American Revolution: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense. Thomas Paine was an English-born political thinker and writer whose ideas played a crucial role in…
Tag: 10 January
10 January 49 BC
Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war. Julius Caesar, one of ancient Rome’s most iconic figures, was a military general, statesman,…
10 January 1927
Fritz Lang’s futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany “Metropolis” is a classic German expressionist science-fiction film directed by Fritz Lang. Released in 1927, it…
10 January 1966
Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tashkent_Declaration’]
10 January 1870
John D Rockefeller starts Standard Oil. By the end of the American Civil War, Cleveland was one of the five main refining centers in the…
10 January 2015
At least 56 dies as the result of a mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involving beer that was deliberately contaminated with crocodile bile….
10 January 1861
During the American Civil War, Florida secedes from the Union. Florida joined the Confederate States of America at the beginning of the Civil War, as…