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Today, March 10, 2026

March 10: National Ranch Day: -- You should put Ranch on everything. We mean it. Everything. Because honestly, what dish isn't made better by Ranch? Fries? Absolutely. Sandwiches? You bet. Ice cream? Okay, maybe. For today only, calories don't count and the only law of the land is Ranch. Round up some friends for a Ranch taste test to determine the superior Ranch, try your hand at some new Ranch-inclusive recipes, or just use the iconic hashtag #RanchEverything. For some high-quality food-spo and a history of man's perfect food, read on! Hidden Valley claims to have created the first Ranch back in 1954, on its dude ranch in the mountains outside of Santa Barbara - pretty idyllic for the birth of the one true dressing. Legend has it that plumber-turned-cowboy Hidden Valley rancher Steve Henson first established the ranch and cooked for his guests, covering his meals with a tantalizing mix of buttermilk and herbs. Steve began to package his dressing and send it off with guests, but the demand became unmanageable. Eventually, Ranch hit Southwestern supermarkets and then traversed the nation, forcing the production of the heavenly liquid to be moved to a larger facility in Sparks, Nevada. Gone were the days of the home-style seasoning packets handed out to friends and neighbors to be mixed with buttermilk and mayo. In 1972, Clorox bought Hidden Valley Ranch dressing for 8M USD, and Kraft Foods and General Foods were quickly hit with lawsuits for trying to create their own Ranch varieties. While staving off copycats, Clorox was hard at work revamping the recipe to exclude expensive buttermilk and developing a pantry-friendly bottled version that required no refrigeration. The varieties of Ranch and methods of consumption proliferated into the 1980s. Soon, Ranch lovers were snacking on Cool Ranch Doritos and Hidden Valley Ranch Wavy Lay's chips, while children were given the option of taco or pizza-flavored Ranch dressings. Even dry Ranch-flavored seasoning was shaken on popcorn nationwide. Many companies, like Ken's, Kraft, Newman's Own, and Marie's, threw their names into the Ranch ring since Hidden Valley originated the condiment, and we're all the better off for it. Ranch is one of the most popular and best-selling dressings in the United States and Canada and routinely rises above the salad from whence it came. With increasing levels of creativity, people are constantly innovating Ranch-centric dishes and concoctions - from adding it to fried vegetables to fried cheesecake (we're not sure about that one). We think Ranch deserves all the credit it's going to receive on this special day! On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-cable-age-classics-vol-4-mp4-video-download-d44.html

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Today, March 10, 2026

March 10: International Wig Day: -- Not only is it an opportunity to not worry about how your hair looks, but it's also a chance to express yourself. What's great about International Wig Day is that it serves multiple purposes. First, it's fun! Who doesn't want to spend a whole day celebrating wigs for all the color and spice they bring to our lives. Second and more importantly, it aims to raise awareness for hair loss caused by diseases and cancer treatments. The day is an easy way to show your support for the fight against cancer. Although wigs have been around for millennia, we've only been celebrating International Wig Day since 2016. A costume shop in Denmark, temashop.dk, came up with the idea to appreciate wigs for the fun they bring to our lives and to raise awareness around cancer. Wigs can be traced back to ancient Egypt where people would sometimes shave off their hair and wear wigs to protect their heads from the extreme heat in those regions. They were also worn for important events. The Assyrians, Greeks, Phoenicians, and Romans also wore fake hairpieces. Many of us think that it's mostly women who wear wigs and that it has been that way for centuries. But like many other accessories - wigs were originally made for everyone. We've all seen those luscious white locks of hair aristocratic men wear in period dramas. Those wigs, or perukes, became popular in the United Kingdom, France, and other European countries in the 16th century. Today, men's wigs are commonly called toupees and they're worn throughout the world. Wigs have a long history. But unfortunately, and only recently a kind of stigma has been associated with them. Some people think that wig-wearers are hiding something and can unleash a barrage of unnecessary questions such as "is that your real hair?" Now's the time to shrug off any shame in wearing a wig and hold your head up high. People can wear wigs for all kinds of reasons and it's refreshing to see them becoming more acceptable today. Many actors and social media influencers are also becoming more vocal about wearing wigs leading to a rise in their popularity. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/del-close-john-brent-how-to-speak-hip-comedy-album-lp-mp3-c3.html

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Today, March 10, 2026

March 10: International Bagpipe Day: -- Can you believe that bagpipes date back to 400 B.C., and are thought to have originated from Egypt, with the first players known as pipers of Thebes? Bagpipes are distinct and unique musical instruments that hold a special place in certain parts of Europe, such as Scotland and Ireland. A bagpipe is a type of woodwind instrument that consists of several parts including the air supply blowpipe, the bag, the chanter, the chanter reed, and the drone or drones. The chanter is the melody pipe that can be played by the piper, whereas the drone or drones provide a constant note. It has a long and rich history that dates back to ancient Rome and Egypt. In the early part of the second millennium, clear evidence of bagpipes began to appear frequently in Western European art and iconography. They were also popular subjects for carvers of wooden choir stalls throughout Europe in the late 15th century and early 16th century. Andy Letcher and Cassandre Balosso-Bardin co-founded International Bagpipe Day with the International Bagpipe Organization and the Bagpipe Society. Since 1986, the Bagpipe Society has been actively involved in bringing together new bagpipe players in order to preserve the history and practice of bagpipes. Cassandre came up with the idea of organizing a bagpipe conference as part of his efforts to promote the diversity of bagpipes to a wider audience. The First International Bagpipe Conference, which gathered musicians and instrument makers from all over Europe, launched International Bagpipe Day worldwide. Thousands of pipers around the world now celebrate the day every year, with many local pipers organizing events in places such as Harvard (U.S.), Glasgow (U.K.), Haninge (Sweden), Minsk (Belarus), Iran, and Nigeria. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-old-time-radio-scifi-paranormal-megaset-dual-layer-mp3-dv3.html

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Today, March 10, 2026

March 10: Bix Beiderbecke Day: -- March 10, 1903: #BOTD: #HBD! Bix Beiderbecke, American jazz pioneer, cornet player, pianist and composer (d. August 6, 1931) is #born Leon Bismark ("Bix") Beiderbecke in Davenport, Iowa. Along with Louis Armstrong and Muggsy Spanier, Bix Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s. His turns on "Singin' the Blues" and "I'm Coming, Virginia" (both 1927), in particular, demonstrated an unusual purity of tone and a gift for extended improvisation that heralded the jazz ballad style, in which jazz solos are an integral part of the composition. . With these two recordings, especially, he helped to invent the jazz ballad style and hinted at what, in the 1950s, would become cool jazz. Moreover, his use of extended chords and an ability to improvise freely along harmonic as well as melodic lines are echoed in post-WWII developments in jazz. There is disagreement over whether Beiderbecke was christened Leon Bix or Leon Bismark and nicknamed "Bix". His father was nicknamed "Bix", as was his older brother, Charles Burnette "Burnie" Beiderbecke. Burnie Beiderbecke claimed that the boy was named Leon Bix and biographers have reproduced birth certificates that agree. More recent research - which takes into account church and school records in addition to the will of a relative - suggests he was named Leon Bismark. Regardless, his parents called him Bix, which seems to have been his preference. In a letter to his mother when he was nine years old, Beiderbecke signed off, "frome your Leon Bix Beiderbecke not Bismark Remeber" [sic]. A native of Davenport, Iowa, Beiderbecke taught himself to play the cornet largely by ear, leading him to adopt a non-standard fingering technique that informed his unique style. He first recorded with Midwestern jazz ensemble The Wolverines in 1924, after which he played briefly for the Detroit-based Jean Goldkette Orchestra before joining Frankie "Tram" Trumbauer for an extended engagement at the Arcadia Ballroom in St. Louis, also under the auspices of Goldkette's organisation. Beiderbecke and Trumbauer joined Goldkette's main band at the Graystone Ballroom in Detroit in 1926. The band toured widely and famously played a set opposite Fletcher Henderson at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City in October 1926. He made his greatest recordings in 1927. The Goldkette band folded in September 1927 and, after briefly joining bass saxophone player Adrian Rollini's band in New York, Trumbauer and Beiderbecke joined America's most popular dance band: Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra. Beiderbecke's most influential recordings date from his time with Goldkette and Whiteman, although he also recorded under his own name and that of Trumbauer's. The Whiteman period marked a precipitous decline in his health due to his increasing use of alcohol. Treatment for alcoholism in rehabilitation centers, with the support of Whiteman and the Beiderbecke family, failed to stop his decline. He left the Whiteman band in 1929 and in the summer of 1931 he died in his Sunnyside, Queens, New York apartment at the age of 28. His death, in turn, gave rise to one of the original legends of jazz. In magazine articles, musicians' memoirs, novels, and Hollywood films, Beiderbecke has been envisaged as a Romantic hero, the "Young Man with a Horn" (a novel, later made into a movie starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, and Hoagy Carmichael). His life has often been portrayed as that of a jazz musician who had to compromise his art for the sake of commercialism. Beiderbecke remains the subject of scholarly controversy regarding his full name, the cause of his death and the importance of his contributions to jazz. He composed or played on recordings that are jazz classics and standards such as "Davenport Blues", "In a Mist", "Copenhagen", "Riverboat Shuffle", "Singin' the Blues", and "Georgia on My Mind". "In a Mist" (1927) is the best known of Beiderbecke's published piano compositions, and the only one that he recorded. His piano style reflects both jazz and classical (mainly impressionist) influences. All five of his piano compositions were published by Robbins Music during his lifetime. Bix died on on August 6, 1931 in his apartment, No. 1G, 43-30 46th Street, in Sunnyside, Queens, New York, . The official cause of death, as indicated on the death certificate, was lobar pneumonia. Unofficially, edema of the brain, coupled with the effects of long-term alcoholism, have been cited as contributory factors. Beiderbecke's mother and brother took the train to New York and arranged for his body to be taken home to Davenport. He was buried there on August 11, 1931, in the family plot at Oakdale Cemetery. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-bix-beiderbecke-jazz-festival-concert-amp-documentary-dvd.html

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Today, March 10, 2026

March 10: Paper Money Day: -- Celebrates the anniversary of the day the first United States Notes (or Legal Tender Notes) were issued in the United States. On this day, we commemorate the United States' longest-running paper currency. Of course, the notes have been modified and updated throughout time, but they helped to establish the foundation for the paper dollars we use today. If you still have one of the original 1962 notes, you're holding a priceless piece of American history. The history of paper money in the United States is a little complicated. While the first legal tender notes were issued in 1862, paper money existed before then. During King William's War, on February 3, 1690, the first paper money was printed in Massachusetts to fund military action. However, that money was merely a bill of credit - "IOU" from the colony to the soldiers. In 1775, Congress tried to replicate this on a wider scale, but this failed due to rapid inflation. In the 1860s, there emerged two forms of emergency paper currency - Demand Notes, which were issued in 1861, and United States Notes which were issued in 1862. During the American Civil War, these notes were used to pay for expenses. The Demand Notes were non-redeemable and began to lose value. Of the two, it was the United States Note that became authorized as federal currency by the First Legal Tender Act, which was signed by President Abraham Lincoln and enacted on February 1862. On March 10, 1862, the first United States Notes were issued, which is why we celebrate Paper Money Day on this said date. Of course, before paper money, there were other methods of exchanging value, with trade by barter being perhaps the oldest. From barter, we transitioned into coins, with the Chinese being the first to use an object resembling the modern-day coin. They were also the first to move from coins to paper money in 700 B.C. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/america-the-second-century-us-2nd-100-years-history-621006.html

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Today, March 10, 2026

March 10: National Landline Telephone Day: -- An annucal commemoration of the March 10, 1876 first successful test of a telephone made by its inventor, Alexander Graham Bell. Remember when you were forced to leave your phone at home - because it was attached to your house? Or when your crush called, but your older brother got to the phone first and revealed your secret? Or when you knew you hit true best friend status - memorizing their number? Celebrated on the anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell's amazing invention, National Landline Telephone Day remembers the heyday of the landline phone in all its glory, and makes a strong case for its re-adoption. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/remember-when-it39ll-never-fly-dvd-technology-history-dick-cave39.html

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Today, March 10, 2026

March 9-10: Three Flags Day: -- March 9-10, 1804: The United States: The History Of The United States: The Territorial Expansion of the United States (The Territorial Evolution of the United States): The Louisiana Purchase: -- March 10: The formal ceremony to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States concludes in St. Louis, Missouri on the second day of the two-day ceremony known as Three Flags Day, the first day being the March 9 turning over of New Spain (Louisiana) by Spain to France, who then officially turned over the same lands to the United States on the second day, in order to finalize the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. The ceremony in St. Louis cleared the way for Lewis And Clark to begin their exploration. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/lewis-amp-clark-amp-the-corps-of-discovery-dvd-mp4-usb-driv4.html

