January 10
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January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 355 days remaining until the end of the year (356 in leap years).
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[edit] 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.
- 1645 - Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London
- 1776 - Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.
- 1806 - Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
- 1810 - The marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled.
- 1861 - American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union.
- 1863 - The London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.
- 1870 - John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
- 1899 - Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity was founded.
- 1901 - The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont.
- 1920 - The 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 premieres.
- 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 US Congress.
- 1941 - World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
- 1946 - The first 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.
- 1962 - Apollo Project: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket booster. It became better known as the Saturn V moon rocket, which launched every Apollo moon mission.
- 1982 - The Catch - Dwight Clark of the San Francisco 49ers makes a leaping catch from Joe Montana with 58 seconds to play to defeat the Dallas Cowboys 28-27 in the NFC Championship Game at Candlestick Park.
- 1984 - The US and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations after 117 years.
- 1989 - Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola.
- 1990 - Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.
- 1995 - The World Youth Day was held in the Philippines.
- 1999 - A large piece of the chalk cliff at Beachy Head collapses into the sea.
- 1999 - The HBO television series The Sopranos first aires.
- 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.
- 2005 - A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing the Highway 101, the main coastal corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles, for 10 days.
- 2005 - Eyre Peninsula Bushfire in South Australia kills nine and injures 113.
[edit] Births
- 1480 - 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, English statesman (d. 1687)
- 1638 - Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (d. 1686)
- 1644 - Louis François, French marshal (d. 1711)
- 1654 - Joshua Barnes, English scholar (d. 1712)
- 1702 - Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (d. 1762)
- 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)
- 1810 - Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman (d. 1883)
- 1812 - Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (d. 1881)
- 1815 - Sir John Alexander Macdonald, First Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1891)
- 1828 - Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (d. 1892)
- 1840 - Louis Nazaire Bégin, French Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d. 1925)
- 1843 - Frank James, American outlaw (d. 1915)
- 1849 - Francisco Ferrer Guardia, Spanish free-thinker (d. 1909)
- 1836 - Charles Ingalls, father of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1902)
- 1850 - John Wellborn Root, American architect (d. 1891)
- 1858 - Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer (d. 1929)
- 1864 - Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich (d. 1931)
- 1865 - Mary Ingalls, sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1928)
- 1869 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916)
- 1873 - George Orton, Canadian athlete (d. 1958)
- 1873 - Jack O'Neill, Irish-born baseball player (d. 1935)
- 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)
- 1903 - Barbara Hepworth, British sculptor (d. 1975)
- 1903 - Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler, Olympic medalist (d. 1997)
- 1903 - Violet Wilkey, American actress (d. 1976)
- 1904 - Ray Bolger, American actor/dancer (d. 1987)
- 1908 - Paul Henreid, Austrian actor (d. 1993)
- 1908 - Bernard Lee, British actor (d. 1981)
- 1912 - Maria Mandel, Camp leader at Auschwitz (d. 1948)
- 1913 - Gustáv Husák, President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1991)
- 1913 - Mehmet Shehu, Albanian politician (d. 1981)
- 1914 - Yu Kuo-hwa, former Premier of Taiwan (d. 2000)
- 1916 - Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
- 1916 - Don Metz, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1917 - Jerry Wexler, American record producer
- 1918 - Arthur Chung, President of Guyana
- 1920 - Max Patkin, American baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1920 - Georges Marchal, French actor (d. 1997)
- 1921 - Rodger Ward, American race car driver (d. 2004)
- 1924 - Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer and director (Les Grands Ballets Canadiens) (d. 1996)
- 1924 - Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer, and composer (d. 2007)
- 1927 - Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian singer (d. 2003)
- 1927 - Johnnie Ray, American singer (d. 1990)
- 1927 - Otto Stich, Swiss politician
- 1928 - Philip Levine, American poet
- 1930 - Roy Edward Disney, American film executive
- 1931 - Peter Barnes, English writer (d. 2004)
- 1932 - Elaine Devry, American actress
- 1933 - Anton Rogers, British actor
- 1934 - Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician
- 1935 - Ronnie Hawkins, American musician, pioneering Rock And Roll Rockabilly Hall of Fame
- 1935 - Sherrill Milnes, American baritone
- 1936 - Stephen Ambrose, American historian (d. 2002)
- 1936 - Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist and radio astronomer, Nobel laureate
- 1937 - Thomas Penfield Jackson, American judge
- 1938 - Donald Knuth, American mathematician and computer scientist
- 1938 - Willie McCovey, American baseball player
- 1938 - Frank Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player and Canadian Senator
- 1939 - William Levy, Dutch writer
- 1939 - Sal Mineo, American actor (d. 1976)
- 1939 - Bill Toomey, American athlete
- 1939 - Scott McKenzie, American singer
- 1939 - Jared Carter, American poet
- 1940 - Guy Chevrette, Quebec politician
- 1942 - Walter Hill, American film director
- 1943 - Jim Croce, American singer (d. 1973)
- 1944 - Frank Sinatra, American singer
- 1944 - Rory Byrne, South African racing car designer
- 1944 - Bernard Derome, French Canadian news presenter (Le Téléjournal)
- 1945 - Jennifer Moss, English Actress (d. 2006)
- 1945 - Rod Stewart, Scottish singer
- 1945 - Edward Wiskoski, American professional wrestler
- 1947 - Afeni Shakur, mother of Tupac "2Pac" Shakur, member of the Black Panther Party
- 1948 - Donald Fagen, American keyboardist, singer and songwriter (Steely Dan)
- 1948 - Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (d. 2002)
- 1948 - Mischa Maisky, Latvian cellist
- 1948 - William Sanderson, American actor
- 1948 - Bernard Thévenet, French cyclist
- 1949 - George Foreman, American boxer
- 1949 - James Lapine, American stage director
- 1949 - Linda Lovelace, American pornographic actress (d. 2002)
- 1952 - Scott Thurston, American musician, songwriter
- 1953 - Pat Benatar, American singer
- 1953 - Dennis Cooper, American author
- 1953 - Bobby Rahal, American race car driver and race team owner
- 1955 - Michael Schenker, German guitarist (UFO)
- 1956 - Shawn Colvin, American singer
- 1956 - Antonio Muñoz Molina, Spanish writer
- 1957 - Greg Walden, GOP U.S. House Of Representatives, Oregon
- 1958 - Anatoly Pisarenko, Soviet weightlifter
- 1959 - Fran Walsh, New Zealand screenwriter
- 1960 - Benoît Pelletier, Quebec politician
- 1961 - Evan Handler, American actor
- 1961 - Janet Jones, American actress; wife of Wayne Gretzky
- 1963 - Mark Pryor, American politician
- 1964 - Brad Roberts, Canadian singer (Crash Test Dummies)
- 1965 - Butch Hartman, American animator
- 1970 - Marcus Bagwell, American professional wrestler
- 1970 - Alisa Maric, Serbian-American chess grandmaster
- 1972 - Thomas Alsgaard, Norwegian cross-country skier
- 1972 - Brian Lawler, American professional wrestler
- 1973 - Ryan Drummond, American voice actor
- 1973 - Glenn Robinson, American basketball player
- 1974 - Steve Marlet, French footballer
- 1974 - Hrithik Roshan, Indian actor
- 1974 - Akari Kaida, Japanese composer
- 1975 - Jake Delhomme, American football player
- 1976 - Adam Kennedy, American baseball personality
- 1980 - Matt Roney, American baseball player
- 1981 - Brian Joo, Korean-American singer
- 1982 - Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (d. 2002)
- 1983 - Danilo Dirani, Brazilian racing driver
[edit] Deaths
- 681 - Pope Agatho
- 976 - John I Tzimiskes, Greek Byzantine Emperor (b. 925)
- 1094 - Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (b. 1029)
- 1276 - Pope Gregory X (bc. 1210)
- 1645 - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1573)
- 1698 - Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (b. 1637)
- 1707 - Philibert, French writer (b. 1621)
- 1754 - Edward Cave, English editor and publisher (b. 1691)
- 1761 - Edward Boscawen, British admiral (b. 1711)
- 1775 - Yemelyan Pugachev, Russian rebel
- 1777 - Spranger Barry, Irish actor (b. 1719)
- 1778 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (b. 1707)
- 1794 - Georg Forster, German scientist and revolutionary (d. 1754)
- 1811 - Marie-Joseph Chénier, French poet (b. 1764)
- 1828 - François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure (b. 1750)
- 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)
- 1883 - Dr Samuel A. Mudd, American medical doctor (b. 1833)
- 1895 - Benjamin Godard, French composer (b. 1849)
- 1904 - Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (b. 1824)
- 1905 - Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (b. 1835)
- 1917 - William F. "Buffalo Bill" 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)
- 1949 - Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist (b. 1865)
- 1951 - Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
- 1951 - Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (b. 1890)
- 1957 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
- 1960 - Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1879)
- 1961 - Dashiell Hammett, American writer (b. 1894)
- 1970 - Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1925)
- 1971 - Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer (b. 1883)
- 1972 - Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (b. 1897)
- 1976 - Howlin' Wolf, American musician (b. 1910)
- 1978 - Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan journalist (b. 1924)
- 1980 - Hughie Critz, American baseball player (b. 1900)
- 1980 - George Meany, American labor leader (b. 1894)
- 1980 - Bo Rein, American college football coach (b. 1945)
- 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)
- 1985 - Anton Karas, Austrian zither player and composer (b. 1906)
- 1986 - Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
- 1987 - Marion Hutton, American singer and actress (b. 1919)
- 1987 - Sir David Robinson, British philanthropist and entrepreneur (b. 1904)
- 1989 - Herbert Morrison, American radio reporter (b. 1905)
- 1992 - Roberto Bonomi, Argentine racing driver (b. 1919)
- 1997 - Elspeth Huxley, British journalist and writer (b. 1907)
- 1997 - Sheldon Leonard, American producer, actor, and director (b. 1907)
- 1997 - Alexander R. Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
- 2000 - Sam Jaffe, American producer (b. 1901)
- 2002 - W.A. Criswell, American (Baptist) preacher (b. 1909)
- 2004 - Spalding Gray, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1941)
- 2004 - Alexandra Ripley, American author (b. 1934)
- 2005 - Gene Baylos, American comedian (b. 1906)
- 2005 - Margherita Carosio, Italian soprano (b. 1908)
- 2005 - Joséphine-Charlotte, Grandduchess of Luxembourg (b. 1927)
- 2005 - Metropolitan Wasyly Fedak, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (b. 1909)
- 2005 - James Forman, American civil rights leader (b. 1928)
- 2005 - Kalevi Hämäläinen, Finnish cross country skier (b. 1932)
- 2005 - Erwin Hillier, British cinematographer (b. 1911)
- 2005 - Gordon John "Jack" Horner, American sports journalist (b. 1912)
- 2007 - Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (b. 1912)
- 2007 - Bradford Washburn, American explorer (b. 1910)
[edit] Holidays and observances
- Roman Catholic Church
- Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church: St. Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa. Brother of St. Basil the Great
- Coptic Church:
- Margaret Thatcher day in the Falkland Islands
- January 10
[edit] References
- ^ Attwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. The Penguin Dictionary of Saints. 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 0-140-51312-4.
- ^ Holweck, F. G. A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924.
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