Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 10

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 * AD 9 – The Western Han dynasty of China ended after the throne was usurped by Wang Mang, who founded the Xin dynasty.
 * 976 – After the death of his guardian John I Tzimiskes, Basil II became the effective ruler and senior emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
 * 1430 – Philip the Good established the Order of the Golden Fleece, referred to as the most prestigious, exclusive, and expensive order of chivalry in the world.
 * 1475 – Moldavian–Ottoman Wars: Stephen the Great led Moldavian forces to defeat an Ottoman attack under Hadım Suleiman Pasha near Vaslui in present-day Romania.
 * 1776 – Common Sense, a pamphlet by Thomas Paine denouncing British rule in the Thirteen Colonies, was published.
 * 1863 – Service began on the Metropolitan Railway (construction depicted) between Paddington and Farringdon Street, today the oldest segment of the London Underground.
 * 1901 – The first great gusher of the Texas oil boom was discovered in the Spindletop oil field near Beaumont.
 * 1917 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the Ross Sea party were rescued after being stranded for several months.
 * 1923 – Lithuanian residents of the Klaipėda Region began a revolt, ahead of a League of Nations decision on their future which they expected to be against their interest.
 * 1927 – The science fiction film Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang, was released in Germany.
 * 1941 – Greco-Italian War: The Greek army captured the strategically important Klisura Pass in Albania.
 * 1946 – The first session of the United Nations General Assembly convened at the Methodist Central Hall in London with representatives from 51 member states.
 * 1966 – India and Pakistan signed the Tashkent Declaration to end the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965.
 * 1985 – Sir Clive Sinclair launched the Sinclair C5 personal electric vehicle, "one of the great marketing bombs of postwar British industry", which later became a cult collectable despite its commercial failure.
 * 2007 – A general strike began in Guinea as an attempt to force President Lansana Conté to resign, eventually resulting in the appointment of two new prime ministers.
 * Born/died this day: | Husayn ibn Ali |b|626| Hugh I of Cyprus |d|1218| Carl Linnaeus |d|1778|  Leleiohoku II |b|1855| Katharine Burr Blodgett |b|1898|  Joseph Massino |b|1943 | Kalki Koechlin |b|1984|Tao Li|b|1990 | David Bowie|d|2016