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Today, March 10, 2026

March 10: National Skirt Day: -- A special day when women around the country don skirts with pride. Have a closet full of skirts that you've been meaning to wear for the longest time? Now is your chance. Celebrate the day in style by getting all your friends to wear skirts with you. As summer approaches, a skirt is the perfect easy, breezy go-to attire for many. Who wouldn't want to get in on this action? This is why people have been wearing skirts for as long as clothes have been around. It's safe to say that skirts will be around for centuries to come. Some say that the origins of National Skirt Day are unclear, while others claim it was first observed in 1998. Although skirts have been around for thousands of years, we still can't get enough of them. They've existed even before people learned how to stitch clothes together because of their simple nature and ease of use. The oldest known skirt, made from straw, was found in Armenia at the Areni-1 cave complex dating back 5,900 years. Back then, skirts were worn by both men and women. Ancient Egyptian art, in the form of wall and sarcophagus paintings as well as hieroglyphics also shows both genders wearing skirts wrapped in a rectangular shape and tied around the waist. The Sumerians in Mesopotamia wore a kind of fur skirt tied by a belt. During the Old Kingdom of Egypt, which lasted until 2130 B.C., men wore short skirts tied at the waist or held by a belt. Over time, skirts became pleated or gathered. By the Middle Kingdom, longer skirts were more fashionable while in the New Kingdom, kilts-like variations with pleated triangular sections became popular. The material used to make skirts has been constantly evolving. While earlier they were made from animal skin, straw and linen, today they're made from almost any material you can think of. Skirts are still worn by men and women from many cultures, such as the lungi, lehnga, kanga, and sarong from South and Southeast Asia, and the kilt worn in Scotland and Ireland. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/complete-lux-radio-theatre-2-dual-layer-mp3-dvds-cecil-b-demil23.html

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Today, March 10, 2026

March 10, 1913: National Harriet Tubman Day: -- #DOTD: #RIP: Harriet Tubman, African American nurse, activist, abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout and spy for the United States Army during the American Civil War (b. c. 1820) #dies of pneumonia in an Auburn, New York rest home named in her honor surrounded by friends and family members, aged 90-91. Just before she died, she told those in the room: "I go to prepare a place for you." Tubman was buried with semi-military honors at Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn. Harriet Tubman was born into slavery as Araminta Ross in Dorchester County, Maryland to enslaved parents, Harriet ("Rit") Green and Ben Ross. Her nickname was "Minty". She went on to escape from her masters and thereby from slavery, and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved people, family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era was an active participant in the struggle for women's suffrage. Born Araminta Ross as a slave in Dorchester County, Maryland, Tubman was beaten and whipped by her various masters as a child. Early in life, she suffered a traumatic head wound when an irate slave owner threw a heavy metal weight intending to hit another slave and hit her instead. The injury caused dizziness, pain, and spells of hypersomnia, which occurred throughout her life. She was a devout Christian and experienced strange visions and vivid dreams, which she ascribed to premonitions from God. In 1849, Tubman escaped to Philadelphia, then immediately returned to Maryland to rescue her family. Slowly, one group at a time, she brought relatives with her out of the state, and eventually guided dozens of other slaves to freedom. Traveling by night and in extreme secrecy, Tubman (or "Moses", as she was called) "never lost a passenger". After the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed, she helped guide fugitives farther north into British North America, and helped newly freed slaves find work. When the Civil War began, Tubman worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and then as an armed scout and spy. The first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war, she guided the raid at Combahee Ferry, which liberated more than 700 slaves. After the war, she retired to the family home on property she had purchased in 1859 in Auburn, New York, where she cared for her aging parents. She was active in the women's suffrage movement until illness overtook her and she had to be admitted to a home for elderly African Americans that she had helped to establish years earlier. After she died in 1913, she became an icon of American courage and freedom. #HarrietTubman #Abolitionists #UndergroundRailroad #Activists #AfricanAmericanHistory #AfricanAmericanHeritage #BlackHeritage #BlackPeople #Blacks #AfricanAmericans #BlackAmericans #Slavery #SlaveryInTheUnitedStates #SlaveryInTheUS #AmericanCivilWar #WarBetweenTheStates #WomensSuffrage #WomensEquality #GenderEquality #SexualEquality #WomensRights #CivilRights #WomensLiberation #Suffrage #UniversalSuffrage #GeneralSuffrage #CommonSuffrage #WomensLib #BlackCivilRights #AmericanHistory #HistoryOfTheUS #WesternCulture #WesternCivilization #OccidentalCulture #WesternWorld #WesternSociety #WesternTradition #StoryOfCivilization #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/roots-of-resistance-a-story-of-the-underground-railroad-dvd.html

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Today, March 10, 2026

March 10: Tibetan Uprising Day: -- March 10, 1959: Tibet: The History Of Tibet: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Annexation Of Tibet By The People's Republic Of China: The 1959 Tibetan Uprising (The 1959 Tibetan Armed Rebellion, The 1959 Tibetan Anti-Riot Movement, The 1959 Tibetan Unrests, The 1959 Anti-Chinese Uprising In Tibet, The Lhasa Uprising): -- Tibetan Uprising Day commemorates the beginning of The 1959 Tibetan Uprising (March 10-23, 1959), a revolt against Chinese rule erupted in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, which had been under the effective control of the People's Republic Of China (PRC) since the Seventeen Point Agreement was reached in 1951. Fearing a Chinese abduction attempt, 300,000 Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama's palace in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa to prevent his removal. The 1959 Tibetan Uprising or the 1959 Tibetan Rebellion was a revolt against the effective control of the People's Republic Of China since the Seventeen Point Agreement was reached in 1951. Armed conflict between Tibetan guerillas and the People's Liberation Army (PLA) had started in 1956 in the Kham and Amdo regions, which had been subjected to socialist reform. The guerrilla warfare later spread to other areas of Tibet and lasted through 1962. The anniversary of the uprising is observed by Tibetan exiles as the ''Tibetan Uprising Day'' and Woman's Uprising Day. The anniversary of its end is officially celebrated in the Tibetan Autonomous Region as Serfs Emancipation Day. The 1959 Tibetan Uprising (March 10-23, 1959) began when a revolt against Chinese rule erupted in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, which had been under the effective control of the People's Republic Of China (PRC) since the Seventeen Point Agreement was reached in 1951. The anniversary of the uprising is observed by Tibetan exiles as the ''Tibetan Uprising Day'' and Woman's Uprising Day. The initial uprising occurred amid general Chinese-Tibetan tensions and a context of confusion, because Tibetan protesters feared that the Chinese government might arrest the 14th Dalai Lama. The protests were also fueled by anti-Chinese sentiment and separatism. At first, the uprising mostly consisted of peaceful protests, but clashes quickly erupted and the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) eventually used force to quell the protests, some of the protesters had captured arms. The last stages of the uprising included heavy fighting, with high civilian and military losses. The 14th Dalai Lama escaped from Lhasa, while the city was fully retaken by Chinese security forces on March 23, 1959. Thousands of Tibetans were killed during the uprising, but the exact number of deaths is disputed. Earlier in 1956, armed conflict between Tibetan guerillas and the PLA started in the Kham and Amdo regions, which had been subjected to socialist reform. The guerrilla warfare later spread to other areas of Tibet and lasted through 1962. Some regard the Xunhua Incident (April 17-25, 1958), an uprising of Tibetan and Salar people against the rule of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the Qinghai, China province bordering Tibet, as a precursor of the Tibetan uprising. The annual March 10 anniversary of the uprising is observed by exiled Tibetans as Tibetan Uprising Day and Women's Uprising Day. On January 19, 2009, The PRC-controlled legislature in the Tibet Autonomous Region chose March 28 as the national anniversary of Serfs Emancipation Day. American Tibetologist Warren W. Smith Jr. describes the move as a "counter-propaganda" celebration following the March 10, 2008 unrest in Tibet. Tibet, as it is today, was first unified in the Seventh Century A.D., by King Songsten Gampo and his successors. However, its history began in 127 B.C., with the formation of the Yarlung Dynasty. The People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic Of China initially entered Tibet in 1949, defeating the small Tibetan army and seizing half of the nation, marking a watershed moment in Tibet's history. Repression, which included the destruction of holy buildings and the arrest of monks and other community leaders, rose substantially as resistance to the Chinese occupation grew, particularly in Eastern Tibet. The Communist Chinese government invaded Tibet in 1950, causing chaos and misery for Tibetans, finally resulting in the fall of the Tibetan government and the self-imposed exile of the Dalai Lama and 100,000 Tibetans in 1959. Despite all the religious persecution, loss of their national heritage, and frequent violations of their human rights, Tibetans continue to raise their voices in unison, asking for independence. Tibet is still considered a sovereign state under international law. Tibet's sovereignty has not been transferred to China as a result of China's armed invasion and ongoing occupation by the People's Liberation Army (P.L.A.). All who continue to support this cause believe, that someday, Tibet will achieve the independence it so dearly desires and deserves. #TibetanUprisingDay #DalaiLama #TibetanUprising #TibetanRebellion #The1959TibetanUprising #The1959TibetanRebellion #Tibet #Lhasa #TibetanHistory #HistoryOfTibet #China #PRC #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/tibet-documentaries-2-dvd-se2.html

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Today, March 10, 2026

March 10, 241 BC: The Punic Wars: The First Punic War: The Battle Of The Aegates Islands: -- The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet off the western coast of the island of Sicily. It was the final naval battle fought between the fleets of Carthage and the Roman Republic during the First Punic War. The result was a decisive Roman victory which forced an end to the protracted conflict, to the advantage of Rome. The First Punic War (264 to 241 BC) was the first of three wars fought between Ancient Carthage and the Roman Republic, the two great powers of the Western Mediterranean. For 23 years, in the longest continuous conflict and greatest naval war of antiquity, the two powers struggled for supremacy, primarily on the Mediterranean island of Sicily and its surrounding waters, and also in North Africa. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/story-of-civilization-will-amp-ariel-durant-mp3-dvd-11-audiobo311.html

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March 10, 298: Rome: Ancient Rome: The Roman Empire: The Reign Of Maximian: Maximian's Campaigns in North Africa: -- Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa against the Berbers, and makes a triumphal entry into Carthage.The campaign was lengthy, and Maximian spent the winter of 297-298 resting in Carthage before returning to the field. Not content to drive them back into their homelands in the Atlas Mountains - from which they could continue to wage war - Maximian ventured deep into Berber territory. The terrain was unfavorable, and the Berbers were skilled at guerrilla warfare, but Maximian pressed on. Apparently wishing to inflict as much punishment as possible on the tribes, he devastated previously secure land, killed as many as he could, and drove the remainder back into the Sahara. His campaign was concluded by early 298 and, on March 10, he made a triumphal entry into Carthage. Inscriptions there record the people's gratitude to Maximian, hailing him - as Constantius had been on his entry to London - as redditor lucis aeternae ("restorer of the eternal light"). Maximian returned to Italy in early 299 to celebrate another triumph in Rome. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/story-of-civilization-will-amp-ariel-durant-mp3-dvd-11-audiobo311.html

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Today, March 10, 2026

March 10, 1629: The English Monarchy (The Monarchy Of The Kingdom Of England): The Scottish Monarchy (The Monarchy Of The Kingdom Of Scotland): The Irish Monarchy (The Monarchy Of The Kingdom Of Ireland): The Reign Of Charles I Of England: The Personal Rule (The Eleven Years' Tyranny): -- King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland dissolves Parliament, ruling without recourse to Parliament and beginning the eleven-year period known as the Personal Rule. The King claimed that he was entitled to do this under the Royal Prerogative, a body of customary authority, privilege, and immunity, recognised in the United Kingdom as the sole prerogative of the Sovereign and the source of many of the executive powers of the British government. Charles had already dissolved three Parliaments by the third year of his reign in 1628. After the murder of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, who was deemed to have a negative influence on Charles' foreign policy, Parliament began to criticize the king more harshly than before. Charles then concluded that, as long as he could avoid war, he could rule without Parliament. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/monarchy-in-the-uk-british-royal-family-history-films-dvd.html

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March 10, 1848: The Mexican-American War (The Mexican War): The Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo (The Treaty Of Peace, Friendship, Limits, And Settlement Between The United States Of America And The United Mexican States): -- The Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo, agreeing to end the war and to cede California, Nevada, Utah and territories that would comprise a further six other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for a sum of 15M USD, is ratified by the United States. On May 19 Mexico likewise ratified the treaty, the ratifications were exchanged on May 30, and the treaty was proclaimed on July 4, 1848. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Spanish: Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo), officially titled "The Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic", is the peace treaty signed in the Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo (now a neighborhood of Mexico City) between the United States and Mexico that ended the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). With the defeat of its army and the fall of its capital in September 1847, Mexico entered into negotiations with the U.S. peace envoy, Nicholas Trist, to end the war. On the Mexican side, there were factions that did not concede defeat or seek to engage in negotiations. The treaty called for the United States to pay 15M USD to Mexico and to pay off the claims of American citizens against Mexico up to 5M USD. It gave the United States the Rio Grande as a boundary for Texas, and gave the U.S. ownership of California and a large area comprising roughly half of New Mexico, most of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah and Colorado. The land that the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo brought into the United States became, between 1850 and 1912, all or part of nine states: California (1850), Nevada (1864), Utah (1896), and Arizona (1912), as well as, depending upon interpretation, the entire state of Texas (1845), which then included part of Kansas (1861); Colorado (1876); Oklahoma (1907); and New Mexico (1912). Mexicans in those annexed areas had the choice of relocating to within Mexico's new boundaries or receiving American citizenship with full civil rights. The U.S. Senate advised and consented to ratification of the treaty by a vote of 38-14. The opponents of this treaty were led by the Whigs, who had opposed the war and rejected manifest destiny in general, and rejected this expansion in particular. The amount of land gained by the United States from Mexico was further increased as a result of the Gadsden Purchase of 1853, which ceded parts of present-day southern Arizona and New Mexico to the United States. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-ragged-revolution-mexican-revolt-191019101920.html

