Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 10
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- 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 (pictured) to support his war in Algeria.
- 1861 - Toucouleur forces led by El Hadj Umar Tall seized Ségou and conquered the Bambara Empire in presentday Mali.
- 1906 - More than a thousand coal miners were killed in the Courrières mine disaster in Northern France.
- 1952 - Forbidden by law to seek re-election, former President Fulgencio Batista staged a coup d'état to resume control in Cuba.
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