January 10 Historical Events

The following events took place on January 10. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 41 events. Showing 31 - 41.

• 1985
  Sir Clive Sinclair launches the Sinclair C5 personal electric vehicle, which became a notorious commercial failure and later a cult collector’s item.
• 1985
  Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
• 1990
  Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.
• 1999
  Sanjeev Nanda kills three policemen in New Delhi, India with his car, an act for which he was later acquitted, resulting in a sharp drop in public confidence in the Indian legal system.
• 2005
  A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing U.S. Route 101, the main coastal corridor between Los Angeles and San Francisco for 10 days.
• 2007
  A general strike begins in Guinea in an eventually successful attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.
• 2011
  2010–11 Queensland floods: Torrential rain in the Lockyer Valley region of South East Queensland, Australia, causes severe flash flooding, killing 9 people.
• 2012
  A bombing in Khyber Agency, Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and 78 others injured.
• 2013
  More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan.
• 2015
  A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involves beer that was deliberately contaminated with crocodile bile leaving at least 56 dead and nearly 200 hospitalized.
• 2015
  A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and passenger coach en route to Shikarpur from Karachi on the Pakistan National Highway Link Road near Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Karachi, kills at least 62 people.