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This day in history: 10 January

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Key facts

367 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 10 January.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
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.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Behnam, Sarah, and the Forty Martyrs (Armenian Apostolic Church)

Christian feast day: Gregory of Nyssa

Christian feast day: January 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Leonie Aviat

Christian feast day: Obadiah (Coptic Church)

Christian feast day: Peter Orseolo

Christian feast day: Pope Agatho (Roman Catholic)

Christian feast day: William Laud (Anglican Communion)

Christian feast day: William of Donjeon

Fête du Vodoun (Benin)

Majority Rule Day (Bahamas)

Margaret Thatcher Day (Falkland Islands)

Events

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.

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.

2013More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in the Quetta area of Pakistan.

2012A bombing at Jamrud in Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and injures 78 others.

2007A general strike begins in Guinea in an attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.

2003North Korea withdraws from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, making it the first state to withdraw from the treaty.

2000Crossair Flight 498, a Saab 340 aircraft, crashes in Niederhasli, Switzerland, after taking off from Zurich Airport, killing 13 people.

1990Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.

1985Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba.

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.

1981Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments.

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.

1972Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.

1966Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.

1954BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea, killing 35 people.

1946The first General Assembly of the United Nations assembles in the Methodist Central Hall, Westminster. Fifty-one nations are represented.

1946The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.

1941World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.

1927Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.

1920League of Nations Covenant automatically enters into force after the Treaty of Versailles is ratified by Germany.

1920The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I for all combatant nations except the United States.

1917Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the Ross Sea party are rescued after being stranded for several months.

1916World War I: Imperial Russia begins the Erzurum Offensive, leading to the defeat of the Ottoman Empire's Third Army.

1901New York: Automobile Club of America installs signs on major highways.

1901The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.

1876The Plan of Tuxtepec is announced.

1870John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.

1863The Metropolitan Railway, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between Paddington and Farringdon, marking the beginning of the London Underground.

1861American Civil War: Florida becomes the third state to secede from the Union.

1812The first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, 82 days after departing from Pittsburgh.

1791The Siege of Dunlap's Station begins near Cincinnati during the Northwest Indian War.

1776American Revolution: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.

1645Archbishop William Laud is beheaded for treason at the Tower of London.

1475Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.

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.

1072Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo in Sicily for the Normans.

236Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus to become the twentieth pope of Rome.

69Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba as deputy Roman Emperor.

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.

-49Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.

Born on this day

2003Cesare Casadei, Italian footballer

2001Santi Aldama, Spanish basketball player

2000Erik Botheim, Norwegian footballer

2000Reneé Rapp, American singer-songwriter and actress

1999Mason Mount, English footballer

1999Youssouf Fofana, French footballer

1997Blake Lawrie, Australian rugby league player

1997Patrick Herbert, New Zealand rugby league player

1996Ahmed Sayed, Egyptian footballer

1996Budda Baker, American football player

1996Dylan Edwards, Australian rugby league player

1996Matthew Dufty, Australian rugby league player

1993Tobias Rieder, German ice hockey player

1991Chad Townsend, Australian rugby league player

1990Cody Walker, Australian rugby league player

1990Ishiura Shikanosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler

1990John Carlson, American ice hockey player

1990Martin Jones, Canadian ice hockey player

1989Ali Gabr, Egyptian footballer

1988Leonard Patrick Komon, Kenyan runner

1987César Cielo, Brazilian swimmer

1986Kirsten Flipkens, Belgian tennis player

1986Marcus Freeman, American football coach

1985Robert Nilsson, Canadian-Swedish ice hockey player

1984Ariane Friedrich, German high jumper

1984Kalki Koechlin, Indian actress

1984Marouane Chamakh, Moroccan footballer

1982Julien Brellier, French footballer

1982Tomasz Brzyski, Polish footballer

1981Belinda Snell, Australian basketball player

1981Jared Kushner, American real estate investor and political figure

1980Rastislav Staňa, Slovak ice hockey player

1980Sarah Shahi, American actress

1979Henrik Tallinder, Swedish ice hockey player

1979Silvia Kumpan-Takacs, Austrian politician

1979Simone Cavalli, Italian footballer

1978Brent Smith, American singer and songwriter

1978Johan van der Wath, South African cricketer

1978Tamina Snuka, American wrestler

1977A. J. Bramlett, American basketball player

Died on this day

2026Bob Weir, American musician, (born 1947)

2026Yeison Jiménez, Colombian singer, (born 1991)

2025Bill McCartney, American football player and coach (born 1940)

2025José Jiménez, Puerto Rican activist (born 1948)

2025Sam Moore, American soul singer-songwriter (born 1935)

2023Constantine II of Greece, King of Greece (1964-1973) (born 1940)

2023Jeff Beck, English guitarist and songwriter (born 1944)

2022Joyce Eliason, American television personality (born 1934)

2022Robert Durst, American real estate heir and convicted murderer (born 1943)

2020Qaboos bin Said, ruler of Oman (born 1940)

2019Ross Lowell, American inventor, photographer & author (born 1926)

2017Buddy Greco, American jazz and pop singer and pianist (born 1926)

2017Clare Hollingworth, English journalist (born 1911)

2016Bård Breivik, Norwegian sculptor and art instructor (born 1948)

2016David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (born 1947)

2016George Jonas, Hungarian-Canadian journalist, author, and poet (born 1935)

2015Francesco Rosi, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1922)

2015Junior Malanda, Belgian footballer (born 1994)

2015Robert Stone, American novelist and short story writer (born 1937)

2015Taylor Negron, American actor, playwright, and painter (born 1957)

2014Dajikaka Gadgil, Indian jeweller (born 1915)

2014Larry Speakes, American journalist, 16th White House Press Secretary (born 1939)

2014Petr Hlaváček, Czech shoemaker and academic (born 1950)

2014Sam Berns, American activist (born 1996)

2014Zbigniew Messner, Polish economist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland (born 1929)

2013Claude Nobs, Swiss businessman, founded the Montreux Jazz Festival (born 1936)

2013George Gruntz, Swiss pianist and composer (born 1932)

2012Gevork Vartanian, Russian intelligence agent (born 1924)

2012Jean Pigott, Canadian businesswoman and politician (born 1924)

2011Margaret Whiting, American singer (born 1924)

Quote of the day

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

Will Durant, on Aristotle

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