Today in History
10 January
Charles Farnese
Lord Kitchener
Alphons Diepenbrock
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10 January |
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| 1072 Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo |
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| 1356 German emperor Charles I delegates Golden Degree | ||
| 1429 Order of Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary & Spain | ||
| 1430 Duke Philip the Good marries Isabella of Portugal | ||
| 1430 Order of the Guilder forms | ||
| 1514 Complutensian New Testament in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek & Latin finished | ||
| 1642 King Charles I & family flee London for Oxford | ||
| 1663 King Charles II affirms charter of Royal African Company | ||
| 1731 Charles Farnese becomes duke of Parma/Piacenza | ||
| 1776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published | Charles Farnese |
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| 1810 French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I & Jos‚phine | ||
| 1839 Tea from India 1st arrives in UK | ||
| 1861 Florida became the third state to secede from the union | ||
| 1863 The world's first underground railway opened in London, England. | ||
| 1863 General McClernand's Union troops surround Fort Hindman Ark | ||
| 1863 January-uprising begins in Poland | ||
| 1870 John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil | ||
| 1889 Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France | ||
| 1890 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Sapientiae Christianae | ||
| 1900 Lord Roberts & Lord Kitchener reach Capetown |
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| 1901 Oil discovered in Texas | ||
| 1902 Alphons Diepenbrock's "Te Deum" premieres (Amsterdam) | ||
| 1910 The League of Nations was founded. | ||
| 1911 1st photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego | ||
| 1911 Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified) | ||
| 1912 Caillaux governament in France resigns | ||
| 1912 World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in NY) | ||
| 1916 Russian offensive in Kaukasus | ||
| 1920 League of Nations established | ||
| 1923 Last US troops leave Rhineland (Germany) | ||
| 1923 Lithuania seizes & annexes country of Memel | ||
| 1925 France-Saarland forms | Lord Kitchener |
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| 1928 Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky | ||
| 1930 Mordovian Autonomous Region in RSFSR constituted | ||
| 1941 Seyss-Inquart begins registration of Jews | ||
| 1942 Japan invades North-Celebes, Neth Indies | ||
| 1943 Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad | ||
| 1944 British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma | ||
| 1946 1st radar contact with Moon | ||
| 1946 UN General Assembly meets for 1st time (London) | ||
| 1947 British stop ships Independence & In-Gathering from landing in Israel | ||
| 1947 Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard | ||
| 1951 Nobel laureate Sinclair Lewis died | ||
| 1951 1st jet passenger trip made | ||
| 1951 UN headquarters opens in Manhattan NY | ||
| 1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to W H Auden |
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| 1957 Anthony Eden resigns & Harold Macmillan becomes PM Britai | ||
| 1957 Anthony Eden resigned as Britain's prime minister and Harold Macmillan took his place. | ||
| 1960 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz | ||
| 1962 An avalanche killed 4,000 in Ranrahirca, Peru. | ||
| 1964 Battles between moslems & hindus in Calcutta | ||
| 1964 Panama severs diplomatic relations with US | ||
| 1966 India & Pakistan sign peace accord | ||
| 1969 Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam | ||
| 1969 USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus | ||
| 1972 Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman arrives in Dacca, East-Pakistan | ||
| 1973 Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die | Alphons Diepenbrock |
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| 1978 Soyuz 27 carring 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched | ||
| 1984 Argentine ex-president/general Bignone arrested | ||
| 1984 Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashs at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die | ||
| 1984 The United States and the Vatican established diplomatic relations. | ||
| 1984 US establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years | ||
| 1991 Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans | ||
| 1994 Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal | ||
| 1994 Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan agrees to abolish trade tariffs | ||
| 1996 Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners | ||
| 1997 Italy's new 1,000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map | ||
| 1997 Right-winger Arnoldo Aleman sworn in as president of Nicaragua | ||
| 1998 18th United Negro College Fund raises (rebroadcasted Jan 17th) |
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