A general strike began in Guinea as an attempt to force President Lansana Conté to resign, eventually resulting in the appointment of two new prime ministers.
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A 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is found alive in Gordon, Wisconsin, having been kidnapped 88 days earlier from her parents' home whilst they were murdered.
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, killing at least 62 people.
More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in the Quetta area of Pakistan.
A bombing at Jamrud in Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and injures 78 others.
A general strike begins in Guinea in an attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.
“Study the past if you would define the future.”
One highlighted entry is from 2007: A general strike began in Guinea as an attempt to force President Lansana Conté to resign, eventually resulting in the appointment of two new prime ministers.
People listed for January 10 include Cesare Casadei (2003), Santi Aldama (2001), and Erik Botheim (2000).
Observances listed for January 10 include Christian feast day: Behnam, Sarah, and the Forty Martyrs (Armenian Apostolic Church), Christian feast day: Gregory of Nyssa, and Christian feast day: January 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
