MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 2011

Today is Monday, January 10, the 10th day of 2011. There are 355 days left in the year.

49 B.C. _ Julius Cesar crosses the Rubicon, invades Italy

1430 _ Duke Philip the Good marries Isabella of Portugal

1810 _ French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I and Josephine

1845 _ Poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning begin corresponding

1920 _ League of Nations' first meeting, Treaty of Versailles in effect

1928 _ Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky

1951 _ First jet passenger trip made

1951 _ U.N. headquarters opens in Manhattan, N.Y.

1990 _ China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre)

1991 _ Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans