- 0049 BC - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
- 0236 Saint Fabian begins his reign as a Catholic Pope.
- 1072 Palermo falls to Robert Guiscard and his brother Roger, who begin to conquer all of Sicily
- 1072 Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.
- 1429 Order of the 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
- 1645 Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London
- 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
- 1806 Dutch in Cape Town, South African surrender to the British
- 1806 Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
- 1808 Herman Daendels succeeds A Wiese as Governor-General of Netherlands Indies
- 1810 French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I & Joséphine
- 1810 The marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled.
- 1811 Louisiana slaves rebel in 2 parishes
- 1811 Norwester David Thompson 1770-1857 crosses the height of land of the Rocky Mountains on the Athabasca Pass
- 1815 British Government bans Americans from settling in Canada
- 1817 Miles Macdonnell recaptures Fort Douglas from Metis; occupies the Fort for Lord Selkirk
- 1839 Tea from India first arrives in UK
- 1840 Penny Post mail system started
- 1840 UK hist Uniform Penny Postage introduced nationally
- 1845 Poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning begin corresponding
- 1847 American naval forces occupy Los Angeles.
- 1850 Robert McClure & Richard Collinson set sail in the Enterprise and Investigator to start search for lost Franklin expedition
- 1861 American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union.
- 1861 Colonel Moody names Lulu Island (near Vancouver) for Lulu Sweet, an American actress appearing in theatrical performances for the Royal Engineers
- 1861 Florida becomes 3rd state to secede from US
- 1861 Fort Jackson & Fort Philip are taken over by Los Angeles state troops
- 1861 US forts & property seized by Mississippi
- 1862 Battle of Big Sandy River KY (Middle Creek)
- 1862 The inventor of the Revolver Samuel Colt dies.
- 1863 General McClernand's Union troops surround Fort Hindman AR
- 1863 January-uprising begins in Poland
- 1863 The London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.
- 1863 The first underground railway opens in London
- 1863 UK hist First section of the London Underground Railway opens, between Paddington and Farringdon Street
- 1870 Georgia legislature reconvenes
- 1870 John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil
- 1870 John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
- 1870 Standard Oil is incorporated by brothers John D. and William Rockefeller.
- 1878 US Senate proposes female suffrage
- 1883 Fire at uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee WI kills 71; General Tom Thumb of P T Barnum fame, escapes unhurt
- 1889 The Ivory Coast becomes a French protectorate
- 1899 Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity was founded.
- 1900 Lord Roberts & Lord Kitchener reach Capetown
- 1901 Oil discovered at Spindletop claim near Beaumont, Texas
- 1901 The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
- 1911 Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
- 1911 The first photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego
- 1911 Trumper scored double cricket ton vs South Africa, goes on to get 214
- 1912 Caillaux government in France resigns
- 1912 World's first flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in NY)
- 1914 First edition of Hague's Post under SF van Oss, published
- 1916 Russian offensive in Kaukasus
- 1917 Navy places first production order for aerial photographic equipment.
- 1920 Canada becomes a founding member of the League of Nations on the day the Treaty of Versailles, ending the First World War, takes effect
- 1920 League of Nations' first meeting, Treaty of Versailles in effect
- 1920 Silver reaches record $1.37 an ounce
- 1922 Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State.
- 1923 Last US troops leave Rhineland (Germany)
- 1923 Lithuania seizes & annexes country of Memel
- 1925 France-Saarland forms
- 1925 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as Texas Governor, nation's 2nd woman governor
- 1927 Fritz Lang's Metropolis premieres
- 1927 The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premieres.
- 1928 Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky
- 1929 Tintin, a comic book character created by Herg, makes his debut. He went on to be published in over 200 million comic books in 40 languages.
- 1930 Maurice Allom takes Test hat-trick England vs New Zealand Christchurch
- 1930 Mordovian Autonomous Region in RSFSR constituted
- 1932 "Mickey Mouse" & "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated
- 1932 "Pete the Tramp" cartoon strip by C D Russell debuts
- 1934 VP-10F flies first non-stop formation flight from San Francisco to Pearl Harbor, arriving 11 Jan.
- 1935 Actress Mary Pickford marries actor Douglas Fairbanks
- 1938 Eduard van Beinum becomes world's first conductor at Concert Hall
- 1939 Bradman hits 186 South Africa vs Queensland before Christ catches him at short-leg
- 1940 First convoy carrying units of the Second Australian Imperial Force (AIF) sails for the Middle East
- 1941 Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic & Old Lace," premieres in New York City NY
- 1941 Lend-Lease is introduced into the US Congress.
