TODAY in HISTORY

Today is Wednesday, January 10, the 10th day of 2018. There are 355 days left in the year.

1645 Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London. 1776 Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense. 1791 The Siege of Dunlap's Station begins near Cincinnati during the Northwest Indian War. 1806 Two British brigades occupy Cape Town after the Battle of Blaauwberg. 1861 American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union.

1863 The Metropolitan Railway, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between Paddington and Farringdon, marking the beginning of the London Underground. 1870 John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.

1901 The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas. 1916 World War I: In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire. 1920 The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I. 1927 Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany. 1941 World War II: The Greek Army captures Kleisoura.

1946 The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.

1954 BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH. 106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea, killing 35 people. 1962 Apollo programme: Nasa announces plans to build the C- 5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission. 1966 Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. 1972 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as President after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.

1984 Holy See- United States relations: The United States and Holy See ( Vatican City) re- establish full diplomatic relations after almost 117 years, overturning the United States Congress's 1867 ban on public funding for such a diplomatic envoy.

1990 Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications. 2007 A general strike begins in Guinea in an attempt to get President Lansana Conte to resign. 2012 A bombing in Khyber Agency, Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and 78 others injured. 2013 More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan.

2015 A traffic accident in Karachi kills at least 62 people.