About January 10
January 10, 2023 is the 10th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 355 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 12 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.
- 236 –Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus as the twentieth pope of Rome.
- 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.
- 1776 –Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.
- 1806 –Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
- 1810 –Napoleon divorces his first wife Joséphine.
- 1870 –John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
- 1916 –Erzerum Offensive during World War I, Russian victory over Ottoman Empire.
- 1920 –The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
- 1923 –Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.
- 1941 –World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
- 1962 –Apollo Project: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle. It became better known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
- 1972 –Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
- 1984 –The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations after 117 years.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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