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- March 10th -
1977
Astronomers using NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory, an observatory aboard a highly modified jet aircraft, discovered a faint planetary ring system around Uranus.
1959
An anti-Chinese uprising erupted in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, as about 300,000 Tibetans surrounded the Potala Palace to prevent the 14th Dalai Lama from leaving or being removed by the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
1906
More than a thousand coal miners were killed in the Courrières mine disaster in Northern France, Europe's worst mining accident.
1876
Alexander Graham Bell made his first successful bi-directional telephone call, saying, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
1831
King Louis-Philippe of France created the French Foreign Legion as a unit of foreign volunteers because foreigners were forbidden to serve in the French Army after the 1830 July Revolution.
241 BC
The Roman Republic defeated Carthage in a naval battle off the coast of the Aegadian Islands near the western coast of the island of Sicily, ending the First Punic War.
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