Friday, January 10, 2014

History for January 10 - Burgers, Buns, Oil. Joke, Double Joke, Viny, Final, Snip, Nuke

History for January 10 - On-This-Day.com:

Happy Birthday! George Foreman, Rod Stewart


1870 - John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil.


1920 - The League of Nations held its first meeting in Geneva.



1946 - The first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly took place with 51 nations represented.



1949 - Vinyl records were introduced by RCA (45 rpm) and Columbia (33.3 rpm).



1990 - Chinese Premier Li Peng ended martial law in Beijing after seven months. He said that crushing pro-democracy protests had saved China from "the abyss of misery."



1994 - In Manassas, VA, Lorena Bobbitt went on trial. She had been charged with maliciously wounding her husband John. She was acquitted by reason of temporary insanity.



2003 - North Korea announced that it was withdrawing from the global nuclear arms control treaty and that it had no plans to develop nuclear weapons. 

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