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History Events on January 10
The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
#United_Nations_General_Assembly
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
#Sheikh_Mujibur_Rahman
BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
#BOAC_Flight_781
Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
#Apollo_program
The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
#Signal_Corps_(United_States_Army)
A bombing in Khyber Agency, Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and 78 others injured.
#2012_Khyber_Agency_bombing
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.
#Holy_See-United_States_relations
Archbishop William Laud is beheaded for treason at the Tower of London.
#William_Laud
Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo in Sicily.
#Robert_Guiscard
World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
#World_War_II
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.
#Han_dynasty
American Civil War: Florida becomes the third state to secede from the Union.
#American_Civil_War
The first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, 82 days after departing from Pittsburgh.
#New_Orleans_(steamboat)
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.
#Philip_the_Good
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.
#2015_Karachi_traffic_accident
Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus to become the twentieth pope of Rome.
#Pope_Fabian
The Metropolitan Railway, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between Paddington and Farringdon, marking the beginning of the London Underground.
#Metropolitan_Railway
The Siege of Dunlap's Station begins near Cincinnati during the Northwest Indian War.
#Siege_of_Dunlap's_Station
World War I: In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
#World_War_I
Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
#Fritz_Lang
American Revolution : Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
#Thomas_Paine
A general strike begins in Guinea in an attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.
#2007_Guinean_general_strike
John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
#John_D._Rockefeller
Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments
#Salvadoran_Civil_War
Two British brigades occupy Cape Town after the Battle of Blaauwberg.
#Battle_of_Blaauwberg
Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.
#Julius_Caesar
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.
#Sandinista_National_Liberation_Front
The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
#Treaty_of_Versailles
The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
#Texas
