January 10

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January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 355 days remaining (356 in leap years).

Contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

5 External links

Events

49 BC - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon which signalled civil war.
1072 - Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.
1776 - Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.
1806 - Dutch in Cape Town surrender to the British.
1810 - Marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled.
1861 - Florida secedes from the United States.
1863 - The first section of the London Underground Railway opens (Paddington to Farringdon Street).
1870 - John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
1901 - The first great Texas gusher, 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 by Fritz Lang premiers.
1929 - Tintin, a comic book 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 U.S. Congress.
1946 - First General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. 51 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.
1971 - Masterpiece Theatre debuts on PBS.
1984 - The United States and the 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.
1994 - Lorena Bobbitt goes on trial for severing the penis of her husband John (Manassas, Virginia).
2000 - America Online announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion, the largest corporate merger in history.
2001 - Wikipedia starts as part of Nupedia. It becomes a separate site five days later.

Births

1480 - Margaret of Austria, A Hapsburg Princess (d. 1530)
1769 - Michel Ney, French marshal (d. 1815)
1843 - Frank James, American outlaw (d. 1915)
1849 - Francisco Ferrer Guardia, Spanish free-thinker (d. 1909)
1858 - Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer (d. 1929)
1873 - George Orton, Canadian athlete (d. 1958)
1883 - Francis X. Bushman, American actor (d. 1966)
1883 - Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi, writer (d. 1945)
1887 - Robinson Jeffers, American poet (d. 1962)
1899 - Axel Eggelbrecht , journalist (d. 1991)
1904 - Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, dancer (d. 1987)
1908 - Bernard Lee, British actor (d. 1981)
1908 - Paul Henreid, Austrian actor (d. 1993)
1913 - Gustáv Husák, Czechoslovak president (d. 1991)
1913 - Mehmet Shehu, Albanian politician (d. 1981)
1917 - Jerry Wexler, American record producer
1917 - Hilde Krahl , actress (d. 1999)
1920 - Max Patkin, the "Clown Prince of Baseball" (d. 1999)
1921 - Rodger Ward, American auto racer, two-time Indianapolis 500 winner (d. 2004)
1923 - Benson Skoff , clergyman
1923 - Ingeborg Drewitz , writer (d. 1986)
1925 - Max Roach, drummer, 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 - Viktor Liebermann , violinist (d. 1999)
1934 - Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician
1935 - Sherrill Milnes, American baritone
1935 - Eddy Clearwater , blues musician
1936 - Stephen Ambrose, American historian (d. 2002)
1936 - Robert Wilson, American physicist, radio astronomer
1937 - Thomas Penfield Jackson, American judge
1938 - Donald Knuth, American mathematician, computer scientist
1938 - Willie McCovey, American Baseball Hall of Famer
1939 - Bill Toomey, American track and field athlete
1939 - (possibly) Scott McKenzie, American singer
1939 - Sal Mineo, American actor (d. 1976)
1939 - William Levy, Writer
1943 - Jim Croce, American singer (d. 1973)
1944 - Frank Sinatra, Jr., American singer
1945 - Rod Stewart, English singer
1945 - Spider Sabich , American skier (d. 1975)
1948 - Donald Fagen, American keyboardist
1948 - Teresa Graves, American actress, singer (d. 2002)
1948 - William Sanderson , American actor
1949 - George Foreman, boxer
1949 - James Lapine, American stage director
1949 - Linda Lovelace, pornographic film actress (d. 2002)
1953 - Pat Benatar, American singer
1953 - Bobby Rahal, American automobile racer
1955 - Michael Schenker, German guitar player of UFO and solo career
1956 - Shawn Colvin, singer
1961 - Evan Handler , American actor
1964 - Brad Roberts, Canadian singer
1973 - Ryan Drummond, voice actor, comedian, radio host at seaworld
1975 - Jake Delhomme, American football quarterback , Carolina Panthers
1982 - Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (d. 2004)

Deaths

681 - Pope Agatho
1276 - Pope Gregory X
1645 - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1573)
1778 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (b. 1707)
1862 - Samuel Colt, American inventor (b. 1814)
1917 - William F. Cody, American frontiersman (b. 1846)
1934 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist, accused of Reichstag fire (b. 1909)
1941 - Joe Penner, comedian, actor
1951 - Sinclair Lewis, American writer (b. 1885)
1957 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (b. 1889)
1961 - Dashiell Hammett, American writer (b. 1894)
1970 - Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut (b. 1925)
1971 - Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer (b. 1883)
1976 - Howlin' Wolf, American musician (b. 1910)
1978 - Pedro Chamorro, Nicaraguan journalist
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, comedian
1987 - Sir David Robinson, British philanthropist and entrepreneur (b. 1904)
1997 - Sheldon Leonard, American producer, actor, director
1997 - Elspeth Huxley, journalist, writer
2000 - Sam Jaffe, American producer (b. 1901)
2004 - Spalding Gray, American actor, screenwriter, and monologue artist (b. 1941)
2004 - Alexandra Ripley, author
2005 - Gene Baylos, comedian
2005 - Margherita Carosio, Italian soprano (b. 1908)
2005 - James Forman, American Civil Rights leader (b. 1928)
2005 - Erwin Hillier, British cinematographer (b. 1911)
2005 - Gordon John "Jack" Horner, sports journalist
2005 - Joséphine-Charlotte, Grandduchess of Luxembourg (b. 1927)

Holidays and observances

External links

BBC: On This Day

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