Do you enjoy reading the world’s most interesting facts? We have compiled some historical facts of events that happened in history on January 10.
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- 1917 – A Wild West legend commonly known as Buffalo Bill died.
- 1917 – The “Silent Sentinels” first protested outside The White House, in Washington led by Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party
- 1944 – The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 ( GI Bill of Rights ) was passed by Congress.
- 1946 – The first General Assembly of the United Nations, comprising 51 nations, convened at Westminster Central Hall in London.
- 1949 – The first vinyl record (45 rpm) was introduced by RCA as Columbia released the first vinyl record at 33.3 rpm.
- 1953 – Pat Benatar an American singer-songwriter was born on this day.
- 1957 – Harold Macmillan accepted the Queen’s invitation to become British prime minister.
- 1958 – Jerry Lee Lewis’s “Great Balls of Fire” reached #1 on the UK pop charts.
- 1971 – One of the most famous fashion designers, Gabrielle “Choco” Chanel, died.
- 1974 – Secretary of State Henry Kissinger asked all oil-consuming nations to work together to increase oil supplies and solve the world’s energy shortage.
- 1985– An explosion caused by a gas blast killed eight people in a block of flats in Putney, south-west London.
- 1996- King Hussein of Jordan made his first public visit to Israel’s largest city, Tel Aviv, in the latest indication of the new diplomatic ties between both countries.
- 1999– “The Sopranos”, starring James Gandolfini as mobster Tony Soprano, debuted on HBO.
- 2004– A joint automobile venture was reported to be established in the Czech Republic.
- 2005– British Petroleum Company, sent 1.6 Mil GBP to Southeastern Asia to aid those who were affected by the earthquake and tsunami that occurred this month.
- 2007– The Transaero Russian airline, set out to commission a new airline.
- 2010– China set to become the world’s largest exporting nation.
- 2012– Scottish first minister, Alex Salmond, called for a referendum on Scottish independence to be held in 2014.
- 2013- A teacher and a campus supervisor, in California, successfully talked a student out of a shooting spree.
- 2014- Tel Aviv revealed a Holocaust Memorial dedicated to gay and lesbian victims, becoming the first city in Israel to do so.