Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 10
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- 1475 - In the Battle of Vaslui, Stephen the Great and his Moldavian forces successfully repelled an Ottoman attack led by Hadân Suleiman Pasha, the Beylerbeyi of Rumelia.
- 1776 - Thomas Paine published Common Sense, which galvanized the American Revolution among the populace.
- 1810 - Napoleon, childless after 14 years of marriage, divorced his first wife Empress Joséphine (pictured).
- 1927 - The film Metropolis was released. It was the most expensive silent film of the time, costing approximately 7 million Reichsmark to make.
- 1946 - The first General Assembly of the United Nations opened in London's Westminster Central Hall with representatives from fifty-one member states.
