Saturday, January 10th
The 010th day of 2009.
There are 355 days left in the year.
Today's Highlights in History
On Jan. 10, 1946, the first General Assembly of the United Nations convened in London.
On Jan. 10, 1910, Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century, was born.
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On this date in:
1776 - Thomas Paine published the pamphlet "Common Sense."
1861 - Florida seceded from the Union.
1863 - London's Metropolitan, the world's first underground passenger railway, opened to the public.
1870 - John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil.
1920 - The League of Nations was established as the Treaty of Versailles went into effect.
1957 - Harold Macmillan became prime minister of Great Britain following the resignation of Anthony Eden.
1964 - The Beatles' first album in the United States, "Introducing the Beatles," was released.
1967 - Republican Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts, the first black elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote, took his seat.
1971 - "Masterpiece Theatre" premiered on PBS.
1984 - The United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations for the first time in more than a century.
2000 - America Online agreed to buy Time-Warner for $162 billion.
2003 - North Korea withdrew from a global treaty barring it from making nuclear weapons.
2005 - CBS issued a damning independent review of mistakes related to a "60 Minutes Wednesday" report on President George W. Bush's National Guard service and fired three news executives and a producer for their "myopic zeal" in rushing it to air.
2006 - Iran resumed nuclear research two years after halting the work to avoid possible U.N. economic sanctions. The move was denounced by the United States and European governments.
2007 - President George W. Bush announced he would send 21,500 additional U.S. forces to Iraq in an effort to quell violence there.
2008 - The United States lodged a formal diplomatic protest with Iran over an incident in which Iranian speedboats harassed U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf.