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Events on March 10

• 1814 Joseph von Fraunhofer discovers the so-called Fraunhofer lines, absorption lines that are visible as dark stripes in the solar spectrum.
• 1870 The Prussian state government grants a concession to the Deutsche Bank, which was founded in January. It begins operations on April 9.
• 1876 Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Thomas Watson conduct their first telephone conversation: Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.
• 1945 During the Second World War, the Wehrmacht blows up the Wesel railway bridge, the last Rhine bridge under German control.
• 1952 Soviet head of state Josef Stalin presents the Western powers, through Ambassador Andrei Andrejewitsch Gromyko, with an offer for negotiations envisaging the unification of West and East Germany, the Stalin Notes.
• 1959 Tibetan resistance to the occupation by the People's Republic of China culminates in an open popular uprising. The Chinese rulers suppress it by military force by March 21.
• 1985 In the elections to the Berlin House of Representatives, the coalition of CDU and FDP under Governing Mayor Eberhard Diepgen (CDU) is confirmed, while the SPD records its worst election result since the end of the war.
• 1987 The Vatican condemns artificial insemination and surrogacy.
• 1998 At a press conference two days after the 0:1 defeat against FC Schalke 04, Giovanni Trapattoni, coach of FC Bayern Munich, ends an emotionally charged commentary on his team's performance with the famous words “I'm done.”
• 2000 The NEMAX 50 stock index for the Neuer Markt and the NASDAQ stock index reach an all-time high at 9666 and 5048.62 points, respectively, before the speculative bubble known as the dot-com bubble bursts, leading to one of the biggest share price declines of the 20th century.
• 2017 The South Korean Constitutional Court removes President Park Geun-hye from office on corruption charges. Weeks-long public demonstrations and Park's suspension preceded the decision.
• 2019 A Boeing 737 Max 8 of Ethiopian Airlines, flight ETH 302, crashes shortly after takeoff on the way from Addis Ababa to Nairobi; all 157 occupants are killed.

Born on March 10

• 1873 Jakob Wassermann, German writer
• 1892 Arthur Honegger, French-Swiss composer
• 1903 Bix Beiderbecke, American jazz musician and cornetist
• 1920 Boris Vian, French writer, jazz trumpeter and actor
• 1930 Ronny, German pop singer, composer and producer
• 1940 Chuck Norris, American martial artist, actor and author
• 1950 Blanche Kommerell, German actress and author
• 1960 Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen, German musician, composer and music producer
• 1970 Peter Wright, Scottish darts player
• 1981 Samuel Eto’o, Cameroonian footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „10. März“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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