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 River 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.
1928 - USSR expels Leo Tolstoy.
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 († 1815)
1843 - Frank James, outlaw († 1915)
1858 - Heinrich Zille, illustrator and photographer († 1929)
1883 - Francis X. Bushman, actor († 1966)
1883 - Aleksei Tolstoy, writer († 1945)
1899 - Axel Eggelbrecht, journalist († 1991)
1904 - Ray Bolger, actor, singer, dancer († 1987)
1917 - Hilde Krahl, actress († 1999)
1917 - Jerry Wexler, record producer
1923 - Ingeborg Drewitz, writer († 1986)
1925 - Max Roach, drummer, composer
1927 - Gisele MacKenzie, singer († 2003)
1927 - Johnnie Ray, singer († 1990)
1927 - Otto Stich, Swiss politician
1930 - Roy Edward Disney, film executive
1931 - Viktor Liebermann, violinist († 1999)
1936 - Stephen Ambrose, historian († 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 († 1976)
1943 - Jim Croce, singer († 1973)
1945 - Rod Stewart, singer
1948 - Donald Fagen, keyboardist
1949 - George Foreman, boxer
1949 - James Lapine, stage director
1949 - Linda Lovelace, pornographic film actress († 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, singer

Deaths

681 - Pope Agatho
1778 - Carolus Linnaeus, botanist
1862 - Samuel Colt, inventor
1917 - William F. Cody, frontiersman
1941 - Joe Penner, comedian, actor
1951 - Sinclair Lewis, writer
1961 - Dashiell Hammett, writer
1970 - Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut
1971 - Coco Chanel, fashion designer
1971 - Gabrielle Chanel, perfumer
1976 - Howlin' Wolf, musician
1980 - George Meany, labor leader
1981 - Richard Boone, actor
1997 - Sheldon Leonard, producer, actor, director
2000 - Sam Jaffe, actor

Holidays and observances

See Also:

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

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December