Don't Miss Out: Iconic Events on January 10

From famous birthdays to historic events, see what happened on January 10 throughout history! Don't miss out on this fascinating look back in time.

49 BC Julius Caesar defies the Roman Senate and crosses the Rubicon, uttering "alea iacta est" (the die is cast), signaling the start of civil war which would lead to his appointment as Roman dictator for life
1776 "Common Sense" Pamphlet by Thomas Paine published, advocating American independence
1801 William Henry Harrison is appointed the first governor of the Indiana Territory
1811 Louisiana slaves rebel in 2 parishes
1861 Florida secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
1861 US forts & property seized by Mississippi
1863 1st underground railway opens in London
1870 Georgia legislature reconvenes after Supreme Court of Georgia ruled that elected African Americans who had been expelled had the right to hold office and were reinstated
1870 Standard Oil Company created by John D. Rockefeller (30%), his brother and other business partners. Then controlled about 10% of world oil.
1878 US Senate proposes female suffrage
1911 1st photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego
1917 Suffragettes the "Silent Sentinels" first protest outside The White House, in Washington led by Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party
1920 Inauguration of the League of Nations held in Paris
1923 Last US troops leave Rhineland (Germany)
1928 Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky
1932 "Mickey Mouse" & "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated
1946 UN General Assembly meets for the first time in London
1946 US Army bounces 1st radar signal off the Moon from Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey
1949 1st Jewish family show "Goldbergs" premieres on CBS
1949 RCA introduces 45 RPM record
1951 1st jet passenger trip made
1967 Edward W. Brooke (Sen-R-Mass), takes his seat as the 1st popularly elected African American to the US Senate
1967 PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network
1968 US Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho
1973 For the first time graduates studying from home with 'the Open University' receive their degrees
1990 China lifts martial law, imposed after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989
1990 NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players
1991 US Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis
1999 "The Sopranos", starring James Gandolfini as mobster Tony Soprano, debuts on HBO
2018 Jeff Bezos becomes the second man worth over $100 billion as his wealth hits $106 billion due to a rise in Amazon's share price
2021 America records more than 3,000 deaths a day for the first time reaching 3,249, passing 375,000 deaths in total a day later
2023 Prince Harry's memoir "Spare" goes on sale worldwide revealing controversial details of his upbringing and falling out with the British royal family