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Events
49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war in Rome (and resulting in the idiom "crossing the Rubicon", meaning to go past the point of no return).
9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the beginning of his own, the Xin dynasty.
69 – Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba as deputy Roman Emperor.
236 – Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus to become the twentieth pope of Rome.
1072 – Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.
1475 – Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
1645 – Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London.
1776 – Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
1791 – The Siege of Dunlap's Station begins near Cincinnati during the Northwest Indian War.
1801 – William Henry Harrison is appointed as the first governor of the Indiana Territory.
1806 – Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
1810 – Napoleon Bonaparte divorces his first wife Joséphine.
1861 – American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union.
1863 – The London Underground, the world's first underground railway, opens to the public as the Metropolitan, between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.
1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
1901 – The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop oil field near Beaumont, Texas, sparking the Texas Oil Boom.
1916 – World War I: In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
1920 – The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
1922 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Dáil Éireann.
1923 – Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.
1923 – The final U.S. troops returned from Germany following the end of World War I.
1925 – Miriam Ferguson is sworn in as the Governor of Texas. She is the second female governor in the U.S. and the first to ever be elected to the office.
1927 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
1929 – The Adventures of Tintin, one of the most popular European comic books, is first published in Belgium.
1941 – World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
1946 – The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
1946 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
1954 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
1962 – Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle. It became better known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
1971 – A by-poll is held in the Lebanese Chouf District.
1972 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
1981 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments
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.
1985 – Sir Clive Sinclair launches the Sinclair C5 personal electric vehicle, which became a notorious commercial failure and later a cult collector's item.
1985 – Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
1990 – Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.
1999 – Sanjeev Nanda kills three policemen in New Delhi, India with his car, an act for which he was later acquitted, resulting in a sharp drop in public confidence in the Indian legal system.
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 Los Angeles and San Francisco for 10 days.
2007 – A general strike begins in Guinea in an eventually successful attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.
2011 – Queensland floods: Torrential rain in the Lockyer Valley region of South East Queensland, Australia, causes severe flash flooding, killing nine people.
2012 – A bombing in Khyber Agency, Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and 78 others injured.
2013 – More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan.
2015 – A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involves beer that was deliberately contaminated with crocodile bile leaving at least 56 dead and nearly 200 hospitalized.
2015 – A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and passenger coach en route to Shikarpur from Karachi on the Pakistan National Highway Link Road near Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Karachi, kills at least 62 people.
Within the Octave of the Epiphany.
January 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Afterfeast of the Theophany of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
Coptic Church
Obadiah
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1916 – World War I: In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
1920 – The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
1922 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Dáil Éireann.
1923 – Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.
1923 – The final U.S. troops returned from Germany following the end of World War I.
1925 – Miriam Ferguson is sworn in as the Governor of Texas. She is the second female governor in the U.S. and the first to ever be elected to the office.
1927 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
1929 – The Adventures of Tintin, one of the most popular European comic books, is first published in Belgium.
1941 – World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
1946 – The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
1946 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
1954 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
1962 – Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle. It became better known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
1971 – A by-poll is held in the Lebanese Chouf District.
1972 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
1981 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments
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.
1985 – Sir Clive Sinclair launches the Sinclair C5 personal electric vehicle, which became a notorious commercial failure and later a cult collector's item.
1985 – Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
1990 – Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.
1999 – Sanjeev Nanda kills three policemen in New Delhi, India with his car, an act for which he was later acquitted, resulting in a sharp drop in public confidence in the Indian legal system.
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 Los Angeles and San Francisco for 10 days.
2007 – A general strike begins in Guinea in an eventually successful attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.
2011 – Queensland floods: Torrential rain in the Lockyer Valley region of South East Queensland, Australia, causes severe flash flooding, killing nine people.
2012 – A bombing in Khyber Agency, Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and 78 others injured.
2013 – More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan.
2015 – A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involves beer that was deliberately contaminated with crocodile bile leaving at least 56 dead and nearly 200 hospitalized.
2015 – A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and passenger coach en route to Shikarpur from Karachi on the Pakistan National Highway Link Road near Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Karachi, kills at least 62 people.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Within the Octave of the Epiphany.
