January 10th, 2009

Today in History

2001:
Wikipedia starts as part of Nupedia. It becomes a separate site five days later.

1990:
Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.

1941:
Lend-Lease is introduced into the U.S. Congress.

1929:
Tintin, a comic book character created by Hergé, makes his debut. He went on to be published in over 200 million comic books in 40 languages.

1810:
Marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled.