The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on September 22, 1862, and put into effect on January 1, 1863, declared free the slaves in 10 states not then under Union control, with exemptions specified for areas already under Union control in two states.

Industrial output was relatively positive throughout 2010, with year-on-year average growth of 10. 9 percent in the period January to September 2010, due largely to the mining sector where higher global demand for commodities led to higher prices.

André-Marie Ampère ( 20 January 1775 – 10 June 1836 ) was a French physicist and mathematician who is generally regarded as one of the main founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as " electrodynamics ".

The song quickly gained popularity and an amended version was sung by a choir of 10, 000 at the inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901.

Tickets had gone on sale on January 10 and sold out before lunch.

Alberto Giacometti (; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966 ) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.

The coffin was put in the chapel on the first floor of the Arc on 10 November 1920, and put in its final resting place on 28 January 1921.

Fairbanks receives an average 21 hours of daylight between May 10 and August 2 each summer, and an average of less than four hours of daylight between November 18 and January 24 each winter.

From September 10, 2001, to January 16, 2002, Ohio State University's Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum exhibited 36 of his Sunday strips.

Brian Lara received an honorary doctorate from the University of Sheffield on Wednesday 10 January 2007.

*" Yacht Search Pressed ", The New York Times, January 10, 1958.

In Section 10 ( 7 ) continues the " use of the description city in relation to Kilkenny, to the extent that that description was used before ( January 1, 2002 ) and is not otherwise inconsistent with this Act.

Grey's lawyers issued their divorce complaint on 10 January 1927.

Carl Linnaeus ( Swedish original name Carl Nilsson Linnæus, 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778 ), also known after his ennoblement as, was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature.

On January 10, 1979, after the Vietnamese army and the KUFNS invaded Cambodia, the new People's Republic of Kampuchea ( PRK ) was established with Heng Samrin as head of state.

The most recent presidential election was held on 10 January 2010, and was won by Ivo Josipović.

In January 2007, she and her colleagues published an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science and reported that they have found a virus-like particle ( but without finding nucleic acids so far ) in less than 10 % of the cells a scrapie-infected cell line and in a mouse cell line infected by a human CJD agent.

They were engaged a few weeks after their return, and were later married at Christ Church, Hampstead on 10 January 1922.

* " Autumn Leaves " ( 10 January 1994 ) UK # 50

She then reprised the role in the Broadway production from January 10 through November 12, 2006.

The 17th Party Congress ( 26 January – 10 February 1934 ) has gone down in history as the Congress of Victors, because of the success of the First-Five Year Plan.

Donald Ervin Knuth ( ; born January 10, 1938 ) is a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.

Discover Nikkei, January 10, 1997.

Since the enlargement, in May 2004 and January 2007, the co-operation covers 35 countries, the EU of 27, including Cyprus and Malta and the 10 Mediterranean Partners.

The city also has a half-marathon, as well as a number of 10 km and 5 km races, including a 5 km race on the first of January each year.

Fraudulent Polish elections held in January 1947 resulted in Poland's official transformation to the People's Republic of Poland.

Déby ’ s MPS party won 63 of 125 seats in the January 1997 legislative elections.

The region's governor is, since 1 January 2011, Stavros Arnaoutakis, who was elected in the November 2010 local administration elections for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement.

In January 1987, Gorbachev called for democratization: the infusion of democratic elements such as multi − candidate elections into the Soviet political process.

At the end of the Conference on 27 January 1960 it was announced that elections would be held in the Congo on 22 May 1960, and full independence granted on 30 June 1960.

In January 2004, Rohrabacher proposed giving Washington, D. C. residents the right to vote for congressional representation by treating them as Maryland residents for the purpose of Congressional elections.

The first round of new elections is scheduled to start on November 28, 2011, the second round would be held on December 14, the third on January 3 and the new assembly would convene on March 17.

Post-revolutionary, three round elections for the new 270 seat Shura Council will start on January 29, 2012 and end on March 11.

In early January 1996 Obiang called presidential elections to be held in six weeks.

Ordinary sessions are opened this way each January and also after new elections to the House of Representatives.

The Conscription Crisis of 1918 further intensified public support for Sinn Féin before the general elections to the British Parliament on 14 December 1918, which resulted in a landslide victory for Sinn Féin, whose MPs gathered in Dublin on 21 January 1919 to form Dáil Éireann and adopt the Declaration of Independence.

President Saakashvili rejected all demands that he resign his position, but announced early presidential elections to be held in January 2008, effectively cutting his term in office by a year.

The NNP maintained and affirmed its hold on power when it took all 15 parliamentary seats in the January 1999 elections.

In January 1924, López Gutiérrez announced his intention to remain in office until new elections could be held, but he repeatedly refused to specify a date for the elections.

PLH's Carlos Roberto Flores took office on 27 January 1998, as Honduras ' fifth democratically elected President since free elections were restored in 1981, with a 10 % margin over his main opponent PNH nominee Nora Gúnera de Melgar ( the widow of former leader Juan Alberto Melgar ).

International observers judged the 2001 elections to be acceptable, but the Union for Victory Coalition, the second-largest vote recipient, disputed the results and boycotted parliament until 31 January 2002.

The last elections were the January 2010 Iraqi legislative elections.

The last local elections for the governorates were held in the 2009 Iraqi governorate elections on 31 January 2009.

230 seats were apportioned among Iraq's 18 governorates based on the number of registered voters in each as of the January 2005 elections, including 59 seats for Baghdad Governorate .< ref >

Following the declaration, Moetzet HaAm became the Provisional State Council, which acted as the legislative body for the new state until the first elections in January 1949.

The fraudulent Polish elections, held in January 1947 resulted in Poland's official transformation to undemocratic communist state by 1949.

In January 1964, UNIP won the next major elections, defeating their ANC rivals and securing Kaunda's position as prime minister.