10th January: Today In History

Today is January,  the 10th day of 2016. There are 347 days left in the year. Today's Highlight In History; Birthdays:   1834 John Acton, 1st Baron, English historian   1908 Paul Henreid, Austrian born actor   1910 Galina Ulanova, Russian ballerina   1927 Johnny Ray, American singer   1932 David Ejoor, a retired major-general and former Nigerian chief of army staff.   1945 Rod Stewart, English rock singer   1949 George Foreman, American boxer Events:   1840 The postal service, the 'penny post', began in Britain   1862 Samuel Colt, the American inventor of the Colt revolver, died   1863 The first section of the London Underground was opened   1920 The League of Nations held its first meeting in Geneva, Switzerland   1926 The science fiction classic, Metropolis, was screened for the first time   1989 Czechoslovakia announced it would stop the export of 'Semtex' explosive   1992 An IRA bomb exploded only a short distance away from Downing Street