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What Happened on January 10th This Day in History

Year	Name
2019	A 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.
2015	A 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.
2013	More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in the Quetta area of Pakistan.
2012	A bombing at Jamrud in Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and injures 78 others.
2007	A general strike begins in Guinea in an attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.
2000	Crossair Flight 498, a Saab 340 aircraft, crashes in Niederhasli, Switzerland, after taking off from Zurich Airport, killing 13 people.
1990	Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.
1985	Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
1984	Holy 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.
1981	Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments
1980	The 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.[26]
1972	Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
1966	Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
1954	BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea, killing 35 people.
1946	The first General Assembly of the United Nations assembles in the Methodist Central Hall, Westminster. Fifty-one nations are represented.
1946	The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
1941	World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
1927	Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
1920	The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I for all combatant nations except the United States.
1920	League of Nations Covenant automatically enters into force after the Treaty of Versailles is ratified by Germany.
1916	World War I: Imperial Russia begins the Erzurum Offensive, leading to the defeat of the Ottoman Empire's Third Army.
1901	present
1901	The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
1901	New York: Automobile Club of America installs signs on major highways.
1870	John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
1863	The Metropolitan Railway, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between Paddington and Farringdon, marking the beginning of the London Underground.
1861	American Civil War: Florida becomes the third state to secede from the Union.
1812	The first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, 82 days after departing from Pittsburgh.
1791	The Siege of Dunlap's Station begins near Cincinnati during the Northwest Indian War.
1776	American Revolution: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
1645	Archbishop William Laud is beheaded for treason at the Tower of London.
1601	1900
1475	Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
1430	Philip 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.
1072	Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo in Sicily for the Normans.
236	Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus to become the twentieth pope of Rome.
69	Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba as deputy Roman Emperor.
49	Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.
9	The 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.

Famous People Born on January 10

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Year	Name
1607	Isaac Jogues, French priest and missionary (d. 1646)
1948	Remu Aaltonen, Finnish musician
1939	Scott McKenzie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
1916	Eldzier Cortor, American painter (d. 2015)
626	Husayn ibn Ali the third Shia Imam (d. 680)
1959	Chandra Cheeseborough, American sprinter and coach
1931	Peter Barnes, English playwright and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1991	Chad Townsend, Australian rugby league player
1893	Albert Jacka, Australian captain, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1932)
1922	Billy Liddell, Scottish-English footballer (d. 2001)

Famous People Deaths On January 10

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on January 10. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
987	Pietro I Orseolo, doge of Venice (b. 928)
1863	Lyman Beecher, American minister and activist, co-founded the American Temperance Society (b. 1775)
1960	Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1879)
259	Polyeuctus, Roman saint
1552	Johann Cochlaeus, German humanist and controversialist (b. 1479)
1971	Coco Chanel, French fashion designer, founded Chanel (b. 1883)
1949	Erich von Drygalski, German geographer and geophysicist (b. 1865)
1997	Elspeth Huxley, Kenyan-English journalist and author (b. 1907)
1895	Benjamin Godard, French violinist and composer (b. 1849)
1969	Sampurnanand, Indian educator and politician, 2nd Governor of Rajasthan (b. 1891)