March 10 is the 69th day of the year (70th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 296 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events[link]

• 241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands – The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.
• 298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa against the Berbers, and makes a triumphal entry into Carthage.
• 1607 – Susenyos defeats the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, making him Emperor of Ethiopia.
• 1629 – Charles I of England dissolves Parliament, beginning the eleven-year period known as the Personal Rule.
• 1735 – An agreement between Nadir Shah and Russia is signed near Ganja and Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku.
• 1762 – French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been 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.
• 1804 – Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
• 1814 – Napoleon I of France is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.
• 1816 – Crossing of the Andes: A group of royalist scouts is captured during the Action of Juncalito.
• 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.
• 1848 – The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican-American War.
• 1861 – El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Ségou, destroying the Bambara Empire of Mali.
• 1864 – American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
• 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
• 1891 – Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
• 1906 – The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in Northern France.
• 1909 – By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates.
• 1917 – Batangas with the other provinces in the Philippines is formally founded as the Philippines's early encomiendas.
• 1922 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.
• 1933 – An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 115 people and causes an estimated $40 million dollars in damage.
• 1944 – Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front.
• 1945 – The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
• 1952 – Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba and appoints himself as the "provisional president".
• 1959 – Tibetan uprising: Fearing an abduction attempt by China, 300,000 Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal.
• 1966 – Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky sacked rival General Nguyen Chanh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.
• 1968 – Vietnam War: Battle of Lima Site 85, concluding the 11th with largest single ground combat loss of United States Air Force members (12) during that war.
• 1969 – In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He later retracts his plea.
• 1970 – Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. Military with My Lai war crimes.
• 1975 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.
• 1977 – Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.
• 1980 – Madeira School headmistress Jean Harris shoots and kills Scarsdale diet doctor Herman Tarnower
• 1980 – Formation of the Irish Army Ranger Wing
• 1990 – In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.
• 2000 – The NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.
• 2005 – Tung Chee Hwa resigns from his post as the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong after widespread public dissatisfaction of his tenure.
• 2006 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
• 2008 – The New York Times reveals that Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer had patronized a prostitution service.

Births[link]

