On this day in History - Mar. 10

• 241 BC - First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sinks the Carthaginian fleet; end of First Punic War.
• 0037 - Tiberius Claudius Nero dies at 78. Roman emperor (14-37).
• 0483 - Simplicius dies. Italian Pope (468-83).
• 1291 - Arghun dies. Persian ruler.
• 1415 - Vasili II of Russia was born (d. 1462).
• 1452 - Ferdinand II of Aragon was born (d. 1516).
• 1452 - King Fernando II of Aragon was born.
• 1496 - Christopher Columbus leaves Hispaniola for Spain, ending his second visit to the Western Hemisphere.
• 1503 - Ferdinand I was born. Holy Roman Emperor (1558–1564) and king of Bohemia and Hungary from 1526.
• 1510 - Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg dies (b. 1445). Swiss-born preacher.
• 1513 - John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford dies (b. 1443). English commander.
• 1526 - Emperor Charles V marries princess Isabella of Portugal.
• 1536 - Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk was born (d. 1572). English politician.
• 1543 - Guatemala: los españoles fundan el pueblo de Antigua, que fungió como capital de toda Centroamérica.
• 1549 - Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley dies. English politician and diplomat.
• 1584 - Thomas Norton dies (b. 1532). English politician and writer.
• 1585 - Rembert Dodoens dies (b. 1517). Flemish physician and botanist.
• 1588 - Theodor Zwinger dies (b. 1533). Swiss scholar.
• 1624 - A Inglaterra declarou guerra à Espanha.
• 1628 - Marcello Malpighi was born. Italian physician and biologist who, in developing experimental methods to study living things, founded the science of microscopic anatomycientist († 1694) .
• 1629 - Charles I of England dissolves Parliament, starting the Eleven Years Tyranny in which there was no parliament.
• 1649 - Instituição da Companhia Geral de Comércio para o Brasil, tendo por alvará monopólio das exportações de farinha, bacalhau, azeite e vinho e das importações de pau-brasil.
• 1669 - John Denham dies (b. 1615). English poet.
• 1670 - Johann Rudolf Glauber dies (b. 1604). German chemist.
• 1709 - Georg Steller was born (d. 1746). German naturalist.
• 1719 - Em Portugal, foi proibida a exportação de azeite.
• 1735 - An agreement between Nadir Shah and Paul I of Russia was signed near Ganja and the Russian troops were withdrawn from Baku.
• 1749 - Lorenzo da Ponte, was born (d. 1838). Italian librettist.
• 1762 - French Huguenot Jean Calas, who was wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform
• 1768 - Domingos Sequeira was born. Portuguese pinter / Nasceu o pintor português Domingos Sequeira (Domingos António do Espírito Santo). É de sua autoria o quadro «A Morte de Camões» exibido no Salon de Paris, no ano de 1824.
• 1769 - Joseph Williamson was born (d. 1840). English philanthropist and tunnel builder.
• 1772 - Friedrich von Schlegel was born (d. 1829). Aesthetician, poet, and publicist.
• 1776 - Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was born (d. 1810). Queen of Prussia
• 1776 - Élie Catherine Fréron dies (b. 1719). French critic.
• 1776 - Niclas Sahlgren dies (b. 1701). Swedish merchant and philanthropist.
• 1787 - William Etty was born (d. 1849). English painter.
• 1788 - Joseph von Eichendorff was born (d. 1857). German writer.
• 1791 - Breve do Papa Pio VI ameaçando com penas eclesiásticas aos religiosos que jurarem a Constituição civil do clero promulgada pela França revolucionária.
• 1792 - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute dies (b. 1713). Prime Minister of Great Britain.
• 1793 - Início do período do Terror em França, durante a Revolução Francesa, com a criação do Tribunal Criminal extraordinário, que mais tarde adoptará o nome de Tribunal Revolucionário.
• 1797 - O papel selado é restabelecido em Portugal.
• 1801 - First census in Great Britain.
  
• 1804 - Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
• 1810 - Samuel Ferguson was born (d. 1886). Irish poet.
• 1814 - Napoleon I of France is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.
• 1814 - Fernando VII abole la Constitución española de 1812.
