Summary of the Day ✨ 10 March (10/03)
Bam Adebayo made NBA history with 83 points while Portugal’s political landscape shifted as the Socialist Party lost its absolute majority to the Social Democrats. Meanwhile, financial markets were shaken by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Hungary made history with its first female president, and global aviation was impacted by the Ethiopian Airlines crash that led to the worldwide grounding of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.
Historical Events 📜
- 2026: Bam Adebayo of the Miami Heat recorded the second-highest scoring game in NBA history with 83 Points.
- 2024: 2024 Portuguese legislative election: Elections are held in Portugal for all 230 seats in the Assembly of the Republic. The Partido Socialista loses its absolute majority to the Partido Social Democrata, winning 77 and 79 seats respectively.
- 2023: Silicon Valley Bank collapses due to a run on its deposits, in the second largest bank failure in US history. Its operations are taken over by the FDIC.
- 2022: 2022 Hungarian presidential election: The National Assembly of Hungary elects former minister for Family Affairs, Katalin Novák, as president of Hungary in a 137–51 vote, becoming the first female president in the country’s history.
- 2019: Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX, crashes shortly after takeoff, killing all 157 passengers and crew. This and the prior Lion Air Flight 610 led to all 387 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft being grounded worldwide.
- 2017: The impeachment of President Park Geun-hye of South Korea in response to a major political scandal is unanimously upheld by the country’s Constitutional Court, ending her presidency.
- 2006: The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
- 2000: The Dot-com bubble peaks with the NASDAQ Composite stock market index reaching 5,048.62.
- 1991: 1991 Salvadoran legislative election: The Nationalist Republican Alliance wins 39 of the 84 seats in the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador.
- 1990: In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted eighteen months after seizing power in a coup d’état in September 1988.
- 1989: Air Ontario Flight 1363, a Fokker F-28 Fellowship, crashes at Dryden Regional Airport in Dryden, Ontario, Canada, killing 24.
- 1982: Syzygy: All nine planets recognized at this time — Mercury to Pluto — align on the same side of the Sun.
- 1979: 1979 International Women’s Day protests in Tehran: Protestor involvement peaks with 15,000 Iranian women and girls performing a three‐hour-long sit‐in at the Courthouse of Tehran.
- 1977: Astronomers discover the rings of Uranus.
- 1975: Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh Campaign: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Mê Thuột in the South on their way to capturing Saigon in the final push for victory over South Vietnam.
Famous Births 👶
- 2004: Matt Poitras, Canadian ice hockey player
- 2002: Keon Johnson, American basketball player
- 2000: Nick Bolton, American football player
- 1999: Cole Kmet, American football player
- 1998: Justin Herbert, American football player
- 1997: Belinda Bencic, Swiss tennis player
- 1995: Zach LaVine, American basketball player
- 1995: Sergey Mozgov, Russian ice dancer
- 1994: Bad Bunny, Puerto Rican rapper, songwriter, producer, actor, and wrestler
- 1994: Nikita Parris, English footballer
- 1993: Jack Butland, English footballer
- 1993: Aminata Namasia, Congolese politician
- 1992: Neeskens Kebano, French-Congolese footballer
- 1991: Kenshi Yonezu, Japanese singer-songwriter and illustrator
- 1990: Stefanie Vögele, Swiss tennis player
Notable Deaths 🕊️
- 2025: Stanley R. Jaffe, American film producer and director (born 1940)
- 2025: Carl Lundström, Swedish businessman and activist (born 1960)
- 2022: John Elliott, English historian and academic (born 1930)
- 2016: Ken Adam, German-English production designer and art director (born 1921)
- 2016: Roberto Perfumo, Argentinian footballer and sportscaster (born 1942)
- 2016: Jovito Salonga, Filipino lawyer and politician, 14th President of the Senate of the Philippines (born 1920)
- 2016: Anita Brookner, English novelist and art historian (born 1928)
- 2015: Richard Glatzer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1952)
- 2013: Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, British born Swedish Princess (born 1915)
- 2012: Jean Giraud, French author and illustrator (born 1938)
- 2012: Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)
- 2011: Bill Blackbeard, American author and illustrator (born 1926)
- 2010: Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Egyptian scholar and academic (born 1928)
- 2010: Corey Haim, Canadian actor (born 1971)
- 2007: Ernie Ladd, American football player and wrestler (born 1938)
Holidays & Observances 🎉
- Christian feast day
Attala - Christian feast day
Harriet Tubman (Lutheran) - Christian feast day
John Ogilvie - Christian feast day
Macarius of Jerusalem - Christian feast day
Marie-Eugénie de Jésus - Christian feast day
Pope Simplicius - Christian feast day
Sojourner Truth (Lutheran) - Christian feast day
March 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) - Harriet Tubman Day (United States of America)
- Mario Day (International)
- Holocaust Remembrance Day (Bulgaria)
- National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (United States)
- Székely Freedom Day (Romania)
- Tibetan Uprising Day (Tibetan independence movement)