Dark King (March)

The name of March comes from ancient Rome, when March was the first month of the year and named Martius after Mars, the Roman god of war.

In Rome, where the climate is Mediterranean, March is the first month of spring.

March 1, 2010, Georgia and Russia re-open their only usable land border crossing, located on the Caucasus Mountains, for traffic and trade for the first time in four years. (Al Jazeera)

March 2, 2010, Series Premiere of Players
March 2, 2010, Series Premiere of Parenthood



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March 4, 2010, Forty-one scientists publish a paper in Science affirming that the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event, the large-scale mass extinction of dinosaurs and other lifeforms on Earth ~65.5 million years ago, was caused by an asteroid impact. (Science)
March 4, 2010, A Mexico City law allowing same-sex marriages takes effect. (CNN)
March 4, 2010, Four German Islamists are imprisoned after being convicted of planning "a second 11 September 2001". (BBC)
March 4, 2010, A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hits Taiwan, injuring 12 and disrupting communications and rail services. (AP)

March 5, 2010, Release of Alice in Wonderland.



March 5, 2010, Release of Brooklyn's Finest.



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March 5, 2010, A magnitude 6.5 earthquake occurs in the ocean off Sumatra with the possibility of a tsunami. (CNN)

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March 6, 2010, Washington, D.C. is to become the first American city to hand out free female condoms in the battle against HIV/AIDS. (The Washington Post)
March 6, 2010, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates reviews allegations of misconduct in Afghanistan by the private military company formerly known as Blackwater, Xe Services LLC. (BBC)
March 7, 2010, Australian weather report: Melbourne experiences flooding after a once-in-a-century thunderstorm of marble-sized hailstones which tears the roof from a railway station and leads to the postponement of sports fixtures. A state of emergency is declared in Queensland. Fish fall from the sky in Lajamanu. (Sky News)
March 8, 2010, New York politician Eric Massa resigns after admitting to sexual harassment. (The Times)
March 8, 2010, The French Navy, supported by European Union aircraft and vessels, seizes 35 suspected pirates in 4 mother ships and 6 little boats off the coast of Somalia in the EU's most successful mission. (BBC)
March 8, 2010, German Federal Minister of Justice Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger says the Vatican has built a "wall of silence" in response to the country's child sexual abuse controversy of recent months. (BBC)

March 9, 2010, Roman Catholic child sexual abuse investigation: The Dutch Catholic Church apologises and the country's religious leaders request an independent inquiry. A monastery head in Salzburg admits abuse of a boy more than four decades ago. The brother of Pope Benedict XVI admits physically disciplining students at a school in Germany before corporal punishment was banned in 1980. (BBC)




March 9, 2010, Israel grants permission to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton to visit Gaza after denying permission to other international politicians. (RTÉ)
March 9, 2010, Israel approves the construction of 1,600 new houses, a central park and other facilities near the Orthodox Ramat Shlomo in East Jerusalem. (Ha'aretz)
March 9, 2010, Following several decades of "official denial", Japan confirms it permitted nuclear-armed United States vessels to pass through its ports using its Cold War "secret treaties". (BBC)
March 9, 2010, The first use of a biocontrol agent against a weed in the European Union is approved — the Japanese insect Aphalara itadori will be released at trial sites in England to combat invasive Japanese knotweed. (BBC)

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March 10, 2010, Corey Haim dies



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March 10, 2010, Britain, France and the EU support U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's condemnation of Israeli expansion of settlements in occupied territory. (BBC)
March 10, 2010, Australia and Indonesia sign an agreement to combat people smuggling. (news.com.au)
March 10, 2010, The birth of a live elephant at Taronga Zoo is hailed as a "miracle" that will "completely rewrite the elephant birth textbooks" after he was thought to have died inside his mother's womb. (BBC)
March 10, 2010, Forbes magazine publishes its 2010 list of of billionaires, replacing Bill Gates with Carlos Slim as the world's wealthiest person. (Forbes)
 
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March 11, 2010, As Sebastián Piñera is inaugurated as the new President of Chile, new aftershocks of the February earthquake—6.9 and 6.7 magnitude—strike 140 kilometres (87 mi) south of Valparaíso. (BBC)





