TODAY IN HISTORY: Record label hoping to nab Australian singer accidentally signs The Beatles
The first Beatles album to be released in the US went on sale on January 10, 1964.
Introducing…The Beatles was essentially the same album as the British release Please Please Me, but released under a different name.
But label Vee-Jay Records would find itself in an immense legal battle with Capitol Records, who would release Meet The Beatles ten days later.
Vee-Jay Records, a tiny African-American-owned label based in Gary, Indiana, had lucked upon the rights to The Beatles a few years earlier.
Vee-Jay was trying to get the rights to Australian country singer Frank Ifield, and English label EMI threw the Beatles in with the deal.
Vee-Jay sat on The Beatles recordings after their first two singles failed to make the Billboard top 100.
But after signing with Capitol, the Beatles found themselves the biggest band in the world after the release of 'I Want To Hold Your Hand'.
Vee-Jay then released Introducing…The Beatles, which spent nine consecutive weeks at number two, behind Meet The Beatles.
Ukrainian bacteriologist Waldemar Haffkine conducted the first human test of his plague vaccine on himself on January 10, 1897.
When an epidemic of the bubonic plague broke out in Bombay (now Mumbai, Haffkine was asked to help.
In a makeshift laboratory in a medical college corridor, Haffkine developed the vaccine in just three months.
The vaccine was a success, and within three years, four million people in India had been inoculated.
Ukraine agreed to give up the third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world, in an announcement made on January 10, 1994.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the new nation of Ukraine inherited 1700 nuclear warheads.
Ukraine agreed to give up the weapons in exchange for assurances that Russia would respect its independence and sovereignty in its existing borders.
Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk made the deal with US President Bill Clinton.
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