Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 10
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This is a list of selected January 10 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.January 10: The Remembrance of Muharram in Shi'a Islam begins (2008, A.H. 1429)
- 1475 – Moldavian-Ottoman Wars: At the Battle of Vaslui near Vaslui in present-day Romania, Stephen the Great and his Moldavian forces successfully repelled an Ottoman attack led by Hadân Suleiman Pasha, the Beylerbeyi of Rumelia.
- 1776 – Common Sense by English pamphleteer and revolutionary Thomas Paine (pictured), a document denouncing British rule which contributed to stimulating the American Revolution among the populace of the Thirteen Colonies, was published.
- 1863 – Service began on the Metropolitan Railway between Paddington and Farringdon Street, now the oldest segment of the London Underground.
- 1929 – The Adventures of Tintin, a series of comic books created by Belgian artist Hergé that has been sold in over 50 languages and more than 200 million copies to date, first appeared in a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle.
- 1946 – The first session of the United Nations General Assembly convened at the Westminster Central Hall in London with representatives from fifty-one member states.
More events: January 9 – January 10 – January 11