• 1415 – Vasili II of Russia (d. 1462)
• 1452 – Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1516)
• 1503 – Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1564)
• 1536 – Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, English politician (d. 1572)
• 1628 – Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (d. 1694)
• 1709 – Georg Steller, German naturalist (d. 1746)
• 1745 – John Gunby, American soldier (d. 1807)
• 1749 – Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian librettist (d. 1838)
• 1769 – Joseph Williamson, English philanthropist (d. 1840)
• 1772 – Friedrich von Schlegel, German aesthetician (d. 1829)
• 1776 – Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen consort of Prussia (d. 1810)
• 1787 – William Etty, English painter (d. 1849)
• 1787 – Francisco de Paula Martinez de la Rosa, Spanish statesman and dramatist (d. 1862)
• 1788 – Joseph von Eichendorff, German writer (d. 1857)
• 1810 – Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet (d. 1886)
• 1839 – Dudley Buck, American composer, organist, and writer on music (d. 1909)
• 1842 – Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (d. 1912)
• 1844 – Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist (d. 1908)
• 1845 – Tsar Alexander III of Russia (d. 1894)
• 1846 – Edward Baker Lincoln, son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln (d. 1850)
• 1847 – Kate Sheppard, New Zealand suffragist (d. 1934)
• 1850 – Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (d. 1906)
• 1875 – Alexander Goldenweiser, Russian pianist, teacher, and composer (d. 1961)
• 1876 – Ernst Tandefelt, Finnish nobleman, assassin of Minister Ritavuori (d. 1948)
• 1881 – Thomas Quinlan, musical impresario (d. 1951)
• 1888 – Baldwin Cooke, American actor d. 1953
• 1888 – Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (d. 1961)
• 1889 – Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Grandmaster of Ninjutsu (d. 1972)
• 1892 – Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (d. 1955)
• 1892 – Gregory La Cava, American director (d. 1952)
• 1897 – Robert Meier, German WW1 veteran (d. 2007)
• 1900 – Pandelis Pouliopoulos, secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (d. 1943)
• 1903 – Bix Beiderbecke, American jazz musician (d. 1931)
• 1905 – Betty Amann, German-American actress. (d. 1990)
• 1905 – Richard Haydn, English actor (d. 1985)
• 1906 – Lionel Bertrand, Canadian politician and newspaper editor (d. 1979)
• 1911 – Warner Anderson, American actor (d. 1976)
• 1915 – Harry Bertoia, Italian artist (d. 1978)
• 1915 – Sir Charles Groves, English conductor (d. 1992)
• 1916 – Davie Fulton, Canadian politician and judge (d. 2000)
• 1917 – Frank Perconte, American sergeant.
• 1918 – Günther Rall, German ace fighter pilot (d. 2009)
• 1919 – Marion Hutton, American singer and actress (d. 1987)
• 1920 – Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur (d. 2007)
• 1920 – Boris Vian, French writer and musician (d. 1959)
• 1923 – Val Logsdon Fitch, American nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate
• 1925 – Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet (d. 2005)
• 1925 – Jean-Guy Cardinal, French Canadian politician (d. 1979)
• 1927 – Claude Laydu, Belgian-born French actor (d. 2011)
• 1928 – Sara Montiel, Spanish actress and singer
• 1928 – James Earl Ray, American assassin (d. 1998)
• 1929 – Huey P. Meaux, American record producer (d. 2011)
• 1931 – Georges Dor, Québécois author, playwright, singer and songwriter (d. 2001)
• 1933 – Ralph Emery, American television host
• 1935 – Graham Farmer, Australian rules footballer
• 1936 – Sepp Blatter, Swiss FIFA President
• 1936 – Alfredo Zitarrosa, Uruguayan singer and journalist (d. 1989)
• 1937 – Joe Viterelli, American actor (d. 2004)
• 1938 – Norman Blake, American musician
• 1938 – Ieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens
• 1940 – Chuck Norris, American actor and martial artist
• 1940 – David Rabe, American playwright and screenwriter
• 1945 – Katharine Houghton, American actress
• 1945 – Birgitta Sellén, Swedish politician
• 1946 – Hiroshi Fushida, Japanese racing driver
• 1946 – Mike Hollands, Australian animator
• 1946 – Jim Valvano, American basketball coach (d. 1993)
• 1947 – Kim Campbell, 19th Prime Minister of Canada
• 1947 – Paul Condon, Baron Condon, former police commissioner
• 1947 – Bob Greene, American journalist
• 1947 – Tom Scholz, American songwriter and guitarist (Boston)
• 1948 – Austin Carr, American basketball player
• 1948 – Richard Park, British media consultant and broadcaster
• 1949 – Bill Buxton, Canadian computer scientist and designer
• 1950 – Aloma Wright, American actress
• 1951 – Gloria Diaz, Filipina actress, Miss Universe 1969
• 1952 – Johanna Lindsey, American novelist
• 1952 – Mike O'Donnell, English composer