March 11, 2010, Two children are prevented by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Denver from enrolling in a Catholic school in Boulder, Colorado, United States because their parents are lesbians. (The Straits Times)
March 11, 2010, The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) intervenes after a school in Mississippi bans same-sex relationships and cancels its prom (leavers' dinner) due to the desire of a female student to bring her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo, while one of her teachers tells her "she had to remember where she was". (BBC)
March 11, 2010, Israeli authorities plan thousands more homes in settlements in East Jerusalem since Palestinian leaders terminated talks earlier this week due to this issue. (The Guardian)
March 11, 2010, Israel apologises for the timing of the announcement during a visit by the Vice President of the United States, calling it a "grave error", a "mistake" and a "failure" and promising it would not happen again. (Gulfnews)
March 11, 2010, More than 30,000 Greek workers stage their third general strike against the government. (BBC)
March 11, 2010, Hundreds of angry women dressed in black march though the streets of Abuja and Jos following the recent massacre in Nigeria. (BBC)
March 11, 2010, 22,000 dogs arrive in Birmingham, UK for the start of Crufts 2010. The world's largest dog show.
March 11, 2010, The Duke of Edinburgh, on a trip to Exeter, Devon with Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, asks a female sea cadet if she works at a strip club before concluding that it is "probably too cold for that anyway". (The Daily Telegraph)
March 11, 2010,Pink Floyd win their court battle with EMI, paving the way for individual tracks of their music to be removed from online music services. (BBC)

March 12, 2010, Release of Green Zone.


March 12, 2010, Release of She's Out of My League.


March 12, 2010, Release of Our Family Wedding.


March 12, 2010, Release of Remember Me.


March 12, 2010, Series Premiere of Celebrity Rehab: Sober House
March 12, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI is "distraught" by news alleged of child sexual abuse in Catholic dioceses in Germany, according to Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, as the church also faces paedophilia scandals in Ireland, Austria, and the Netherlands, while Pope Benedict defends clerical celibacy, calling it a symbol of "full devotion" and of "giving oneself to God and to others." (BBC)
March 12, 2010, Karl Rove appears on British television to promote waterboarding and speaks of his pride that "we used techniques that broke the will of these terrorists", saying these techniques were "appropriate". (BBC)
March 12, 2010, Security is increased in Bangkok, Thailand, ahead of anti-government protesters by the "red shirts" over the coming days. (Thai News Agency)
March 12, 2010, Russia signs a nuclear reactor deal with India which will see it build 16 nuclear reactors in India. (BBC)
March 12, 2010, Eleven rare Siberian tigers—of which only 300 remain in the world—die of malnutrition after living in little cages and eating chicken bones at the Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo in Liaoning. (BBC)
March 12, 2010, American photographer Jill Sonsteby from Jacksonville, Florida captures a zebra putting its head inside the mouth of a hippopotamus and surviving at Zürich Zoologischer Garten. (BBC)
March 12, 2010, Margaret Thatcher, in a rare moment of publicity since her withdrawal from public life, puts her weight and "heavy heart" behind a campaign by Combat Stress for the mental health of ex-servicemen in Afghanistan and Iraq. (The Sydney Morning Herald)

March 13, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI's former archdiocese of Munich (1977–1982) reveals he transferred a suspected pedophile priest to a job that allowed him to continue abusing children. (The New Zealand Herald)
March 13, 2010, Michael Schumacher makes his return to Formula One at the age of 41. (The Times)

March 14, 2010, Series Premiere of Sons of Tucson



March 14, 2010, Mini series Premiere " The Pacific"



March 14, 2010, National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship protesters in red march through Bangkok, Thailand, demonstrating against the government. (The Times)
March 14, 2010, Archbishop of Armagh and Primacy of Ireland Cardinal Seán Brady refuses calls by sex abuse victims such as Colm O'Gorman to resign and defends representing the Church when two teenagers abused by Father Brendan Smyth were forced to sign an oath of silence. (RTÉ)
March 14, 2010, A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hits central Japan with no reports of damage or casualties. (MSNBC.com)
March 14, 2010, A 6.4 magnitude earthquake hits the eastern islands of Indonesia; no immediate reports of casualties. (AP)
March 15, 2010, United States Senator Christopher Dodd submits a draft of a bill that would reform financial regulation, mostly in accord with the proposals of President Barack Obama's administration. (Reuters)
March 15, 2010, Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, claims that relations between the two countries face their worst crisis in 35 years. (BBC News)
March 15, 2010, After hundreds of photographs and movies are declassified by the Israel Defense Forces, the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center publishes a report stating the images depict Hamas militants using children as human shields and operating out of mosques and hospitals during the 2009 Gaza War. (The Jerusalem Post)

March 16, 2010, Series Premiere of Justified

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March 16, 2010, Ancient tombs of Uganda's Bugandan Kings, a World Heritage Site, are burnt down by unknown causes. (New Vision)
March 16, 2010, A man who used to teach at a Roman Catholic religious order's schools in Spain is arrested in Chile on suspicion of sexually abusing children. (CNN)
March 16, 2010, Thai redshirts spill blood at the gates of the government in their third day of protests. (BBC)
March 16, 2010, NASA researchers in Antarctica discover cold-water Lysianassidae, shrimp-like amphipods, living in the water beneath the Ross Ice Shelf. (The Christian Science Monitor)
March 16, 2010, Michael Jackson's estate signs history's largest recording deal with Sony Music. (BBC)



March 17, 2010, Saint Patrick's Day



March 17, 2010, Season 14 Premiere of South Park
March 17, 2010, Series Premiere of Ugly Americans



March 17, 2010, Series Premiere of Addicted
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March 17, 2010, 30 members of the "Ladies in White" opposition movement in Cuba are arrested at an illegal demonstration in the capital Havana. The 30 protesters were countered by a spontaneous gathering of several hundred Cubans cheering "The street belongs to Fidel","Long live Fidel" and "Go Home Worms". (AFP)
March 17, 2010, President of the United States Barack Obama announces that the United States will pursue aggressive sanctions to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon that could potentially spark a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. (Reuters)
March 17, 2010, An investigation is launched into how a Wal-Mart shop in New Jersey, United States announced "Attention Wal-Mart customers: All black people leave the store now". (The Daily Telegraph)
March 17, 2010, American television officials issue an apology following the broadcast of two hours of pornography on two children's channels. (BBC)

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March 18, 2010, Former Chairman of Anglo Irish Bank Sean FitzPatrick is arrested and has his home searched under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 at his home in Greystones, County Wicklow. (RTÉ)
March 18, 2010, Current Bishop of Derry Séamus Hegarty is named as one of those involved in a "secret deal" in the case of a woman who says she was sexually abused for ten years from the age of eight. (The Belfast Telegraph)

March 19, 2010, Release of RepoMen.



March 19, 2010, Release of How to Train Your Dragon.


March 19, 2010, Release of a Girl with a Dragon Tattoo.


March 19, 2010, Release of the Bounty Hunter.



March 19, 2010, Release of GreenBurg.


March 19, 2010, Release of The Runaways.


March 19, 2010, Release of Severe Clear.


March 19, 2010, Release of Hubble 3D.


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March 19, 2010, The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) breaks its own record. (BBC)
March 19, 2010, NASA announces that "It is nearly certain that a new record 12-month global temperature will be set in 2010", in a new draft paper based on GISS temperature analysis. (Climate Progress)
March 19, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI signs his letter to Irish Catholics, sent as his first official documented response to the issue of child sex abuse and due to be published by the Vatican on Saturday and read at Sunday Mass. (The Irish Times)
March 19, 2010, Catholic child sex abuse cases reach "tsunami" levels in Germany. (CBC)
March 19, 2010, An 82-year-old Brazilian Catholic priest from Arapiraca is defrocked after being filmed on camera engaging in sexual activity with a male teenage altar attendant. The activity was filmed by an alleged abuse survivor and broadcast on a news channel this week. (AHN)
March 20, 2010, The Pope's special pastoral letter to Irish Catholics on the issue of child sex abuse within the Church is published by the Vatican but fails to impress some survivors organisations. (RTÉ)
March 20, 2010, Major politicians in the United States urge in a letter addressed to United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to resolve tensions with Israel "quietly, in trust and confidence, as befits longstanding strategic allies". (The Jerusalem Post)
March 20, 2010, A teenager is arrested in New Jersey, United States in connection with the recent Wal-Mart announcement telling "all blacks" to leave the shop. (CNN)
March 21, 2010, Season 3 Premiere of "Breaking Bad"


March 21, 2010, Special Presentation "Atlas 4D" on Discovery
March 21, 2010, Tens of thousands of people gather on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States to support President Barack Obama in his bid to overhaul the country's immigration laws. (CNN)
March 21, 2010, A new Haiti earthquake kills two in Cap-Haïtien. (Ynet)
March 21, 2010, Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon enters Gaza with the message "we (the United Nations) stand with you (Palestine)", criticises Israel's actions and speaks of his distress at the "unacceptable, unsustainable conditions" endured by Palestinians and the lack of reconstruction of damaged buildings. (BBC)
March 21, 2010, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to bow to international pressure, saying "As far as we are concerned, building in Jerusalem is like building in Tel Aviv". (BBC)
March 21, 2010, Child sex abuse in the Catholic Church: It is alleged that the Pope (then a German archbishop) ignored advice from a psychiatrist in 1979 stating Father Peter "Hulli" Hullermann was "untreatable" and "must never be allowed to work with children again". (The Sunday Times)

-The Pope is asked why he hasn't apologised to those affected by sex abuse in Australia after yesterday's publication of his 13-page apology to Irish Catholics. (ABC News)
-Musician and prominent abuse campaigner Sinéad O'Connor dismisses the Pope's letter as a "a study in the art of lying". (Sunday Independent)
-The Pope's letter is read to Massgoers and Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland Cardinal Seán Brady is applauded following the revelation of his representation of the Church when two teenagers abused by Father Brendan Smyth were forced to sign an oath of silence. (The Irish Times)
-A man confronts Bishop of Kerry Dr Bill Murphy on the pulpit in the middle of the Gospel at St Mary's Cathedral, Killarney before the Pope's letter can be read and is seized by members of the congregation, while protesters walkout during Mass at St Mary's Pro-Cathedral in Dublin. (The Irish Times)
March 21, 2010, Plastiki, a boat constructed from 12,000 plastic bottles, sets sail on a three-month voyage from San Francisco through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to Sydney. (BBC)
March 22, 2010, Season 2 Premiere of United States of Tara.


March 22, 2010, Season 2 Premiere of "Nurse Jackie".



March 22, 2010, United States President Barack Obama signs the health care reform bill into law. (BBC)



March 22, 2010, A Pakistani Christian dies after being burned alive for refusing to convert to Islam. (Asia News)
March 22, 2010, Google stops censoring its search results in China, redirecting users to its Hong Kong site. (BBC)

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March 23, 2010, Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo is shown on its maiden flight from the Mojave Air and Spaceport in Mojave, California, United States. (Xinhua)



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March 23, 2010, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tells a lobby group in Washington, D.C., United States, that "Jerusalem is not a settlement" and that Israel has a "right" to build there. (The Jerusalem Post)
March 23, 2010, 88-year-old Heinrich Boere, a former member of the Nazi SS, is sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1944 murder of three Dutch civilians after six decades of legal wrangling. (BBC)
 
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March 24, 2010, Tiny South Talpatti Island off the coast of Bengal disappears, washed away thirty years after the mud flat island was created by delta currents, ending the Indian and Bangladeshi dispute over the territory. The Calcutta Institute raised fears over more islands, such as the Maldives, going under in the future. (BBC)
March 24, 2010, Scientists identify the Denisova hominin - a previously unknown type of ancient human through DNA analysis from a finger found in a cave in Siberia, Russia. (Nature)
March 24, 2010, Go Daddy, the largest domain name registration company in the world, announces it will cease registering websites in China after the Chinese government required customers to provide photographs and other identifying information before registering. (CNET)
March 24, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI accepts the resignation of Bishop of Cloyne John Magee. (RTÉ)
March 24, 2010, American mathematician John Tate wins the Abel Prize for advancing "one of the most elaborate and sophisticated branches of modern mathematics" (The Hindu)
March 25, 2010, Special presentation 'The Tiger Next Door' on Animal Planet.
March 25, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI is accused of failing to act in a case of the sexual abuse of 200 deaf boys. (BBC News)
March 25, 2010, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore William Lee apologises for his two-year delay in failing to alert authorities to child sexual abuse allegations in his parish in the mid-1990s, describing as "seriously inadequate" his handling of the matter. (RTÉ)
March 25, 2010, An editorial from the Vatican says the news media is acting "with the clear and ignoble intent of trying to strike Benedict and his closest collaborators at any cost". (L'Osservatore Romano)
March 25, 2010, Munster Rugby fans in Ireland win a court case against the state allowing pubs to open for business on Good Friday, a day that normally sees all pubs in the country shut for religious reasons. (RTÉ)
March 25, 2010, The lawyer for Dennis Hopper admits for the first time that the actor is terminally ill and unable to undergo chemotherapy treatment for his prostate cancer. (BBC)
March 25, 2010, Dennis Hopper receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (USA Today)

March 26, 2010, Release of Chloe.


March 26, 2010, Release of Hot Tub Time Machine.


March 26, 2010, Release of Walking Sleeping Beauty.



March 26, 2010, Release of Cash.



March 26, 2010, China surpassed the United States last year as the country with the most clean energy investment. China's clean energy investments were $34.6 billion, compared with U.S.A.'s $18.6 billion last year. The US still leads the world in installed renewable energy, with 52.2 gigawatts of wind energy, small hydroelectric, biomass and waste generating capacity, per a report by the nonprofit Pew Charitable Trusts, but has dropped below ten other countries, including Canada and Mexico in investments as a share of the national economy.(The China Post)
March 26, 2010, Israel refuses renewed calls to stop building homes in East Jerusalem, with a representative of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stating in writing: "Israeli construction policy in Jerusalem has remained the same for 42 years and isn’t changing". (Arab News)
March 26, 2010, Iran calls on Muslims around the world to act in protest of Israel's construction plans in East Jerusalem. (Press TV)
March 26, 2010, US President Obama and Russian President Medvedev finalize a new arms control treaty to further reduce the nuclear arsenals of each country still remaining since the Cold War. (The Jerusalem Post)
March 26, 2010, The Times and The Sunday Times announce they are to charge £1 per day and £2 per week for online access from June 2010 and split into two websites from Times Online. (The Guardian)
March 26, 2010, Russia outlaws Mein Kampf due to its "extremist" content. (RIA Novosti)
March 27, 2010, Approximately 4,000 cities around the world dimmed their building lights to commemorate Earth Hour. (MSNBC)
March 27, 2010, Irish Green Party leader John Gormley is criticised for delivering a televised speech during his party's national convention which coincides with Earth Hour. (Irish Independent)
March 27, 2010, Jerusalem is discussed at the two-day annual Arab summit in Sirt, with PNA officials calling for "a large Arab political support to the Palestinian people on all levels in order to be able to face the right-wing Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu which insists to elude from the peace process and keeps its aggressive actions against our people". (Xinhua)
March 28, 2010,


March 28, 2010, At a Palm Sunday mass in Saint Peter's Square, Rome, Pope Benedict XVI tells tens of thousands of people about the recent "petty gossip" he has been subjected to, thought to mean the child sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church, though he fails to directly mention the scandal. (BBC)
March 28, 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama, in his first visit to Afghanistan as commander in chief, meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and speaks to American troops deployed there. (Washington Post)
March 28, 2010, First step in Russian time zone reform comes into force. The number of time zones drops from 11 to 9, eliminating Samara Time and Kamchatka Time. (RT)
March 28, 2010, America's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducts raids in southeastern Michigan in an investigation involving members of Hutaree, a Christian-oriented militia group. (AnnArbor.com)

March 29, 2010, Saving Grace Season 4 premiere
March 29, 2010, Kell on Earth Season Finale
March 29, 2010, Greek Season Finale
March 29, 2010, Suicide bombers detonate two bombs at Moscow Metro stations Lubyanka and Park Kultury, killing at least 36 with the death toll expected to rise. (RIA)




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March 29, 2010, Maule, Chile, is rattled by a 6.1 magnitude aftershock on Monday 08.43 a.m. AEDT. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
March 29, 2010, A patent on two human genes is struck down by a judge in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. (The New York Times)

March 30, 2010,


March 30, 2010, The Andaman Islands are rattled by a 6.6 magnitude earthquake. (USGS)
March 31, 2010, Release of The Last Song.


March 31, 2010, In Plain Sight Season 3 premiere.


March 31, 2010,


March 30, 2010, Russia has a day of mourning following the train bombs in Moscow. (CBC)
March 30, 2010, The Andaman Islands are rattled by a 6.6 magnitude earthquake. (USGS)
March 30, 2010, Somali pirates hijack 8 Indian vessels abducting 120 sailors, biggest abduction count till date, off the coast of Kismayo. (The Times of India)
March 31, 2010, Twelve people, including two police officers, are killed in two blasts in the town of Kizlyar in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region of Dagestan. (RIA Novosti)
March 31, 2010, Shahram Amiri, a scientist involved in Iran's nuclear program, defects to the United States and begins talking to the Central Intelligence Agency. (ABC News)
March 31, 2010, Lines of "green wall" are built along the desert district in Yanchi county, Ningxia Hui autonomous region to defend against desertification. (Sina)