Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 10

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 * 241 BC – The Roman Republic defeated Carthaginian forces at the Battle of the Aegates, off the western coast of Sicily, in the final battle of the First Punic War.
 * 1915 – The Battle of Neuve Chapelle, the first deliberately planned British offensive of the First World War, began.
 * 1916 – The final letter in the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence was written, agreeing that Britain would recognise Arab independence in return for the Sharif of Mecca launching a revolt against the Ottoman Empire.
 * 1945 – World War II: The United States Army Air Forces conducted a firebombing raid on Tokyo that killed at least 90,000 people.
 * 1949 – Mildred Gillars, nicknamed Axis Sally, was convicted of treason for working with the Nazis as a broadcaster.
 * 1965 – Thomas Playford, Premier of South Australia, left office after 27 years, the longest term of any democratically elected leader in the history of Australia.
 * 1966 – Military prime minister of South Vietnam Nguyễn Cao Kỳ sacked rival General Nguyễn Chánh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.
 * 1967 – British progressive-rock band Pink Floyd released their first single, "Arnold Layne".
 * 1975 – Ho Chi Minh Campaign: North Vietnam began its final push for victory over South Vietnam with an attack on Ban Me Thuot.
 * 1990 – Eighteen months after seizing power, Prosper Avril was ousted as the military head of state of Haiti.
 * 2006 – NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (artist's impression pictured) reached and entered orbit around Mars.
 * 2019 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 (aircraft pictured) crashed shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa, with the deaths of all 157 people on board.
 * Born/died: | Agnes Blannbekin |d|1315| John Benbow |b|1653| Jacob van Ruisdael |d|1682| William Etty |b|1787| Amy Spain |d|1865|  Charles Frederick Worth |d|1895|  Violet Brown |b|1900| Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy |d|2010 | Anita Brookner |d|2016