January 10

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

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

Events

49 BC - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon which signaled 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.
1911 - Major Jimmie Erickson takes the first aerial photograph (over San Diego, California).
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 debute. He went on to be published in over 200 million comic books in 40 languages and loved across the world.
1941 - Lend-Lease is introduced into the United States Congress.
1946 - First General Assembly of the United Nations.
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.

Births

1769 - Michel Ney, a marshal of the French army (d. 1815)
1843 - Frank James, outlaw (d. 1915)
1858 - Heinrich Zille, illustrator and photographer (d. 1929)
1873 - George Orton, Canadian athlete (d. 1958)
1883 - Francis X. Bushman, actor (d. 1966)
1883 - Aleksei Tolstoy, writer (d. 1945)
1887 - Robinson Jeffers, poet (d. 1962)
1899 - Axel Eggelbrecht, journalist (d. 1991)
1904 - Ray Bolger, actor, singer, dancer (d. 1987)
1917 - Hilde Krahl, actress (d. 1999)
1917 - Jerry Wexler, record producer
1923 - Ingeborg Drewitz, writer (d. 1986)
1925 - Max Roach, drummer, composer
1927 - Gisele MacKenzie, singer (d. 2003)
1927 - Johnnie Ray, singer (d. 1990)
1927 - Otto Stich, Swiss politician
1930 - Roy Edward Disney, film executive
1931 - Viktor Liebermann, violinist (d. 1999)
1936 - Stephen Ambrose, historian (d. 2002)
1936 - Robert Wilson, physicist, radio astronomer
1938 - Donald Knuth, mathematician, computer scientist
1938 - Willie McCovey, Baseball Hall of Famer
1939 - Bill Toomey, track and field athlete
1939 - Sal Mineo, actor (d. 1976)
1943 - Jim Croce, singer (d. 1973)
1945 - Rod Stewart, singer
1948 - Donald Fagen, keyboardist
1949 - George Foreman, boxer
1949 - James Lapine, stage director
1949 - Linda Lovelace, pornographic film actress (d. 2002)
1953 - Pat Benatar, singer
1953 - Bobby Rahal, automobile racer
1955 - Michael Schenker, guitar player of UFO and solo career
1956 - Shawn Colvin, singer
1976 - Emma Bunton, (Baby Spice), singer
1980 - Simon G. Marberger, ("The Tyrolean"), Austrian outlaw

Deaths

681 - Pope Agatho
1276 - Pope Gregory X
1778 - Carolus Linnaeus, botanist (b. 1707)
1862 - Samuel Colt, inventor (b. 1814)
1917 - William F. Cody, frontiersman (b. 1846)
1934 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist, accused of Reichstag fire (b. 1909)
1941 - Joe Penner, comedian, actor
1951 - Sinclair Lewis, writer (b. 1885)
1961 - Dashiell Hammett, writer (b. 1894)
1970 - Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut (b. 1925)
1971 - Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, fashion designer (b. 1883)
1976 - Howlin' Wolf, musician
1980 - George Meany, labor leader
1981 - Katherine Alexander, actress (b. 1898)
1981 - Richard Boone, actor
1997 - Sheldon Leonard, producer, actor, director
2000 - Sam Jaffe, producer
2004 - Spalding Gray, actor, screenwriter, and monologue artist (b. 1941)

Holidays and observances

January 9 - January 11 - December 10 - February 10 -- listing of all days