Jan. 10, 1946, the first General Assembly of the United Nations convened in London.
Jan. 10, 1910, Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century, was born.
On This Date
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.
2000 - America Online agreed to buy Time-Warner for $162 billion. (Time-Warner decided to spin off AOL in 2009.)
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.
2007 - President George W. Bush announced he would send a "surge" of 21,500 U.S. forces to Iraq.
2010 - NBC announced a plan to move "The Jay Leno Show" from prime time to 11:35 p.m. Eastern time and push "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" back to 12:05 a.m. (O'Brien ended up leaving NBC, and Leno resumed hosting "Tonight.")