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Empress Joséphine of France
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Empress Joséphine of France
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Empress Joséphine of France
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Stephen the Great of Moldavia
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Lucas gusher at the Spindletop oil field
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William Laud
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Carl Linnaeus
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Construction of the Metropolitan Railway
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Sinclair C5
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| Traditional Day in Benin | stub |
| 49 BC – Julius Caesar and his Thirteenth Legion crossed the Rubicon in violation of Roman law, starting a civil war. | Rubicon: refimprove; Civil War: unreferenced section |
| 1645 – William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury and a supporter of King [[Charles I of England|Template:Nowrap]], was beheaded in the midst of the English Civil War. | refimprove section |
| 1810 – Childless after 14 years of marriage, Napoleon divorced his first wife Joséphine so he could remarry in the hope of having an heir. | unreferenced section |
| 1954 – BOAC Flight 781 suffered an explosive decompression at altitude and crashed into the Mediterranean Sea, killing everyone on board. | unreferenced section |
| 2004 – Helge Fossmo, the village pastor of Knutby, Sweden, orchestrated the murders of his wife and his neighbour, a crime that shocked the country. | multiple uncited sentences & "a crime that shocked the country" is quite tabloidy, carries little real meaning, and – perhaps most importantly – is neither sourced nor mentioned in the article |
| Pope Miltiades |d|314| | Deathdate uncertain |
| Issai Schur |bd|1875; 1941| | Too much uncited |
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- AD 9 – The Western Han dynasty of China ended after the throne was usurped by Wang Mang, who founded the Xin dynasty.
- 976 – After the death of his guardian [[John I Tzimiskes|Template:Nowrap Tzimiskes]], [[Basil II|Template:Nowrap]] became the effective ruler and senior emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1430 – Philip the Good established the Order of the Golden Fleece, referred to as the most prestigious, exclusive, and expensive order of chivalry in the world.
- 1475 – Moldavian–Ottoman Wars: Stephen the Great led Moldavian forces to defeat an Ottoman attack under Hadım Suleiman Pasha near Vaslui in present-day Romania.
- 1776 – Common Sense, a pamphlet by Thomas Paine denouncing British rule in the Thirteen Colonies, was published.
- 1863 – Service began on the Metropolitan Railway (construction depicted) between Paddington and Farringdon Street, today the oldest segment of the London Underground.
- 1901 – The first great gusher of the Texas oil boom was discovered in the Spindletop oil field near Beaumont.
- 1917 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the Ross Sea party were rescued after being stranded for several months.
- 1923 – Lithuanian residents of the Klaipėda Region began a revolt, ahead of a League of Nations decision on their future which they expected to be against their interest.
- 1927 – The science fiction film Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang, was released in Germany.
- 1941 – Greco-Italian War: The Greek army captured the strategically important Klisura Pass in Albania.
- 1946 – The first session of the United Nations General Assembly convened at the Methodist Central Hall in London with representatives from 51 member states.
- 1966 – India and Pakistan signed the Tashkent Declaration to end the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965.
- 1985 – Sir Clive Sinclair launched the [[Sinclair C5|Template:Nowrap]] personal electric vehicle, "one of the great marketing bombs of postwar British industry", which later became a cult collectable despite its commercial failure.
- 2007 – A general strike began in Guinea as an attempt to force President Lansana Conté to resign, eventually resulting in the appointment of two new prime ministers.
- Born/died this day: | Husayn ibn Ali |b|626| Template:Nowrap |d|1218| Carl Linnaeus |d|1778| Leleiohoku II |b|1855| Template:Nowrap |b|1898| Joseph Massino |b|1943| Rod Stewart |b|1945| Kalki Koechlin |b|1984| Emily Meade |b|1989| Tao Li|b|1990| Ba Mamadou Mbaré|d|2013| David Bowie|d2016|
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- The American Crisis appears on December 19, so Common Sense should not appear soon after
January 10: Tenth of Tevet (Judaism, 2025) Template:Main page image/OTD
- 236 – Pope Fabian, said to have been chosen by the Holy Spirit when a dove landed on his head, began his papacy.
- 1812 – New Orleans (pictured), the first steamship on the Mississippi River, arrived at New Orleans to complete its maiden voyage.
- 1929 – Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, the first volume of The Adventures of Tintin by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé, began serialisation.
- 1993 – The Braer Storm, the strongest extratropical cyclone ever recorded in the North Atlantic, reached peak intensity.
- 2003 - North Korea withdraws from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, making it the first state to withdraw from the treaty.