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March 30, 2010

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 24, 2010, covering March 30, 2010.

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    Album cover for Battle Of The Sexes by Ludacris

    Battle Of The Sexes

    Ludacris

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    Album cover for Plastic Beach by Gorillaz

    Plastic Beach

    Gorillaz

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    Album cover for Need You Now by Lady Antebellum

    Need You Now

    Lady Antebellum

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    Album cover for Valleys Of Neptune by Jimi Hendrix

    Valleys Of Neptune

    Jimi Hendrix

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    Album cover for Get Off On The Pain by Gary Allan

    Get Off On The Pain

    Gary Allan

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Notable Deaths

Jaime Escalante

2010Jaime Escalante, Bolivian-American educator (born 1930)[†]

Jaime Alfonso Escalante Gutiérrez was a Bolivian-American educator known for teaching students calculus from 1974 to 1991 at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. Escalante was the subject of the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, in which he is portrayed by Edward James Olmos.

Morris R. Jeppson

2010Morris R. Jeppson, American lieutenant and physicist (born 1922)[†]

Morris Richard Jeppson was a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. He served as assistant weaponeer on the Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945.

Martin Sandberger

2010Martin Sandberger, German SS officer (born 1911)[†]

Martin Sandberger was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era and a convicted Holocaust perpetrator. He was the commander of Sonderkommando 1a of Einsatzgruppe A, as well as of the Sicherheitspolizei and SD at the time of Nazi German occupation of Estonia during World War II. Sandberger perpetrated mass murder of the Jews in German-occupied Latvia and Estonia. As the Gestapo chief in Verona, he was also responsible for the arrest of Jews in Italy, and their deportation to Auschwitz concentration camp. Sandberger was the second-highest official of the Einsatzgruppe A to be tried and convicted. He was also the last-surviving defendant from the Nuremberg Military Tribunals.

Historical Context for March 30, 2010

In 2010, the world population was approximately 7,021,732,148 people[†]