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).

1 Events
2 Births
- 2.1 1480 to 1899
- 2.2 1900 to 1999
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances

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Events

49 BC - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of 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 - American Civil War: Florida secedes from the United States.
1863 - The first section of the London Underground Railway opens, between Paddington and 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. 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.
1971 - Masterpiece Theatre debuts on PBS.
1982 - The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C was recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire. This equalled the record set in the same place on February 11, 1895.
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.
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.

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Births

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1480 to 1899

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, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1687)
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)
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)
1858 - Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer (d. 1929)
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)

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1900 to 1999

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)
1917 - Jerry Wexler, American record producer
1920 - Max Patkin, 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 Wilson, American physicist and radio astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 - Thomas Penfield Jackson, American judge
1938 - Donald Knuth, American mathematician and computer scientist
1938 - Willie McCovey, 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
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)
1953 - Pat Benatar, American singer
1953 - Bobby Rahal, American race car driver
1955 - Michael Schenker, German guitar player (UFO)
1956 - Shawn Colvin, American singer
1956 - Antonio Muñoz Molina, Spanish writer
1961 - Evan Handler, American actor
1964 - Brad Roberts, Canadian singer (Crash Test Dummies)
1973 - Ryan Drummond, American voice actor and comedian
1975 - Jake Delhomme, American football player
1978 - Gavin McCann, English footballer
1982 - Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (d. 2004)

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Deaths

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681 to 1899

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)
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)

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1900 to 1999

1917 - 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 - Joe Penner, Hungarian-born comedian and actor (b. 1904)
1951 - Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
1957 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel Prize laureate (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 (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 laureate (b. 1901)
1987 - Sir 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 laureate (b. 1907)