https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_10
49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.
1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil
1901 – The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
1920 – The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I for all combatant nations except the United States.
1927 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
1946 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
1990 – Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.
- 1843 – Frank James, American soldier and criminal (d. 1915)
Also Bernard Lee, director Walter Hill, and actor William Sanderson.
- A burning gusher
- Smoke above a burning oil well, Jennings, La.
- c1902.
- https://www.loc.gov/item/2002706258/
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