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January 10
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{{PAGENAME}} is the 10th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar. There are 355 days remaining (356 in
leap years).
Events
*
49 BC -
Julius Caesar crosses the
Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
*
236 -
Saint Fabian begins his reign as a Catholic Pope.
*
1072 -
Robert Guiscard conquers
Palermo.
*
1475 -
Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the
Ottoman Empire at the
Battle of Vaslui.
*
1776 -
Thomas Paine publishes
Common Sense.
*
1806 - Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the
United Kingdom British.
*
1810 - Marriage of
Napoleon I of France Napoleon and
Josephine de Beauharnais Josephine is annulled.
*
1811 -
African-American Slavery slaves in
Louisiana rebel in two parishes.
*
1861 -
American Civil War:
Florida secedes from the
United States.
*
1863 - The first section of the
London Underground Railway opens, between
Paddington station Paddington and
Farringdon station Farringdon Street.
*
1870 -
John D. Rockefeller incorporates
Standard Oil.
*
1901 - The first great
Texas gusher,
petroleum oil discovered at
Spindletop in
Beaumont, Texas.
*
1920 -
League of Nations holds its first meeting and ratifies the
Treaty of Versailles ending
World War I.
*
1922 -
Arthur Griffith is elected President of the
Irish Free State.
*
1923 -
Lithuania seizes and annexes
Memel.
*
1927 - The film ''
Metropolis (1927 movie) Metropolis'' by
Fritz Lang premiers.
*
1929 -
Tintin, a
comic book fictional character character created by
Hergé, makes his debut. He went on to be published in over 200 million comic books in 40 languages.
*
1941 -
Lend-Lease is introduced into the
Congress of the United States U.S. Congress.
*
1946 - First
United Nations General Assembly General Assembly of the
United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
*
1957 -
Harold Macmillan becomes the prime minister of the
United Kingdom.
*
1969 - After 147 years, the last issue of ''
The Saturday Evening Post'' is published.
*
1982 - The lowest ever
United Kingdom UK temperature of -27.2°C was recorded at
Braemar in
Aberdeenshire (traditional) Aberdeenshire. This equaled the record set in the same place on
February 11,
1895.
*
1984 - The
United States and the
Vatican City Vatican establish full diplomatic relations.
*
1989 -
Cuban troops begin withdrawing from
Angola.
*
1990 -
Time Warner is formed from the merger of
Time Inc. and
Warner Communications Inc.
*
2000 -
America Online announces an agreement to buy
Time Warner for $162 billion, the largest corporate merger in history.
*
2001 -
starts as part of
Nupedia. It becomes a separate site five days later.
Births
*
1480 -
Margaret of Austria (1480-1530) Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (d.
1530)
*
1538 -
Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (d.
1574)
*
1573 -
Simon Marius, German astronomer (d.
1624)
*
1607 -
Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (d.
1646)
*
1628 -
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d.
1687)
*
1638 -
Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (d.
1686)
*
1644 -
Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (d.
1711)
*
1654 -
Joshua Barnes, English scholar (d.
1712)
*
1715 -
Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (d.
1775)
*
1721 -
Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (d.
1740)
*
1729 -
Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist (d.
1799)
*
1738 -
Ethan Allen, American Revolution military leader (d.
1789)
*
1769 -
Michel Ney, French marshal (d.
1815)
*
1797 -
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (d.
1848)
*
1828 -
Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (d.
1892)
*
1843 -
Frank James, American outlaw (d.
1915)
*
1849 -
Francisco Ferrer Guardia, Spanish free-thinker (d.
1909)
*
1836 -
Charles Ingalls, father of
Laura Ingalls Wilder
*
1858 -
Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer (d.
1929)
*
1865 -
Mary Ingalls, elder sister of
Laura Ingalls Wilder
*
1869 -
Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d.
1916)
*
1873 -
George Orton, Canadian athlete (d.
1958)
*
1883 -
Francis X. Bushman, American actor (d.
1966)
* 1883 -
Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi, Russian writer (d.
1945)
*
1887 -
Robinson Jeffers, American poet (d.
1962)
*
1890 -
Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (d.
1957)
*
1904 -
Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, dancer (d.
1987)
*
1908 -
Paul Henreid, Austrian actor (d.
1993)
* 1908 -
Bernard Lee, British actor (d.
1981)
*
1913 -
Gustáv Husák,
President of Czechoslovakia (d.
1991)
* 1913 -
Mehmet Shehu, Albanian politician (d.
1981)
*
1916 -
Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
2004)
*
1917 -
Jerry Wexler, American record producer
*
1918 -
Arthur Chung,
President of Guyana
*
1920 -
Max Patkin, American baseball player (d.
1999)
*
1921 -
Rodger Ward, American race car driver (d.
2004)
*
1925 -
Max Roach, American drummer and composer
*
1927 -
Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian singer (d.
2003)
* 1927 -
Johnnie Ray, American singer (d.
1990)
* 1927 -
Otto Stich, Swiss politician
*
1930 -
Roy Edward Disney, American film executive
*
1931 -
Peter Barnes, English writer (d.
2004)
*
1934 -
Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician
*
1935 -
Ronnie Hawkins, American musician
* 1935 -
Sherrill Milnes, American baritone
*
1936 -
Stephen Ambrose, American historian (d.
2002)
* 1936 -
Robert Woodrow Wilson Robert Wilson, American physicist and radio astronomer,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate
*
1937 -
Thomas Penfield Jackson, American judge
*
1938 -
Donald Knuth, American mathematician and computer scientist
* 1938 -
Willie McCovey, American baseball player
*
1939 -
William Levy, Dutch writer
* 1939 -
Sal Mineo, American actor (d.
