What Day of the Week

March 10, 2020 is the 70^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 296 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is martes.

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Here’s the March calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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• 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.
• 1861

  El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Ségou, destroying the Bambara Empire of Mali.
• 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 is formally founded as one of the Philippines’s earliest encomiendas.
• 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.
• 1975

  Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.
• 1980

  Formation of the Irish Army Ranger Wing

• 1452

  Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1516)
• 1887

  Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Grandmaster of Ninjutsu (d. 1972)
• 1938

  Ieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens
• 1947

  Bob Greene, American journalist
• 1951

  Gloria Diaz, Filipina actress, Miss Universe 1969
• 1964

  Neneh Cherry, Swedish musician
• 1970

  Michel van der Aa, Dutch composer
• 1973

  Eva Herzigova, Czech model
• 1976

  Kisaki, Japanese musician
• 1982

  Kwame Brown, American basketball player

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