Reuters historical calendar - January 10

London, Jan 9 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on January 10 in history: 1917 - William Frederick Cody, the American army scout and Indian fighter known as Buffalo Bill, died.

1920 - The League of Nations came into being.

1934 - Marinus van der Lubbe was guillotined in Nazi Germany after being found guilty of burning down the Reichstag.

1946 - The first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly began in London.

1961 - US crime writer Dashiell Hammett died; he wrote ''The Maltese Falcon'' and influenced a generation of crime writers.

1971 - French fashion designer Coco Chanel died.

1994 - US President Bill Clinton, visiting Kiev, announced a deal under which Ukraine would give up the world's third largest nuclear arsenal.

2002 - Former Bosnian Serb president Biljana Plavsic surrendered voluntarily to the war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia in The Hague.

2003 - North Korea withdrew from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, accusing the United States of trying to topple its political system.

2004 - The United States formally declared Saddam Hussein, whom it had captured on Decemer 13, an enemy prisoner of war.

2005 - Viktor Yushchenko was confirmed as winner of Ukraine's presidential elections, paving the way for a historic change of power that his opponent, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, denounced as ''a revolution''.

**2006 - A probe panel said that a team led by South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk faked two landmark papers on embryonic stem cells but did produce the world's first cloned dog.

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