SomeFacts | January 10

On this day - January 10

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

9 — The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the ...

69 — Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba as ...

236 — Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus to become the twentieth pope of ...

1072 — Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo in Sicily for the Normans.

1430 — Philip the Good, the Duke of Burgundy, establishes the Order ...

1475 — Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the ...

1645 — Archbishop William Laud is beheaded for treason at the Tower ...

1776 — American Revolution: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet ...

1791 — The Siege of Dunlap's Station begins near Cincinnati ...

1812 — The first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River ...

1861 — American Civil War: Florida becomes the third state to secede ...

1863 — The Metropolitan Railway, the world's oldest underground ...

1870 — John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.

1876 — The Plan of Tuxtepec is announced.

1901 — New York: Automobile Club of America installs signs on major ...

1901 — The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop ...

1916 — World War I: Imperial Russia begins the Erzurum Offensive, ...

1917 — Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the ...

1920 — League of Nations Covenant automatically enters into force ...

1920 — The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World ...

1927 — Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in ...

1941 — World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.

1946 — The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts ...

1946 — The first General Assembly of the United Nations assembles in ...

1954 — BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and ...

1966 — Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and ...

1972 — Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent ...

1980 — The New England Journal of Medicine publishes the letter ...

1981 — Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major ...

1984 — Holy See–United States relations: The United States and Holy ...

1985 — Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and ...

1990 — Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner ...

2000 — Crossair Flight 498, a Saab 340 aircraft, crashes in ...

2003 — North Korea withdraws from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation ...

2007 — A general strike begins in Guinea in an attempt to get ...

2012 — A bombing at Jamrud in Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and ...

2013 — More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several ...

2015 — A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and passenger ...

2019 — A 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is found alive in ...