THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 2013

Today is Thursday, January 10, the 10th day of 2013. There are 355 days left in the year.

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

1776 ― ``Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published

1810 ― French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I & Josephine

1839 ― Tea from India first arrives in U.K.

1863 ― First underground railway opens in London

1928 ― Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky

1946 ― U.N. General Assembly convenes for first time (London)

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

1991 ― Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans

1994 ― Trial of Lorena Bobbitt who cut off her husband's penis, begins