Contemporary Western
Leonie Aviat
Peter Orseolo
Pope Agatho
William of Donjeon
Peter Orseolo
Pope Agatho
William of Donjeon
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
William Laud (Anglican Communion)
Eastern Orthodox
Feasts
Saints
Blessed Theosebia the Deaconess (385), sister of Sts. Macrina, Basil the Great,
Peter of Sebaste, and Gregory of Nyssa (385)
Saint Gregory of Nyssa, Bishop (395)
Venerable Ammon, monk, at Scetis in Egypt (5th century)
Saint Marcian of Constantinople, Presbyter (471)
Venerable Dometian of Melitene, Bishop of Melitene and Wonderworker (601)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Pétrone (Petronius), monk at Lérins Abbey, then Bishop of Die in France (463)
Saint Diarmaid the Just (Dermot, Diarmis), spiritual father of St Kieran of Clonmacnois
and later founder of a monastery on Innis-Clotran Island, Ireland (6th century)
Saint Tómméne (Thomian, Toimen), Archbishop of Armagh in Ireland (c. 660)
Saint Sæthryth (Sethrid), Abbess (c. 660)
Saint John Camillus the Good, Bishop of Milan, he worked against Arianism
and Monothelitism (669)
Saint Agatho, Pope of Rome (681)
Saint Peter Urseolus (Pietro I Orseolo), Doge of Venice, later became a monk
at the Monastery of Cuxa in Spain (987)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Paul of Obnora in Vologda, Abbot (1429)
Saint Macarius of Obnora in Vologda, disciple of Paul of Obnora, Abbot of Pisma
Monastery (15th c.)
Monk-martyr Ephraim, Elder of Obnora, and six monks of Obnora whose relics
are incorrupt (1538)
Venerable Antipas of Calapodeşti (Romania), of Mount Athos and of Valaam
Monastery, Hiero-Schemamonk (1882)
Venerable Theophan the Recluse, Bishop of Tambov (1894)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Zenobius Sutormin, Priest (1920)
New Hieromartyr Peter Uspensky, Archpriest of Radushino (Zaraisk) (1930)
New Hieromartyr Anatolius (Grisyuk), Metropolitan of Odessa (1938)
New Martyr Arsenia (Dobronravova), Abbess of the Holy Resurrection-St. Theodore
Convent (Shuisk) (1939)[
Blessed Theosebia the Deaconess (385), sister of Sts. Macrina, Basil the Great,
Peter of Sebaste, and Gregory of Nyssa (385)
Saint Gregory of Nyssa, Bishop (395)
Venerable Ammon, monk, at Scetis in Egypt (5th century)
Saint Marcian of Constantinople, Presbyter (471)
Venerable Dometian of Melitene, Bishop of Melitene and Wonderworker (601)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Pétrone (Petronius), monk at Lérins Abbey, then Bishop of Die in France (463)
Saint Diarmaid the Just (Dermot, Diarmis), spiritual father of St Kieran of Clonmacnois
and later founder of a monastery on Innis-Clotran Island, Ireland (6th century)
Saint Tómméne (Thomian, Toimen), Archbishop of Armagh in Ireland (c. 660)
Saint Sæthryth (Sethrid), Abbess (c. 660)
Saint John Camillus the Good, Bishop of Milan, he worked against Arianism
and Monothelitism (669)
Saint Agatho, Pope of Rome (681)
Saint Peter Urseolus (Pietro I Orseolo), Doge of Venice, later became a monk
at the Monastery of Cuxa in Spain (987)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Paul of Obnora in Vologda, Abbot (1429)
Saint Macarius of Obnora in Vologda, disciple of Paul of Obnora, Abbot of Pisma
Monastery (15th c.)
Monk-martyr Ephraim, Elder of Obnora, and six monks of Obnora whose relics
are incorrupt (1538)
Venerable Antipas of Calapodeşti (Romania), of Mount Athos and of Valaam
Monastery, Hiero-Schemamonk (1882)
Venerable Theophan the Recluse, Bishop of Tambov (1894)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Zenobius Sutormin, Priest (1920)
New Hieromartyr Peter Uspensky, Archpriest of Radushino (Zaraisk) (1930)
New Hieromartyr Anatolius (Grisyuk), Metropolitan of Odessa (1938)
New Martyr Arsenia (Dobronravova), Abbess of the Holy Resurrection-St. Theodore
Convent (Shuisk) (1939)[
Coptic Church
Obadiah
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