About January 10
January 10, 2024 is the 10th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 356 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 31 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 10
- 69 –Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba to deputy Roman Emperor.
- 1475 –Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
- 1645 –Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London.
- 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.
- 1901 –The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
- 1916 –Erzerum Offensive during World War I, Russian victory over Ottoman Empire.
- 1920 –The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
- 1954 –BOAC Flight 781 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 explodes into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
- 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
- 1984 –The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations after 117 years.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 San Francisco and Los Angeles, for 10 days.
- 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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