• 1821 - Revolução liberal, de inspiração carbonária, no Piemonte, em Itália.
• 1826 - King D. João VI of Portugal dies ( b. 13 May 1767). Prince regent of Portugal from 1799 to 1816, and king from 1816 to 1826, whose reign saw the revolutionary struggle in France, the Napoleonic invasion of Portugal (during which he established his court in Brazil), and the implantation of representative government in both Portugal and Brazil.
• 1826 - A França e a Grã Bretanha reconheceram a independência do Zanzibar.
• 1830 - The KNIL also known as the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created.
• 1831 - The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.
• 1832 - Muzio Clementi dies (b. 1752). Italian composer.
• 1842 - Mykola Lysenko was born. Ukrainian composer.
• 1844 - Pablo de Sarasate was born (d. 1908). Spanish violinist.
• 1845 - Alexander III of Russia was born. Russian tsar.
• 1846 - Prince Osahito, fourth son of deceased Emperor Ninko of Japan, becomes Emperor Kōmei.
• 1847 - Kate Sheppard was born. Leader of New Zealand female suffrage movement, New Zealand is the first country to achieve female suffrage .
• 1848 - The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican-American War.
• 1848 - Albert Fraenkel was born (d. 1916). German physician.
• 1850 - Spencer Gore was born (d. 1906). British tennis player and cricketer.
• 1854 - Lúcio Eugénio de Menezes e Vasconcelos Drummond Furtado de Mendonça was born in Piraí, Rio de Janeiro (d. 23 Nov 1909). Brazilian lawyer, contist, journalist and poet.
• 1861 - El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Segou, destroying the Bambara Empire of Mali.
• 1861 - Taras Shevchenko dies (b. 1814). Ukrainian poet.
• 1864 - Montana vigilantes hang Jack Slade.
• 1864 - Ulysses S. Grant became commander of the Union armies in the Civil War.
• 1864 - American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
• 1872 - Giuseppe Mazzini dies (b. 1805). Italian politician.
• 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call. Bell summons his assistant Thomas Watson, who was on another floor of Bell's Boston residence, saying, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you." Bell had received the first telephone patent three days before.
• 1877 - David Mendes Chumaceiro was born in Curaçao. Poet (Crisalidas).
• 1880 - Members of the Salvation Army land in the United States and begin operations.
• 1880 - Broncho Billy Anderson was born (d. 1971). American actor.
• 1884 - Maria Barrientos was born in Barcelona (d. 1946). Spanish soprano.
• 1884 - Bernardo Guimarães dies (b. 1825). Brazilian writer.
• 1887 - Toshitsugu Takamatsu was born (d. 1972). Grandmaster of Ninjutsu.
• 1888 - Barry Fitzgerald was born (d. 1966). Irish actor.
• 1891 - Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
• 1891 - Sam Jaffe was born (d. 1984). Actor.
• 1892 - Arthur Honegger was born in Le Havre, France (d. 27 Nov 1955). Swiss composer.
• 1892 - Gregory La Cava was born (d. 1952). American director, producer, writer.
• 1893 - Côte d'Ivoire becomes a French colony.
• 1895 - Charles Frederick Worth dies. English-born couturier Couturier .
• 1899 - Robert Meier was born (d. 2007). German WW1 veteran, formerly Germany's oldest man.
• 1902 - 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.
• 1903 - Bix Beiderbecke was born (d. 1931). American jazz cornet player.
• 1903 - Clare Boothe Luce was born (d. 1987). Publisher, writer.
• 1905 - Eleftherios Venizelos asks the independence of Crete and its union with Greece again, starting the Cretan Revolution in Theriso.
• 1905 - Betty Amann was born. German-American actress.
• 1905 - Richard Haydn was born (d. 1985). English actor.
• 1906 - The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in Northern France.
• 1910 - Pablo Serrano was born (d. 1985). Spanish sculptor.
• 1910 - Karl Lueger dies (b. 1844). Mayor of Vienna.
• 1910 - Carl Reinecke dies (b. 1824). German pianist, conductor and composer.
• 1912 - Yuan Shikai is sworn in as the second Provisional President of the Republic of China.
