January 10

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on January 10. From 1900 until now. January 10 is under the sign of Capricorn. Famous birthdays on this day include Hrithik Roshan (1974), Rod Stewart (1945) and Linda Lovelace (1949). Several movies were released around January 10 over the years, such as The Shop Around the Corner in 1940 directed by Ernst Lubitsch and His Girl Friday in 1940 directed by Howard Hawks.
But much more happened on January 10 over the years: find out below

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2019 War in Afghanistan: 32 people were killed by the Taliban while the Taliban lost 25 of their members in shooting attacks across Afghanistan (RadioLiberty)
2018 Colombian conflict: After failing to reach agreement on an extension of the 101-day ceasefire, hostilities resume between Colombia's government and ELN forces. (Colombia Reports)
2017 War in Afghanistan, 10 January 2017 Afghanistan bombings: Two bombs explode near the National Assembly in Kabul, killing at least 38 people. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
2016 PKK rebellion (2015–present): Turkish security forces kill at least 32 Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants over the weekend, in military operations across the embattled Kurdish-majority southeast. (Reuters)
2015 A suicide bomb attack on a Shiite mosque in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, kills at least seven people. Militants linked to the Taliban and al-Qaeda have previously attacked the country's Shiite minority. (AAP via SBS News)
2014 Spain invites Sephardic Jews to return after 500 years of exile. (BBC News)
2013 January 2013 Pakistan bombings:: Twin bombings at a billiard hall in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta kill at least 81 people and wound up to 120 others, hours after a bombing at a market area killed 11 people in the same city. (BBC) (CBC News) (The Guardian)
2012 A bombing in Khyber Agency, Pakistan, kills at least 29 people and leaves over 50 others injured. (''Vancouver Sun'')
2011 Aftermath of the 2011 Tucson shooting:
2010 Three Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives are killed while firing mortars into Israel from Gaza. (''The Jerusalem Post'')
2009 A boat carrying eight Somali pirates from the freed supertanker MV ''Sirius Star'' capsizes in the Gulf of Aden, causing the deaths of five and the loss of their portion of US$3 million in ransom. (Telegraph)
2008 New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson quits the Presidential race.
2007 U.S. President George W. Bush announces a plan to station 21,500 additional troops in Iraq.
2006 The defence lawyer in the O'Connor - Keogh official secrets trial is shown the secret Al Jazeera bombing memo and declares that it posed no threat to national security. He vows to have it made public by the court. The case will return to court on January 24. (The Guardian) (San Francisco Chronicle)
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.
2004 At the Detroit Opera House in Michigan, General Motors unveils the next-generation "C6" 2005 Corvette. It features 400-hp engine, fixed headlights, and targa top.
2003 Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois' death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
2001 Apple introduce their iTunes digital media player application at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco.
2000 America Online announces it is buying Time Warner, in a stock-trade deal valued at $160 billion, the largest in corporate history. The new firm, AOL Time Warner, will have a combined value of $350 billion.
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.
1998 18th United Negro College Fund raises (rebroadcasted Jan 17th)
1997 Rehersal, closes at Criterion Theater, New York City
1996 Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
1995 Late Late Show with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS in the USA at 12:30 AM.
1994 Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan agree to abolish trade tariffs.
1993 My Favorite Year closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC after 37 performances
1992 8th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1991 Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans.
1990 Les Miserables, opens at Mechanic Theatre, Baltimore
1986 STS 61-C mission scrubbed T -9m because of bad weather at Kennedy
1985 Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as President of Nicaragua.
1984 Argentine ex-President / general Bignone arrested
1983 New York Supreme Court issues a preliminary injunction barring New York Yankees from playing season-opening series against Detroit Tigers in Denver, Colorado.
1982 Petra Schneider swims world record 1500 metre freestyle (15:43.31).
1981 John Severin sets 100-mile unicycle speed record, 9 hours 21 minutes.
1980 Last broadcast of Rockford Files on NBC
1979 1st brother Billy Carter makes allegedly anti-Semitic remarks
1978 Soyuz 27 carring 2 Cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
1977 20th hat trick in New York Islanders' history - Bobby Nystrom.
1973 Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die
1972 Triple album set Concert for Bangladesh released in the UK
1971 Light, Lively & Yiddish closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 87 performances
1970 Preview Center Opens
1969 Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland
1968 Great Balls of Fire reaches #1
1967 Edward Brooke, takes (Sen-R-Mass) seat as 1st popular elected black
1966 India and Pakistan sign peace accord.
1965 WKBD TV channel 50 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting
1964 Panama severs diplomatic relations with US
1962 Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy seven villages and kill 3,500.
1960 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz.
1957 Anthony Eden resigns and Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain.
1956 Elvis records Heartbreak Hotel
1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to W H Auden.
1953 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Archibald MacLeish.
1951 United Nations headquarters opens in Manhattan, New York, USA.
1949 1st Jewish family show Goldbergs premieres on CBS
1948 Call Me Mister play closes at National Theater in New York City, New York after 734 performances.
1947 British stop ships Independence and In-Gathering from landing in Israel
1946 1st radar contact with Moon
1945 Baseball writers again fail to elect a new Hall of Famer.
1944 First mobile electric power plant delivered, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
1943 Russian offensive against German 6th / 4th Armies near Stalingrad
1942 Japan invades North-Celebes, Dutch East Indies.
1941 Seyss-Inquart begins registration of Jews.
1940 WWII: Mechelen Incident: A German plane carrying secret plans for the invasion of western Europe makes a forced landing in Belgium, leading to mobilization of defense forces in the Low Countries.
1935 Actress Mary Pickford marries actor Douglas Fairbanks.
1932 Mickey Mouse andSilly Symphony comics syndicated
1930 Maurice Allom takes cricket Test hat-trick England versus New Zealand at Christchurch.
1928 Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky.
1925 France-Saarland forms.
1924 The British submarine ''L-24'' sinks in the English Channel 43 are killed.
1923 Last US troops leave Rhineland (Germany).
1922 Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State.
1920 Montreal Canadiens (14) and Toronto Saint Patricks (7) score NHL record 21 goals.
1919 January 12 ampndash The Freikorps attacks Spartacist supporters around Berlin, Germany.
1916 Russian offensive in Kaukasus.
1914 Oscar Mathisen skates world record 500 minutes in 43.7 seconds in Oslo.
1912 Caillaux government in France resigns.
1911 Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified).
1910 Lunt-Fontanne Theater (Globe) opens at 205 W 46th Steet New York City, New York.
1901 The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
1900 Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener reach Capetown.
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