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January 10 - Today in History

  1. 1998 18th United Negro College Fund raises (rebroadcasted Jan 17th)
  2. 1997 "Rehersal," closes at Criterion Theater New York City
  3. 1997 1st Comet of 1997 Discovered: Comet 1997 A1
  4. 1997 4,000th episode of "Entertainment Tonight"
  5. 1997 Dow Corning provides $295 billion to settle breast implant suits
  6. 1997 Italy's new 1,000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map
  7. 1997 Right-winger Arnoldo Aleman sworn in as president of Nicaragua
  8. 1996 Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
  9. 1996 Jimmy Johnson announced as new coach of Miami Dolphins
  10. 1995 "Late Late Show" with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS at 12:30 AM
  11. 1994 Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal
  12. 1994 Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan agrees to abolish trade tariffs
  13. 1993 "My Favorite Year" closes at Vivian Beaumont New York City after 37 performances
  14. 1993 "Sea Gull" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 48 performances
  15. 1993 Maiden flight of Ultrair (Houston to LA)
  16. 1992 8th Soap Opera Digest Awards
  17. 1991 Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans
  18. 1991 U.S. Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis
  19. 1990 "Les Miserables," opens at Mechanic Theatre, Baltimore
  20. 1990 China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre)
  21. 1990 NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players
  22. 1988 "Don't Get God Started" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 86 performances
  23. 1986 Palau signs Compact of Free Association with U.S.
  24. 1986 STS-61-C mission scrubbed T -9m because of bad weather at Kennedy
  25. 1985 Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as president of Nicaragua
  26. 1984 Argentine ex-president/general Bignone arrested
  27. 1984 Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashs at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die
  28. 1984 Clara Peller 1st asks, "Where's the Beef?"
  29. 1984 Luis Aparicio, Harmon Killebrew, and D Drysdale elected to Hall of Fame
  30. 1984 U.S. establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years
  31. 1983 NY Supreme Court issues a preliminary injunction barring New York Yankees from playing season-opening series against Tigers in Denver
  32. 1982 -17 degrees F (27.2 degrees C) in Braemar Grampian (equals U.K. record)
  33. 1982 Bengals beat Chargers in -59 degrees F (-51 degrees C) to win AFC championship
  34. 1982 Petra Schneider swims world record 1500 m freestyle (15:43.31)
  35. 1981 El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive"
  36. 1981 John Severin sets 100-mi unicycle speed record, 9 h 21 m
  37. 1980 Last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC
  38. 1980 Jim Stewart, Bruin's rookie goalie allows 3 goals in his 1st 4 minutes and a total of 5 in 1st period; he never again plays in NHL
  39. 1979 1st brother Billy Carter makes allegedly anti-Semitic remarks
  40. 1979 Entertainer of the Year Awards
  41. 1978 Soyuz 27 carring 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
  42. 1977 20th hat trick in Islander history - Bobby Nystrom
  43. 1973 Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die
  44. 1972 Los Angeles Lakers 33 straight win streak snapped, losing to Bucks 120-104
  45. 1972 Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman arrives in Dacca, East-Pakistan
  46. 1972 Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK
  47. 1971 "Light, Lively and Yiddish" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 87 performances
  48. 1971 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur
  49. 1970 Preview Center Opens
  50. 1969 Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam
  51. 1969 U.S.S.R.'s Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus
  52. 1968 "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1
  53. 1968 U.S. Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho
  54. 1967 Dutch Princess Margret marries Pieter van Vollenhoven
  55. 1967 Lester Maddox inaugurated as governor of Georgia
  56. 1967 PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network
  57. 1967 Princess Margret marries Mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven
  58. 1966 India and Pakistan sign peace accord
  59. 1966 Julian Bond denied seat in Georgia legislature for opposing Vietnam War
  60. 1965 Bollingen prize for poetry awarded to Horace Gregory
  61. 1965 NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 34-14
  62. 1965 WKBD TV channel 50 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting
  63. 1964 Battles between moslems and hindus in Calcutta
  64. 1964 Panama severs diplomatic relations with U.S.
