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10 March
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1873 Shaukat Ali, member of the Khilafat Movement, was born in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh. He was the elder brother of the renowned political leader Mohammad Ali Jouhar.
- 1897 Savitribai Phule, social reformer, educationalist, and poet from Maharashtra, died at Pune. Along with her husband, she played an important and vital role in improving women's rights in India. She is considered to be the pioneer of India's feminist movement.
- 1922 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was arrested on charges of sedition by British officials in Bombay (now Mumbai).
- 1932 Udupi Ramachandra Rao, Indian space scientist and chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation, was born in Adamaru, Karnataka.
- 1939 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad.
- 1969 CISF Raising Day is celebrated every year on March 10. It was on this day in the year 1969 that the CISF was set up and three battalions were formed under the CISF Act 1968, passed by the Parliament of India.
- 2000 Nirmal Verma, distinguished Hindi writer, and eminent Punjabi novelist Gurchal Singh selected jointly for the 35th Jnanpith Award for 1999.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1876 The first successful test of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell himself with the message: "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you."
- 1933 Soon after Adolf Hitler became chancellor, the first concentration camp in Germany opened at Dachau.
- 1959 Tibetan uprising happens in which, fearing an abduction attempt by China, thousands surround the Dalai Lama's palace at Lhasa to prevent his removal.
- 1977 The rings of Uranus were discovered during a stellar occultation, that is, when the planet passes between a star and Earth, temporarily blocking the star's light.
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