Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 10
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January 10: The Remembrance of Muharram in Shi'a Islam begins (2008, A.H. 1429).
- 1475 – Moldavian-Ottoman Wars: At the Battle of Vaslui near Vaslui in present-day Romania, Stephen the Great and his Moldavian forces successfully repelled an Ottoman attack led by Hadân Suleiman Pasha, the Beylerbeyi of Rumelia.
- 1776 – Common Sense by English pamphleteer and revolutionary Thomas Paine (pictured), a document denouncing British rule which contributed to stimulating the American Revolution among the populace of the Thirteen Colonies, was published.
- 1863 – Service began on the Metropolitan Railway between Paddington and Farringdon Street, now the oldest segment of the London Underground.
- 1929 – The Adventures of Tintin, a series of comic books created by Belgian artist Hergé that has been sold in over 50 languages and more than 200 million copies to date, first appeared in a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle.
- 1946 – The first session of the United Nations General Assembly convened at the Westminster Central Hall in London with representatives from fifty-one member states.
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