Today in Histroy

January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

  49 BC

  Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.

236

Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus to become the twentieth pope of Rome.

  1645

 Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at theTower of London

1776

Thomas Paine's Common Sense, which greatly influenced the authors of the Declaration of Independence, was published.

1863

The first underground passenger railway, the Metropolitan, opened in London.

1920

The League of Nations came into existence.

1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt sailed from Miami, FL, to Trinidad thus becoming the first American President to visit a foreign country during wartime.

The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented

1967

The first African-American senator elected by popular vote, Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, took his seat.

1984 – Holy See–United States relations: The United States and Holy See (Vatican City) re-establish full diplomatic relations after almost 117 years, overturning the United States Congress's 1867 ban on public funding for such a diplomatic envoy

2003

North Korea announced that it was withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.