History of 10 March
- 1991 – “Phase Echo” began. It was the operation to withdraw 540,000 U.S. troops from the Persian Gulf region.
- 1994 – White House officials began testifying before a federal grand jury about the Whitewater controversy.
- 1995 – U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher told Yasser Arafat that he must do more to curb Palestinian terrorists.
- 1998 – U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf began receiving the first vaccinations against anthrax.
- 2002 – The Associated Press reported that the Pentagon informed the U.S. Congress in January that it was making contingency plans for the possible use of nuclear weapons against countries that threaten the U.S. with weapons of mass destruction, including Iraq and North Korea.
- 2003 – North Korea test-fired a short-range missile. The event was one of several in a patter of unusual military maneuvers.
- 2006 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
- 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.
- 2019 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX, crashes, leading to all 737 MAX aircraft being grounded worldwide.
Celebrating Birthday Today
- 1981 – Samuel Eto’o, Cameroonian footballer and manager
- 1981 – Ángel López, Spanish footballer
- 1981 – Steven Reid, English-Irish footballer and manager
- 1982 – Kwame Brown, American basketball player
- 1982 – Keke Wyatt, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1983 – Étienne Boulay, Canadian football player
- 1983 – Rafe Spall, English actor
- 1983 – Janet Mock, American journalist, author, and activist
- 1983 – Carrie Underwood, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1984 – Ben May, English footballer
- 1984 – Olivia Wilde, American actress and producer
- 1985 – Lassana Diarra, French footballer
- 1985 – Casey Dienel, American singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1987 – Martellus Bennett, American football player
- 1987 – Greg Eastwood, New Zealand rugby league player
- 1987 – Ebba Jungmark, Swedish high jumper
- 1987 – Tuukka Rask, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1987 – Liu Shishi, Chinese actress and ballerina
- 1988 – Josh Hoffman, Australian-New Zealand rugby league player
- 1988 – Kang In-soo, South Korean singer
- 1988 – Ivan Rakitić, Croatian football player, plays for FC Barcelona
- 1992 – Emily Osment, American actress, singer, and songwriter
- 1992 – Neeskens Kebano, French-born Congolese international footballer, forward
- 1993 – Jack Butland, English footballer
- 1995 – Zach LaVine, American basketball player
- 1995 – Sergey Mozgov, Russian ice dancer
- 1997 – Julia Barretto, Filipino actress and singer
- 1997 – Belinda Bencic, Swiss tennis player
- 1999 – Max Bryant, Australian cricketer