This Day in History
10 Jan 1514
Complutensian New Testament in Hebrew Aramaic Greek & Latin finished
10 Jan 1731
Charles Farnese becomes Duke of Parma and Piacenza
10 Jan 1799
Friedrich von Schillers Die Piccolomini premieres in Weimar
10 Jan 1808
Herman Daendels succeeds A Wiese as Governor-General of Neth Indies
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Convoy, by C.W. McCall, is the #1 song on the U.S. pop charts
It was a song that celebrated the exploits of a rebellious trucker with a reckless disregard for human life and highway safety codes. It gave the gravelly-voice...
U.S. troops depart Germany
Four years after the end of World War I President Warren G. Harding orders U.S. occupation troops stationed in Germany to return home.In 1917 after several ye...
League of Nations instituted
On January 10 1920 the League of Nations formally comes into being when the Covenant of the League of Nations ratified by 42 nations in 1919 takes effect.In...
Griffith elected president of Irish Free State
Arthur Griffith the founder of Sinn Fein and one of the architects of the 1921 peace treaty with Britain is elected president of the newly established Irish F...
Gusher signals start of U.S. oil industry
On this day in 1901 a drilling derrick at Spindletop Hill near Beaumont Texas produces an enormous gusher of crude oil coating the landscape for hundreds of...
Harding orders U.S. troops home from Germany
Four years after the end of World War I President Warren G. Harding orders U.S. occupation troops stationed in Germany to return home. In 1917 after several y...
Johnson asks for surcharge to pay for the war
President Johnson in his annual State of the Union message to Congress asks for enactment of a 6 percent surcharge on personal and corporate income taxes to h...
Hubert Humphrey criticizes President Nixon
Former Vice President Hubert Humphrey criticizes President Richard Nixon saying that it was taking longer for President Nixon to withdraw U.S. troops from Viet...
Dwight Clark makes The Catch
On January 10 1982 San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Dwight Clark makes a leaping catch in the end zone on a pass from quarterback Joe Montana with 51 seconds...
Johnson asks for more funding for Vietnam War
On this day in 1967 President Lyndon B. Johnson asks Congress for more money to support the Vietnam War. Lyndons War a war Johnson actually inherited...
FDR introduces the lend-lease program
On this day in 1941 Franklin Roosevelt introduces the lend-lease program to Congress. The plan was intended to help Britain beat back Hitlers advance w...
Outlaw Frank James born in Missouri
Franklin James the lesser-known older brother of Jesse is born in Clay County Missouri.Frank and Jesse James were both legends in their own time though Jess...
Dashiell Hammett dies
Dashiell Hammett author of The Maltese Falcon dies on this day in 1961.Hammett was born in Maryland on May 27 1894. He left school at age 13 and took a serie...
AOL-Time Warner formed
On this day in 2000 in one of the biggest media mergers in history America Online Inc. announces plans to acquire Time Warner Inc. for some 182 billion in st...
Avalanche kills thousands in Peru
On this day in 1962 an avalanche on the slopes of an extinct volcano kills more than 4000 people in Peru. Nine towns and seven smaller villages were destroyed...
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