- 1941 Seyss-Inquart begins registration of Jews
- 1942 Elizabeth Monk and Suzanne Filion admitted to the Quebec Bar Quebec's first female lawyers
- 1942 Japan invades North-Celebes, Dutch East Indies
- 1943 Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad
- 1943 The first US President to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco
- 1945 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close
- 1946 The first General Assembly of the United Nations convenes in London.
- 1946 US Army establishes first radar contact with Moon, Belmar NJ
- 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
- 1949 First Jewish family show "The Goldbergs" premieres on CBS
- 1949 RCA introduces 45 RPM record
- 1951 UN headquarters opens in Manhattan NY
- 1957 Harold Macmillan becomes prime minister of Britain, after the resignation of Anthony Eden.
- 1958 Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 on the country and r&b charts, #2 on the pop chart
- 1961 Visitor posting - Clinton Bentzal born - USA [email protected]
- 1962 4,000 die in avalanche, Ranrahirca, Perú
- 1962 Apollo Project: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket booster. It became better known as the Saturn V moon rocket, which launched every Apollo moon mission.
- 1962 Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages & kill 3,500
- 1964 Battles between moslems & hindus in Calcutta
- 1964 Panama severs diplomatic relations with US
- 1964 US version of "That Was The Week That Was," premieres
- 1966 India & Pakistan sign peace accord
- 1966 Julian Bond denied seat in Georgia legislature for opposing Vietnam War
- 1967 Dutch Princess Margret marries Pieter van Vollenhoven
- 1967 Lester Maddox inaugurated as Governor of Georgia
- 1967 PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network
- 1968 US Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho
- 1969 Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland
- 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
- 1972 Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK
- 1973 Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die
- 1977 Canada expels four Cubans, two of them diplomats, after RCMP spy investigation
- 1978 Soyuz 27 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
- 1978 The USSR sends two cosmonauts into orbit to rendezvous with the Salyut Six space laboratory.
- 1979 Entertainer of the Year Awards
- 1980 Former AFL-CIO president George Meany dies in Washington, DC at age 85.
- 1980 Last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC
- 1981 El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive"
- 1981 Number one hit on UK music charts - John Lennon - Imagine
- 1982 -17ºF (27.2ºC) in Braemar Grampian (equals UK record)
- 1982 The Catch - Dwight Clark of the San Francisco 49ers makes a leaping catch from Joe Montana with 58 seconds to play to defeat the Dallas Cowboys 28-27 in the NFC Championship Game at Candlestick Park.
- 1983 In Los Angeles, the Fraggle Rock children's show debuts on HBO; partly produced in Toronto by Jim Henson
- 1984 Argentine ex-president/General Bignone arrested
- 1984 Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashes at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die
- 1984 Clara Peller first asks, "Where's the Beef?"
- 1984 The U.S. and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations for the first time since 1867.
- 1984 The US and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations after 117 years.
- 1984 US establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years
- 1985 Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as President of Nicaragua
- 1986 Palau signs Compact of Free Association with US
- 1989 Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola.
- 1990 China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre)
- 1990 NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players
- 1990 Time Inc. aquired Warner Communications for the tidy little sum of $14.1 billion. Thus began Time Warner, one of the world’s largest media and entertainment conglomerates.
- 1990 Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.
- 1991 Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans
- 1991 US Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis
- 1992 29,000 bath toys owned by the American company First Days Inc. are washed overboard in the Pacific Ocean.
- 1992 8th Soap Opera Digest Awards
- 1994 Trial of Lorena Bobbitt who cut off her husband's penis, begins
- 1994 Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal
- 1994 Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan agrees to abolish trade tariffs
- 1995 "Late Late Show" with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS at 12 30 AM
- 1995 The World Youth Day was held in the Philippines.
- 1995 Visitor posting - Ashley Rebecca Jean Gardner is born in Ketchikan, Alaska, USA
- 1996 Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
- 1996 Visitor posting - A Beast was born in OHIO - USA
- 1997 4,000th episode of "Entertainment Tonight"
- 1997 Dow Corning provides $295 billion to settle breast implant suits
- 1997 Italy's new 1,000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map
- 1997 Right-winger Arnoldo Aleman sworn in as President of Nicaragua
- 1999 A large piece of the chalk cliff at Beachy Head collapses into the sea.
- 1999 The HBO television series The Sopranos first aires.
- 2000 America Online announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion, the largest corporate merger in history.
- 2001 Wikipedia starts as part of Nupedia. It becomes a separate site five days later.
- 2005 A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, CA, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing the Highway 101, the main coastal corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles, for 10 days.
- 2005 Eyre Peninsula Bushfire in South Australia kills nine and injures 113.
- 2008 Important Islamic date - Islamic New Year January 10, 2008 (1429 A.H.)
- 2010 Visitor posting - Eva born to Tyler & Shelby. - USA
- 2011 Visitor posting - GLEE season 2 began in England!
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