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March 10, 1915: The European Civil War: World War I: The First European War (The European Theater Of World War I): The Western Front Of World War I: The Battle Of Neuve Chapelle: -- The first large-scale operation by the British Army in the First World War, the first deliberately planned British offensive which showed the form in which position warfare was to take for the rest of the war on the Western Front, begins with an attack intended to cause a rupture in the German lines, which would then be exploited with a rush to the Aubers Ridge and possibly Lille. A French assault at Vimy Ridge on the Artois plateau was also planned to threaten the road, rail and canal junctions at La Bassee from the south as the British attacked from the north. The British attackers broke through German defences in a salient at the village of Neuve-Chapelle but the success could not be exploited. The Royal Flying Corps (RFC) carried out aerial photography, despite poor weather, which enabled the attack front to be mapped to a depth of 1,500 yd (1,400 m) for the first time and for 1,500 copies of 1:5,000 scale maps to be distributed to each corps. Tactical surprise and a break-in were achieved, after the First Army prepared the attack with great attention to detail. After the first set-piece attack, unexpected delays slowed the tempo of operations and command was undermined by communication failures. Infantry-artillery co-operation broke down when the telephone system ceased to work and the Germans had time to send in reinforcements and dig a new line. The British attempted to renew the advance, by attacking where the original assault had failed, instead of reinforcing success, and a fresh attack with the same detailed preparation as that on the first day became necessary. A big German counter-attack by twenty infantry battalions (c.? 16,000 men) early on March 12 was a costly failure. Sir Douglas Haig, the First Army commander, cancelled further attacks and ordered the captured ground to be consolidated, preparatory to a new attack further north. An acute shortage of artillery ammunition made another attack impossible, apart from a local effort by the 7th Division, which was another costly failure. The Germans strengthened the defences opposite the British and increased the number of troops in the area. One consequence of the battle was that the French became cautiously optimistic that British forces could be reliable in offensive operations. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-great-war-dvd-set-1964-wwi-tv-series-26-shows-1964266.html

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March 10, 1918: #BOTD: Gunther Rall (Anglicized: Guenther Rall), highly decorated German military aviator, fighter ace, officer and general and pilot, third most successful fighter pilot in aviation history whose military career spanned nearly forty years (d. October 4, 2009) is #born in Gaggenau, the German Empire, and grew up in the Weimar Republic. His fighter successes were exceeded only by Gerhard Barkhorn ("Gerd"), who ranks second, and Erich Hartmann ("The Black Devil", "Bubi"), who ranks first. During World War II Rall was credited with the destruction of 275 enemy aircraft in 621 combat missions. He was shot down five times and wounded on three occasions. Rall claimed all of his victories in a Messerschmitt Bf 109, though he also flew the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 operationally. All but three of his claims were against Soviet opposition. In 1933 the Nazi Party seized power and Rall, deciding upon a military career, joined the Wehrmacht (Nazi German Armed Forces) in 1936 to train as an infantry soldier. Rall transferred to the Luftwaffe soon after and he qualified as a fighter pilot in 1938. In September 1939 World War II began with the German Invasion Of Poland. Rall was assigned to Jagdgeschwader 52 (JG 52-Fighter Wing 52) and flew combat patrols in the Phoney War period on the Western Front. Rall flew combat missions in the Battle Of France and Battle Of Britain, claiming one enemy aircraft destroyed in May 1940. Rall's wing sustained heavy casualties, and as a result the then-22 year old was appointed to Staffelkapitan (Squadron Leader). He then served in the Balkans Campaign in April and May 1941 without success. In June 1941, JG 52 moved to the Eastern Front, where it remained from Operation Barbarossa until the end of the war. Rall claimed his first successes in the air defence of Romania. In November 1941, he was shot down, wounded and invalidated from flying for a year. At this time Rall had claimed 36 aerial victories. His achievements earned him the German Cross in Gold in December 1941. Rall returned in August 1942 and was awarded the Knight's Cross on September 3, 1942 for 65 enemy aircraft shot down. By October 22 Rall had claimed 100 and received the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves. He reached 200 in late August 1943. On September 12, 1943 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords, the second highest military award in the Third Reich at the time of the presentation. By the end of 1943 Rall had achieved over 250, the second flier to do so after Nowotny did in October 1943. In April 1944 Rall left JG 52 and the Eastern Front. He was given command of II./Jagdgeschwader 11 and served in the Defence of the Reich where he was wounded for a third time. In November 1944 Rall was appointed as an instructor and flew captured Allied fighter aircraft in order to prepare instruction notes on their performance to German fighter pilots. Rall ended the war with an unsuccessful stint commanding Jagdgeschwader 300 near Salzburg, Austria, where he surrendered in May 1945. After World War II, Rall joined the West German Air Force in 1956, served as Inspector of the Air Force from 1971 to 1974, and as the German representative to the NATO Military Committee until 1975. After his retirement Rall became a consultant. Among his post-war achievements was the presentation of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, awarded to him for his post-1945 service. On October 4, 2009, Gunther Rall died at his home in Bad Reichenhall after suffering a heart attack two days earlier. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/war-props-the-messerschmitt-bf-109-dvd-mp4-download1094.html

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March 10, 1920: #BOTD: #HBD! Robert Cardenas, child prodigy, combat airman of the Second World War and Vietnam War, distinguished prisoner of war camp escapee, test pilot, Brigadier General in the United States Air Force and hero (d. March 10, 2022) is #born Robert Leon Cardenas in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. When he was five, his family moved to San Diego. He excelled in mathematics and physics in high school. When Cardenas was a teenager, building models and learning about gliders at Torrey Pines Gliderport first sparked his interest in airplanes. Due to his excellent grades, San Diego State University invited him to enroll. In 1939, while attending San Diego State, he decided to enlist as a private in the California National Guard. In 1940, Cardenas became an aviation cadet. He graduated, received his pilot wings and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Air Corps in July 1941. In 1942, Lt. Cardenas was sent to Twentynine Palms, California, to help establish the Army Air Corps Glider School. He was assigned to Wright Field, Ohio, and became a flight test officer. Cardenas rose quickly in position, was promoted to operations officer and finally director of the Flight Test Unit, Experimental Engineering Laboratory at Wright Field. In 1944, he was assigned to the 506th Bombardment Squadron, 44th Bombardment Group, also known as the Flying Eightballs, based at RAF Shipdham in Norfolk, England. He flew his first mission on the B-24 Liberator "Southern Comfort" on January 24. On March 18, Captain Cardenas was flying as Command Pilot for the 44th Bomb Group on his 20th mission. His airplane, the B-24 "Sack Artists" (serial number 42-100073), was shot down by German anti-aircraft fire. His attack run was supposed to target the Manzell Air Armaments factory in Friedrichshafen, Wurttemberg, Germany. However, the right wing was severely damaged by a shell and two engines were set on fire. According to his report relayed to the War Department, his number 2 engine was "hit by flak [and] on fire," causing the loss of 3,000 ft. altitude. Despite this damage he "Rejoined formation for [a] second [bomb] run." After this pass his "[numbers] 2 and 4 [engines were] on fire," and "[number] 3 [was] vibrating badly" in addition to "gas leaks," damage to bomb bays, wings, and electrical systems, and "hydraulics inoperative." Several members of the crew were also wounded, including Cardenas, who received a head injury when a piece of flak pierced his helmet. Since the plane was severely damaged and losing stability, 1st Lieutenant Raymond J. Lacombe decided to pilot the plane to Switzerland. Cardenas' crew all parachuted safely. The bomber then exploded at a low altitude and shore off the tops of several trees. Capt. Cardenas landed on the German side of Lake Constance. He swam across the lake to the Swiss side in order to evade capture. He was first interned at a camp for American officers at Adelboden, and was later assigned to teach Swiss officers how to fly interned American bombers at Dubendorf Airfield near Zurich. On September 27, 1944, Cardenas escaped into France with the help of Swiss civilians and the French resistance. He was flown to Britain and then sent back to the United States to recover from his head injury. In November 1944, he attended Central Instructors School for the B-24 at Smyrna Army Airfield, Tennessee. After graduation, he became a test pilot and was then assigned to Wright Field, Ohio. While at Wright Field, he attended Experimental Flight Test School and later became assistant chief of Bomber Section, and chief of Bomber Operations Section, Flight Test Division. In 1945, he started piloting experimental aircraft. He piloted a captured Luftwaffe jet fighter, the Messerschmitt Me 262, and the Arado Ar 234 jet bomber. Cardenas also piloted the XB-42 Mixmaster and XB-43 Jetmaster. He was assigned chief test pilot for bomber aircraft and flew all prototypes of that class for the next four years. In 1947, he became the Officer in Charge of Operations and was the command pilot for the B-29 Superfortress that launched Captain Chuck Yeager in the Bell X-1 supersonic experimental aircraft. Then in 1948, Major Cardenas was the Officer in Charge of Flight Test Division at Muroc Air Force Base and was Chief Air Force Test Pilot of the Northrop YB-49 flying wing. Cardenas later claimed that the YB-49 rotated backwards in stall, and that he warned Glen Edwards about it, who later died in a YB-49 crash. Jack Northrop claimed such a rotation was impossible. During one of Cardenas' test flights, a suspected act of sabotage, stemming from the plane's competition with the Boeing B-52 to be selected as America's heavy bomber, rendered the hydrolics system virtually in operable, and Cardenas only managed to land the plane with some 6 feet of clearance at the end of the runway. After a transcontinental flight in the YB-49, President Truman ordered Cardenas to do a flyby of Pennsylvania Avenue at rooftop level. During the Korean War, he was assigned to Wright Field and Edwards Air Force Base testing new fighters and bombers. Additionally, he was assigned to Okinawa and then to The Pentagon. During the Vietnam War, Cardenas flew F-105 Thunderchief combat missions and was then assigned to McConnell AFB as a trainer for the F-105. In 1968, Colonel Cardenas was promoted to Brigadier General and assigned to command of the Air Force Special Operations Force at Eglin Air Force Base. Following his assignment to Eglin AFB, he became vice commander of the 16th Air Force in Spain. There he negotiated with Muammar al-Gaddafi the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Wheelus Air Base in Libya. After his assignment in Spain, General Cardenas was assigned to Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Belgium. At SHAPE, he was the U.S. Deputy to LIVE OAK, a code name for joint military planning operation of the United States, Great Britain and France in response to the Soviet blockade and interference of Western access to Berlin. His final duty assignment was chief of national strategic Target List Division, Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff, at Offutt AFB, Nebraska. He retired from the Air Force as a Brigadier General in 1973. Cardenas worked as an executive in the private sector. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan appointed him California coordinator for Southwest Border Economic Action Group. In 1985, he was appointed to chairman of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Advisory Group by California Governor George Deukmejian. He also served on the California Council of Criminal Justice.In 1987, Governor Deukmejian appointed General Cardenas to the California Veterans Board; he eventually became the chairman. In 1993, General Cardenas resigned from the California Veterans Board to serve as the chairman of the San Diego United Veterans Council and a director on the Board of Veterans Memorial Center & Museum, in San Diego. Also in 1993, the University of New Mexico's Department of Engineering honored him for his professional contribution and leadership. Cardenas was later a member of the Veteran Administration's Memorials and Cemetery Committee. He was appointed to the committee by former VA Secretary Anthony Principi. He was also a trustee of the Flight Test Historical Foundation at Edwards AFB. In 1995, he was inducted into the Aerospace Walk of Fame in Lancaster, California, and the Sigma Chi fraternity awarded him the "Significant Sig" medal. In 2004, he was honored as a Distinguished Alumnus of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB. In 2008, Cardenas was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum. In 2012, Cardenas was honored at the Air Command and Staff College's Gathering of Eagles at Maxwell Air Base, Montgomery, Alabama. This program encourages the study of airpower history by emphasizing the contributions of air and space pioneers. In 2014, the National Aviation Hall of Fame announced that Cardenas will be inducted into the "Class of 2015" along with aviation pioneers Robert N. Hartzell, Gene Kranz, and Abe Silverstein. Cardenas lived in San Diego with his wife, Gladys, where he died on his 102nd birthday. He was buried with full military honors at Miramar National Cemetery. 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March 9-10, 1945: World War II: March 9-10, 1945: World War II: The Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Asiatic-Pacific Theater, The Pacific Theater Of World War II): The Asiatic-Pacific Theater: Aviation: Military Aviation: Air Warfare Of World War II: Air Warfare Of The Pacific War: Air Raids On Japan: The Bombing Of Tokyo (Japanese: Tokyodaikushu): Operation Meetinghouse (The Great Tokyo Air Raid, The Night Of The Black Snow): -- The most destructive single air attack in human history concludes as the first major firebombing raid against a Japanese city, as well as the first nocturnal incendiary attack on Tokyo, finishes inflicting damage comparable to that inflicted on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki five months later. In a three-hour period, 1,665 tons of incendiary bombs dropped from 279 Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bombers burned out much of eastern Tokyo, annihilating 16 square miles (41 km2) of central Tokyo, killing between more than 90K and over 100K Japanese people, mostly civilians, and leaving a full one million people homeless. The Japanese air and civil defenses proved largely inadequate; only 14 American aircraft (5%) and 96 airmen were lost. Operation Meetinghouse was an intensification of the air raids on Japan which had begun in June 1944. Prior to this operation, the USAAF had focused on a precision bombing campaign against Japanese industrial facilities. These attacks were generally unsuccessful, which contributed to the decision to shift to firebombing. The USAAF units employed significantly different tactics from those used in precision raids, including bombing by night with the aircraft flying at low altitudes. The extensive destruction caused by the raid led to these tactics becoming standard for the USAAF's B-29s until the end of the war. The Bombing of Tokyo often refers to a series of firebombing air raids by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific campaigns of World War II. Strategic bombing and urban area bombing began in 1944 after the long-range B-29 Superfortress bomber entered service, first deployed from China and thereafter the Mariana Islands. B-29 raids from those islands began on November 17, 1944, and lasted until August 15, 1945, the day of Japanese surrender. Over half of Tokyo's industry was spread out among residential and commercial neighborhoods; firebombing cut the city's output in half. While the concentrated bombing civilian targets was standard operating procedure by all aerial combatants of both sides during World War II, modern post-war analysts have in hindsight defined the firebombing of Japanese population centers a war crime due to the targeting of civilian infrastructure and the ensuing mass loss of civilian life. Major General Curtis LeMay had been the hand-picked commander of XXI Bomber Command, replacing General Haywood S. Hansell, whose bombing campaign against Japan up to that time was considered unsuccessful. LeMay understood that he would relieved of this command if he failed to deliver results. He believed that changing the emphasis from precision bombing to area bombing was the most promising option to turn the XXI Bomber Command's performance around. LeMay ordered the defensive guns removed from 325 B-29s, loaded each plane with Model M-47 incendiary clusters, magnesium bombs, white phosphorus bombs, and napalm, and ordered the bombers to fly in streams at 5,000 to 9,000 feet (1,500 to 2,700 m) over Tokyo. LeMay described Operation Meetinghouse by saying "the US had finally stopped swatting at flies and gone after the manure pile". LeMay was aware of the implication of his orders. The New York Times reported at the time, "Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, commander of the B-29s of the entire Marianas area, declared that if the war is shortened by a single day, the attack will have served its purpose". The argument was that it was his duty to carry out the attacks in order to end the war as quickly as possible, sparing further loss of life. He also remarked regarding the morality of the air effort against Japan, "I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal." This opinion was also reported by Robert McNamara in the 2003 documentary The Fog of War, although after the war the Allies did not prosecute any German or Japanese military personnel for bombing civilian targets. In order to prevent the loss of civilian life, "LeMay Bombing Leaflets" were dropped on targeted cities and Tokyo particularly, which warned Japanese civilians of impending danger: "Unfortunately, bombs have no eyes. So, in accordance with America's humanitarian policies, the American Air Force, which does not wish to injure innocent people, now gives you warning to evacuate the cities named and save your lives". The raid began when the first pathfinder airplanes arrived over Tokyo just after midnight on March 10, and marked the target area with a flaming "X"; three hours later, aircrews at the tail end of the bomber stream reported that the stench of burned human flesh permeated the aircraft over the target. Precise figures are not available, but the strategic bombing campaign against Japan, directed by LeMay between March 1945 and the Japanese surrender in August 1945, may have killed more than 500,000 Japanese civilians and left five million homeless. Official estimates from the United States Strategic Bombing Survey put the figures at 220,000 people killed. Some 40% of the built-up areas of 66 cities were destroyed, including much of Japan's war industry. 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March 10, 1952: Cuba: The History Of Cuba: The Cuban Military Coup And Dictatorship (1952-1959): -- Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba against President Carlos Prio Socarras and appoints himself as the "provisional president". Since the beginning of 1952, Batista ran for president in a three-way race, with Roberto Agramonte of the Orthodox Party in the lead in all the polls, followed by Carlos Hevia of the Authentic Party. Batista's United Action coalition was running a distant third. On March 10, 1952, three months before the elections, Batista, with army backing, staged a coup and seized power and canceled the elections. The United States recognized his government on March 27, despite having asked Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr for his analysis of Batista's Cuba, who predicted "The corruption of the Government, the brutality of the police, the government's indifference to the needs of the people for education, medical care, housing, for social justice and economic justice ... is an open invitation to revolution"; that revolution took the form of Fidel Castro's successful Cuban Revolution a decade later. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-bay-of-pigs-invasion-dvd-mp4-download-usb-flash-driv4.html

