January 10th, 2009

Today in History

-49:
Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.

1982:
The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C was recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire. This equalled the record set in the same place on February 11, 1895.

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

1806:
Dutch in Cape Town surrender to the British.

1969:
After 147 years, the last issue of the Saturday Evening Post is published.