WHAT HAPPENED ON 10. JANUARY
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The Adventures of Tintin, one of the most popular European comic books, is first published in Belgium. (10. January 1929)

World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura. (10. January 1941)

The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented. (10. January 1946)

The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the moon and receiving the reflected signals. (10. January 1946)

BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people. (10. January 1954)

Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle. It became better known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission. (10. January 1962)

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan. (10. January 1972)

Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments (10. January 1981)

Holy See–United States relations: The United States and Holy See (Vatican City) re-establish full diplomatic relations after almost 117 years, overturning Congress's 1867 ban on public funding for such a diplomatic envoy. (10. January 1984)

Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government. (10. January 1985)

Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications. (10. January 1990)

Sanjeev Nanda kills three policemen in New Delhi, India with his car, an act for which he was later acquitted, resulting in a sharp drop in public confidence in the Indian legal system. (10. January 1999)

A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing U.S. Route 101, the main coastal corridor between Los Angeles and San Francisco for 10 days. (10. January 2005)

A general strike begins in Guinea in an eventually successful attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign. (10. January 2007)

2010–2011 Queensland floods: Torrential rain in the Lockyer Valley region of South East Queensland, Australia causes severe flash flooding, killing 9 people. (10. January 2011)

A bombing in Khyber Agency, Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and 78 others injured. (10. January 2012)

More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan. (10. January 2013)