On This Day:
Tuesday January 10, 2012
This is the 10th day of the year, with 356 days remaining
in 2012.
Fact of the Day: food dates
"Sell by" tells the store how long to display the product
for sale. You should buy this product before the date. "Best
if used by" or "Best before" is a date recommended for best
flavor or quality. It is not a purchase by or safety date.
"Use by" is a date determined by the manufacturer as the
last date recommended for use of the product at 'peak
quality'. "Closed" or "coded" dates are packing numbers for
use by the manufacturer.
Holidays
Feast day of St. Marcian of Constantinople, St. William of
Bourges, St. Agatho, pope, St. Dermot or Diarmaid, St. Peter
Orseolo, and St. John the Good.
Events
1776
- Thomas
Paine published "Common
Sense," a scathing attack on King
George III's reign over the colonies and a call for
complete independence.
1861
- Florida
seceded from the Union.
1870
- John
D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard
Oil.
1901
- The Texas
oil boom started in Beaumont.
1920
- The League
of Nations was established as the Covenant
of the League of Nations/Treaty
of Versailles went into effect and had its first
meeting in Geneva.
1922
- Arthur
Griffith, the founder of Sinn
Féin and one of the architects of the 1921 peace
treaty with Britain, was elected president of the newly
established Irish
Free State.
1923
- Four years after the end of World
War I, President Warren
G. Harding ordered U.S. occupation troops stationed in
Germany
to return home.
1928
- The Soviet
Union and Josef
Stalin ordered the exile of Leon
Trotsky.
1946
- The first General Assembly of the United
Nations convened at Westminster Central Hall in London.
1949
- Vinyl records were launched by RCA
(45 rpm) and Columbia
(33.3 rpm).
1971
- "Masterpiece
Theatre" premiered on PBS
with host Alistair
Cooke introducing a drama series, "The
First Churchills."
1984
- The United
States and the Vatican
established full diplomatic relations for the first time in
117 years.
2000
- America
Online agreed to buy Time-Warner
for $162 billion, making it the largest corporate merger to
date.
2001
- American
Airlines agreed to buy Trans
World Airlines and, in a separate transaction,
revealed plans to acquire 20% of US
Airways.
Births
1864
- George
Washington Carver, American chemist, agronomist.
Deaths
1971
- Coco
(Gabrielle) Chanel, French fashion designer.
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