1. On January 10, 1861, South Carolina became the first state to secede from the United States, paving the way for the Civil War. The state's secession ordinance was signed in Charleston, where the first shots of the war were later fired at Fort Sumter.

2. On January 10, 1919, the South Carolina state legislature ratified the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution, which established Prohibition and banned the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages. The amendment was later repealed in 1933.

3. In 1934, on January 10th, the Congaree National Park was established in South Carolina. The park, located near Columbia, protects one of the largest intact stretches of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest in the southeastern United States.

4. On January 10, 1958, the Clemson Tigers football team won the national championship by defeating the Ohio State Buckeyes in the Orange Bowl. The victory was the first national championship for the Clemson football program.

5. In 2013, on January 10th, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley appointed Tim Scott to the United States Senate. Scott, who had previously served in the United States House of Representatives, became the first African American senator from South Carolina and the first African American senator to be elected from the South since Reconstruction.