January 10Birthdays & History

On this day: January 10 in history

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1. 49 BCJulius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.Europe
2. 9The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the beginning of his own, the Xin dynasty.Asia
3. 69Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba as deputy Roman Emperor.Europe
4. 236Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus to become the twentieth pope of Rome.Europe
5. 1072Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo in Sicily for the Normans.Europe
6. 1430Philip the Good, the Duke of Burgundy, establishes the Order of the Golden Fleece, the most prestigious, exclusive, and expensive order of chivalry in the world.Europe
7. 1475Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.Middle East
8. 1645Archbishop William Laud is beheaded for treason at the Tower of London.Europe
9. 1776American Revolution: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.North America
10. 1791The Siege of Dunlap's Station begins near Cincinnati during the Northwest Indian War.North America
11. 1812The first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, 82 days after departing from Pittsburgh.North America
12. 1861American Civil War: Florida becomes the third state to secede from the Union.North America
13. 1863The Metropolitan Railway, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between Paddington and Farringdon, marking the beginning of the London Underground.Europe
14. 1870John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.North America
15. 1876The Plan of Tuxtepec is announced.Latin America
16. 1901The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.North America
17. 1901New York: Automobile Club of America installs signs on major highways.North America
18. 1916World War I: Imperial Russia begins the Erzurum Offensive, leading to the defeat of the Ottoman Empire's Third Army.EuropeMiddle East
19. 1917Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the Ross Sea party are rescued after being stranded for several months.World
20. 1920The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I for all combatant nations except the United States.North America
21. 1920League of Nations Covenant automatically enters into force after the Treaty of Versailles is ratified by Germany.Europe
22. 1927Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.Europe
23. 1941World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.Europe
24. 1946The first General Assembly of the United Nations assembles in the Methodist Central Hall, Westminster. Fifty-one nations are represented.Europe
25. 1946The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.North America
26. 1954BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea, killing 35 people.Europe
27. 1966Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.Asia
28. 1972Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.Asia
29. 1980The New England Journal of Medicine publishes the letter Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics, which is later misused to downplay the general risk of addiction to opioids.Europe
30. 1981Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments.Latin America
31. 1984Holy See–United States relations: The United States and Holy See (Vatican City) re-establish full diplomatic relations after almost 117 years, overturning the United States Congress's 1867 ban on public funding for such a diplomatic envoy.North AmericaEurope
32. 1985Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba.Latin AmericaEurope
33. 1990Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.North America
34. 2000Crossair Flight 498, a Saab 340 aircraft, crashes in Niederhasli, Switzerland, after taking off from Zurich Airport, killing 13 people.Europe
35. 2003North Korea withdraws from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, making it the first state to withdraw from the treaty.Asia
36. 2007A general strike begins in Guinea in an attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.Africa
37. 2012A bombing at Jamrud in Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and injures 78 others.Asia
38. 2013More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in the Quetta area of Pakistan.Asia
39. 2015A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and passenger coach en route to Shikarpur from Karachi on the Pakistan National Highway Link Road near Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Karachi, killing at least 62 people.Asia
40. 2019A 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is found alive in Gordon, Wisconsin, having been kidnapped 88 days earlier from her parents' home whilst they were murdered.North America

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