On This Day:
Saturday January 10, 2015 This is the 10th day of the year, with 355 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: food dates "Sell by" tells the store how long to display the product for sale. You should buy this product before the date. "Best if used by" or "Best before" is a date recommended for best flavor or quality. It is not a purchase by or safety date. "Use by" is a date determined by the manufacturer as the last date recommended for use of the product at 'peak quality'. "Closed" or "coded" dates are packing numbers for use by the manufacturer.
Holidays Feast day of St. Marcian of Constantinople, St. William of Bourges, St. Agatho, pope, St. Dermot or Diarmaid, St. Peter Orseolo, and St. John the Good.
Events 1776 - Thomas Paine published "Common Sense," a scathing attack on King George III's reign over the colonies and a call for complete independence.
1861 - Florida seceded from the Union.
1870 - John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil.
1901 - The Texas oil boom started in Beaumont.
1920 - The League of Nations was established as the Covenant of the League of Nations/Treaty of Versailles went into effect and had its first meeting in Geneva.
1922 - Arthur Griffith, the founder of Sinn Féin and one of the architects of the 1921 peace treaty with Britain, was elected president of the newly established Irish Free State.
1923 - Four years after the end of World War I, President Warren G. Harding ordered U.S. occupation troops stationed in Germany to return home.
1928 - The Soviet Union and Josef Stalin ordered the exile of Leon Trotsky.
1946 - The first General Assembly of the United Nations convened at Westminster Central Hall in London.
1949 - Vinyl records were launched by RCA (45 rpm) and Columbia (33.3 rpm).
1971 - "Masterpiece Theatre" premiered on PBS with host Alistair Cooke introducing a drama series, "The First Churchills."
1984 - The United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations for the first time in 117 years.
2000 - America Online agreed to buy Time-Warner for $162 billion, making it the largest corporate merger to date.
2001 - American Airlines agreed to buy Trans World Airlines and, in a separate transaction, revealed plans to acquire 20% of US Airways.
Births 1864 - George Washington Carver, American chemist, agronomist.
Deaths 1971 - Coco (Gabrielle) Chanel, French fashion designer.
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