Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 10
- 241 BC - Rome defeated Carthage in the Battle of the Aegates Islands, ending the First Punic War.
- 1831 - The French Foreign Legion was established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.
- 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell made his first successful telephone call.
- 1952 - Forbidden by law to seek re-election, former President Fulgencio Batista staged a coup d'état to resume control in Cuba.
- 2000 - The NASDAQ stock market index peaked at 5048.62, the high point of the dot-com boom.