January 10

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

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 On-line announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion. This is the largest-ever corporate merger.

Births

• 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
• 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

• 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

January 9 - January 11 - December 10 - February 10    - Historical anniversaries