Sunday, January 10, 2016

10 January - History and Importance of the Day




49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
1645 – Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London.
1863 -  London underground tube system opened for public. 150th anniversary celebrated 10 January 2013
1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
1912 - World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in NY)
1944 - 1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Philadelphia
1946 – The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
1951 - 1st jet passenger trip made
1972 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.




Birthdays - Nobel Prize Winners

1916 Sune K. Bergstrom
1936 Robert Woodrow Wilson








10 January Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management


History of Day - Films - English - Hindi - Telugu

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