Today in History for Jan. 10:
In A.D. 236, Fabian was elected pope of the early Christian Church. He served until 250, when he became the first martyr under Decius, the emperor who initiated the Roman Empire-wide persecution of Christians.
In 1645, William Laud, archbishop of Canterbury and a persecutor of the Puritans during the reign of King Charles I, was executed in the Tower of London for treason.
In 1776, Thomas Paine anonymously published his influential pamphlet, "Common Sense."
In 1799, residents of Lower sa国际传媒 (now Quebec) celebrated their first Thanksgiving.
In 1810, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, divorced his wife, Josephine.
In 1815, Britain prohibited American citizens from settling in sa国际传媒.
In 1840, the Penny Post was introduced in Britain by Rowland Hill.
In 1842, Sir Charles Bagot arrived in Upper sa国际传媒 to take up his post as governor general of British North America.
In 1850, explorers Robert McClure and Richard Collinson began the extensive search for the Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin and his expedition. It has been described as the greatest search mission in the history of exploration. While looking for Franklin, the expedition discovered the Northwest Passage. It is likely that Franklin found it first, but none of his crew lived to report the discovery.
In 1863, the London Underground, the oldest subway system in the world, opened. The first trains -- using steam locomotives that burned coke and later coal -- began running from Paddington to Farringdon in the City of London, totalling seven stops over 6.4 kilometres.
In 1882, O. P. Brigg, an American, received a patent for barbed wire.
In 1901, a gusher at Beaumont, Texas, started the great Texas oil boom.
In 1910, Henri Bourassa published "Le Devoir" in Montreal.
In 1917, American plainsman, scout and showman William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, died at age 70.
In 1918, the U.S. House of Representatives voted for female suffrage.
In 1920, the "Treaty of Versailles," ending the First World War, took effect. The Treaty also established the League of Nations, at which sa国际传媒 and the other British Dominions could speak for themselves on international affairs. The United States never joined the League, which was replaced after the Second World War by the United Nations.
In 1942, the Quebec Bar admitted its first female lawyers, Elizabeth Monk and Suzanne Filion.
In 1946, the United Nations General Assembly met for the first time in London.
In 1946, the first man-made contact with the Moon was made as radar signals were bounced off the lunar surface.
In 1951, the world's first jet passenger trip took place as an Avro jetliner flew from Chicago to New York in 102 minutes.
In 1957, Harold Macmillan became prime minister of Britain, following the resignation of Anthony Eden.
In 1967, Massachusetts Republican Edward W. Brooke, the first black elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote, took his seat.
In 1969, the "Saturday Evening Post" ceased publishing after 147 years.
In 1972, the former passenger liner "Queen Elizabeth" was destroyed by fire in Hong Kong Harbour.
In 1977, sa国际传媒 expelled five Cubans, including three diplomats, following an RCMP spy investigation.
In 1978, the Soviet Union launched two cosmonauts aboard the "Soyuz 27" capsule for a rendezvous with the "Salyut 6" space laboratory.
In 1984, the United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations for the first time in more than a century.
In 1985, Daniel Ortega was inaugurated as president of Nicaragua.
In 1989, Cuba began withdrawing its troops from Angola, more than 13 years after its first contingents arrived.
In 1990, Chinese premier Li Peng announced the lifting of martial law in Beijing.
In 1994, U.S. President Bill Clinton announced at a NATO meeting in Brussels that Ukraine, the world's third most powerful nuclear-armed state, was set to give up its warheads and intercontinental missiles in a three-way deal with the United States and Russia.
In 1996, King Hussein of Jordan arrived in Tel Aviv on his first official visit to Israel.
In 1999, Walter Harris, the federal finance minister who introduced RRSPs, died at age 94.
In 2000, America Online proposed a $160 billion takeover of Time Warner Inc. which would create the largest corporate merger in history. (The Federal Communications Commission approved the merger in January 2001.)
In 2002, James Bartleman, a member of the Minjikanig First Nation, became the first native lieutenant-governor of Ontario.
In 2003, North Korea withdrew from a nuclear arms control treaty.
In 2004, police seized the biggest indoor marijuana operation ever found in sa国际传媒 at a closed-down Molson's brewery in Barrie, Ont.
