On This Day — 10 January

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.

Kidnapping of Jayme Closs

2015

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.

List of traffic collisions (2000–present)

2013

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

January 2013 Pakistan bombings

2012

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

2012 Khyber Agency bombing

2007

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

2007 Guinean general strike

2003

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

North Korea

2000

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

Crossair Flight 498

1990

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

WarnerMedia

1985

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

Sandinista National Liberation Front

1984

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

1981

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

Salvadoran Civil War

1980

The 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.

The New England Journal of Medicine

1972

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

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

1966

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

Tashkent Declaration

1954

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

BOAC Flight 781

1946

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

Methodist Central Hall, Westminster

1946

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

United States Army Signal Corps

1941

World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.

World War II

1927

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

Fritz Lang

1920

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

Treaty of Versailles

1920

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

Covenant of the League of Nations

1917

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

Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition

1916

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

World War I

1901

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

Texas

1901

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

Automobile Club of America

1876

The Plan of Tuxtepec is announced.

Plan of Tuxtepec

1870

John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.

John D. Rockefeller

1863

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

Metropolitan Railway

1861

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

American Civil War

1812

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

New Orleans (steamboat)

1791

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

Siege of Dunlap's Station

1776

American Revolution: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.

Thomas Paine

1645

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

William Laud

1475

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

Stephen the Great

1430

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

1072

Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo in Sicily for the Normans.

Robert Guiscard

236

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

Pope Fabian

69

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

AD 69

9

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.

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

Julius Caesar