January 10th, 2009

Today in History

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

2000:
America Online announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion, the largest corporate merger in history.

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.

1923:
Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.

1776:
Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.