This Day in History
      
| Wednesday, March 10, 2010 Australian History
| | 1794 - | The Reverend Samuel Marsden, who became known colloquially as the 'Flogging Parson', arrives in the New South Wales penal colony. [more] | World History
| | 1906 - | Over 1060 workers are killed in a coal dust explosion in France. [more] | | 1969 - | The killer of Martin Luther King is sentenced to 99 years in prison. [more] | | 1982 - | The 'Jupiter Effect', in which Los Angeles is supposed to be ravaged by an immense earthquake following the alignment of the planets, fails to eventuate. [more] | | |
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