January 10th
Today in America's Present Past
1607 | Missionary explorer Isaac Jogues was born.
1776 | Thomas Paine publishes “Common Sense.”
1791 | Indian Wars: The Siege of Dunlap’s Station begins.
1812 | The first steamboat traverses the Ohio to Mississippi Rivers after departing Pittsburgh.
1842 | SCOTUS: Justice Peter Daniels is sworn in.
1843 | Outlaw Frank James was born.
1861 | Civil War: Florida becomes the third state to secede.
1862 | Entrepreneur Samuel Colt died.
1863 | Religious Leader Lyman Beecher died.
1870 | Entrepreneur John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
