Events in March 2010
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Mar. 1
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The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addresses the Shura Council and is conferred an honorary doctorate by the King Saud University. |
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At least 50 persons are killed and 300 feared buried by a landslide triggered by heavy rains in Uganda. |
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Mar. 3
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The Ukrainian Parliament passes a no-confidence motion voting out the Yulia Tymoshenko Cabinet. |
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Mar. 4
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A lone gunman, John Patrick Bedell of Hollister, California is killed after a shootout at the Pentagon, headquarters for the U.S. Department of Defence. |
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A magnitude 6-4 earthquake leaves 64 injured in Taiwan. |
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Mar. 5
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The U.S. House of Representatives passes the Hiring Incentive to Restore Employment Act, a jobs bill of $15 billion. |
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Several top Taliban leaders among 30 militants killed in bombing by Pakistani gunship helicopters in Mohmand tribal region near the Afghan border. |
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Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker bags the Best Picture Oscar at the 82nd Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman to be awarded Best Director. Sandra Bullock gets Best Actress Award (The Blind Side) Jeff Bridges strikes gold in the Best Actor category. |
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Mar. 7
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Voters cast ballots in Iraq’s second parliamentary election amid widespread violence which claims 35t lives. |
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Sectarian violence in Nigeria leaves 300 dead. |
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Mar. 8
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At least 51 persons are killed in an earthquake in Turkey, the worst-hit being Okcular village in Elazig province. |
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Mar. 9
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Lesbian couple Angelisa Young and Sinjoyla Town send tie the knot ushering in the first-ever same-sex wedding in Washington. |
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The Israeli government gives nod for the building of 1,600 new settlement homes in occupied East Jerusalem. |
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Mar. 10
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An American woman Colleen R. LaRose a.k.a. “Jihad Jane” is indicted for her bid to “wage a violent jihad” in South Asia and Europe. She was arrested in Philadelphia in October 2009. |
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Mar. 11
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Myanmar promulgates new poll laws targeting democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi. |
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Swedish Parliament votes to recognise the massacres of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide. |
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Mar. 12
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At least 48 persons are killed and 95 injured as two suicide bombers blow themselves up in R.A. Bazar within army cantonment in Lahore, Pakistan. |
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Sebastian Pinera is sworn in Chile President even as a series of aftershocks from the February 27 earthquake rock the nation. |
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Mar. 13
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Fourteen persons are killed and 65 injured in a suicide bomb attack in north-western Pakistan’s Swat Valley. |
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Twenty seven persons are killed and 50 injured in suicide attacks in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar. |
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Mar. 14
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Katie Spotz (22) becomes the youngest person to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean and the first American to row a boat without help from mainland to mainland. She left on January 3 from Dakar, Senegal. |
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Mar. 15
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Indian born British Labour MP Ashok Kumar (53) is found dead at his home in Middlesbrough, north east England. |
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Mar. 16
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Courtmartial proceedings against the former Sri Lanka Army Chief General (Retd.) Sarath Fonseka for alleged role in politics while in uniform begins in Colombo. |
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Double Falsehood, a play of disputed authorship is found actually to be a version of Shakespeare’s long-lost play Cardenio. |
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Iran and Pakistan clinch a $7.5 billion 900 km gas pipeline deal at the Turkey capital Istanbul, with a provision for India’s possible participation at a later date. |
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Mar. 17
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Thirteen persons are killed in a raid on the Nigerian village of Byei in the Riyom region, close to the site of a recent sectarian massacre. |
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Five young American Muslims are indicted by the anti-terror court in Sargodha, Punjab province for funding militants and plotting terror attacks in the country. |
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Head of Irish Catholic Church Cardinal Sean Brady apologises for his role in the cover up of the child sexual abuse. |
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Mar. 18
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Pakistan-American LeT operative David Coleman Headley accused of plotting the Mumbai terror attacks pleads guilty on all 12 counts before a U.S. court in Chicago. |
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The U.S. President Barack Obama signs into law the $17.5 billion Hiring Incentive to Restore Employment Act (the “HIRE Act”). |
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The Clay Mathematical Institute announces the award of its Millennium Prize to Dr. Grigory ‘Grisha’ Perelman of Russia for resolution of the 106-year-old Poincare Conjecture. |
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Mar. 19
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Atom Smasher sets record as beams of protons circulate at 3.5 trillion electron volts in both directions around the 27 km tunnel housing the Large Hadron Collider under the Swiss-French border at Geneva. |
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Mar. 20
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Girija Prasad Koirala (86), Nepal’s five-time Prime Minister, freedom fighter and political hero dies at his daughter’s house in Kathmandu. |
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Pope Benedict XVI apologises to child abuse victims. |
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A volcano under a glacier in Iceland erupts after almost 200 years of silence. |
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Oscar, a Spanish man undergoes the world’s first full face transplant at Barcelona’s Vall d’Hebron Hospital. |
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Mar. 21
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The U.S. House of Representatives passes the Senate version of the healthcare reform bill by a narrow but firm margin of 219-212. It will lead to additional insurance coverage for almost 32 million more Americans. |
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s right wing UMP Party suffers a crushing defeat in regional polls. |
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Mar. 22
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Tejdeep Singh Rattan becomes the first turbaned Sikh in a generation to join the U.S. Army. |
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Mar. 23
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Heinrich Boere (88), a Nazi hitman is sentenced to life for the 1944 killings of three Dutch civilians. |
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Mar. 24
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The Abel Prize for Mathematics for 2010 is awarded to American Mathematician John Torrence Tate for his work in “Algebraic Number Theory.” |
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Mar. 25
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The U.S. and Russia reach agreement on a new nuclear arms treaty to replace the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I). |
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The Bangladesh government announces the setting up of a tribunal to try those involved in crimes against humanity during the 1971 War of Liberation against Pakistan. |
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A South Korean ship with more than 100 on board sinks. |
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The former premier Iyad Allawi’s secular Iraqiya Block wins Iraq polls. |
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Mar. 26
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Fortysix South Korean sailors aboard warship Cheonan are killed in a torpedo attack by North Korea in the Yellow Sea waters. |
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Mar. 27
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British Parliament plays host to the first gay wedding on its premises — that of Europe Minister Christ Bryant and his partner Jared Cranney. |
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Mar. 29
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Forty persons are killed and 70 injured as women suicide bombers blow themselves up at two Metro stations - Lubyanka and Park Kultury in the Russian capital Moscow. |
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Seventeen Indians are sentenced to death in Sharjah by a Shariah Court for the murder of a Pakistani. |
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Mar. 30
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Scientists at the European Centre for Nuclear Research near Geneva smash proton beams into each other with record energy at a nano-fraction of a second slower than the speed of light using the Large Hadron Collider. |
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Mar. 31
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The Pakistan government asks Switzerland to reopen corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari relating to the alleged stashing of $60 million in Swiss banks. |
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Twin suicide bombing in Kyzlyar in the Russian republic of Dagestan leaves 11 dead, including nine policemen. |
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Mauritius Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam dissolves the 70-member National Assembly and calls for elections on May 5. |
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Belgium votes to ban veils. |
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