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March 10, 1957: #BOTD: Osama bin Laden (Usama bin Laden, Usama bin Ladin, Oussama ben Laden, etc.), Saudi Arabian terrorist (d. May 2, 2011) is #born Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Osama bin Laden is founder of the Pan-Islamic militant organization al-Qaeda, an organization designated as a terrorist group by the United Nations Security Council, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the European Union, and various countries. Under bin Laden's leadership, al-Qaeda was responsible for the September 11 attacks in the United States, and many other mass-casualty attacks worldwide. He was a Saudi Arabian citizen until 1994 and a member of the wealthy bin Laden family. Bin Laden's father was Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, a Saudi millionaire from Hadhramaut, Yemen, and the founder of the construction company, Saudi Binladin Group. His mother, Alia Ghanem, was from a secular middle-class family in Latakia, Syria. He was born in Saudi Arabia and studied at university in the country until 1979, when he joined Mujahideen forces in Pakistan fighting against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. He helped to fund the Mujahideen by funneling arms, money, and fighters from the Arab world into Afghanistan, and gained popularity among many Arabs. In 1988, he formed al-Qaeda. He was banished from Saudi Arabia in 1992, and shifted his base to Sudan, until US pressure forced him to leave Sudan in 1996. After establishing a new base in Afghanistan, he declared a war against the United States, initiating a series of bombings and related attacks. Bin Laden was on the American Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) lists of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted Terrorists for his involvement in the 1998 US embassy bombings. Bin Laden is most well known for his role in masterminding the September 11 attacks, which resulted in the deaths of nearly 3,000 people and prompted the United States, on the orders of President George W. Bush, to initiate the "War on Terror" and the subsequent War in Afghanistan. He subsequently became the subject of a decade-long international manhunt. From 2001 to 2011, bin Laden was a major target of the United States, as the FBI offered a 25M USD bounty in their search for him. On May 2, 2011, bin Laden died when he was shot and killed by US Navy SEALs inside a private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where he lived with a local family from Waziristan. The covert operation was conducted by members of the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group (SEAL Team Six) and Central Intelligence Agency SAD/SOG operators on the orders of President Barack Obama. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/september-11th-attacks-mp3s-mpgs-jpgs-cd-usb-dr113.html

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March 10, 1966: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars: The Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict, The Resistance War Against America): The Buddhist Uprising (The Buddhist Uprising Of 1966 (Vietnamese: Noi Day Phat Giao 1966), The Crisis In Central Vietnam (Vietnamese: Bien Dong Mien Trung): -- Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky, with the support of his fellow members of the South Vietnamese ruling junta, sacks his rival in the junta General Nguyen Chanh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military unrest in South Vietnam known in America as The Buddhist Uprising and in modern Vietnam as The Crisis In Central Vietnam (March 26 - June 8, 1966). Ky mustered the support of eight of the generals on the 10-man junta, meaning that along with his vote, there were nine officers in favor of Thi's removal. With Thi the only nonsupporter, Ky and his colleagues removed Thi from the junta and his corps command. Ky threatened to resign if the decision was not unanimous, claiming that the junta needed a show of strength, so Thi decided to vote for his own sacking. The junta put Thi under house arrest pending his departure from the country, and then appointed General Nguyen Van Chuan, the erstwhile commander of 1st Division and a Thi subordinate, as the new I Corps commander. Within the ruling South Vietnamese junta, General Thi was seen as Ky's main competitor for influence. Many political observers in Saigon thought that Thi wanted to depose Ky, and regarded him as the biggest threat to the other officers and the junta's stability. According to Ky's memoirs, Thi was a "born intriguer" who had "left-wing inclinations". Time magazine published a piece in February 1966 that claimed that Thi was more dynamic than Ky and could seize power at any time. Historian Robert Topmiller claimed Ky may have seen the article as destabilizing and therefore decided to move against Thi. Historian Stanley Karnow said of Ky and Thi: "Both flamboyant characters who wore gaudy uniforms and sported sinister moustaches, the two young officers had been friends, and their rivalry seemed to typify the personal struggles for power that chronically afflicted South Vietnam. But their dispute mirrored more than individual ambition." Both were known for the colorful red berets they wore. There were reports that Thi was showing insubordination towards Ky. The U.S. military commander in Vietnam, General William Westmoreland, said that Thi once refused to report to Ky in Saigon when requested. On one occasion, Ky came to I Corps to remonstrate with him in early March, Thi addressed his staff and asked mockingly, "Should we pay attention to this funny little man from Saigon or should we ignore him?" Thi made this comment rather loudly, within earshot of Ky, and the Vietnamese politician Bui Diem thought that the prime minister viewed Thi's comment as a direct challenge to his authority. A native of central Vietnam, Thi was the commander of I Corps, which oversaw the five northernmost provinces of South Vietnam and the 1st and 2nd Divisions. He was known to have the "deep rooted" loyalty of his soldiers. A large segment of the South Vietnamese military was the Regional and Popular Forces, which were militias who served in their native areas, and they appreciated a commander with a regionalistic rapport. The support from the Buddhists, his troops, and the regional tendencies gave Thi a strong power base and made it hard for the other generals and the Americans to move against him. Ky initially stated that Thi was leaving the country to receive medical treatment for his nasal passages. An official announcement said that the junta "had considered and accepted General Thi's application for a vacation". Thi retorted that "The only sinus condition I have is from the stink of corruption." Ky then gave a series of reasons for dismissing Thi, accusing him of being too left-wing, of ruling the central regions like a warlord, of having a mistress who was suspected of being a communist, and being too conspiratorial. Despite Thi's good relations with the Buddhists in his area, most notably Thich Tri Quang, Ky reportedly had the monks' support for Thi's removal. Quang used the crisis to highlight Buddhist calls for civilian rule. There were claims that Quang intended to challenge Ky, regardless of whether or not Thi had been cast aside. Time magazine reported that Thi "ran it [I Corps] like a warlord of yore, obeying those edicts of the central government that suited him and blithely disregarding the rest." Historian George McTurnan Kahin said that Ky may have feared that Thi would secede from Saigon and turn central Vietnam into an independent state; this Thi's supporters later virtually did. CIA analyst Douglas Pike, who worked in Vietnam, speculated that this would have been a large part of Ky's thinking. A combination of those factors resulted in Thi's dismissal. The Americans were supportive of Ky and his prosecution of the war against the communists, and they opposed Thi, regarding him as not being firm enough against communism. Thi did, however, have the support of Marine Lieutenant General Lewis Walt, who commanded American forces in I Corps and was the senior adviser to Thi's ARVN forces. This caused problems during the dispute. The dismissal caused widespread demonstrations in the northern provinces. Civil unrest grew, as civil servants, disaffected military personnel, and the working under-class joined the anti-government demonstrations led by the Buddhists. At first, Ky tried to ignore the demonstrations and wait for them to peter out, but the problem escalated and riots broke out in some places. Despite continued American support, senior American foreign policy officials regarded Ky, General Thieu and their regime as of very poor quality. Assistant Secretary Of State William Bundy stated that the regime "seemed to all of us the bottom of the barrel, absolutely the bottom of the barrel." Ky gambled by allowing Thi to return to I Corps, ostensibly to restore order. He claimed he allowed Thi to return to his old area of command as a goodwill gesture, to keep central Vietnamese happy, and because he promised Thi a farewell visit before going into exile. Thi received a rousing reception and the anti-Ky protesters became more fervent. Ky then sacked the police chief of Hue, a Thi loyalist. The local policemen responded by going on strike and demonstrating against their chief's removal. Buddhists and other antijunta civilian activists joined together with I Corps units supportive of Thi to form the Struggle Movement, leading to civil unrest and a halt in I Corps military operations. On 3 April, Ky held a press conference during which he claimed that Da Nang was under communist control and vowed to stage a military operation to regain the territory, thus implying the Buddhists were communist agents. He vowed to kill the mayor of Da Nang, saying "Either Da Nang's mayor is shot or the government will fall." The following evening, Ky deployed three battalions of marines to Da Nang. The marines stayed at Da Nang Air Base and made no moves against the rebels. Soon after, they were joined by two battalions of Vietnamese Rangers, as well as some riot police and paratroopers. Ky took personal command and found that the roads leading into the city had been blocked by Buddhist civilians and pro-Thi portions of the I Corps. After a standoff, Ky realized that he could not score a decisive victory and had lost face. He arranged a meeting and media event with Thi loyalist officers, and various Struggle Movement supporters. Ky arrived back in Saigon, where he met with Buddhist leaders for negotiations. The Buddhists demanded an amnesty for rioters and mutinous soldiers, and for Ky to withdraw the marines from Da Nang back to Saigon.] The monks said they would order that the Struggle Movement "temporarily suspend all forms of struggle to prove our goodwill". After a period of tension and further tensions, Ky's forces gained the upper hand in May, pressuring most Struggle Movement members to give up and militarily defeating the rest. He then put Quang under house arrest and finally had Thi exiled, cementing his junta's grip on power and ending the Buddhist movement as a political force. 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Today, March 10, 2026

