Historical Events on March 10.

1.  1862, 10th March: Paper currency notes introduced in the United States.

2.  1876, 10th March: Alexander Graham Bell communicated with his colleague Thomas Watson over the phone for the first time.

3.  1922, 10th March: Mahatma Gandhi sentenced to six years for making a provocative speech.

4.  1972, 10th March: Sakharam Binder, produced by Welcome Theater, written by Vijay Tendulkar and directed by Kamlakar Sarang, premiered at Shivaji Temple, Dadar.

5.  1977, 10th March: Astronomers discovered the rings of Uranus.

6.  1985, 10th March: Ravi Shastri was named the Champion of Champions by the Indian cricket team.

7.  1998, 10th March: Indian chess player Viswanathan Anand won the Linares Super Grandmaster Chess Tournament.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on March 10.

1.  1873: Maulana Shaukat Ali, an Indian Muslim leader of the Khilafat Movement.

2.  1929: Mangesh Padgaonkar, a Marathi poet from Maharashtra, India.

3.  1939: Asghar Ali Engineer, an Indian reformist-writer and social activist.

4.  1945: Madhavrao Scindia, an Indian politician.

5.  1957: Osama bin Ladin, a founder of the pan-Islamic militant organization al-Qaeda.

6.  1970: Omar Abdullah, an Indian politician.

7.  1974: Biz Stone, an American entrepreneur who is the co-founder of Twitter.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on March 10.

1.  1872: Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary.

2.  1897: Savitribai Phule, an Indian social reformer, educationalist, and poet from Maharashtra.

3.  1940: Mikhail Bulgakov, a Russian writer, medical doctor, and playwright.

4.  1971: Appasaheb Patwardhan, Known as Gandhi of Konkan. 

5.  1985: Konstantin Chernenko, a Soviet politician.

6.  1999: Vi Va Shirvadkar, pen name Kusumagraj, an eminent Marathi poet, playwright, novelist, and short-story writer.

10-March-1873

Maulana Shaukat Ali, freedom fighter, nationalist and Muslim politician, was born.

10-March-1897

Savitri Bai Phule passed away. She played a prominent role in assisting her husband Mahatma Jyotirao Govindrao Phule in education field. She taught in schools for girls and for downtroddens and untouchables.

10-March-1904

Raghunath Gopal Kokaje, great Hindi writer, was born at Bhoka, district Ratnagiri.

10-March-1912

Anant Ramachandra Joshi, cricket Test Umpire for 12 test from 1948-5, was born in Maharashtra.

10-March-1922

Gandhiji arrested for the first time in Bombay on the charges of sedition at Sabarmati.

10-March-1926

Dilbagh Singh, Air Chief Marshal, the second Sikh Chief of Air Staff and Indian Air Force, was born in Punjab.

10-March-1939

17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad, India.

10-March-1940

Banwarilal Bhagwandas Purohit, famous leader of Vidarbha, was born.

10-March-1945

Madhavrao Scindia, prince of Gwalior and Congress leader, was born.

10-March-1954

The history of 104 HU, the most prestigious and the oldest Helicopter Unit of the IAF, is studded with more than four decades of glorious past and yeomen service rendered to the country. One-O-Four was raised as Helicopter Flight at Palam on 10th March 1954.

10-March-1959

Mukundrao Ramarao Jaikar, great freedom fighter and famous lawyer, passed away.

10-March-1969

Parliament passed the Act that made Central Industrial Security Force as an Armed Force of the union.

10-March-1985

India beat Pakistan to win "World Championship of Cricket". Ravi Shastri is declared champion of champions and Sunil Gavaskar steps down from the captaincy.

10-March-1991

The Army Dental Corps celebrates its Golden Jubilee and proudly recounts its past glory.

10-March-1993

The 12-day-old caretaker ministry in Tripura led by Samir Ranjan Burman resigns.

10-March-1995

ONGC's oil rig that blew out ( January 8 ) at Pasalapudi site near Amalapuram (Andhra Pradesh) put out after 62 days.

10-March-1995

Ashok Padbidri, famous journalist and editor, died.

10-March-1997

Maharashtra government renames Osmanabad as Dharashiva.

10-March-1998

A. B. Vajpayee agrees to form a government with 252 members including the BJP and it's allies.

10-March-1998

India 'A' beats Pakistan 'A' by 58 runs in the fourth test to clinch the rain-hit series 1-0 at Karachi.

10-March-1998

B. B. Lyngdoh of the United Democratic Party is sworn in Chief Minister of Meghalaya. The 12-day-old Congress(I) Ministry resigned following the failure of the party nominee to be elected as Speaker.

10-March-1999

Lok Sabha approves the Patents (Amendment) Bill 1999, by a voice vote.

10-March-2000

Nirmal Verma, distinguished Hindi writer, and eminent Punjabi novelist Gurchal Singh selected jointly for the 35th Jnanpith Award for 1999.

10-March-2000

Nitish Kumar, Bihar Chief Minister, submits his resignation without putting his motion of seeking a trust vote to test in the assembly. The RJD leader Rabri Devi meets the Governor and stakes claim to form the Government.