• 1952 – Morgan Tsvangirai, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
• 1953 – Jacqueline Gareau, Canadian marathon runner
• 1953 – Paul Haggis, Canadian film director
• 1954 – Didier Barbelivien, French singer and songwriter
• 1955 – Gary Louris, American musician
• 1955 – Toshio Suzuki, Japanese racing driver
• 1955 – Youssra, Egyptian actress and singer
• 1956 – Mitchell Lichtenstein, American actor
• 1956 – Robert Llewellyn, English writer, actor, presenter
• 1957 – Osama bin Laden, Saudi islamist and leader of al-Qaeda (d. 2011)
• 1957 – Terry Holmes, Welsh rugby player
• 1957 – Matt Knudsen, American actor
• 1957 – Shannon Tweed, Canadian actress and model
• 1957 – Jim White, American folk singer-songwriter
• 1958 – Jeanie Bryson, American singer
• 1958 – Steve Howe, American baseball player (d. 2006)
• 1958 – Sharon Stone, American actress
• 1960 – Lance Burton, American stage illusionist
• 1960 – Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen, German keyboardist and songwriter (Nena)
• 1960 – Gail Greenwood, American musician (Belly and L7)
• 1960 – Anne MacKenzie, British journalist and broadcaster
• 1961 – Laurel Clark, American physician and astronaut (d. 2003)
• 1961 – Mitch Gaylord, American gymnast
• 1961 – Pam Oliver, American sportscaster
• 1961 – Bobby Petrino, American football coach
• 1962 – Jasmine Guy, American actress
• 1962 – Seiko Matsuda, Japanese pop singer
• 1963 – Jeff Ament, American musician (Pearl Jam, Green River and Mother Love Bone)
• 1963 – Rick Rubin, American record producer
• 1964 – Neneh Cherry, Swedish musician
• 1964 – Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
• 1964 – David Faber, American television reporter
• 1965 – Rod Woodson, American football player
• 1966 – Edie Brickell, American singer (The Heavy Circles)
• 1966 – Stephen Mailer, American actor
• 1966 – Gráinne Mulvey, Irish composer
• 1966 – Mike Timlin, American baseball player
• 1967 – Daichi Suzuki, Japanese swimmer
• 1967 – Omer Tarin, Pakistani poet, writer and scholar
• 1968 – Felice Arena, Australian author
• 1968 – Thio Li-ann, Singaporean law professor and NMP
• 1969 – Paget Brewster, American actress
• 1969 – Walter Schreifels, American musician (Gorilla Biscuits, Rival Schools and Youth of Today)
• 1970 – Matt Barlow, American singer (Iced Earth and Pyramaze)
• 1970 – Michel van der Aa, Dutch composer
• 1971 – Steve Arnold, British racing driver
• 1971 – Jon Hamm, American actor
• 1971 – Daryle Singletary, American singer
• 1971 – Timbaland, American rapper
• 1972 – Takashi Fujii, Japanese comedian and singer
• 1972 – Matt Kenseth, American race car driver
• 1972 – Paraskevi Tsiamita, Greek athlete
• 1973 – Eva Herzigova, Czech model
• 1973 – John LeCompt, American guitarist (Evanescence and We Are the Fallen)
• 1973 – Chris Sutton, English footballer
• 1973 – Dan Swanö, Swedish musician (Edge of Sanity and Nightingale)
• 1973 – Mauricio Taricco, Argentine footballer
• 1974 – Cristián de la Fuente, Chilean model and actor
• 1975 – Lyne Bessette, Canadian bicycle racer
• 1976 – Kisaki, Japanese musician (La:Sadie's, Phantasmagoria and Anti Feminism)
• 1976 – Barbara Schett, Austrian tennis player
• 1977 – Jeff Branson, American actor
• 1977 – Peter Enckelman, Finnish footballer
• 1977 – Shannon Miller, American gymnast and Olympic gold medalist
• 1977 – Colin Murray, British radio DJ
• 1977 – Rita Simons, English actress
• 1977 – Robin Thicke, American singer and actor
• 1977 – Bree Turner, American actress
• 1978 – Neil Alexander, Scottish footballer
• 1978 – Benjamin Burnley, American musician (Breaking Benjamin)
• 1979 – Edi Gathegi, American actor
• 1981 – Samuel Eto'o, Cameroonian footballer
• 1981 – Efthimios Kouloucheris, Greek footballer
• 1981 – Steven Reid, Irish footballer
• 1981 – Gabriela Voleková, Slovak tennis player
• 1982 – Kwame Brown, American basketball player
• 1983 – Che'Nelle, Malaysian Australian singer
• 1983 – Rafe Spall, English actor
• 1983 – Carrie Underwood, American country singer
• 1983 – Reena Virk, Canadian murder victim (d. 1997)
• 1984 – Nikos Arabatzis, Greek footballer
• 1984 – Ben May, English footballer
• 1984 – Olivia Wilde, American actress
• 1985 – Lassana Diarra, French footballer
• 1985 – Casey Dienel, American singer-songwriter
• 1986 – JC de Vera, Filipino actor
• 1987 – Martellus Bennett, American football player
• 1987 – Tuukka Rask, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1988 – Christian Beck, German footballer
• 1988 – Michael Dunlop, Northern Irish motorbike racer
• 1988 – Ivan Rakitić, Croatian footballer
• 1990 – Bang Mir, main rapper of South Korean idol group MBLAQ
• 1992 – Emily Osment, American actress and singer
• 1993 – Jeffrey Scaperrotta, American actor
• 1993 – Jack Butland, English footballer

