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Events on the 10th of January in history

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10 Jan 0009 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.
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10 Jan 2049 Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
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10 Jan 0049 -BC- Julius Cesar crosses the Rubicon, invades Italy
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10 Jan 2069 Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba as deputy Roman Emperor.
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10 Jan 0069 Roman emperor Galba adopts Marcus Piso Licinianus as C
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10 Jan 0236 Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus to become the twentieth pope of Rome.
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10 Jan 0236 St Fabian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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10 Jan 0681 St Agatho ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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10 Jan 1072 Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.
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10 Jan 1356 German emperor Charles I delegates Golden Degree
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10 Jan 1429 Order of the Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary & Spain
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10 Jan 1430 Order of the Guilder forms
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10 Jan 1430 Duke Philip the Good marries Isabella of Portugal
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10 Jan 1475 Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
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10 Jan 1514 Complutensian New Testament in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek & Latin finished
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10 Jan 1550 1st sitting of "Vurige Chamber" in Paris
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10 Jan 1550 1st sitting of "Vurige Chamber" in Paris
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10 Jan 1642 King Charles I & family flee London for Oxford
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10 Jan 1645 Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London.
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10 Jan 1663 King Charles II affirms charter of Royal African Company
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10 Jan 1731 Charles Farnese becomes duke of Parma/Piacenza
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10 Jan 1776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published
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10 Jan 1776 Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
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10 Jan 1776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published
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10 Jan 1791 The Siege of Dunlap's Station begins near Cincinnati during the Northwest Indian War.
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10 Jan 1799 Friedrich von Schiller's "Die Piccolomini" premieres in Weimar
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10 Jan 1806 Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
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10 Jan 1806 Dutch in Cape Town, South African surrender to the British
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10 Jan 1808 Herman Daendels succeeds A Wiese as Governor-General of the Netherlands Indies
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10 Jan 1810 Napoleon Bonaparte divorces his first wife Joséphine.
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10 Jan 1810 French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I & Jos
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10 Jan 1811 Louisiana slaves rebel in 2 parishes
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10 Jan 1833 Felix Mendelssohn's "Die erste Walpurgisnacht" premieres in Berlin
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10 Jan 1839 Tea from India 1st arrives in the UK
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10 Jan 1840 Penny Post mail system started
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10 Jan 1845 Poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning begin corresponding
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10 Jan 1853 Charles Reade's "Gold" premieres in London
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10 Jan 1861 American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union.
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10 Jan 1861 Fort Jackson & Fort Philip are taken over by Los Angeles state troops
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10 Jan 1861 Florida becomes 3rd state to secede from US
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10 Jan 1861 US forts & property seized by Mississippi
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10 Jan 1862 Battle of Romney, West Virginia
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10 Jan 1862 Battle of Romney WV
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10 Jan 1862 Battle of Big Sandy River KY (Middle Creek)
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10 Jan 1863 The London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.
