Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 10

This is a list of selected January 10 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

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  Empress Joséphine of France
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  Empress Joséphine of France
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  Empress Joséphine of France
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  Stephen the Great of Moldavia
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  William Laud
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  Carl Linnaeus
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  Construction of the Metropolitan Railway
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  Sinclair C5

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Traditional Day in Benin	stub
49 BC – Julius Caesar and his Thirteenth Legion crossed the Rubicon in violation of Roman law, starting a civil war.	Rubicon: refimprove; Civil War: unreferenced section
1645 – William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury and a supporter of King Charles I, was beheaded in the midst of the English Civil War.	refimprove section
1810 – Childless after 14 years of marriage, Napoleon divorced his first wife Joséphine so he could remarry in the hope of having an heir.	unreferenced section
1954 – BOAC Flight 781 suffered an explosive decompression at altitude and crashed into the Mediterranean Sea, killing everyone on board.	unreferenced section
2004 – Helge Fossmo, the village priest of Knutby, Sweden, orchestrated the murders of his wife and his neighbor, a crime that shocked the country.	refimprove section

Eligible

• 9 – The Western Han dynasty of China ended after the throne was usurped by Wang Mang, who founded the Xin dynasty.
• 976 – After the death of his guardian John I Tzimiskes, Basil II became the effective ruler and senior emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
• 1430 – Philip the Good established the Order of the Golden Fleece, referred to as the most prestigious, exclusive, and expensive order of chivalry in the world.
• 1475 – Moldavian–Ottoman Wars: Stephen the Great led Moldavian forces to defeat an Ottoman attack under Hadım Suleiman Pasha near Vaslui in what is now Romania.
• 1812 – New Orleans, the first steamship on the Mississippi River, arrived in its namesake city to complete its maiden voyage.
• 1863 – Service began on the Metropolitan Railway between Paddington and Farringdon Street, today the oldest segment of the London Underground.
• 1923 – Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebelled against the League of Nations decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
• 1927 – The science fiction film Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang, was released in Germany.
• 1929 – The Adventures of Tintin, a series of popular comic albums created by Belgian artist Hergé, first appeared in Le Petit Vingtième, the youth supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle.
• 1941 – Greco-Italian War: The Greek army captured the strategically important Klisura Pass in Albania.
• 1985 – Sir Clive Sinclair launched the Sinclair C5 personal electric vehicle, "one of the great marketing bombs of postwar British industry", which later became a cult collectable despite its commercial failure.
• 1993 – The Braer Storm, the strongest extratropical cyclone ever recorded in the North Atlantic, reached its peak intensity.
• 2007 – A general strike began in Guinea as an attempt to force President Lansana Conté to resign, eventually resulting in the appointment of two new prime ministers.
• Born/died this day: | Pope Miltiades |d|314| Hugh I of Cyprus |d|1218| Francisco Ferrer |b|1859| Katharine Burr Blodgett |b|1898| Har Gobind Khorana |b|1922| Kalki Koechlin |b|1984| Yip Pin Xiu |b|1992| Hrithik Roshan |b|1974

Notes

• The American Crisis appears on December 19, so Common Sense should not appear soon after

January 10

Lucas gusher at the Spindletop oil field

• 236 – Pope Fabian, said to have been chosen by the Holy Spirit when a dove landed on his head, began his papacy.
• 1776 – Common Sense, a pamphlet by Thomas Paine denouncing British rule in the Thirteen Colonies, was published.
• 1901 – The first great gusher (pictured) of the Texas oil boom was discovered in the Spindletop oil field near Beaumont.
• 1946 – The first session of the United Nations General Assembly convened at the Methodist Central Hall in London with representatives from 51 member states.
• 1966 – India and Pakistan signed the Tashkent Declaration to end the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.

• Husayn ibn Ali (b. 626)
• Carl Linnaeus (d. 1778)
• Issai Schur (b. 1875; d. 1941)

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