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241 BC - The Battle of the Aegates Islands: The Romans defeated the Carthaginians, ending the First Punic War.
1804 - The formal ceremony marking the Louisiana Purchase took place in St. Louis, Missouri.
1864 - During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Ulysses S. Grant as the commander of the Union armies.
1876 - The first successful test of Alexander Graham Bell's telephone took place in Boston, Massachusetts.
1910 - The worst avalanche in U.S. history buried two trains in Wellington, Washington, killing 96 people.
1933 - An earthquake in Long Beach, California, resulted in significant damage and the death of approximately 120 people.
1945 - The U.S. Army Air Force firebombed Tokyo, Japan, causing widespread destruction and killing an estimated 100,000 civilians.
1959 - Tibetans revolted against Chinese occupation in Lhasa, which eventually led to the Dalai Lama fleeing to India.
1969 - James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
1977 - Astronomers discovered rings around the planet Uranus.
1990 - Lithuania declared independence from the Soviet Union, becoming the first Soviet republic to do so.
2006 - The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrived at Mars.
2015 - A Germanwings plane crashed in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.
These are just a few events that have taken place on March 10th throughout history.
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