History for January 10

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Walter Hill 1941 - Movie director

• 1776 - "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine was published.
• 1870 - John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil.
• 1920 - The League of Nations ratified the Treaty of Versailles, officially ending World War I with Germany.
• 1946 - The first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly took place with 51 nations represented.
• 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.