• 1913 - Harriet Tubman dies (b. 1820). Underground Railroad conductor, anti-slavery activist.
• 1915 - Harry Bertoia was born (d. 1978). Italian artist and designer.
• 1915 - Sir Charles Groves was born (d. 1992). English conductor.
• 1917 - Batangas was formally founded as one of the Philippines's earliest encomiendas.
• 1917 - Frank Perconte was born. American sergeant from Easy Company during WWII.
• 1918 - Warner Bros. releases its first major film " My Four Years in Germany"
• 1918 - Günther Rall was born. German ace fighter pilot
• 1918 - Heywood Hale Broun was born (d. 2001). Sports journalist, commentator.
• 1918 - Fernando Peyroteo was born in Angola (28 Nov 1978). Portuguese footballer (Sporting) who was a member of the legendary wing of the "Cinco Violinos" ("Five Violins"), with Jesus Correia, Vasques, Albano and José Travassos.
• 1919 - Marion Hutton was born (d. 1987). American singer.
• 1920 - Alfred Peet wa born (d. 2007). Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea.
• 1920 - Boris Vian was born (d. 1959). French writer and musician.
• 1922 - Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, although he is released after two years of the sentence, being released in February 1924 after an operation for appendicitis.
• 1923 - Lenin suffers a stroke (not the stroke that killed him).
• 1923 - Val Logsdon Fitch was born. American particle physicist who was corecipient with James Watson Cronin of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1980 for an experiment conducted in 1964 that disproved the long-held theory that particle interaction should be indifferent to the direction of time.
• 1923 - Kenneth "Jethro" Burns was born. Country singer, Homer and Jethro.
• 1923 - Basílio Teles dies (b. 14 Fev 1866). Portuguese essayst and writer.
• 1925 - Olympiacos is founded in Piraeus.
• 1925 - Manolis Anagnostakis was born (d. 2005). Greek poet.
• 1926 - The first Book-of-the-Month-Club selection is produced.
• 1927 - Paul Wunderlich was born. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor.
• 1927 - Jupp Derwall was born. Football coach.
• 1927 - Aparecimento da revista literária portuguesa Presença, "folha de arte e crítica" fundada, em Coimbra, por José Régio, João Gaspar Simões, Branquinho da Fonseca e Edmundo de Bettencourt.
• 1928 - James Earl Ray was born (d. 1998). Assassin of John Lennon.
• 1928 - Sara Montiel was born. Spanish actress and singer.
• 1931 - Georges Dor was born (d. 2001). Quebec author, playwright, singer and songwriter.
• 1932 - John Philip de Sousa dies. Composer.
• 1932 - Sigmund Freud publica a Introdução à psicanálise.
• 1933 - Abertura do primeiro campo de concentração nazi, em Dachau, nos arredores de Munique, no sul da Alemanha.
• 1933 - An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 120 people.
• 1936 - Sepp Blatter was born. Swiss hockey and football official who is President of FIFA.
• 1937 - Joe Viterelli was born (d. 2004). American actor.
• 1937 - Yevgeny Zamyatin dies (b. 1884). Russian writer.
• 1938 - Ditão was born (d. 1992). Brazilian footballer.
• 1938 - Dórdio Guimarães was born (d. 1997). Portuguese poet, film director and journalist cineasta e jornalista português.
• 1938 - Marina Vlady was born. French actress.
• 1939 - Adolf Hitler ordena a entrada do exército alemão em Praga, na sequência do tratado de Munique.
• 1939 - António Pedro Vasconcelos was born. Portuguese film director.
• 1940 - Dean Torrence was born. American musician ("Jan and Dean").
• 1940 - Chuck Norris was born. Actor, martial arts practitioner.
• 1940 - Mikhaïl Boulgakov dies (b. 1891). Russian writer.
• 1941 - 13 firefighters die in a fire at The Strand Theater in Brockton, Massachusetts.
• 1942 - Sir William Henry Bragg dies (b. 1862). English phisicist, Nobel Prize in 1915.
• 1945 - The Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
• 1945 - Birgitta Sellén was born. Swedish politician.