March 10, 1970: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars: The Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict, The Resistance War Against America): The United States In The Vietnam War: War Crimes: War Crimes Of The Vietnam War: The My Lai Massacre (The Pinkville Massacre, The Massacre At Songmy, Son My Massacre): -- Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. military with My Lai war crimes. Ernest Lou Medina (August 27, 1936 - May 8, 2018) served in the infantry of the United States Army during the Vietnam War. He was the commanding officer of Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry of the 11th Brigade, Americal Division, the unit responsible for the My Lai Massacre of March 16, 1968. According to the 1970 investigation of the crime investigation by Two-Star General William R. Peers' Peers Commission, Medina "Planned, ordered, and supervised the execution by his company of an unlawful operation against inhabited hamlets in Son My village, which included the destruction of houses by burning, killing of livestock, and the destruction of crops and other foodstuffs, and the closing of wells; and impliedly directed the killing of any persons found there." The investigation also charged that Medina "Possibly killed as many as three noncombatants in My Lai." Medina was therefore court-martialed in 1971 for willingly allowing his men to murder noncombatants. Medina denied all the charges and claimed that he never gave any orders to kill Vietnamese noncombatants. Medina's defense team, led by F. Lee Bailey, and a support staff that included Gary Myers, alleged that his men killed Vietnamese noncombatants under their own volition and not under Medina's orders. Medina also testified that he did not become aware that his troops were out of control at My Lai until the massacre was already well underway. Medina also strongly denied killing any Vietnamese noncombatant at My Lai, with the exception of a young woman whom two soldiers testified that they found hiding in a ditch. When she emerged with her hands up, Medina shot her because, he claimed, he thought she had a grenade. In fact, she was unarmed. The defense lawyers brought up many incidents during the Vietnam War of Viet Cong suspects and sympathizers faking surrender to use hidden pistols or grenades to harm or kill American military personnel. In August 1971, Medina was ultimately found not guilty of all charges. His jury deliberations lasted about 60 minutes. Despite his acquittal, the court martial and negative publicity brought Medina's military career to an end. He resigned his commission and left the Army shortly afterward. He later admitted that, during his court martial, he had "not been completely candid to avoid disgracing the military, the United States, his family, and himself." After resigning from the Army, Medina went to work at an Enstrom Helicopter Corporation plant owned by F. Lee Bailey in Menominee, Michigan. Medina moved with his family to Marinette, Wisconsin. He worked in his family's real estate business: Medina, Inc. Realtor in Marinette, Wisconsin. Medina is mentioned by name in the first stanza of Pete Seeger's Vietnam protest song "Last Train to Nuremberg" (1970): "Do I see Lieutenant Calley? Do I see Captain Medina? Do I see Gen'ral Koster and all his crew?". Ernest Medina died on May 8, 2018, at the age of 81. The My Lai Massacre occured on March 16, 1968, a war crime of the Vietnam War, a mass killing of between 347 and 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians in South Vietnam. It was committed by U.S. Army soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd (Americal) Infantry Division. Victims included men, women, children, and infants. Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated. Twenty-six soldiers were charged with criminal offenses, but only Lieutenant William Calley Jr., a platoon leader in C Company, was convicted. Found guilty of killing 22 villagers, he was originally given a life sentence, but served only three and a half years under house arrest. The massacre, which was later called "the most shocking episode of the Vietnam War", took place in two hamlets of Son My village in Quang Ngai Province. These hamlets were marked on the U.S. Army topographic maps as My Lai and My Khe. The U.S. Army slang name for the hamlets and sub-hamlets in that area was Pinkville, and the carnage was initially referred to as the Pinkville Massacre. On November 12, 1969, independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh broke the story of the My Lai Massacre, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. Later, when the U.S. Army started its investigation, the media changed it to the Massacre at Songmy. Currently, the event is referred to as the My Lai Massacre in the United States and called the Son My Massacre in Vietnam. The incident prompted global outrage when it became public knowledge as a result of Hersh' story. The My Lai massacre increased domestic opposition to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War when the scope of killing and cover-up attempts were exposed. Initially, three U.S. servicemen who had tried to halt the massacre and rescue the hiding civilians were shunned, and even denounced as traitors by several U.S. Congressmen, including Mendel Rivers, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Only after thirty years were they recognized and decorated, one posthumously, by the U.S. Army for shielding non-combatants from harm in a war zone. Along with the No Gun Ri massacre in Korea eighteen years earlier, My Lai was one of the largest single massacres of civilians by U.S. forces in the 20th century. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/war-crimes-the-nuremberg-my-lai-john-demjanjuk-trials-mp4-download-dv4.html

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March 10, 1972: The American Civil Rights Movement: Black Power: The Black Power Movement (Black Liberation Movement): The National Black Political Convention (The Gary Convention): -- The National Black Political Convention (March 10-12, 1972) begins in Gary, Indiana. The convention gathered around ten thousand African Americans to discuss and advocate for black communities that undergo significant economic and social crisis. Part of their goal was to raise the number of black politicians elected to office, increase representation, and create an agenda for fundamental change. The convention also issued the Gary Declaration, which stated that the American political system was failing black Americans and that the only way to address this problem was to transition to independent black politics. Notable participants in the convention included Gary mayor Richard Hatcher, civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, and House Representative Charles C. Diggs Jr. Diggs Jr., alongside Richard Hatcher, were the two keynote speakers at the National Black Political Convention. Filmmaker William Greaves' 1972 documentary Nationtime, narrated by Sidney Poitier, covers the National Black Political Convention. An 80-minute restored version was released in 2020 with funding from Jane Fonda and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/eyes-on-the-prize-ii-dvd-set-4-discs-complete-2nd-seri42.html

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March 10, 1975: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars: The Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict, The Resistance War Against America): The 1975 Spring Offensive {Vietnamese: Chien Dich Mua Xuan 1975; officially The General Offensive And Uprising Of Spring 1975 (Vietnamese: Tong Tien Cong Va Noi Day Mua Xuan 1975)}: -- North Vietnamese troops attack the key Central Highlands city of Ban Me Thuet (also transliterated Buon Ma Thuot) in South Vietnam on their way to capturing Saigon in the final push for victory over South Vietnam. Following the attack on Buon Ma Thuot, the Republic of Vietnam realized they were no longer able to defend the entire country and ordered a strategic withdrawal from the Central Highlands. The retreat from the Central Highlands, however, was a debacle as civilian refugees fled under fire with soldiers, mostly along a single highway reaching from the highlands to the coast. This situation was exacerbated by confusing orders, lack of command and control, and a well-led and aggressive enemy, which led to the utter rout and destruction of the bulk of South Vietnamese forces in the Central Highlands. A similar collapse occurred in the northern provinces. Surprised by the rapidity of the ARVN collapse, North Vietnam transferred the bulk of its northern forces more than 350 miles (560 km) to the south in order to capture the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon in time to celebrate their late President Ho Chi Minh's birthday and end the war. South Vietnamese forces regrouped around the capital and defended the key transportation hubs at Phan Rang and Xuan L?c, but a loss of political and military will to continue the fight became ever more manifest. Under political pressure, South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu resigned on April 21, in hopes that a new leader that was more amenable to the North Vietnamese could reopen negotiations with them. It was, however, too late. Southwest of Saigon IV Corps, meanwhile, remained relatively stable with its forces aggressively preventing VC units from taking over any provincial capitals. With PAVN spearheads already entering Saigon, the South Vietnamese government, then under the leadership of Duong Van Minh, capitulated on April 30, 1975. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/vietnam-the-10000-day-war-4-dual-layer-dvds-all-13-10000413.html

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March 10: Salvation Army Day: -- Commemorates the founding of the Salvation Army by Methodist preacher William Booth and his wife, Catherine. It is one of several days that celebrate the Salvation Army. One common misconception is that the Salvation Army is a militant organization of some sort. The name represents the Christian 'battle' against social injustices, and because the members see themselves ultimately as God's soldiers, the army is out to do good for those in need. They do, however, have a ranking system with military titles, a uniform, and even their own flag or banner. The exact reason for instituting such a day as Salvation Army Day on March 10 is unknown, but we do know that this is a day well worth observing simply because of the phenomenal organization that it acknowledges. For many people, all they may ever know about the Salvation Army is that they have volunteers who stand outside the stores and malls, ringing bells, and holding out red kettles for charitable donations around the holiday season. This does not even begin to scratch the surface of what The Salvation Army is, does, and stands for - let alone its rich history. Born in Nottingham, England, in 1829, William Booth found his true faith at the age of 15. At the beginning of his career, he was a Methodist preacher, and then he broke away to preach independently, eventually being invited to preach in one of the poorest areas of London - Whitechapel. Having always had a heart for the poor and those suffering injustice and societal rejection, Booth and his wife Catherine started the Christian Mission in 1865 to feed the hungry and provide shelter for those in need. By 1878 the name was changed to the Salvation Army, and it was organized and run along military lines, with Booth heading it as its first General. In 1890, General Booth published his ideas on how to alleviate poverty in his written work called "In Darkest England, and the Way Out" with the help of William Thomas Stead. Initially, these ideas were criticized, however, once the results could be seen, public sympathy was aroused. From humble beginnings, the organization grew exponentially, mustering widespread public support in England, including that of the crown - King Edward VII in 1904. Booth's own three children were involved in the work of the Salvation Army together with his daughter Evangeline Cory Booth. She became commander of the U.S. branch of the Salvation Army in 1904. She introduced a lot of reforms and was a strong administrator in the North American branch, headquartered in New York. While The Salvation Army did find its roots in England, the quintessential 'red kettle' originated in San Francisco in 1981, where The Salvation Army Captain Joseph McFee made a vow to feed 1,000 poor people on Christmas Day but struggled with ideas on fundraising for it. Inspiration hit, and he placed a large red spot on the street, with a sign reading, "Keep the Pot Boiling." He soon had enough money to fulfill his promise, and with it, the red kettle donation culture was born. A 1994 publication, "Chronicle of Philanthropy," showed that in a study, The Salvation Army was ranked four out of 100 most popular non-profit charities, so we encourage you to learn more about all that it does. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-old-time-radio-drama-mp3-dvd-megase3.html

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Today, March 10, 2026
March 10, 2022: #DOTD: #RIP: Robert Cardenas, child prodigy, combat airman of the Second World War and Vietnam War, distinguished prisoner of war camp escapee, test pilot, Brigadier General in the United States Air Force (b. March 10, 1920) #dies on his 102nd birthday. He was buried with full military honors at Miramar National Cemetery. Robert Cardenas was born Robert Leon Cardenas in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. When he was five, his family moved to San Diego. He excelled in mathematics and physics in high school. When Cardenas was a teenager, building models and learning about gliders at Torrey Pines Gliderport first sparked his interest in airplanes. Due to his excellent grades, San Diego State University invited him to enroll. In 1939, while attending San Diego State, he decided to enlist as a private in the California National Guard. In 1940, Cardenas became an aviation cadet. He graduated, received his pilot wings and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Air Corps in July 1941. In 1942, Lt. Cardenas was sent to Twentynine Palms, California, to help establish the Army Air Corps Glider School. He was assigned to Wright Field, Ohio, and became a flight test officer. Cardenas rose quickly in position, was promoted to operations officer and finally director of the Flight Test Unit, Experimental Engineering Laboratory at Wright Field. In 1944, he was assigned to the 506th Bombardment Squadron, 44th Bombardment Group, also known as the Flying Eightballs, based at RAF Shipdham in Norfolk, England. He flew his first mission on the B-24 Liberator "Southern Comfort" on January 24. On March 18, Captain Cardenas was flying as Command Pilot for the 44th Bomb Group on his 20th mission. His airplane, the B-24 "Sack Artists" (serial number 42-100073), was shot down by German anti-aircraft fire. His attack run was supposed to target the Manzell Air Armaments factory in Friedrichshafen, Wurttemberg, Germany. However, the right wing was severely damaged by a shell and two engines were set on fire. According to his report relayed to the War Department, his number 2 engine was "hit by flak [and] on fire," causing the loss of 3,000 ft. altitude. Despite this damage he "Rejoined formation for [a] second [bomb] run." After this pass his "[numbers] 2 and 4 [engines were] on fire," and "[number] 3 [was] vibrating badly" in addition to "gas leaks," damage to bomb bays, wings, and electrical systems, and "hydraulics inoperative." Several members of the crew were also wounded, including Cardenas, who received a head injury when a piece of flak pierced his helmet. Since the plane was severely damaged and losing stability, 1st Lieutenant Raymond J. Lacombe decided to pilot the plane to Switzerland. Cardenas' crew all parachuted safely. The bomber then exploded at a low altitude and shore off the tops of several trees. Capt. Cardenas landed on the German side of Lake Constance. He swam across the lake to the Swiss side in order to evade capture. He was first interned at a camp for American officers at Adelboden, and was later assigned to teach Swiss officers how to fly interned American bombers at Dubendorf Airfield near Zurich. On September 27, 1944, Cardenas escaped into France with the help of Swiss civilians and the French resistance. He was flown to Britain and then sent back to the United States to recover from his head injury. In November 1944, he attended Central Instructors School for the B-24 at Smyrna Army Airfield, Tennessee. After graduation, he became a test pilot and was then assigned to Wright Field, Ohio. While at Wright Field, he attended Experimental Flight Test School and later became assistant chief of Bomber Section, and chief of Bomber Operations Section, Flight Test Division. In 1945, he started piloting experimental aircraft. He piloted a captured Luftwaffe jet fighter, the Messerschmitt Me 262, and the Arado Ar 234 jet bomber. Cardenas also piloted the XB-42 Mixmaster and XB-43 Jetmaster. He was assigned chief test pilot for bomber aircraft and flew all prototypes of that class for the next four years. In 1947, he became the Officer in Charge of Operations and was the command pilot for the B-29 Superfortress that launched Captain Chuck Yeager in the Bell X-1 supersonic experimental aircraft. Then in 1948, Major Cardenas was the Officer in Charge of Flight Test Division at Muroc Air Force Base and was Chief Air Force Test Pilot of the Northrop YB-49 flying wing. Cardenas later claimed that the YB-49 rotated backwards in stall, and that he warned Glen Edwards about it, who later died in a YB-49 crash. Jack Northrop claimed such a rotation was impossible. During one of Cardenas' test flights, a suspected act of sabotage, stemming from the plane's competition with the Boeing B-52 to be selected as America's heavy bomber, rendered the hydrolics system virtually in operable, and Cardenas only managed to land the plane with some 6 feet of clearance at the end of the runway. After a transcontinental flight in the YB-49, President Truman ordered Cardenas to do a flyby of Pennsylvania Avenue at rooftop level. During the Korean War, he was assigned to Wright Field and Edwards Air Force Base testing new fighters and bombers. Additionally, he was assigned to Okinawa and then to The Pentagon. During the Vietnam War, Cardenas flew F-105 Thunderchief combat missions and was then assigned to McConnell AFB as a trainer for the F-105. In 1968, Colonel Cardenas was promoted to Brigadier General and assigned to command of the Air Force Special Operations Force at Eglin Air Force Base. Following his assignment to Eglin AFB, he became vice commander of the 16th Air Force in Spain. There he negotiated with Muammar al-Gaddafi the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Wheelus Air Base in Libya. After his assignment in Spain, General Cardenas was assigned to Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Belgium. At SHAPE, he was the U.S. Deputy to LIVE OAK, a code name for joint military planning operation of the United States, Great Britain and France in response to the Soviet blockade and interference of Western access to Berlin. His final duty assignment was chief of national strategic Target List Division, Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff, at Offutt AFB, Nebraska. He retired from the Air Force as a Brigadier General in 1973. Cardenas worked as an executive in the private sector. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan appointed him California coordinator for Southwest Border Economic Action Group. In 1985, he was appointed to chairman of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Advisory Group by California Governor George Deukmejian. He also served on the California Council of Criminal Justice.In 1987, Governor Deukmejian appointed General Cardenas to the California Veterans Board; he eventually became the chairman. In 1993, General Cardenas resigned from the California Veterans Board to serve as the chairman of the San Diego United Veterans Council and a director on the Board of Veterans Memorial Center & Museum, in San Diego. Also in 1993, the University of New Mexico's Department of Engineering honored him for his professional contribution and leadership. Cardenas was later a member of the Veteran Administration's Memorials and Cemetery Committee. He was appointed to the committee by former VA Secretary Anthony Principi. He was also a trustee of the Flight Test Historical Foundation at Edwards AFB. In 1995, he was inducted into the Aerospace Walk of Fame in Lancaster, California, and the Sigma Chi fraternity awarded him the "Significant Sig" medal. In 2004, he was honored as a Distinguished Alumnus of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB. In 2008, Cardenas was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum. In 2012, Cardenas was honored at the Air Command and Staff College's Gathering of Eagles at Maxwell Air Base, Montgomery, Alabama. This program encourages the study of airpower history by emphasizing the contributions of air and space pioneers. In 2014, the National Aviation Hall of Fame announced that Cardenas will be inducted into the "Class of 2015" along with aviation pioneers Robert N. Hartzell, Gene Kranz, and Abe Silverstein. Cardenas lived in San Diego with his wife, Gladys, where he died. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-x-planes-tv-documentary-series-dvd-mp4-usb-driv4.html

