Ingenpedia:OnThisDay/January 10, 2021

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 * 9 – The Western Han dynasty of China ended after the throne was usurped by Wang Mang, who founded the Xin dynasty.
 * 236 – Pope Fabian, who is said to have been chosen by the Holy Spirit by having a dove land on his head, began his papacy.
 * 1475 – Moldavian–Ottoman Wars: Stephen the Great led Moldavian forces to defeat an Ottoman attack under Hadım Suleiman Pasha near Vaslui in what is now Romania.
 * 1776 – Common Sense, a pamphlet by Thomas Paine denouncing British rule in the Thirteen Colonies, was published.
 * 1863 – Service began on the Metropolitan Railway between Paddington and Farringdon Street, today the oldest segment of the London Underground.
 * 1923 – Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebelled against the League of Nations decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
 * 1927 – The science fiction film Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang, was released in Germany.
 * 1941 – Greco-Italian War: The Greek army captured the strategically important Klisura Pass in Albania.
 * 1966 – India and Pakistan signed the Tashkent Declaration to end the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
 * 1993 – The Braer Storm, the strongest extratropical cyclone ever recorded in the North Atlantic, reached its peak intensity.
 * 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.
 * Born/died this day: Pope Miltiades (d. 314)· Carl Linnaeus (d. 1778)· Francisco Ferrer (b. 1859)· Issai Schur (b. 1875; d. 1941)· Har Gobind Khorana (b. 1922)· Kalki Koechlin (b. 1984)· Yip Pin Xiu (b. 1992)