006)
* 1958 -
Sharon Stone, American actress
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1961 -
Laurel Clark, physician and astronaut (d.
2003)
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1963 -
Jeff Ament, American musician (
Pearl Jam)
* 1963 -
Neneh Cherry, Swedish musician
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1964 -
Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex* 1964 -
Jasmine Guy, American actress
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1965 -
Rod Woodson, American football player
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1966 -
Edie Brickell, American singer
* 1966 -
Mike Timlin, baseball player
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1971 -
Timbaland, American record producer and rapper
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1972 -
Matt Kenseth, American race car driver
* 1972 -
Takashi Fujii, Japanese television performer
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1973 -
Eva Herzigova, Czech model
* 1973 -
Chris Sutton, English footballer
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1977 -
Shannon Miller, American gymnast
* 1977 -
Peter Enckelman, Finnish footballer
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1981 -
Samuel Eto'o, Cameroonian footballer
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1982 -
Katharine Isabelle, Canadian actress
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1983 -
Carrie Underwood, American singer
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1984 -
Olivia Wilde, American actress
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1985 -
Lassana Diarra, French footballer
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1985 -
Casey Dienel, American singer-songwriter
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1986 -
Vadim Schneider, Canadian actor (d.
2003)
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1992 -
Emily Osment, American actress
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1291 -
Arghun, Persian ruler
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1510 -
Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (b.
1445)
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1513 -
John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English commander (b.
1443)
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1549 -
Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, English politician and diplomat
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1584 -
Thomas Norton, English politician and writer (b.
1532)
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1585 -
Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (b.
1517)
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1588 -
Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (b.
1533)
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1669 -
John Denham, English poet (b.
1615)
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1670 -
Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist (b.
1604)
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1776 -
Élie Catherine Fréron, French critic (b.
1719)
* 1776 -
Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant and philanthropist (b.
1701)
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1792 -
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute,
Prime Minister of Great Britain (b.
1713)
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1832 -
Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (b.
1752)
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1861 -
Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (b.
1814)
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1872 -
Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian politician (b.
1805)
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1895 -
Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (b.
1826)
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1913 -
Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist (b.
1820)
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1937 -
Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (b.
1884)
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1940 -
Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Russian writer (b.
1891)
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1942 -
William Henry Bragg, English physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1862)
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1948 -
Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia (b.
1886)
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1950 -
Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (b.
1902)
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1951 -
Kijuro Shidehara,
Prime minister of Japan (b.
1872)
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1966 -
Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1888)
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1973 -
Eugene 'Bull' Connor, American segregationist (b.
1897)
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1984 -
June Marlowe, American actress (b.
1903)
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1985 -
Konstantin Chernenko, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b.
1911)
* 1985 -
Bob Nieman, baseball player (b.
1927)
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1986 -
Ray Milland, British actor (b.
1907)
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1988 -
Andy Gibb, English-born singer (b.
1958)
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1994 -
Abdelkader Alloula, Algerian playwright (assassinated) (b.
1929)
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1997 -
La Vern Baker, American singer (b.
1929)
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1998 -
Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b.
1913)
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2001 -
Massimo Morsello, Italian musician and far right activist (b.
1958)
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2003 -
Barry Sheene, British motorcycle racer (b.
1950)
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2004 -
Dave Blood, American musician
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2005 -
Dave Allen, Irish comedian (b.
1936)
* 2005 -
Danny Joe Brown, American singer (
Molly Hatchet) (b.
1951)
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2006 -
Anna Moffo, American soprano (b.
1932)
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Doctors Day - (
Venezuela).
* Fans of video game character
Mario celebrate Mar10 Day, by singing songs about him, watching the movie and show, and playing Mario games.
* Tibetian national Uprising day
Liturgical feasts
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Saint Blankaard*
Saint Himelin*
Saint John Ogilvie (died 1615)
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Saint Macharius (d.335)
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Saint Anastasia*
On this day in Canada*
NY Times: On this day*
BBC: On This DayMarch 9 -
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