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Today, March 10, 2026
March 10, 1922: The History Of India: The British Raj (Crown Rule In India, Direct Rule In India, India, The Indian Empire): The Indian Independence Movement: The 1922 Arrest Of Mahatma Gandhi: -- Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison. After the Amritsar Massacre, also known as the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, of hundreds of Sikh and Hindu civilians on April 13, 1919 had enraged the subcontinent, Gandhi demanded that people stop all violence, stop all property destruction, and went on fast-to-death to pressure Indians to stop their rioting.Investigation committees were formed by the British, which Gandhi asked Indians to boycott. The unfolding events, the massacre and the British response, led Gandhi to the belief that Indians will never get a fair equal treatment under British rulers, and he shifted his attention to Swaraj (self rule) and political independence for India. In 1921, Gandhi became the leader of the Indian National Congress, which he reorganised. With Congress behind him, Gandhi had political support. and the attention of the British Raj. Gandhi expanded his nonviolent non-co-operation platform to include the swadeshi policy - the boycott of foreign-made goods, especially British goods. Linked to this was his advocacy that khadi (homespun cloth) be worn by all Indians instead of British-made textiles. Gandhi exhorted Indian men and women, rich or poor, to spend time each day spinning khadi in support of the independence movement. In addition to boycotting British products, Gandhi urged the people to boycott British institutions and law courts, to resign from government employment, and to forsake British titles and honours. Gandhi thus began his journey aimed at crippling the British India government economically, politically and administratively. As the popularity of non-cooperation grew among all strata of Indian society, it threatened the power of the British Raj to such an extent that Gandhi was arrested on March 10, 1922, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years' imprisonment. He began his sentence on March 18, 1922. Ultimately, he would be released after nearly two years in prison in order to obtain an appendicitis operation. https://store.earthstation1.com/mahatma-mohandas-gandhi-nonviolent-revolution-biography-dvd.html

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Today, March 10, 2026
March 10, 1899: #BOTD: William G. Sebold, United States citizen who was coerced into becoming a spy when he visited Germany after being pressured by several high-ranking Nazi members (d. February 16, 1970) is #born Gottlieb Adolf Wilhelm Sebold in Mulheim, Germany. Sebold informed the American Consul General in Cologne, before being sent by the Germans on his spy mission to the United States, that he had been blackmailed by members of the German military intelligence service Abwehr to become an espionage agent for Germany by threatening to expose his having omitted from his U. S. citizenship application the fact that he had served time in a German jail. He agreed to become a double agent and helped the FBI gather evidence. With the assistance of another German agent, Fritz Joubert Duquesne, he recruited 33 agents that became known as the Duquesne Spy Ring. For nearly two years, the FBI ran a shortwave radio station in New York for the ring. They learned what information Germany was sending its spies in the United States and controlled what was sent to Germany. In June 1941, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested all of the agents, and on January 2, 1942, the FBI sentenced 33 members of the Duquesne Spy Ring to serve a total of over 300 years in prison in the largest espionage case in United States history. The Duquesne Spy Ring is the largest espionage case in the United States history that ended in convictions. A total of 33 members of a German espionage network headed by Frederick "Fritz" Joubert Duquesne were convicted after a lengthy investigation by the FBI. Of those indicted, 19 pleaded guilty. The remaining 14 were brought to jury trial in Federal District Court, Brooklyn, New York, on September 3, 1941; all were found guilty on December 13, 1941. The agents who formed the Duquesne Ring were placed in key jobs in the United States to get information that could be used in the event of war and to carry out acts of sabotage: one opened a restaurant and used his position to get information from his customers; another worked on an airline so that he could report Allied ships that were crossing the Atlantic Ocean; others worked as delivery people as a cover for carrying secret messages. Sebold's success as a counterespionage agent was demonstrated by the successful prosecution of the German agents. One German spymaster later commented the ring's roundup delivered "the death blow" to their espionage efforts in the United States. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover called his concerted FBI swoop on Duquesne's ring the greatest spy roundup in U.S. history. The 1945 film The House on 92nd Street was a thinly disguised version of the Duquesne Spy Ring saga of 1941. On February 16, 1970, William G. Sebold died at Napa State Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Napa, California, of a heart attack at age 70. He is buried at Queen Of Heaven Cemetery in Lafayette, California. #WilliamGSebold #DuquesneSpyRing #FritzJoubertDuquesne #SpyRings #NaziSpyRings #NaziGermany #Sabotage #NaziSabotage #Espionage #NaziEspionage #WWIISpiesForGermany #FBI #FBIOperations #USHomefrontDuringWWII #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD https://store.earthstation1.com/gmen-the-rise-of-j-edgar-hoover-dvd.html

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March 10, 1998: #DOTD: #RIP: Lloyd Bridges, American film, stage and television actor, and film and television director (b. January 15, 1913) #dies of natural causes in Los Angeles, California at the age of 85. His remains were cremated, and the ashes given to his widow Dorothy Bridges. He was born Lloyd Vernet Bridges Jr. in San Leandro, California. Lloyd Bridges starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films. He was the father of four children, including the actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges. He started his career as a contract performer for Columbia Pictures, appearing in films such as Sahara (1943), A Walk in the Sun (1945), Little Big Horn (1951) and High Noon (1952). On television, he starred in Sea Hunt 1958 to 1961. By the end of his career, he had re-invented himself and demonstrated a comedic talent in such parody films as Airplane! (1980), Hot Shots! (1991), and Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998). Among other honors, Bridges was a two-time Emmy Award nominee. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 1, 1994. #LloydBridges #Actors #Directors #FilmDirectors #Movies #Film #MotionPictures #Cinema #Hollywood #AmericanCinema #CinemaOfTheUS #Stage #Theater #Theatre #Broadway #TV #Television #TVShows #TelevisionShows #GoldenAgeOfTelevision #GoldenAgeOfTV #SeaHunt #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD https://store.earthstation1.com/gi-diary-dvd-set-wwii-in-color-film-all-26-tv-shows-7-di267.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Golden Age Of Comedy 5 Album Set CD, MP3, USB Stick
Today, March 10, 2026
March 10, 1986: #DOTD: #RIP: Myron Cohen, American comedian, nightclub entertainer and raconteur (b. July 1, 1902) #dies of a heart attack at age 83 at Nyack Hospital, where he had been taken from his home in New City, New York. Cohen is interred at Cedar Park Cemetery, in Emerson, New Jersey. A son of Barnett and Rebecca Feinstein Cohen, Myron Aaron Cohen was born in Grodno, Russia (now Hrodna, Belarus), and came to America as a little boy. The oldest of three brothers, he grew up in Manhattan, and later lived in the Bronx with his wife Miriam (nee Hyman), whom he married in 1925. She died in 1981. Cohen began as a salesman in the New York City garment industry. When calling on customers, before showing his samples, he would tell a joke to put everyone at ease and establish a friendly mood. Cohen's jokes were often more popular than his garment samples, and his customers urged him to become a professional comedian. He recorded several live record albums and also frequently appearing on TV variety programs such as The Ed Sullivan Show. During the 1950s, when there were numerous nightclub showroom venues throughout the nation, he was one of the top headliners in the same league as Sophie Tucker, Ted Lewis, Ray Vasquez, Jimmy Durante, and Joe E. Lewis, among others. Compared with many star performers, he was not aloof, and was very affable and approachable in public. Although he spoke perfect, cultured English, he was a master at capturing the ethnic accents of the Jewish citizens of New York City. In the 1973 Woody Allen movie Sleeper, Cohen, along with fellow comedian Jackie Mason, had uncredited voice cameos as the Jewish "Ginsberg and Cohen" robot tailors since 2173. https://store.earthstation1.com/golden-age-of-comedy-narrated-by-george-burns-5-album-set-mp3-53.html

