January 10: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

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, signalling the start of civil war.
• 236 - Saint Fabian begins his reign as a Catholic Pope.
• 1072 - Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.
• 1475 - Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
• 1776 - Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.
• 1806 - Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
• 1810 - Marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled.
• 1811 - African-American slaves in Louisiana rebel in two parishes.
• 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.
• 2006 - Apple Computer, Inc. announces the first Intel-based Macs.

• 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)
• 1638 - Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (d. 1686)
• 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)
• 1721 - Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (d. 1740)
• 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)
• 1890 - Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (d. 1957)
• 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)
• 1916 - Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
• 1917 - Jerry Wexler, American record producer
• 1918 - Arthur Chung, President of Guyana
• 1920 - Max Patkin, American 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, American 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
• 1946 - Aynsley Dunbar, British drummer
• 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)
• 1952 - Scott Thurston, American musician, songwriter
• 1953 - Pat Benatar, American singer
• 1953 - Bobby Rahal, American race car driver
• 1955 - Michael Schenker, German guitarist (UFO)
• 1956 - Shawn Colvin, American singer
• 1956 - Antonio Muñoz Molina, Spanish writer
• 1959 - Simon Sunatori, Canadian inventor
• 1961 - Evan Handler, American actor
• 1964 - Brad Roberts, Canadian singer (Crash Test Dummies)
• 1972 - Thomas Alsgaard, Norwegian cross-country skier
• 1973 - Ryan Drummond, American voice actor and comedian
• 1975 - Jake Delhomme, American football player
• 1978 - Gavin McCann, English footballer
• 1980 - Janelle Pierzina, American reality tevision star (Big Brother 6)
• 1982 - Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (d. 2004)

• 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)
• 1777 - Spranger Barry, Irish actor (b. 1719)
• 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)
• 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)
• 1951 - Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (b. 1890)
• 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)
• 1972 - Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (b. 1897)
• 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)
• 2000 - Sam Jaffe, American producer (b. 1901)
• 2004 - Spalding Gray, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1941)
• 2004 - Alexandra Ripley, American author (b. 1934)
• 2005 - Gene Baylos, American comedian (b. 1906)
• 2005 - Metropolitan Wasyly Fedak
• 2005 - Margherita Carosio, Italian soprano (b. 1908)
• 2005 - James Forman, American civil rights leader (b. 1928)
• 2005 - Erwin Hillier, British cinematographer (b. 1911)
• 2005 - Gordon John "Jack" Horner, American sports journalist
• 2005 - Joséphine-Charlotte, Grandduchess of Luxembourg (b. 1927)

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