Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 10
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January 10: Coming of Age Day (Japan, 2011)
- 1645 – William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury and a fervent supporter of King Charles I, was beheaded in the midst of the English Civil War.
- 1776 – Common Sense by Thomas Paine (pictured), a document denouncing British rule in the Thirteen Colonies, was published.
- 1941 – Greco-Italian War: The Greek army captured the strategically important Klisura Pass in Albania.
- 1946 – The first session of the United Nations General Assembly convened at the Westminster Central Hall in London with representatives from 51 member states.
- 1993 – The Braer Storm, the strongest extratropical cyclone ever recorded in the North Atlantic, reached its peak intensity.