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Today, March 10, 2026
March 10, 2007: #DOTD: #RIP: Richard Jeni, American stand-up comedian and actor (b. April 14, 1957) #dies of a self-inflicted handgun wound to the head in the bathroom of his West Hollywood, California home, aged 49. Jeni was found by his girlfriend, Amy Murphy, a weather anchor and reporter for KTTV in Los Angeles, with a .38-caliber Colt Detective Special between his feet. Jeni and Murphy had been conversing in bed, discussing breakfast and their plans for the day, when Murphy left to cook breakfast downstairs. After a few minutes, she heard the sound of a gunshot, ran upstairs, discovered Jeni's condition, and called 9-1-1. Police and paramedics arrived and transported Jeni to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he died. His family later stated with certainty that the death was a suicide and that Jeni had recently been diagnosed with "severe clinical depression coupled with fits of psychotic paranoia." According to the coroner's report released in June 2007, Jeni had a history of schizophrenia and had been taking antidepressants and a sleeping aid. The report further indicated that his girlfriend heard him talking to himself about a week earlier, saying "just squeeze the trigger." He is buried in Moravian Cemetery in New Dorp, New York. Jeni's death was marked by many tributes, including thousands of messages on his website and YouTube as well as on the radio. On March 12, 2007, Jeni's death was mentioned on The Tonight Show by Jay Leno, with accompanying footage of Jeni's last appearance on the show. On March 16, Bill Maher, who had performed with Jeni as a young comic, dedicated the fifth episode of the fifth season of his HBO show, Real Time with Bill Maher, to Jeni and discussed his death on Larry King Live. Richard Jeni was born and raised Richard John Colangelo in an Italian-American Roman Catholic family in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. He graduated with honors from Hunter College, earning a bachelor's degree in comparative politics. After graduating, Jeni went on to do public relations work, but was let go from five different firms in two years before doing an open-mic night in Brooklyn and deciding to pursue standup comedy as a career in 1982. Jeni first received recognition through a series of Showtime stand-up specials and frequent appearances on The Tonight Show. After making his Tonight Show debut in 1988 with Johnny Carson, Jeni returned often and later made appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, with more appearances than any other stand-up comedian. In 1989, he won Comedy USA's Best Nightclub Comedian, as voted by comedy club owners and comedians, and his first Showtime special Richard Jeni: The Boy From New York City won a CableACE Award. Top executives at HBO picked up his first appearance on The HBO Comedy Hour in 1992, titled Richard Jeni: Platypus Man. The show was well received, and Jeni returned for two more shows, going on to receive another CableACE Award for one of his HBO specials. Jeni starred in the short-lived 1995 UPN sitcom Platypus Man and appeared in the Jim Carrey film The Mask. Jeni composed the theme song ("I'm A Platypus Man") for his TV series. He appeared in The Aristocrats, Dad's Week Off, An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn, and Chasing Robert. He starred in commercial campaigns for Certs and Arby's, and he won a Clio Award for his work as a writer/performer in an advertising campaign for the American Dairy Association. In 2004, Jeni was ranked #57 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time. https://store.earthstation1.com/fubustlistco.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: King: A Filmed Record: Montgomery To Memphis DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, March 10, 2026
March 10, 1928: #BOTD: James Earl Ray, American assassin of Martin Luther King Jnr. (d. April 23, 1999) is #born in Alton, Illinois. In Memphis, Tennessee, Ray plead guilty against his wishes, on the advice of his lawyer who wanted to forgo a jury trial, and was convicted on his forty-first birthday. Had he been found guilty by jury trial, he would have been eligible for the death penalty, but the trial would also have brought out the details regarding Ray's being framed for the murder by a man he knew only as Raoul, a man who Ray thought to be a smuggler, and who directed him to purchase the 30.06 rifle recovered in front of Canipe's store and rent a room in the rooming house on South Main Street. Ray also contended that he gave the rifle to Raoul sometime before the assassination and left him in the rooming house hours before Dr. King was killed. Having been sentenced to de facto life imprisonment after entering his plea, Ray immediately recanted his confession and tried unsuccessfully to gain access to a retrial. In 1998, Ray died in prison of complications due to chronic hepatitis C infection. His remains were cremated, and the ashes are interred at an undisclosed location in Ireland. https://store.earthstation1.com/king-a-filmed-record--montgomery-to-memphis-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Who Killed Martin Luther King? Case Against James Earl Ray DVD MP4 USB
Today, March 10, 2026
March 10, 1969: Assassinations Of Human Rights Activists: Assassinations Of American Civil Rights Activists: The American Civil Rights Movement: Anti-Black Racism In The United States: The Assassination Of Martin Luther King, Jr.: -- In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King, Jr., on the advice of his attorney, Percy Foreman, in order to avoid a death sentence. Ray later unsuccessfully attempts to recant. Three days later, he recanted his confession, fired Foreman as his attorney and derisively called him "Percy Fourflusher" thereafter. Ray began claiming that a man he had met in Montreal back in 1967, who used the alias "Raul," had been deeply involved. Instead, he asserted that he did not "personally shoot Dr. King," but may have been "partially responsible without knowing it," hinting at a conspiracy. Ray told this version of King's assassination and his own flight in the two months afterward to journalist William Bradford Huie. Huie investigated this story and discovered that Ray lied about some details. Ray told Huie that he purposefully left the rifle with his fingerprints on it in plain sight because he wanted to become a famous criminal. Ray was convinced that he would not be caught because he was so smart. Ray believed that Governor of Alabama George Wallace would soon be elected president and that he would only be confined for a short time.[32] Ray spent the remainder of his life unsuccessfully attempting to withdraw his guilty plea and secure a trial. https://store.earthstation1.com/who-killed-martin-luther-king-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Black Civil Rights Films: African-American History DVD, MP4, USB Stick
Today, March 10, 2026
March 10, 1973: #DOTD: Bull Connor, despicable racist, White supremacist and segregationist, American politician who served as Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham, Alabama for more than two decades, and a disgrace to the Freemasonic fraternity, most famous for his staunch defense of racial segregation and for ordering the use of police dogs and fire hoses to disperse civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham during the spring of 1963 (b. July 11, 1897) #dies of a stroke suffered on February 26, 1973, which left him unconscious, in Birmingham, Alabama, aged 75. He is buried at the Garden Of Life section of The Jefferson Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Birmingham, Alabama; people have been known to urinate on his grave, while doing nothing else to disrespect the cemetery. Bull Connor was born Theophilus Eugene Connor in Dallas County, Alabama. Trained as a telegraph operator, Connor eventually settled in Birmingham where he worked as a radio sports announcer. Capitalizing on his popularity with radio listeners and on his well-know nickname ("Bull"), Connor entered politics in 1934 as a Democrat and was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives. Connor was elected Public Safety Commissioner of Birmingham in 1937. Under the city commission government, Connor had responsibility for administrative oversight of the Birmingham Fire Department and the Birmingham Police Department, which also had their own chiefs. He remained Public Safety Commissioner until 1954, and held the position again from 1958 to 1963 when he was forced from office by a change in the form of city government. During his long political career Connor ran two unsuccessful campaigns for governor of Alabama and was a leader of the 1948 Dixiecrat revolt. From 1964 to 1973 he served as President of the Alabama Public Service Commission, the state agency that regulates public utilities. As a Dixiecrat, Bull Connor strongly opposed the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. He enforced legal racial segregation and denied civil rights to black citizens, especially during 1963's Birmingham campaign led by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He is well known for directing the use of fire hoses and police attack dogs against civil rights activists, including against children supporting the protests. National media broadcast these tactics on television, horrifying much of the world. The outrages served as catalysts for major social and legal change in the Southern United States and contributed to passage by the United States Congress of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. On June 3, 1964, Connor resumed a place in government when he was elected president of the Alabama Public Service Commission. He suffered a stroke on December 7, 1966, and used a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Connor won another term in 1968, but was defeated in 1972. https://store.earthstation1.com/black-civil-rights-films-africanamerican-history-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Props And Jets: Dassault Warplanes Of The 20th Century MP4 DVD
Today, March 10, 2026
March 10, 1978: Aviation: The History Of Aviation: The History Of Military Aviation: Maiden Flights: -- First flight of the Dassault Mirage 2000, the French multirole, single-engine, fourth-generation (maneuverable and multirole) jet fighter manufactured by Dassault Aviation. It was designed in the late 1970s as a lightweight fighter to replace the Mirage III for the French Air Force (Armee de l'Air). The Mirage 2000 evolved into a multirole aircraft with several variants developed, with sales to a number of nations. It was later developed into the Mirage 2000N and 2000D strike variants, the improved Mirage 2000-5 and several export variants. Over 600 aircraft were built and it has been in service with nine nations. https://store.earthstation1.com/props-and-jets-dassault-warplanes-of-the-20th-century-mp4-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Czechoslovakia: The Long Wait For Revolution DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, March 10, 2026
March 10, 1948: #DOTD: #RIP: Jan Masaryk, Czech soldier, diplomat, politician, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1940 until his death in 1948 (b. September 14, 1886) #dies, likely murdered, in Prague, Czechoslovakia, aged 61. Officially, he jumped out of a window in his pajamas in the courtyard of the Foreign Ministry; unofficially, it was well known that he was most likely murdered; the word in the streets of the country was "Jan Masaryk was a very tidy man. He was such a tidy man that when he jumped he shut the window after himself." He is buried at Hrbitov Lany (Czech: "Lany Cemetery") in Lany, Central Bohemia, Czechoslovakia (modern Czechia). During World War II, he regularly made broadcasts over the BBC to occupied Czechoslovakia starting in September 1939 and ending in April 1945. Masaryk's speeches on the BBC's Czech language station made him into a national hero. It was illegal to listen to the BBC in the Protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia, but that did not stop people from tuning in to the BBC every Wednesday night to hear him speak on a radio program entitled Vola Londyn (London Calling), the most popular radio program in Czechoslovakia during the war, and Masaryk was the most popular speaker on the show. Jan Garrigue Masaryk was described by American journalist John Gunther as "a brave, honest, turbulent, and impulsive man". https://store.earthstation1.com/czechoslovakia-the-long-wait-for-spring-dvd-1988-cold1988.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Planet That Got Knocked On Its Side: Uranus Voyager 2 DVD MP4 USB
Today, March 10, 2026
March 10, 1977: Space: Outer Space: Astronomy: The Solar System: The Planet Uranus: The Rings Of Uranus: -- The rings of Uranus are discovered by James L. Elliot, Edward W. Dunham, and Jessica Mink. William Herschel had also reported observing rings in 1789; modern astronomers are divided on whether he could have seen them, as they are very dark and faint. By 1978, nine distinct rings were identified. Two additional rings were discovered in 1986 in images taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft, and two outer rings were found in 2003-2005 in Hubble Space Telescope photos. The rings of Uranus are intermediate in complexity between the more extensive set around Saturn and the simpler systems around Jupiter and Neptune. Their radii range from about 38,000 km to about 98,000 km. Additional faint dust bands and incomplete arcs may exist between the main rings. The rings are extremely dark. They are probably composed of water ice with the addition of some dark radiation-processed organics. The majority of Uranus's rings are opaque and only a few kilometres wide. The ring system contains little dust overall; it consists mostly of large bodies 20 cm to 20 m in diameter. Some rings are optically thin: the broad and faint rings are made of small dust particles, while the narrow and faint ring also contains larger bodies. The relative lack of dust in the ring system may be due to aerodynamic drag from the extended Uranian exosphere. The rings of Uranus are thought to be relatively young, and not more than 600 million years old. The Uranian ring system probably originated from the collisional fragmentation of several moons that once existed around the planet. After colliding, the moons probably broke up into many particles, which survived as narrow and optically dense rings only in strictly confined zones of maximum stability. The mechanism that confines the narrow rings is not well understood. Initially it was assumed that every narrow ring had a pair of nearby shepherd moons corralling it into shape. In 1986 Voyager 2 discovered only one such shepherd pair (Cordelia and Ophelia) around the brightest ring, though one of the faint rings would later be discovered shepherded between the pair Portia and Rosalind. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-planet-that-got-knocked-on-its-side-dvd-voyager-ii-uranus.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: DJ Madness! 1950s-60s-70s Radio Shows DVD, MP3 Download, USB Drive
Today, March 10, 2026
March 10, 1989: #DOTD: #RIP: Doc Green, nicknamed Dock Green, baritone singer of The Drifters (b. November 8, 1934) #dies of cancer, aged 54. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. Born Doc Green Jr, Green began singing on Harlem street corners as a youngster and joined the Drifters sometime after it was formed in the mid-1950s. Until then he was a member of The Five Crowns but joined when in 1958 manager George Treadwell, who owned the rights to the name "Drifters", but had sacked the whole band, approached Lover Patterson, the manager of The Five Crowns featuring lead singer Ben E. King, wanting his band to adopt the appellation of The Drifters. The singers, whose hits were to include "There Goes My Baby," "Sweets for My Sweet," "Under the Boardwalk," and "Up on the Roof," initially called themselves Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters during the late 1950s. The name was later shortened to the Drifters. According to the anthology "Who's Who in Rock," the name was used because so many of the members "drifted" back and forth to other groups. So the new line-up of The Drifters consisted of Doc as baritone, Ben E King (lead tenor), Charlie Thomas (tenor), and Elsbeary Hobbs (bass). The group went out on the road to tour for almost a year. Since this new group had no connection to the prior Drifters, they often played to hostile audiences. This new Drifter lineup, widely considered the "true" golden age of the group, released several singles with King on lead that became chart hits. "There Goes My Baby", the first commercial rock-and-roll recording to include a string orchestra, was a Top 10 hit, and number 193 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. "Dance with Me" followed, and then "This Magic Moment" No.16 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1960. "Save the Last Dance for Me" reached No.1 on the U.S. pop charts and No.2 in the UK. This was followed by "I Count The Tears." This version of The Drifters was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2000 as Ben E. King and the Drifters. The original group broke up in the late 1960s, although a variety of acts continued to use the name. His family said Green continued working as a singer with other groups, including Vito And The Salutations. https://store.earthstation1.com/dj-radio-airchecks-mp3-dvd-1950s60s70s-dis319506070.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: I Want My Music TV! 1980s Music Television Videos MP4 Download DVD Set
