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On This Day Highlights From January 10 History
January 10 marks key events across years including Thomas Paine’s Common Sense in 1776, the 1860 Pemberton Mill disaster in Lawrence, mass deaths, 1861 Florida secession, Rockefeller in 1870, Lucas Gusher at Spindletop in 1901, League of Nations 1920, UN 1946, Peru avalanche 1962, McCormack as House Speaker, Masterpiece Theatre debut, Coco Chanel death, Paul Lynde death, Guantanamo transfers, Enron collapse context, Bush Iraq surge, minimum wage rise vote, Jared Loughner court appearance, and DeLay prison sentence.
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Thomas Paine
Pemberton
Lawrence
Mass
Scotland
Ireland
Florida
Samuel Colt
Hartford
Conn
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil
Beaumont
Texas
League of Nations
General Assembly of the United Nations
Ndon
Peru
John W. McCormack
House
Samuel T. Rayburn
PBS
Alistair Cooke
Coco Chanel
Paris
Paul Lynde
Beverly Hills
Calif
Afghanistan
U.S
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
White House
Enron Corp
George W. Bush
Iraq
Jared Loughner
Gabrielle Giffords
Phoenix
Austin
U.S. House
Tom DeLay
DeLay
Associated Press