• 1946 - Jim Valvano was born (d. 1993). American basketball coach.
• 1946 - Mike Hollands was born. Australian animator.
• 1946 - Hiroshi Fushida was born. Japanese racing driver.
• 1947 - Kim Campbell was born. Nineteenth Prime Minister of Canada and first woman to hold that office.
• 1947 - Paul Condon, Baron Condon was born. Former Commissioner of The Metropolitan Police.
• 1947 - Bob Greene was born. American journalist.
• 1947 - Tom Scholz was born. American songwriter.
• 1948 - The Indian Union Muslim League is founded, by remnants of the old Muslim League.
• 1948 - Richard Park was born. British Media Consultant and Broadcaster.
• 1948 - Zelda Fitzgerald (Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald), dies in a fire at Highland Hospital, NC. , (b. 1900).
• 1948 - Jan Masaryk dies (b.1886). The first president of Czechoslovakia and anti-Communist foreign minister, was found dead in the courtyard of Czernin Palace in Prague.
• 1949 - James Rector dies (b. 1884). American athlete.
• 1950 - Marguerite De La Motte dies (b. 1902). American actress.
• 1951 - Henri Queuille becomes Prime Minister of France.
• 1951 - Kijūrō Shidehara dies (b. 1872). Prime minister of Japan.
• 1952 - Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.
• 1952 - Morgan Tsvangirai was born. Zimbabwe politician.
• 1953 - Paul Haggis was born. Canadian film director.
• 1955 - Youssra was born. Egyptian actress and singer.
• 1955 - Toshio Suzuki was born. Japanese racing driver.
• 1956 - Mitchell Lichtenstein was born. American actor; son of Roy Lichtenstein.
• 1957 - Shannon Tweed was born. Canadian actress and model.
• 1957 - Jim White was born. American folk singer-songwriter.
• 1957 - Marlon Jackson was born. Singer.
• 1957 - Osama bin Laden was born. Saudit terrorist founder of Al-Qaeda.
• 1958 - Sharon Stone was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania. American actress (Basic Instinct, Sliver, Casino).
• 1958 - Steve Howe was born (d. 2006). American baseball player.
• 1959 - Tibetan uprising: Fearing an abduction attempt by China, 300,000 Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal.
• 1961 - Laurel Clark was born (d. 2003). Physician and astronaut.
• 1961 - Mitch Gaylord was born. American gymnast.
• 1961 - Bobby Petrino was born. American football coach.
• 1961 - Pam Oliver was born. American sportscaster.
• 1962 - Seiko Matsuda was born. Japanese pop singer.
• 1963 - Jeff Ament was born. American musician (Pearl Jam).
• 1963 - Rick Rubin was born. American record producer.
• 1964 - The Ford Mustang is first produced by the Ford Motor Company.
• 1964 - Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex was born.
• 1964 - Neneh Cherry was born. Swedish musician.
• 1964 - David Faber was born. analyst for CNBC.
• 1964 - Jasmine Guy was born. American actress.
• 1965 - Neil Simon's play "The Odd Couple," starring Walter Matthau and Art Carney, opened on Broadway.
• 1965 - Rod Woodson was born. American football player.
• 1966 - Mike Timlin was born. American baseball player.
• 1966 - Christopher Titus was born. American actor.
• 1966 - Gráinne Mulvey was born. Irish composer.
• 1966 - Edie Brickell was born. American singer.
• 1966 - Frits Zernike dies (b. 16 Jul 1888). Dutch scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope, an instrument that permits the study of internal cell structure without the need to stain and thus kill the cells.
• 1966 - Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands marries Claus von Amsberg.
• 1967 - Yiorgos Batis dies (b. 1885). Greek composer and musician.
• 1968 - Ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington, New Zealand (200 killed).
• 1968 - Felice Arena was born. Australian children's author.
• 1968 - Shoichi Funaki was born. Japanese professional wrestler.
• 1968 - Thio Li-ann was born. Singaporean law academic and Nominated Member of Parliament.
• 1969 - In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. Ray would later retract his guilty plea.
• 1969 - Paget Brewster was born. American actress.