Today, March 10, 2026
March 10 (not March 11), 2016: #DOTD: #RIP: Keith Emerson, English keyboardist, songwriter, composer and record producer, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most technically accomplished keyboard players in rock history (b. November 2, 1944) #dies of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, aged 71. His body was found at his Santa Monica home. Following a post-mortem, the medical examiner ruled Emerson's death a suicide, and concluded that he had also had heart disease and depression associated with alcohol. According to Emerson's beautiful girlfriend Mari Kawaguchi, Emerson, who she said had become "depressed, nervous, and anxious" because he was worried that the nerve damage that had hampered his playing would cause him perform poorly at upcoming concerts in Japan, was worried that this would disappoint his fans. Emerson was buried on April Fool's Day, April 1, 2016, at Lancing and Sompting Cemetery, Lancing, West Sussex, England. Although his death had been reported by news sources and an official Emerson, Lake and Palmer social media page as having occurred on the night of March 10, his grave memorial gives his date of death as "11 March 2016". In 2019, readers of Prog voted him the greatest keyboard player in progressive rock. Keith Emerson was born Keith Noel Emerson in Todmorden, West Riding, Yorkshire, England. He played keyboards in a number of bands before finding his first commercial success with the Nice in the late 1960s. He became internationally famous for his work with the Nice, which included writing rock arrangements of classical music. After leaving the Nice in 1970, he was a founding member of Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP), one of the early progressive rock supergroups. Emerson, Lake & Palmer were commercially successful through much of the 1970s, becoming one of the best-known progressive rock groups of the era. Emerson wrote and arranged much of ELP's music on albums such as Tarkus (1971) and Brain Salad Surgery (1973), combining his own original compositions with classical or traditional pieces adapted into a rock format. Following ELP's break-up at the end of the 1970s, Emerson pursued a solo career, composed several film soundtracks, and formed the bands Emerson, Lake & Powell and 3 to carry on in the style of ELP. In the early 1990s, ELP reunited for two more albums and several tours before breaking up again in the late 1990s. Emerson also reunited The Nice in 2002 and 2003 for a tour. During the 2000s, Emerson resumed his solo career, including touring with his own Keith Emerson Band featuring guitarist Dave Kilminster, then replaced by Marc Bonilla, and collaborating with several orchestras. He reunited with ELP bandmate Greg Lake in 2010 for a duo tour, culminating in a one-off ELP reunion show in London to celebrate the band's 40th anniversary. Emerson's last album, The Three Fates Project, with Marc Bonilla and Terje Mikkelsen, was released in 2012. Emerson reportedly suffered from depression, and since 1993 developed nerve damage that hampered his playing, making him anxious about upcoming performances. https://store.earthstation1.com/i-want-my-music-tv-dvd-late-1980s-vi1980.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: I Want My Music TV! 1980s Music Television Videos MP4 Download DVD Set
Today, March 10, 2026
March 10, 2024: #BOTD: #HBD! Karl Wallinger, Welsh musician, songwriter and record producer, best known for leading the band World Party and for his mid-1980s stint in The Waterboys (b. October 19, 1957) #dies of a stroke at his home in Hastings, England at the age of 66. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. Karl Wallinger was born Karl Edmond De Vere Wallinger in Prestatyn, Wales. He also wrote and originally released the song "She's the One", which was later covered by Robbie Williams and became a hit single. Wallinger is a multi-instrumentalist, enabling him to demo and record the bulk of World Party material as a one-man band. Although he is right-handed, he plays a right-handed guitar upside-down and left-handed. https://store.earthstation1.com/i-want-my-music-tv-dvd-late-1980s-vi1980.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: WABC Radio Airchecks MP3 Collection 1960s-1980s DVD, MP3 Download, USB
Today, March 10, 2026
March 10, 2023: #DOTD: #RIP: Napoleon XIV, American singer, songwriter and record producer, acclaimed songwriter during the early 1960s who achieved one-hit wonder status with the Top 5 hit novelty song "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" in 1966 (b. May 3, 1938) #dies of complications of Parkinson's disease dementia at a hospital in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania at the age of 84. His remains were cremated by The Cremation Society Of Pennsylvania. Napoleon XIV was born Jerrold Laurence Samuels in Manhattan, New York City. Napoleon XIV was born Jerrold Laurence Samuels in Manhattan, New York City and was raised in the Bronx. He played the piano and wrote music throughout his childhood, and began his recording career in 1956 when he cut the single "Puppy Love"/"The Chosen Few" for the Vik Records subsidiary of RCA Victor Records. Samuels occasionally revisited the Napoleon XIV character to record other songs, usually comedy records with an insanity theme. Under the name Scott David (his son's name), he co-wrote "As If I Didn't Know" with Larry Kusik, a top 10 hit for Adam Wade in 1961. Samuels also wrote "The Shelter of Your Arms", a top 20 hit for Sammy Davis Jr. in 1964. In 1966, Samuels concocted "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" while working at Associated Recording Studios in New York. The public found out his true identity when Cousin Brucie of WABC revealed his name. The record quickly climbed the charts, reaching the top ten nationally in just its third week on the Billboard Hot 100. It peaked at #3 and sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. In the Cash Box Top 100 the record even climbed to No. 1 for one week in its second week on the charts. The success of the single inspired a Warner Bros. album of the same name in 1966 (reissued by Rhino in 1985), most of which continued the mental illness theme, for example: "Bats In My Belfry" and "Split Level Head", the latter of which features different vocal parts in each stereo speaker. A second single of two recordings from that album went relatively unnoticed. His manager was Leonard Stogel. His songs were often played on Dr. Demento's radio show. In his later years, Samuels worked as a singer and agent who booked various performers in the Delaware Valley. In 1984, he founded the Jerry Samuels Agency, and later operated it with his second wife, Bobbie. They retired in 2021. In February 2022, Needlejuice Records teased the release of "an album that's 50 years old". The following year, they revealed it to be Samuels' long-lost second studio album, For God's Sake, Stop The Feces!, scheduled for release on April 20. The album was first created in 1968, but was rejected for its macabre material (the eighth track, "Rape", describes a rape in great detail, while the fourteenth, "The Note", describes a suicide) and subsequently shelved. Stop The Feces ultimately became a posthumous album, as Samuels died one month before its release. Samuels was married twice: first to Rosemary Djivre, divorcing in 1968, and then to Bobbie Simon from 1996 until his death. He was also in a relationship with Petra Vesters from 1973 to 1987. He had a son from his first marriage and another from his relationship with Vesters. Another son predeceased him. Samuels was a longtime resident of the Oxford Circle neighborhood of Philadelphia, though he moved to an assisted living facility in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, after retiring. https://store.earthstation1.com/wabc-musicradio-shows-mp3-dvd-60s80s-am-360807775.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Shakespeare Mystery Edward de Vere William Shakespeare DVD MP4 USB
Today, March 10, 2026
March 10, 1627: #DOTD: #RIP: Elizabeth Stanley (Elizabeth de Vere), Countess Of Derby, Lord Of Mann, British businesswoman (b. July 2, 1575) #dies aged 51 of undisclosed causes in Richmond, Surrey (modern South-West London). She was buried the next day in Westminster Abbey, London. On her tomb, which she shares with her mother, grandmother, and sisters, is her effigy. She was born Elizabeth Vere at Theobalds House, Hertfordshire, Southern England. She was an English noblewoman and the eldest daughter of the Elizabethan courtier, poet, and playwright Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, reputed by many to have been the real author of William Shakespeare' plays. Her marriage to William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby, is one of eleven that have been suggested as the inspiration for William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the occasion of the play's first performance. Elizabeth was the Lord Of Mann from 1612 to 1627, and prior to holding the title, she had taken over many administrative duties appertaining to the Isle of Man' affairs. Elizabeth was the first female to rule as the island' head of state. She served as a Maid of Honour, a term for the junior attendants of a queen in royal households, to Queen Elizabeth I Of England. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-shakespeare-mystery-dvd-edward-de-vere-oxfordian-theory.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Mister Rock And Roll (1957) Alan Freed Chuck Berry DVD Download USB
Today, March 10, 2026
March 10, 1997: #DOTD: #RIP: LaVern Baker, African American R & B singer who had several hit records on the pop chart in the 1950s and early 1960s, the most successful records being "Soul on Fire" (1953), "Tweedle Dee" (1955), "Jim Dandy" (1956), and "I Cried a Tear" (1958) (b. November 11, 1929) #dies of cardiovascular disease at the age of 67. She was buried in an unmarked plot in Maple Grove Cemetery, in Kew Gardens, New York. Local historians raised funds for a headstone, which was erected on May 4, 2008. She was born Delores Evans in Chicago, Illinois. Some sources refer to Delores LaVern Baker as Delores Williams, the name by which she was known during her early marriage to Eugene Williams. Baker began singing in Chicago clubs such as the Club DeLisa around 1946, often billed as Little Miss Sharecropper, and first recorded under that name in 1949. She changed her name briefly to Bea Baker when recording for Okeh Records in 1951 and then was billed as LaVern Baker when she sang with Todd Rhodes and his band in 1952. In 1953 she signed with Atlantic Records as a solo artist, her first release being "Soul on Fire". Her first hit came in early 1955, with the Latin-tempo "Tweedle Dee", which reached number 4 on the R & B chart and number 14 on the national US pop chart. Georgia Gibbs recorded a note-for-note cover of the song, which reached number 1; subsequently Baker made an unsuccessful attempt to sue her and petitioned Congress to consider such covers copyright violations. Baker had a succession of hits on the R & B charts over the next couple of years with her backing group, the Gliders, including "Bop-Ting-a-Ling" (number 3 R & B), "Play It Fair" (number 2 R & B), and "Still" (number 4 R & B). At the end of 1956 she had another hit with "Jim Dandy" (number 1 R & B, number 17 pop), which sold over one million copies and was certified as a gold disc. Further hits followed for Atlantic, including the follow-up "Jim Dandy Got Married" (number 7 R & B), "I Cried a Tear" (number 2 R & B, number 6 pop in 1958, with sax by King Curtis), "I Waited Too Long" (number 5 R & B, number 3 pop, written by Neil Sedaka), "Saved" (number 17 R & B, written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller), and "See See Rider" (number 9 R & B in 1963). In addition to singing, she did some work with Ed Sullivan and Alan Freed on TV and in films, including Rock, Rock, Rock and Mr. Rock & Roll. In 1964, she recorded a Bessie Smith tribute album. She then left Atlantic for Brunswick Records, for which she recorded the album Let Me Belong to You. Baker toured Australia in 1957 as part of Lee Gordon's Big Show, performing with a number of rock 'n' roll bands including Bill Haley and the Comets. She appeared in the film Rock, Rock, Rock! (1956). In 1966, Baker recorded a duet single with Jackie Wilson. The controversial song, "Think Twice", featured raunchy lyrics considered inappropriate for airplay at that time or even today. Three versions were recorded, one of which is the version with the raunchy lyrics. Baker and the comedian Slappy White were married in 1959. After the couple was divorced in 1969, Baker signed on for a USO tour. She became seriously ill with bronchial pneumonia after a trip to Vietnam. While recovering at the U.S. naval base at Subic Bay, in the Philippines, a friend recommended that she stay on as the entertainment director at the Marine Corps Staff NCO club there. She remained there for 22 years, returning to the United States after the base was closed in 1988. In 1988 she performed at Madison Square Garden for Atlantic Records' 40th anniversary. She then worked on the soundtracks of the films Shag (1989), Dick Tracy (1990) and A Rage in Harlem (1991), all of which were issued on CD. She performed a song for Alan Parker's film Angel Heart (1987), which appeared on the original vinyl soundtrack album but was not included on the later CD issue "for contractual reasons". In 1990, she made her Broadway debut, replacing Ruth Brown as the star of the hit musical Black and Blue. In 1991, Rhino Records released a new album, Live in Hollywood, recorded at the Hollywood Roosevelt Cinegrill, and a compilation of her greatest Atlantic hits, Soul on Fire. In 1992, she recorded a well-received studio album, Woke Up This Morning, for DRG Records. She continued performing after both legs were amputated because of complications due to diabetes in 1994. Baker made her last recording, "Jump into the Fire," for the 1995 Harry Nilsson tribute CD, For the Love of Harry, on the Music Masters label. In 1990 Baker was among the first eight recipients of the Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. In 1991, she became the second female solo artist inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, following Aretha Franklin in 1987. Her song "Jim Dandy" was named one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll and was ranked number 343 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. https://store.earthstation1.com/mister-rock-and-roll-dvd-1957-alan-freed-story-m1957.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Rock & Roll An Unruly History 10 Part TV Series MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, March 10, 2026
March 10, 1964: #BOTD: #HBD! Neneh Cherry, African Swedish singer-songwriter, rapper, occasional DJ and broadcaster, whose musical career started in London in the early 1980s where she performed in a number of punk and post-punk bands in her youth, including the Slits and Rip Rig + Panic, is #born Neneh Mariann Karlsson in Stockholm, Sweden. Cherry has released six studio albums under her own name. Her first, Raw Like Sushi, was released in 1989 and peaked at number three on the UK Album Chart, thanks in large part to the worldwide hit single "Buffalo Stance". Her second studio album was 1992's Homebrew. Four years later she released Man, with her next studio album, Blank Project, coming in 2014. Her most recent album, The Versions, was released in 2022. In addition to releasing these studio albums, she formed the band cirKus in 2006 and has collaborated with the Thing, releasing an album entitled The Cherry Thing in 2012. Cherry has won two Brit Awards and an MTV Europe Music Award (with Youssou N'Dour). She has also been nominated for a Grammy Award. Cherry was the daughter of Monika "Moki" Karlsson (1943-2009), a Swedish painter and textile artist, and the musician Ahmadu Jah (1936-2018). Jah was born in Sierra Leone, West Africa, the son of a tribal chief, and went to Stockholm to study engineering at university. Cherry's parents separated early and her mother married the American jazz musician Don Cherry, who helped raise Cherry since birth. Cherry took her stepfather's surname. From her mother's side, Cherry also has a half-brother, musician Eagle-Eye Cherry. From stepfather Don Cherry's side, she has a stepsister, violinist Jan Cherry, and a stepbrother, jazz musician David Ornette Cherry. Through her father Ahmadu Jah's marriage to Maylen Jah (nee Bergstrom), Cherry is the half-sister of singer Titiyo and record producer Cherno Jah. In 1970, Cherry's parents, Moki and Don Cherry, bought and converted an old Swedish schoolhouse in rural Tagarp in Svalov Municipality. In the early 1970s, the family moved to the United States, when Don Cherry taught at Dartmouth College. In 1977 the family bought a loft in New York City in the same building as Talking Heads members Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, whom they befriended. Cherry dropped out of school at age 14 and moved to London. https://store.earthstation1.com/rock-amp-roll-an-unruly-history-10-part-tv-series-mp4-video-download-104.html