Unix Timestamp: 1073692800
Saturday, January 10. 2004, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Universities and schools in Tunisia are closed following unrest, as President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali says a further 300,000 jobs would be created. //www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE7091ZB20110110 (Reuters) //www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hB-pk_CIvDDEAuGDd7cWeWpH5tAg?docId=CNG.a7256a3419e3e3b03b8d1b50e17ae892.c81 (AFP) //english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/01/201111016239214548.html (Al Jazeera)

A boat carrying eight Somali pirates from the freed supertanker MV "Sirius Star" capsizes in the Gulf of Aden, causing the deaths of five and the loss of their portion of US$3 million in ransom. //www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/piracy/4213168/Somali-pirates-drown-with-ransom-after-freeing-Saudi-supertanker.html (Telegraph)

The INS registration deadline for males in the United States aged 16 and older from Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Eritrea, Lebanon, Morocco, North Korea, Oman, Qatar, Somalia, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. A controversial Bush administration policy designed to capture terrorists requires all such men to submit to special registration procedures consisting of fingerprinting, photographing, and lengthy interviews concerning their whereabouts, associations, and activities.

North Korea formally withdraws from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

Enrique Bolaños begins his 5-year term as President of the Republic of Nicaragua.

America Online announces an agreement to purchase Time Warner for $162 billion (the largest-ever corporate merger).

The trawler "Solway Harvester" sinks off the Isle of Man.//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/603558.stm BBC News | SCOTLAND | Solway Harvester: A tale of tragedy. Retrieved 19 November 2007.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 11,722.98 (at the peak of the Dot-com bubble).

America On-line announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion. This is the largest-ever corporate merger.

A United Nations tribunal sentences 5 Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of over 100 Bosnian Muslims in a Bosnian village.//edition.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/03/03/war.crimes.bosnia.02 CNN.com ndash World ndash War crimes tribunal hands Croat general lengthy sentence ndash March 3, 2000. Retrieved 19 November 2007.

The armed wing of the Islamic Salvation Front concludes its negotiations with the government for an amnesty and disbands in Algeria (see Algerian Civil War#GIA destroyed, GSPC discontinues)

Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.

In accordance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 626 and the New York Accords, Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola.

Kenya recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).

The lowest ever United Kingdom temperature of is recorded at Braemar, in Aberdeenshire. This equals the record set in the same place in 1895 (the record is equalled again at Altnaharra in 1995).

Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments.

Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, a critic of the Nicaraguan government, is assassinated. Riots erupt against Somoza's government.

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns Bangladesh from Pakistan

Segregationist Lester Maddox is sworn in as Governor of Georgia.

"Introducing...the Beatles" is released by Chicago's Vee-Jay Records to get the jump on Capitol Records' release of "Meet the Beatles!", scheduled for January 20. The two record companies fight over Vee-Jay's release of this album in court.

An avalanche on Nevado Huascarán in Peru causes 4,000 deaths.

British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan makes the Wind of Change speech for the first time (see February 3).

Harold Macmillan becomes the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue and crashes in the Mediterranean Sea near Elba. All 35 people on board are killed.

The United Nations takes control of the free city of Trieste.

WWII: The last German air-raid on Liverpool destroys the home of William Patrick Hitler, Adolf Hitler's nephew. William Hitler is at this time in the United States where he later joins the navy to fight against his uncle.

Lend-Lease is introduced into the U.S. Congress.

WWII: Mechelen Incident: A German plane carrying secret plans for the invasion of western Europe makes a forced landing in Belgium, leading to mobilization of defense forces in the Low Countries.

Marinus van der Lubbe is executed in Germany.

First appearance of Hergé's Belgiancomic book hero Tintin as "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets" ("Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter..., au pays des Soviets"), begins serialization in children's newspaper supplement "Le Petit Vingtième".

The British submarine "L-24" sinks in the English Channel 43 are killed.

Poland annexes the Republic of Central Lithuania

Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éireann.

League of Nations Covenant enters into force.

January 12 ndash The Freikorps attacks Spartacist supporters around Berlin, Germany.

Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa's troops take Ojinaga in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.

January 20 ndash The first aviation meet to be held in the United States, the 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field, is held near Los Angeles, California.

The Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity is founded at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois.

A fire at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee kills 73 people.

John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.

Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu declares the emperor's declaration illegal and prepares to attack Kyoto.

In the Swiss Canton Ticino, the roof of the church of Sant'Antonio in Locarno collapses under the weight of snow, killing 47.ref name=Resoconto/

The first section of the London Underground Railway (Paddington to Farringdon Street) opens.

American Civil War ndash Battle of Arkansas Post: General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.

John Gately Downey, 7th Governor of California, is succeeded by Amasa Leland Stanford.

American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union.

The Pemberton Mill collapses in Lawrence, Massachusetts, killing 145 workers.

Ezequiel Zamora, leader of the Federalist Army in Venezuela, was assassinated.

Uniform Penny Post is introduced in the United Kingdom.

A fire destroys Lloyd's Coffee House and the Royal Exchange in London.

A fire destroys Lloyd\'s Coffee House and the Royal Exchange in London.

Peninsular War: French Marshal Jean Lannes begins the Siege of Zaragoza.

The Dutch in Cape Town surrender to the British.

The Treaty of Hopewell is signed between the United States of America and the Chickasaw Nation.

February ndash In America, Mardi Gras is celebrated one more time with "Masque de la Mobile" in the capital of French Louisianne, Mobile (Alabama), before Mobile is moved 27 miles (43 km) down the Mobile River to Mobile Bay in 1711.

Abraham Darby I successfully produces cast iron using coke fuel at his Coalbrookdaleblast furnace in Shropshire, England.

The Royal African Company is granted a Royal Charter by Charles II of England.ref name=Cassell's Chronology

Archbishop of CanterburyWilliam Laud is executed for treason on Tower Hill, London.

Sir Thomas Roe, emissary from the court of King James I of England, presents his credentials to the Mughal Emperor Jahangir, in Ajmer Fort, thus opening the door to the British presence in India.Jehângïr's period of stay at Ajmer was from 5 Shawwäl 1022 to 1 Zil-qä'da 1025 equivalent to November 8, 1613 to October 31, 1616. Roe sailed in the "Lyon" under the command of captain Christopher Newport, best known for his role in the Virginia colonies.

Battle of Vaslui: Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire, which was led at that time by Mehmed II, the conqueror of Constantinople.

Philip the Good marries Isabella of Portugal.

Hussite Wars: Battle of Deutschbrod: The Hussites defeat 2,000 Royalist Crusaders.

The Normans conquer Palermo in Sicily.

Basil II becomes Eastern Roman Emperor (see Byzantine Emperors).

Brian Boru is inaugurated as King of Munster.

Samuil of Bulgaria starts his reign as Tsar.

Leopold of Babenberg is appointed as Margrave of Austria. The Babenberg family rules Austria until 1246.

The Yuelu Academy is founded during the early Song Dynasty of China.

Zhang Sixun, a Chinese astronomer and engineer, employs the use of liquid mercury in order for the escapement mechanism of his astronomicalclock to function and for metal parts not to rust by using hydraulics (water) or to freeze in winter.

K\'inich Kan B\'alam II accedes to the rulership of the Maya polity of Palenque.

Pope Fabian succeeds Pope Anterus as the twentieth pope.

Fabian separates Rome into seven deaconships.

Fabian sends seven missionaries to Gaul to evangelize in the large cities.

Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is adopted by Galba and appointed to deputy Roman Emperor.