About January 10
January 10, 2025 is the 10th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 355 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 19 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 10
- 49 BC –Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
- 69 –Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba to deputy Roman Emperor.
- 236 –Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus as the twentieth pope of Rome.
- 1072 –Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.
- 1475 –Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
- 1776 –Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.
- 1806 –Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
- 1810 –Napoleon divorces his first wife Joséphine.
- 1863 –The London Underground, the world’s oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.
- 1870 –John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
- 1916 –Erzerum Offensive during World War I, Russian victory over Ottoman Empire.
- 1920 –The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
- 1941 –World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
- 1946 –The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the moon and receiving the reflected signals.
- 1946 –The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
- 1962 –Apollo Project: 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.
- 1981 –Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments
- 1999 –Sanjeev Nanda kills three policemen in New Delhi with his car, an act for which he was later acquitted, resulting in a sharp drop in public confidence in the Indian legal system.
- 2003 –Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois’ death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
- 2011 –2010–2011 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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