History for January 10 - On-This-Day.com
Ethan Allen 1738, Ray Bolger 1904, Jim Croce 1943
Rod Stewart 1945, George Foreman 1949, Pat Benatar 1953
1928 - The Soviet Union ordered the exile of Leon Trotsky.
1946 - The first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly took place with 51 nations represented.
1951 - Donald Howard Rogers piloted the first passenger jet on a trip from Chicago to New York City.
1971 - "Masterpiece Theatre" premiered on PBS with host Alistair Cooke. The introduction drama series was "The First Churchills."
1981 - In El Salvador, Marxist insurgents launched a "final offensive".
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.
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