Portal:United States/Anniversaries/January/January 10
- 1901 – The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop (pictured) in Beaumont, Texas.
- 1920 – The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I. The United States entered the war in 1917.
- 1946 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the moon and receiving the reflected signals.
- 1962 – NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket. Better known as the Saturn V, the rocket would serve as the launch vehicle for every Apollo Project mission, including those that landed on the Moon.
- 1990 – Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.
- 2003 – Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois' death row after it is discovered that Chicago Police Department detective Jon Burge elicited several confessions through the use of torture. The move effectively ends the use of the death penalty in the state.