About January 10
January 10, 2024 is the 10th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 356 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 31 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.
- 69 –Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba to deputy Roman Emperor.
- 1475 –Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
- 1645 –Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London.
- 1806 –Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
- 1810 –Napoleon divorces his first wife Joséphine.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union.
- 1901 –The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
- 1916 –Erzerum Offensive during World War I, Russian victory over Ottoman Empire.
- 1920 –The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
- 1922 –Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State.
- 1923 –Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.
- 1946 –The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the moon and receiving the reflected signals.
- 1954 –BOAC Flight 781 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 explodes into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
- 1981 –Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments
- 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.
- 1999 –Sanjeev Nanda kills three policemen in New Delhi with his car, an act for which he was later acquitted, resulting in a sharp drop in public confidence in the Indian legal system.
- 2003 –Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois’ death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
- 2005 –A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing U.S. Route 101, the main coastal corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles, for 10 days.
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