On March 10

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed six minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa International Airport due to a fault within the software of the plane, resulting in the deaths of all 157 people on board.

The New York Times revealed that Eliot Spitzer (pictured), Governor of New York, had patronized a prostitution ring.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (artist's impression pictured) reached and entered orbit around Mars.

Eighteen months after seizing power, Prosper Avril was ousted as the military head of state of Haiti.

Astronomers using NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory discovered a faint ring system around Uranus.

Ho Chi Minh Campaign: North Vietnam began its final push for victory over South Vietnam with an attack on Ban Me Thuot.

Vietnam War/Laotian Civil War: North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao forces overwhelmed the American, Laotian, Thai, and Hmong defenders of Lima Site 85.

British progressive-rock band Pink Floyd released their first single, "Arnold Layne".

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.

Thomas Playford, Premier of South Australia, left office after 27 years, the longest term of any democratically elected leader in the history of Australia.

An anti-Chinese uprising began as thousands of Tibetans surrounded the Potala Palace in Lhasa to prevent the Dalai Lama from leaving or being removed by the Chinese army.

Mildred Gillars, nicknamed Axis Sally, was convicted of treason for working with the Nazis as a broadcaster.

World War II: The United States Army Air Forces conducted a firebombing raid on Tokyo that killed at least 90,000 people.

Russia and France reached an agreement' to support one another's territorial ambitions for Europe in the aftermath of World War I.

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.

The Battle of Neuve Chapelle, the first deliberately planned British offensive of the First World War, began.

Nine Years' War: At the Battle of Sant Esteve d'en Bas, Catalan miquelets attacked a column of French regular infantry and caused them to surrender.