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10 January 2028

Holidays, observances, history and sky information for this date.

Holidays

No listed India public holiday for this date.

Observances

No UN observance in the current list for this date.

Selected anniversaries

Anniversary

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.

2007 general strike in Guinea

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Anniversary

1993 - The Braer Storm, the strongest extratropical cyclone ever recorded in the North Atlantic, reached peak intensity.

1993 Atlantic extratropical cyclone

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Anniversary

1985 - Sir Clive Sinclair launched the Sinclair C5 personal electric vehicle (pictured), "one of the great marketing bombs of postwar British industry", which later became a cult collectable despite its commercial failure.

English entrepreneur and inventor (1940–2021)

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Anniversary

1946 - The first session of the United Nations General Assembly convened at the Methodist Central Hall in London with representatives from 51 member states.

Intergovernmental organization organ

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Anniversary

1946 - The first session of the United Nations General Assembly convened in London with representatives from the original 51 member states.

UNGA begins in London

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Historical events

History

2019 - A 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is found alive in Gordon, Wisconsin, having been kidnapped 88 days earlier from her parents' home whilst they were murdered.

2018 double homicide and child abduction in Barron, Wisconsin

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2015 - A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and passenger coach en route to Shikarpur from Karachi on the Pakistan National Highway Link Road near Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Karachi, killing at least 62 people.

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2013 - More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in the Quetta area of Pakistan.

2013 terror attacks in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan

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2012 - A bombing at Jamrud in Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and injures 78 others.

2012 terror attack in northwest Pakistan

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History

2007 - A general strike begins in Guinea in an attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.

2007 general strike in Guinea

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History

2003 - North Korea withdraws from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, making it the first state to withdraw from the treaty.

Country in East Asia

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History

2000 - Crossair Flight 498, a Saab 340 aircraft, crashes in Niederhasli, Switzerland, after taking off from Zurich Airport, killing 13 people.

2000 aircraft accident in Switzerland

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History

1990 - Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.

American media conglomerate (1972–2022)

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History

1985 - Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba.

Nicaraguan socialist political party founded in 1961

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History

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.

Bilateral relations

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