About January 10
January 10, 2025 is the 10th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 355 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 19 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 10
- 49 BC –Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
- 236 –Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus as the twentieth pope of Rome.
- 1072 –Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.
- 1645 –Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London.
- 1806 –Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union.
- 1863 –The London Underground, the world’s oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.
- 1870 –John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
- 1901 –The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
- 1922 –Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State.
- 1923 –Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.
- 1941 –World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
- 1946 –The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the moon and receiving the reflected signals.
- 1946 –The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
- 1972 –Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
- 1981 –Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments
- 1984 –The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations after 117 years.
- 1985 –Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
- 1990 –Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.
- 2011 –2010–2011 Queensland floods: Torrential rain in the Lockyer Valley region of South East Queensland, Australia causes severe flash flooding, killing 9 people.
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