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

   * 1769 - Michel Ney, a marshal of the French army
   * 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

   * 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