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10 Jan 1863 January-uprising begins in Poland
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10 Jan 1863 1st underground railway opens in London
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10 Jan 1863 General McClernand's Union troops surround Fort Hindman AR
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10 Jan 1870 John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
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10 Jan 1870 Georgia legislature reconvenes
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10 Jan 1878 US Senate proposes female suffrage
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10 Jan 1883 Fire at uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin kills 71. General Tom Thumb of P T Barnum fame, escapes unhurt
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10 Jan 1889 Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France
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10 Jan 1890 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Sapientiae Christianae
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10 Jan 1890 Edward Macdowell's "Lancelot & Elaine" premieres
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10 Jan 1893 Richard Drigo's ballet "The Magic Flute" premieres, St Petersburg
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10 Jan 1897 Vincent d'Indy's "Istar" premieres in Amsterdam & Brussels
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10 Jan 1897 Henrik Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman" premieres in Helsingfors
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10 Jan 1900 Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener reach Cape Town
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10 Jan 1901 Oil discovered in Texas
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10 Jan 1901 The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
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10 Jan 1901 Oil discovered at Spindletop claim near Beaumont, Texas
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10 Jan 1902 Alphons Diepenbrock's "Te Deum" premieres (Amsterdam)
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10 Jan 1910 Lunt-Fontanne Theater (Globe) opens at 205 W 46th St New York City NY
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10 Jan 1910 1st international air meet in US held, in Los Angeles
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10 Jan 1911 Trumper scored double cricket ton vs South Africa, goes on to get 214
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10 Jan 1911 Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
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10 Jan 1911 1st photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego
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10 Jan 1912 World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in NY)
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10 Jan 1912 Caillaux government in France resigns
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10 Jan 1914 Oscar Mathisen skates world record 500 minutes in 43.7 seconds in Oslo
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10 Jan 1914 1st edition of Hague's Post under SF van Oss, published
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10 Jan 1916 World War I: In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
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10 Jan 1916 Russian offensive in Kaukasus
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10 Jan 1920 League of Nations established
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10 Jan 1920 Montreal Canadiens (14) and Tor St. Patricks (7) score NHL record 21 goals
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10 Jan 1920 The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
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10 Jan 1920 Montr
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10 Jan 1920 Silver reaches record $1.37 an ounce
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10 Jan 1920 League of Nations' 1st meeting, Treaty of Versailles in effect
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10 Jan 1922 Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Dáil Éireann.
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10 Jan 1923 Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.
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10 Jan 1923 Lithuania seizes & annexes country of Memel
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10 Jan 1923 Last US troops leave Rhineland (Germany)
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10 Jan 1925 France-Saarland forms
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10 Jan 1925 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as Texas Governor, nation's 2nd woman governor
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10 Jan 1927 Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
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10 Jan 1927 Fritz Lang's Metropolis premieres
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10 Jan 1928 G/I Gershwin/Romberg/Wodehouse's musical "Rosalie" premieres in New York City NY
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10 Jan 1928 Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky
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10 Jan 1929 The Adventures of Tintin, one of the most popular European comic books, is first published in Belgium.
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10 Jan 1929 Elmer Rice's "Street Scene" premieres in New York City NY
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10 Jan 1930 Maurice Allom takes Test hat-trick England vs New Zealand Christchurch
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10 Jan 1930 Commencement of New Zealand's 1st Test, vs England Christchurch
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10 Jan 1930 Mordovian Autonomous Region in RSFSR constituted
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10 Jan 1931 Philadelphia Quakers defeat Montr
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10 Jan 1932 "Mickey Mouse" and"Silly Symphony" comics syndicated
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10 Jan 1932 "Pete the Tramp" cartoon strip by C D Russell debuts
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10 Jan 1932 "Mickey Mouse" & "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated
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10 Jan 1935 Actress Mary Pickford marries actor Douglas Fairbanks
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10 Jan 1938 Paul Vincent Carroll's "White Seed" premieres in New York City NY
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10 Jan 1938 Jean Anouilh's "La Sauvage" premieres in Paris
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10 Jan 1938 Eduard van Beinum becomes world's 1st conductor at Concert Hall
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10 Jan 1939 Bradman hits 186 South Africa vs Queensland before Christ catches him at short-leg
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10 Jan 1941 World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
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10 Jan 1941 Seyss-Inquart begins registration of Jews
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10 Jan 1941 Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic & Old Lace" premieres in New York City NY
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10 Jan 1942 Japan invades North-Celebes, Netherlands Indies
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10 Jan 1942 Japan invades North-Celebes, Dutch East Indies
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10 Jan 1943 Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad
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10 Jan 1943 1st US President to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco
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10 Jan 1944 British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma
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10 Jan 1944 1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Philadelphia
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10 Jan 1945 Baseball writers again fail to elect a new Hall of Famer
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10 Jan 1945 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close
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10 Jan 1946 1st radar contact with Moon
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10 Jan 1946 US Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon, Belmar, New Jersey
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10 Jan 1946 The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
