Wednesday, January 10, 2024

History for January 10

History for January 10 - On-This-Day.com 
George Foreman 1949 - Boxer
  • 1776 - "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine was published.
  • 1870 - John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 2019 - In Venezuela, Juan Guaidó and the National Assembly declared incumbent President Nicolás Maduro "illegitimate" and started the process of attempting to remove him from office.

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