January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 355 days remaining until the end of the year (356 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Friday or Saturday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Wednesday (56).
NATIONAL BITTERSWEET CHOCOLATE DAY
49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
1356 – German Emperor Charles I delegates the Golden Bull, a decree which fixed for a period of over 400 years, important aspects of the constitutional structure of the Holy Roman Empire.
1776 – While in exile aboard a warship in Cape Fear, North Carolina's Royal Governor, Josiah Martin, issues a proclamation calling on the king's loyal subjects to raise an armed force to combat the rebels, raise the royal standard and restore the province to its former glorious freedom.
1861 – On this day in 1861, William Seward accepts President-elect Abraham Lincoln's invitation to become secretary of state. Seward became one of the most important members of Lincoln's cabinet and engineered the purchase of Alaska after the Civil War (March 30, 1867). Known for some time thereafter as Seward's Folly.
1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil in Ohio which grew to become the largest corporation in the world and made Rockefeller the first billionaire.
1901 – A drilling derrick at Spindletop Hill near Beaumont, Texas, produces an enormous gusher of crude oil, coating the landscape for hundreds of feet and signaling the advent of the Texas oil industry.
1920 – The League of Nations formally comes into being when the Covenant of the League of Nations, ratified by 42 nations in 1919, takes effect.
1923 – Four years after the end of World War I, President Warren G. Harding orders U.S. occupation troops stationed in Germany to return home.
1941 – On this day in 1941, Franklin Roosevelt introduces the lend-lease program to Congress. The plan was intended to help Britain beat back Hitler's advance while keeping America only indirectly involved in World War II.
1946 – The first General Assembly of the United Nations, comprising 51 nations, convenes at Westminster Central Hall in London, England. One week later, the U.N. Security Council met for the first time and established its rules of procedure.
1962 – On this day in 1962, an avalanche on the slopes of an extinct volcano kills more than 4,000 people in Peru. Nine towns and seven smaller villages were destroyed.
1967 – President Lyndon B. Johnson asks Congress for more money to support the Vietnam War. Lyndon's War, a war Johnson actually inherited from President John F. Kennedy, had achieved nothing by 1967.
1989 – As part of an arrangement to decrease Cold War tensions and end a brutal war in Angola, Cuban troops begin their withdrawal from the African nation.
NATIONAL BITTERSWEET CHOCOLATE DAY
49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
1356 – German Emperor Charles I delegates the Golden Bull, a decree which fixed for a period of over 400 years, important aspects of the constitutional structure of the Holy Roman Empire.
1776 – While in exile aboard a warship in Cape Fear, North Carolina's Royal Governor, Josiah Martin, issues a proclamation calling on the king's loyal subjects to raise an armed force to combat the rebels, raise the royal standard and restore the province to its former glorious freedom.
1861 – On this day in 1861, William Seward accepts President-elect Abraham Lincoln's invitation to become secretary of state. Seward became one of the most important members of Lincoln's cabinet and engineered the purchase of Alaska after the Civil War (March 30, 1867). Known for some time thereafter as Seward's Folly.
1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil in Ohio which grew to become the largest corporation in the world and made Rockefeller the first billionaire.
1901 – A drilling derrick at Spindletop Hill near Beaumont, Texas, produces an enormous gusher of crude oil, coating the landscape for hundreds of feet and signaling the advent of the Texas oil industry.
1920 – The League of Nations formally comes into being when the Covenant of the League of Nations, ratified by 42 nations in 1919, takes effect.
1923 – Four years after the end of World War I, President Warren G. Harding orders U.S. occupation troops stationed in Germany to return home.
1941 – On this day in 1941, Franklin Roosevelt introduces the lend-lease program to Congress. The plan was intended to help Britain beat back Hitler's advance while keeping America only indirectly involved in World War II.
1946 – The first General Assembly of the United Nations, comprising 51 nations, convenes at Westminster Central Hall in London, England. One week later, the U.N. Security Council met for the first time and established its rules of procedure.
1962 – On this day in 1962, an avalanche on the slopes of an extinct volcano kills more than 4,000 people in Peru. Nine towns and seven smaller villages were destroyed.
1967 – President Lyndon B. Johnson asks Congress for more money to support the Vietnam War. Lyndon's War, a war Johnson actually inherited from President John F. Kennedy, had achieved nothing by 1967.
1989 – As part of an arrangement to decrease Cold War tensions and end a brutal war in Angola, Cuban troops begin their withdrawal from the African nation.
1994 - Green Beret, Richard Crafts, is indicted for the murder of his wife, Helle.
2015 – A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involves beer that was deliberately contaminated with crocodile bile leaving at least 56 dead and nearly 200 hospitalized.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1843 – Frank James, American soldier and criminal, The James Gang(d. 1915)
1883 – Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian journalist, author, and poet (d. 1945)
1936 – Stephen E. Ambrose, American historian and author (d. 2002)
From Wikipedia and Google, ex as noted.
2015 – A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involves beer that was deliberately contaminated with crocodile bile leaving at least 56 dead and nearly 200 hospitalized.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1843 – Frank James, American soldier and criminal, The James Gang(d. 1915)
1883 – Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian journalist, author, and poet (d. 1945)
1936 – Stephen E. Ambrose, American historian and author (d. 2002)
From Wikipedia and Google, ex as noted.
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