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10 Jan 1946 The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
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10 Jan 1946 UN General Assembly convenes for 1st time (London)
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10 Jan 1947 Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard
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10 Jan 1947 British stop ships Independence & In-Gathering from landing in Israel
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10 Jan 1947 "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St Theater New York City NY for 725 performances
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10 Jan 1948 "Call Me Mister" closes at National Theater NYC after 734 performances
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10 Jan 1948 "Call Me Mister" closes at National Theater New York City NY after 734 performances
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10 Jan 1949 1st Jewish family show "Goldbergs" premieres on CBS
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10 Jan 1949 RCA introduces 45 RPM record
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10 Jan 1951 UN headquarters opens in Manhattan, New York
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10 Jan 1951 1st jet passenger trip made
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10 Jan 1952 Jean Anouilh's "La valse des tor
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10 Jan 1953 NFL Pro Bowl: N Conf beats A Conf 27-7
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10 Jan 1953 NFL Pro Bowl National Conference beats American Conference 27-7
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10 Jan 1953 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Archibald MacLeish
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10 Jan 1953 "My Darlin' Aida" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City NY after 89 performances
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10 Jan 1954 BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
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10 Jan 1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to W H Auden
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10 Jan 1956 Elvis records "Heartbreak Hotel"
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10 Jan 1956 Elvis records "Heartbreak Hotel"
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10 Jan 1957 Anthony Eden resigns and Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of Britain
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10 Jan 1957 Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick rules Bing Crosby can keep token stock in the Detroit Tigers, even though he owns part of Pittsburgh Pirates
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10 Jan 1958 Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 on the country and r&b charts, #2 on the pop chart
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10 Jan 1960 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz
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10 Jan 1962 Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle. It became better known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
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10 Jan 1962 Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages & kill 3,500
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10 Jan 1962 4,000 die in avalanche, Ranrahirca, Per
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10 Jan 1964 Panama severs diplomatic relations with US
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10 Jan 1964 US version of "That Was The Week That Was, " premieres
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10 Jan 1964 Panam
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10 Jan 1964 Battles between moslems & hindus in Calcutta
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10 Jan 1965 WKBD TV channel 50 in Detroit MI (IND) begins broadcasting
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10 Jan 1965 NFL Pro Bowl West beats East 34-14
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10 Jan 1965 Bollingen prize for poetry awarded to Horace Gregory
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10 Jan 1966 India & Pakistan sign peace accord
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10 Jan 1966 Julian Bond denied seat in Georgia legislature for opposing Vietnam War
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10 Jan 1967 Lester Maddox inaugurated as Governor of Georgia
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10 Jan 1967 Dutch Princess Margret marries Pieter van Vollenhoven
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10 Jan 1967 PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network
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10 Jan 1967 Edward Brooke, takes (Senator-R-MA) seat as 1st popular elected black
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10 Jan 1968 "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1
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10 Jan 1968 US Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho
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10 Jan 1969 Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam
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10 Jan 1969 USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus
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10 Jan 1969 Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland
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10 Jan 1970 Preview Center Opens
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10 Jan 1971 "Light, Lively & Yiddish" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 87 performances
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10 Jan 1971 A by-poll is held in the Lebanese Chouf District.
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10 Jan 1971 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur
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10 Jan 1971 "Light, Lively & Yiddish" closes at Belasco Theater New York City NY after 87 performances
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10 Jan 1972 Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in the UK
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10 Jan 1972 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
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10 Jan 1972 Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman arrives in Dacca, East-Pakistan
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10 Jan 1972 Los Angeles Lakers 33 straight win streak snapped, losing to Bucks 120-104
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10 Jan 1973 Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die
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10 Jan 1977 20th hat trick in Islander history - Bobby Nystrom
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10 Jan 1978 Soyuz 27 carring 2 Cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
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10 Jan 1979 Entertainer of the Year Awards
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10 Jan 1979 1st brother Billy Carter makes allegedly anti-Semitic remarks
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10 Jan 1980 Last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC
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10 Jan 1980 Last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC
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10 Jan 1980 Jim Stewart, Bruin's rookie goalie allows 3 goals in his 1st 4 minutes & a total of 5 in 1st period; he never again plays in the NHL
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10 Jan 1981 El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive"
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10 Jan 1981 Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments
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10 Jan 1981 John Severin sets 100-mile unicycle speed record, 9 h 21 m
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10 Jan 1982 Petra Schneider swims world record 1500 meter freestyle (15 43.31)
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10 Jan 1982 -17
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10 Jan 1982 Bengals beat Chargers in -59
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10 Jan 1983 New York Supreme Court issues a preliminary injunction barring New York Yankees from playing season-opening series against Tigers in Denver
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10 Jan 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.