• 1970 - Vietnam War: Capt. Ernest Medina is charged with My Lai war crimes.
• 1970 - Vasilis Avlonitis dies (b. 1904). Greek actor.
• 1971 - Ugonna Wachuku was born. Nigerian poet, creative writer, author.
• 1971 - Steve Arnold was born. British racing driver.
• 1971 - Jon Hamm was born. American actor.
• 1971 - Timbaland was born. American rapper.
• 1972 - Takashi Fujii was born. Japanese television performer.
• 1972 - Matt Kenseth was born. American race car driver.
• 1972 - Paraskevi Tsiamita was born. Greek triple jumper.
• 1972 - Matt Kenseth was born. Race car driver, 2003 NASCAR Winston Cup Champion.
• 1972 - No Cambodja, o primeiro-ministro assumiu o controlo total da governação.
• 1972 - Os Tasaday, uma tribo em vivendo em estado primitivo, são descobertos nas Filipinas. Mais tarde provar-se-ia que a existência da tribo era uma fraude.
• 1973 - España inicia relaciones diplomáticas con la República Popular China.
• 1973 - Morocco adopts constitution.
• 1973 - Eva Herzigova was born in Litvinov. Czech supermodel.
• 1973 - Chris Sutton was born.English footballer.
• 1973 - Mauricio Taricco was born. Argentine footballer.
• 1973 - John LeCompt was born. American guitarist.
• 1973 - Eugene 'Bull' Connor dies. American segregationist.
• 1974 - Hugo Ferreira was born. American rock musician.
• 1975 - Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thout, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.
• 1975 - Sanyo Shinkansen open between Osaka and Fukuoka.
• 1975 - Lyne Bessette was born. Quebec professional bicycle racer.
• 1976 - Haifa Wehbe was born. Lebanese actress, model and singer.
• 1977 - Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.
• 1977 - Peter Enckelman was born. Finnish footballer.
• 1977 - Shannon Miller was born. American gymnast.
• 1977 - Colin Murray was born. British radio DJ.
• 1977 - Bree Turner was born. American dancer and actress.
• 1977 - Matt Rubano was born. American musician (Taking Back Sunday).
• 1977 - Robin Thicke was born. American singer.
• 1977 - E. Power Biggs dies (b. 1906). English-born American organist.
• 1978 - Ben Burnley was born. American musician (Breaking Benjamin), singer.
• 1978 - Nuno Dionísio was borm. Portuguese actor.
• 1979 - Toma posesión el nuevo presidente de Venezuela, Luis Herrera Campins.
• 1980 - Madeira School headmistress Jean Harris shoots and kills Scarsdale diet doctor Herman Tarnower.
• 1980 - Vasco de Lima Couto dies in Lisbon (b. in Porto in 26 Nov. 1923). Portuguese poet and actor.
• 1981 - Samuel Eto'o was born. Cameroonian footballer.
• 1981 - Efthimios Kouloucheris was born. Greek footballer.
• 1981 - Steven Reid was born. English-born footballer.
• 1982 - The United States places an embargo on Libyan oil imports because of their support of terrorist groups.
• 1982 - Syzygy: all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun.
• 1982 - Timo Glock was born. German racing car driver.
• 1982 - Katharine Isabelle was born. Canadian actress.
• 1983 - General Suharto is reelected as President of Indonesia (he was the unique candidate).
• 1983 - Carrie Underwood was born. American singer.
• 1983 - Reena Virk was born (d. 1997). Canadian murder victim.
• 1983 - Liliana Almeida was born. Portuguese actress.
• 1984 - Ben May was born. English footballer.
• 1984 - Olivia Wilde was born. American actress.
• 1984 - June Marlowe dies (b. 1903). American actress.
• 1985 - El presidente de Grecia, Konstantinos Karamanlis, dimite de la jefatura del Estado.
• 1985 - India beat Pakistan to win "World Championship of Cricket".
• 1985 - Casey Dienel was born. American singer-songwriter.
• 1985 - Kim Leclerc was born. Canadian politician.
• 1985 - Lassana Diarra was born. French footballer.
• 1985 - Konstantin Chernenko dies (b. 1911). General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• 1985 - Bob Nieman dies (b. 1927). Baseball player.