Deaths[link]

• 483 – Simplicius, pope of Rome
• 1291 – Arghun, Persian ruler
• 1315 – Agnes Blannbekin, Austrian mystic (b. c. 1244)
• 1391 – Tvrtko I, First king of Bosnia (b. 1338)
• 1510 – Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (b. 1445)
• 1513 – John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English commander (b. 1443)
• 1549 – Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, English politician and diplomat
• 1584 – Thomas Norton, English politician and writer (b. 1532)
• 1585 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (b. 1517)
• 1588 – Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (b. 1533)
• 1669 – John Denham, English poet (b. 1615)
• 1670 – Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist (b. 1604)
• 1776 – Élie Catherine Fréron, French critic (b. 1719)
• 1776 – Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant and philanthropist (b. 1701)
• 1792 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1713)
• 1823 – George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1746)
• 1832 – Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (b. 1752)
• 1861 – Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (b. 1814)
• 1864 – Jack Slade, American frontier figure (b. 1831)
• 1872 – Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian politician (b. 1805)
• 1898 – Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, Founder of the Religious of the Assumption (b. 1817)
• 1895 – Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (b. 1826)
• 1910 – Karl Lueger, Mayor of Vienna (b. 1844)
• 1910 – Carl Reinecke, German pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1824)
• 1913 – Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist (b. 1820)
• 1937 – Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (b. 1884)
• 1940 – Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891)
• 1942 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
• 1948 – Zelda Fitzgerald, American novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald (b. 1900)
• 1948 – Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1886)
• 1949 – James Rector, American athlete (b. 1884)
• 1950 – Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (b. 1902)
• 1951 – Kijūrō Shidehara, Prime minister of Japan (b. 1872)
• 1966 – Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
• 1967 – Yiorgos Batis, Greek composer and musician (b. 1885)
• 1970 – Vasilis Avlonitis, Greek actor (b. 1904)
• 1973 – Eugene 'Bull' Connor, American segregationist (b. 1897)
• 1977 – E. Power Biggs, English-born organist (b. 1906)
• 1982 – Minoru Shirota, inventor of Yakult (b. 1899)
• 1984 – June Marlowe, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1985 – Konstantin Chernenko, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1911)
• 1985 – Bob Nieman, American baseball player (b. 1927)
• 1986 – Ray Milland, British actor (b. 1905)
• 1988 – Andy Gibb, English-born singer (b. 1958)
• 1992 – Giorgos Zampetas, Greek composer and musician (b. 1925)
• 1994 – Abdelkader Alloula, Algerian playwright (b. 1929)
• 1996 – Ross Hunter, American film producer (b. 1920)
• 1997 – LaVern Baker, American singer (b. 1929)
• 1998 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1999 – Oswaldo Guayasamin, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (b. 1919)
• 1999 – Valentino Mazzia, American forensic anesthesiologist (b. 1922)
• 2001 – Nicholas Georgiadis, Greek painter, stage and costume designer (b. 1923)
• 2001 – Massimo Morsello, Italian musician and activist (b. 1958)
• 2003 – Barry Sheene, British motorcycle racer (b. 1950)
• 2004 – Dave Blood, American musician (The Dead Milkmen) (b. 1956)
• 2005 – Dave Allen, Irish comedian (b. 1936)
• 2005 – Danny Joe Brown, American singer (Molly Hatchet) (b. 1951)
• 2005 – Danny Taylor, American musician (Silver Apples)
• 2006 – Anna Moffo, American soprano (b. 1932)
• 2007 – Richard Jeni, American comedian (b. 1957)
• 2007 – Ernie Ladd, American football player and wrestler (b. 1938)
• 2008 – Richard Fran Biegenwald, American serial killer (b. 1940)
• 2008 – Vangelis Kazan, Greek actor (b. 1936)
• 2010 – Corey Haim, Canadian actor (b. 1971)
• 2010 – Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Egyptian Muslim cleric (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Tan Boon Teik, former Attorney-General of Singapore (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Nik Zoricic Canadian ski cross skier (b. 1983)

Holidays and observances[link]

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Anastasia the Patrician
  • Marie-Eugénie de Jésus
  • Himelin
  • John Ogilvie
  • Macharius
  • Pope Simplicius
• Hote Matsuri (Shiogama, Japan)
• Tibetan Uprising Day (Tibetan independence supporters)

External links[link]

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Aftab Iqbal
Iqbal in 2010
Born	(1961-09-19) September 19, 1961 (age 50)[1] Pakistan
Occupation	Television/newspaper columnist
Years active	2008–present
Website
http://www.aftabiqbal.com/

Aftab Iqbal is a journalist and television anchor from Pakistan who currently hosts the political-humour talk show Khabarnaak on GEO News. Previously, he hosted the show Hasb-e-Haal on Dunya News before leaving the channel.^[2] Aftab is the son of the Urdu poet Zafar Iqbal.

From 1994-95, Iqbal served as Media Adviser to Chief Minister Punjab. He also writes a column in The News titled Buk-up.^[1] He also wrote an article for Newsweek Pakistan. ^[3]

As a columnist, Iqbal has written for a number of publications, including the Urdu language Nawa-i-Waqt. He graduated with Masters from the Government College University in Lahore in 1985 and studied history at the San Jose State University in California in 1986.^[1]

References[link]

Born,City Okara.Punjab,Pakistan,September 19, 1961 (age 50)

External links[link]

• Official website

Aftab Iqbal Urdu Columns & Articles

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