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10 Jan 1984 US establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years
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10 Jan 1984 Luis Aparicio, Harmon Killebrew, & D Drysdale elected to Hall of Fame
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10 Jan 1984 Clara Peller 1st asks, "Where's the Beef?"
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10 Jan 1984 Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashes at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die
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10 Jan 1984 Argentine ex-president/General Bignone arrested
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10 Jan 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.
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10 Jan 1985 Sir Clive Sinclair launches the Sinclair C5 personal electric vehicle, which became a notorious commercial failure and later a cult collector's item.
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10 Jan 1985 Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as President of Nicaragua
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10 Jan 1986 STS 61-C mission scrubbed T -9m because of bad weather at Kennedy
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10 Jan 1986 Palau signs Compact of Free Association with US
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10 Jan 1988 "Don't Get God Started" closes at Longacre Theater New York City NY after 86 performances
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10 Jan 1990 "Les Miserables, " opens at Mechanic Theatre, Baltimore
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10 Jan 1990 Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.
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10 Jan 1990 China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre)
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10 Jan 1990 "Les Miserables" opens at Mechanic Theatre, Baltimore MD
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10 Jan 1990 NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players
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10 Jan 1991 Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans
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10 Jan 1991 US Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis
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10 Jan 1992 8th Soap Opera Digest Awards
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10 Jan 1993 "My Favorite Year" closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC after 37 performances
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10 Jan 1993 "Sea Gull" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 48 performances
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10 Jan 1993 Maiden flight of Ultrair (Houston to Los Angeles)
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10 Jan 1993 "Sea Gull" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City NY after 48 performances
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10 Jan 1993 "My Favorite Year" closes at Vivian Beaumont New York City NY after 37 performances
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10 Jan 1994 Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan agrees to abolish trade tariffs
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10 Jan 1994 Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal
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10 Jan 1994 Trial of Lorena Bobbitt who cut off her husband's penis, begins
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10 Jan 1995 "Late Late Show" with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS at 12:30 AM
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10 Jan 1996 Jimmy Johnson announced as new coach of Miami Dolphins
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10 Jan 1996 Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
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10 Jan 1997 "Rehersal, " closes at Criterion Theater, New York City
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10 Jan 1997 4,000th episode of "Entertainment Tonight"
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10 Jan 1997 Right-winger Arnoldo Aleman sworn in as President of Nicaragua
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10 Jan 1997 Italy's new 1,000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map
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10 Jan 1997 Dow Corning provides $2.95 billion to settle breast implant suits
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10 Jan 1997 "Rehearsal" closes at Criterion Theater New York City NY
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10 Jan 1997 1st Comet of 1997 Discovered Comet 1997 A1
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10 Jan 1998 18th United Negro College Fund raises (re-broadcasted Jan 17th)
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10 Jan 1999 Sanjeev Nanda kills three policemen in New Delhi, India with his car, an act for which he was later acquitted, resulting in a sharp drop in public confidence in the Indian legal system.
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10 Jan 2005 A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing U.S. Route 101, the main coastal corridor between Los Angeles and San Francisco for 10 days.
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10 Jan 2007 A general strike begins in Guinea in an eventually successful attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.
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10 Jan 2011 2010–11 Queensland floods: Torrential rain in the Lockyer Valley region of South East Queensland, Australia, causes severe flash flooding, killing 9 people.
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10 Jan 2012 A bombing in Khyber Agency, Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and 78 others injured.
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10 Jan 2013 More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan.
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10 Jan 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, kills at least 62 people.
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10 Jan 2015 A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involves beer that was deliberately contaminated with crocodile bile leaving at least 56 dead and nearly 200 hospitalized.
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