In 2007, U.S. President George W. Bush acknowledged that his strategy in Iraq had not been working as he announced a new plan to deploy another 20,000 American soldiers and spend billions more dollars.
In 2008, India's Tata Motors unveiled the world's cheapest car. The "Nana" was priced at only US$2,500.
In 2008, on his first trip to the West Bank, U.S. President George W. Bush called on Israel to end its 40-year-old occupation of Palestinian territories and to compensate Palestinian refugees.
In 2010, leftist opposition candidate Ivo Josipovic won Croatia's presidency in an election run-off.
In 2010, "The Simpsons" became the longest-running comedy in television history, marking its 20th anniversary as a series with its 450th episode, "Once Upon a Time in Springfield." It also tied "Gunsmoke" and "The Red Skelton Show" for most consecutive seasons of a scripted series.
In 2011, the publisher of Playboy magazine announced it agreed to a sweetened offer by founder Hugh Hefner, valued at $207 million, to take the company private.
In 2012, four of five people aboard a Keystone Air Service plane were killed in a fiery landing at the North Spirit Lake First Nation, around 400 kilometres north of Dryden, Ont.
In 2019, Liberal MP Scott Brison announced he was quitting the political career he loved to spend more time with his husband and twin girls. After 22 years representing the Nova Scotia riding of Kings-Hants 鈥� initially as a Progressive Conservative MP before jumping to the Liberals in 2003 鈥� Brison said it was time for a change and he would not be seeking re-election. Brison also stepped down as president of the Treasury Board.
In 2019, a group of coworkers at an Ontario automotive parts plant came forward as the winners of a $60-million lottery jackpot. The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. said they worked the same shift on an assembly line in Guelph. Their winning ticket was drawn on Dec. 21, 2018. Eight of the nine described themselves as immigrants.
In 2020, Newfoundland and Labrador's John Crosbie, an outspoken former federal cabinet minister, passed away at the age of 88. Crosbie's family confirmed he died following a period of declining health. Known as much for his sharp wit as for his politics, Crosbie ran for the party's leadership in 1983 but lost to Brian Mulroney. He later served as fisheries minister in Mulroney's cabinet, and oversaw the closure of the commercial cod fishery in Atlantic sa国际传媒 鈥� a move that put thousands of people in his home province out of work.
In 2022, an Australian judge reinstated tennis star Novak Djokovic's visa, which was cancelled the previous week because he was unvaccinated against COVID-19. However, that didn't guarantee Djokovic would be able to play in the following week's Australian Open. A government lawyer said the minister for immigration, citizenship, migrant services and multicultural affairs would consider whether to exercise a personal power of cancellation of the visa, which meant Djokovic could again face deportation.
In 2022, ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to four more years in prison after a court found her guilty of illegally importing and possessing walkie-talkies and violating coronavirus restrictions. Suu Kyi was convicted the previous month on two other charges and given a four-year prison sentence, which was then halved by the head of the military-installed government. About a dozen charges had been brought against the 76-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate since the army seized power the previous February, overthrowing her elected government.
In 2024, a study published in the journal Nature suggested a sharp decline in spring snowpack across large parts of the Northern Hemisphere, including parts of Ontario and Quebec, was the result of human-caused climate change. Researchers at New Hampshire's Dartmouth College said their study indicates anthropocentric climate change was responsible for a seven-per-cent drop in March snowpack per decade over 40 years.
In 2024, today was the 25th anniversary of the first episode of the popular HBO series The Sopranos, which premiered on Jan. 10, 1999. In honour of the anniversary, the show posted 25-second long recaps of all of its episodes on TikTok.
In 2024, CBC radio services were restored after programming across the country was brought down by what the public broadcaster called a major server failure. CBC said the problem with its ability to produce and broadcast radio content started early in the morning, but was resolved in the afternoon.
In 2024, Air sa国际传媒 was investigating after a passenger who boarded a flight to Dubai at Toronto's Pearson Airport earlier in the week opened a door and fell onto the tarmac.
In 2024, a judge in Nevada set bail at $750,000 for a former Los Angeles-area gang leader charged with orchestrating the 1996 killing of hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur. The judge said at a bail hearing the day before in Las Vegas that Duane "Keffe D" Davis can serve house arrest ahead of his trial.
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The Canadian Press