Timeline March 2010

Events in March 2010 9

• 1921 – 2010 Vasily Smyslov World Chess Champion and endgame expert Vasily Smyslov was World Champion from 1957 to 1958 and became known for harmonious positional play and exceptional endgame technique.
• 2010 Iditarod 2010 Winner: Lance Mackey — 8 days 23h Lance Mackey won his fourth consecutive Iditarod, becoming the first musher to achieve four straight victories and the second to finish under 9 days.
• 2010 Monsters premieres at SXSW Festival breakthrough Monsters premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March 2010, earning praise for its inventive, effects-driven storytelling achieved on a minimal budget. The premiere marked Edwards' arrival as a filmmaker to watch and led to a distribution deal bringing the film to wider theatrical release later that year.
• 2010 F-35B first vertical landing NAS Patuxent River The short take-off/vertical landing F-35B hovers and lands vertically for the first time at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland.
• 2010 Breaking Bad season 3 13 episodes Walt takes the superlab, the cousins come north and Gale is killed.
• 2010 Affordable Care Act signed Obama's healthcare reform President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law on March 23, 2010, the most significant overhaul of the US healthcare system since Medicare in 1965.
• 2010 Sinking of the ROKS Cheonan South Korean warship sunk, raising tensions with North Korea The South Korean corvette Cheonan broke apart and sank near the disputed Yellow Sea border, killing 46 sailors. An international investigation concluded a North Korean torpedo caused the explosion, a finding North Korea denied. The incident sharply escalated tensions between the two Koreas.
• 2010 Carole King and James Taylor's Troubadour Reunion tour Back together A world tour that reunites the two.
• 2010 Large Hadron Collider reaches record energy CERN achieves first 7 TeV proton collisions Scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider achieved the first collisions at 7 teraelectronvolts, a new record designed to search for the Higgs boson and other physics beyond the Standard Model. The milestone came after more than a year of repairs following a 2008 malfunction. It marked the start of the collider's main research program.