  65. 1964 U.S. version of "That Was The Week That Was," premieres
  66. 1962 4,000 die in avalanche, Ranrahirca, Peru
  67. 1962 Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages and kill 3,500
  68. 1960 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz
  69. 1958 Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1
  70. 1957 Anthony Eden resigns and Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister Britain
  71. 1957 Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick rules Bing Crosby can keep token stock in the Det Tigers, even though he owns part of Pittsburgh Pirates
  72. 1956 Elvis records "Heartbreak Hotel"
  73. 1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to W H Auden
  74. 1953 "My Darlin' Aida" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 89 performances
  75. 1953 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Archibald MacLeish
  76. 1953 NFL Pro Bowl: National Conference beats American Conference 27-7
  77. 1952 Jean Anouilh's "La valse des toreadors," premieres in Paris
  78. 1951 1st jet passenger trip made
  79. 1951 U.N. headquarters opens in Manhattan NY
  80. 1949 1st Jewish family show "Goldbergs" premieres on CBS
  81. 1949 RCA introduces 45 RPM record
  82. 1948 "Call Me Mister" closes at National Theater New York City after 734 performances
  83. 1947 "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 725 performances
  84. 1947 British stop ships Independence and In-Gathering from landing in Israel
  85. 1947 Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard
  86. 1946 U.N. General Assembly meets for 1st time in London
  87. 1946 U.S. Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon, Belmar, NJ
  88. 1945 Baseball writers again fail to elect a new Hall of Famer
  89. 1945 LA Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close
  90. 1945 No one is elected to baseball's Hall of Fame
  91. 1944 1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Philadelphia
  92. 1944 British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma
  93. 1943 Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad
  94. 1943 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco
  95. 1942 Japan invades North-Celebes, Netherlands Indies
  96. 1941 Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic and Old Lace," premieres in New York City
  97. 1941 Seyss-Inquart begins registration of Jews
  98. 1939 Bradman hits 186 SA vs. Qld before Christ catches him at short-leg
  99. 1938 Eduard van Beinum becomes world's 1st conductor at Concert Hall
  100. 1938 Jean Anouilh's "La Sauvage," premieres in Paris
  101. 1938 Paul Vincent Carroll's "White Seed," premieres in New York City
  102. 1935 Actress Mary Pickford marries actor Douglas Fairbanks
  103. 1932 "Mickey Mouse" and "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated
  104. 1932 "Pete the Tramp" cartoon strip by C D Russell debuts
  105. 1931 Philadelphia Quakers defeat Montreal, ends NHL-record 15-game losing streak
  106. 1930 Commencement of New Zealand's 1st Test, vs. England Christchurch
  107. 1930 Maurice Allom takes Test hat-trick England vs. New Zealand Christchurch
  108. 1930 Mordovian Autonomous Region in RSFSR constituted
  109. 1929 Elmer Rice's "Street Scene," premieres in New York City
  110. 1928 G/I Gershwin/Romberg/Wodehouse's musical "Rosalie," premieres in New York City
  111. 1928 Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky
  112. 1927 Fritz Lang's Metropolis premieres
  113. 1925 France-Saarland forms
  114. 1925 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as Texas gov, nation's 2nd woman governor
  115. 1923 Last U.S. troops leave Rhineland (Germany)
  116. 1923 Lithuania seizes and annexes country of Memel
  117. 1920 League of Nations established
  118. 1920 Mont Canadiens (14) and Tor St. Patricks (7) score NHL record 21 goals
  119. 1920 Silver reaches record $1.37 an ounce
  120. 1916 Russian offensive in Kaukasus
  121. 1914 1st edition of Hague's Post under San Francisco van Oss, published
  122. 1914 Oscar Mathisen skates world record 500 m in 43.7 sec in Oslo
  123. 1912 Caillaux government in France resigns
  124. 1912 World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in New York)
  125. 1911 1st photo in U.S. taken from an airplane, San Diego
  126. 1911 Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to U.S. (not ratified)
  127. 1911 Trumper scored double cricket ton vs. South Africa, goes on to get 214
  128. 1910 1st international air meet in U.S. held, in LA
  129. 1910 Lunt-Fontanne Theater (Globe) opens at 205 W 46th St. New York City
  130. 1902 Alphons Diepenbrock's "Te Deum" premieres (Amsterdam)
  131. 1901 Oil discovered in Texas
  132. 1900 Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener reach Capetown
  133. 1897 Henrik Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman," premieres in Helsingfors
  134. 1897 Vincent d'Indy's "Istar" premieres in Amsterdam and Brussels
  135. 1893 Richard Drigo's ballet "Magic Flute" premieres, St. Petersburg
  136. 1890 Edward Macdowell's "Lancelot and Elaine," premieres
  137. 1890 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Sapientiae Christianae
  138. 1889 Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France
  139. 1883 Fire at uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin kills 71. General Tom Thumb of P T Barnum fame, escapes unhurt
  140. 1878 U.S. Senate proposes female suffrage
  141. 1870 Georgia legislature reconvenes
  142. 1870 John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil
  143. 1863 1st underground railway opens in London
  144. 1863 General McClernand's Union troops surround Fort Hindman Ark
  145. 1863 January-uprising begins in Poland
  146. 1863 London's 1st subway opens
  147. 1862 Battle of Big Sandy River, Kentucky (Middle Creek)
  148. 1862 Battle of Romney, WV
  149. 1861 Florida becomes 3rd state to secede from US
  150. 1861 Ft. Jackson and Ft. Philip are taken over by LA state troops
  151. 1861 U.S. forts and property seized by Mississippi
  152. 1853 Charles Reade's "Gold," premieres in London
  153. 1845 Poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning begin corresponding
  154. 1840 Penny Post mail system is starts
  155. 1839 Tea from India 1st arrives in UK
  156. 1833 Felix Mendelssohn's "Die erste Walpurgisnacht," premieres in Berlin
  157. 1811 Louisiana slaves rebell in 2 parishes
  158. 1810 French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I and Josephine
  159. 1808 Herman Daendels succeeds A Wiese as Governor-General of Netherlands Indies
  160. 1806 Dutch in Capetown surrender to British
  161. 1799 Friedrich von Schiller's "Die Piccolomini," premieres in Weimar
  162. 1776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published
  163. 1731 Charles Farnese becomes duke of Parma/Piacenza
  164. 1663 King Charles II affirms charter of Royal African Company
  165. 1642 King Charles I and family flee London for Oxford
  166. 1550 1st sitting of "Vurige Chamber" in Paris
  167. 1514 Complutensian New Testament in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin finished
  168. 1430 Duke Philip the Good marries Isabella of Portugal
  169. 1430 Order of the Guilder forms
  170. 1429 Order of Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary and Spain
  171. 1356 German emperor Charles I delegates Golden Degree
  172. 1072 Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo
  173. 236 St. Fabian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
  174. 69 Roman emperor Galba adopts Marcus Piso Licinianus as
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