• 1986 - JC de Vera was born. Filipino actor.
• 1986 - Ray Milland dies (b. 1905). British actor.
• 1987 - Reproductive rights: The Holy See condemns the practice of surrogate motherhood, along with test-tube babies and artificial insemination.
• 1987 - Martellus Bennett was born. American football player.
• 1988 - Ivan Rakitić was born. Croatian footballer.
• 1988 - Andy Gibb dies (b. 1958). English-born singer.
• 1990 - In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.
• 1990 - El criminal dictador chileno Augusto Pinochet abandona la presidencia y el Palacio de la Moneda tras las elecciones presidenciales que conceden la victoria a Patricio Aylwin.
• 1991 - Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in Moscow, demanding that President Mikhail S. Gorbachev resign.
• 1991 - Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 m indoor (22.24 sec).
• 1991 - Gulf War: Operation Phase Echo - 540,000 American troops begin to leave the Persian Gulf.
• 1992 - 6th Soul Train Music Awards: Natalie Cole and Color Me Badd win.
• 1992 - Emily Osment was born. American actress.
• 1992 - Giorgos Zampetas dies (b. 1925). Greek composer and musician.
• 1993 - Cyril Northcote Parkinson dies. Historian and essayist.
• 1994 - Abdelkader Alloula dies assassinated (b. 1929). Algerian playwright.
• 1994 - Como consequência de dívidas ao fisco e à Segurança Social, o Estádio das Antas é penhorado ao Futebol Clube do Porto.
• 1996 - Hezbollah guerrillas launched a wave of bomb and rocket attacks on Israeli troops in south Lebanon. Secretary.
• 1996 - Ross Hunter dies (b. 1920). American film producer.
• 1997 - La Vern Baker dies (b. 1929). American Rhythm and blues singer.
• 1997 - The Vatican established diplomatic relations with Libya.
• 1998 - Lloyd Bridges dies (b. 1913). American actor.
• 1998 - American troops stationed in the Persian Gulf begin to receive the first vaccinations against anthrax.
• 1998 - Konis Santana dies. Timor-Este resistence leader.
• 1998 - In Indonesia Pres. Suharto was re-elected by acclamation of the People’s Consultative Assembly to his 7th 5-year term.
• 1999 - In Mozambique officials reported 12 deaths due to flooding and some 200,000 people stranded following 3 months of rain.
• 1999 - Oswaldo Guayasamin dies (b. 1919). Ecuadorian painter and sculptor.
• 2000 - The NASDAQ stock market index peaks at 5048.62, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.
• 2000 - Pope John Paul the Second approved sainthood for Katharine Drexel (d.1955), a Philadelphia socialite who had taken a vow of poverty and devoted her fortune to helping poor blacks and American Indians.
• 2000 - In Turkey former prime minister Necmettin Erbakan was sentenced to one year in prison for a 1994 speech in which he criticized the secular government for drifting from its Islamic roots.
• 2001 - Massimo Morsello dies (b. 1958). Italian musician and far right activist.
• 2003 - Barry Sheene dies (b. 1950). British motorcycle racer.
• 2004 - Dave Blood dies. American musician.
• 2004 - Six Flags sells 8 of its theme parks to private investors.
• 2005 - Danny Joe Brown dies (b. 1951). American singer (Molly Hatchet).
• 2005 - Dave Allen dies (b. 1936). Irish comedian.
• 2006 - The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
• 2006 - Mass unrest by the PCC started in São Paulo (the biggest city in Brazil) which would eventually kill more than 152 people.
• 2006 - Anna Moffo dies (b. 1932). American soprano.
• 2007 - Richard Jeni dies (b. 1957). American comedian.
• 2007 - Ernie Ladd dies (b. 1938). American football player and professional wrestler.
• 2008 - Richard Fran Biegenwald dies (b. 1940). American serial killer.
• 2008 - Rogério Ribeiro dies (b. 31 Mar. 1930). Portuguese artist.
• Saint Himelin;Saint John Ogilvie;Saint Macharius; Saint Anastasia.
  
• Tibetan Uprising Day.