1976)
* 1939 -
Bill Toomey, American athlete
*
1943 -
Jim Croce, American singer (d.
1973)
*
1944 -
Frank Sinatra, Jr., American singer
*
1945 -
Rod Stewart, English singer
*
1946 -
Aynsley Dunbar, British drummer
*
1948 -
Donald Fagen, American keyboardist
* 1948 -
Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (d.
2002)
* 1948 -
Mischa Maisky, Latvian cellist
* 1948 -
William Sanderson, American actor
*
1949 -
George Foreman, American boxer
* 1949 -
James Lapine, American stage director
* 1949 -
Linda Lovelace, American actress (d.
2002)
*
1952 -
Scott Thurston, American musician, songwriter
*
1953 -
Pat Benatar, American singer
* 1953 -
Bobby Rahal, American race car driver
*
1955 -
Michael Schenker, German guitarist (
UFO (band) UFO)
*
1956 -
Shawn Colvin, American singer
* 1956 -
Antonio Muñoz Molina, Spanish writer
*
1959 -
Simon Sunatori, Canadian inventor
*
1961 -
Evan Handler, American actor
*
1964 -
Brad Roberts, Canadian singer (
Crash Test Dummies)
*
1972 -
Thomas Alsgaard, Norwegian cross-country skier
*
1973 -
Ryan Drummond, American voice actor and comedian
*
1974 -
Steve Marlet, French footballer
*
1975 -
Jake Delhomme, American football player
*
1978 -
Gavin McCann, English footballer
*
1980 -
Janelle Pierzina, American television personality
*
1982 -
Max Starks, American football player
Deaths
*
681 -
Pope Agatho
*
1094 - Caliph
Al-Mustansir of Cairo (b.
1029)
*
1276 -
Pope Gregory X
*
1645 -
William Laud,
Archbishop of Canterbury (b.
1573)
*
1698 -
Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (b.
1637)
*
1707 -
Philibert, comte de Gramont, French writer (b.
1621)
*
1754 -
Edward Cave, English editor and publisher (b.
1691)
*
1761 -
Edward Boscawen, British admiral (b.
1711)
*
1777 -
Spranger Barry, Irish actor (b.
1719)
*
1778 -
Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (b.
1707)
*
1811 -
Marie-Joseph Chénier, French poet (b.
1764)
*
1833 -
Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (b.
1752)
*
1851 -
Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (b.
1775)
*
1862 -
Samuel Colt, American inventor (b.
1814)
*
1866 -
Pyotr Pletnyov, Russian poet (b.
1792)
*
1895 -
Benjamin Godard, French composer (b.
1849)
*
1917 -
Buffalo Bill William F. Cody, American frontiersman (b.
1846)
*
1934 -
Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist accused of setting the Reichstag fire (b.
1909)
*
1941 -
Frank Bridge, English composer (b.
1879)
* 1941 - Sir
John Lavery, Northern Irish artist (b.
1856)
* 1941 -
Joe Penner, Hungarian-born comedian and actor (b.
1904)
*
1951 -
Sinclair Lewis, American writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1885)
* 1951 -
Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (b.
1890)
*
1957 -
Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1889)
*
1961 -
Dashiell Hammett, American writer (b.
1894)
*
1970 -
Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut (b.
1925)
*
1971 -
Gabrielle Chanel Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer (b.
1883)
*
1972 -
Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (b.
1897)
*
1976 -
Howlin Wolf Howlin' Wolf, American musician (b.
1910)
*
1978 -
Pedro Chamorro, Nicaraguan journalist (b.
1924)
*
1980 -
George Meany, American labor leader (b.
1894)
*
1981 -
Katherine Alexander, American actress (b.
1898)
* 1981 -
Richard Boone, American actor (b.
1917)
* 1981 -
Fawn M. Brodie, American historian (b.
1915)
*
1982 -
Paul Lynde, American comedian (b.
1926)
*
1986 -
Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1901)
*
1987 - Sir
Sir David Robinson David Robinson, British philanthropist and entrepreneur (b.
1904)
*
1997 -
Elspeth Huxley, British journalist and writer (b.
1907)
* 1997 -
Sheldon Leonard, American producer, actor, and director (b.
1907)
* 1997 -
Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1907)
*
2000 -
Sam Jaffe (producer) Sam Jaffe, American producer (b.
1901)
*
2004 -
Spalding Gray, American actor and screenwriter (b.
1941)
* 2004 -
Alexandra Ripley, American author (b.
1934)
*
2005 -
Gene Baylos, American comedian (b.
1906)
* 2005 -
Metropolitan Wasyly Metropolitan Wasyly Fedak, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (b.
1909)
* 2005 -
Margherita Carosio, Italian soprano (b.
1908)
* 2005 -
James Forman, American civil rights leader (b.
1928)
* 2005 -
Erwin Hillier, British cinematographer (b.
1911)
* 2005 -
Jack Horner (journalist) Gordon John "Jack" Horner, American sports journalist (b.
1912)
* 2005 -
Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium Joséphine-Charlotte, Grandduchess of Luxembourg (b.
1927)
Holidays and observances
*
Margaret Thatcher day in the
Falkland Islands
External links
-
BBC: On This Day
-
NY Times: On this day
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January 9 -
January 11 -
December 10 -
February 10 —
Historical anniversaries listing of all days
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bs:10. januar
ca:10 de gener
ceb:Enero 10
cv:Кăрлач, 10
co:10 di ghjennaghju
cs:10. leden
cy:10 Ionawr
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