- January 10
Events
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49 BC -Julius Caesar crosses theRubicon , signaling the start of civil war.
*1072 -Robert Guiscard conquersPalermo .
*1475 -Stephen III of Moldavia defeats theOttoman Empire at theBattle of Vaslui .
*1645 - ArchbishopWilliam Laud is beheaded at theTower of London .
*1776 -Thomas Paine publishes "Common Sense".
*1806 - Dutch settlers inCape Town surrender to the British.
*1810 - The marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled.
*1861 -American Civil War :Florida secedes from the Union.
*1863 - TheLondon Underground , the world's oldest underground railway, opens betweenLondon Paddington station andFarringdon station .
*1870 -John D. Rockefeller incorporatesStandard Oil .
*1901 - The first greatTexas oil gusher is discovered atSpindletop inBeaumont, Texas .
*1920 - TheLeague of Nations holds its first meeting and ratifies theTreaty of Versailles endingWorld War I .
*1922 -Arthur Griffith is elected President of theIrish Free State .
*1923 -Lithuania seizes and annexesMemel .
*1941 -Lend-Lease is introduced into the U.S. Congress.
* 1941 -World War II : The Greek army capturesKleisoura .
*1946 - The first General Assembly of theUnited Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
*1962 -Apollo Project :NASA announces plans to build the C-5rocket booster . It became better known as theSaturn V moon rocket, which launched every Apollomoon mission.
*1984 - TheUnited States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations after 117 years.
*1989 -Cuba n troops begin withdrawing fromAngola .
*1990 -Time Warner is formed from the merger ofTime Inc. andWarner Communications Inc.
*2001 - A large piece of the chalk cliff atBeachy Head collapses into the sea.
*2005 - A mudslide occurs inLa Conchita, California , killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing theHighway 101 , the main coastal corridor betweenSan Francisco andLos Angeles , for 10 days.Births
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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 , FrenchJesuit 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 )
*1702 -Johannes Zick , Germanfresco painter (d.1762 )
*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 )
*1750 -Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine , British Lord Chancellor (d.1823 )
*1769 -Michel Ney , French marshal (d.1815 )
*1797 -Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , German writer (d.1848 )
*1810 -Jeremiah S. Black , American statesman (d.1883 )
*1812 -Georg Hermann Nicolai , German architect (d.1881 )
*1815 -Sir John Alexander Macdonald , First Prime Minister of Canada (d.1891 )
*1828 -Herman Koeckemann , German Catholic prelate (d.1892 )
*1834 - Lord Acton, British historian (d.1902 )
*1840 -Louis Nazaire Bégin , French Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d.1925 )
*1843 -Frank James , American outlaw (d.1915 )
*1849 -Francisco Ferrer Guardia , Spanish free-thinker (d.1909 )
*1836 -Charles Ingalls , father ofLaura Ingalls Wilder (d.1902 )
*1850 -John Wellborn Root , American architect (d.1891 )
*1858 -Heinrich Zille , German illustrator and photographer (d.1929 )
*1864 -Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia , son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich (d.1931 )
*1865 -Mary Ingalls , sister ofLaura Ingalls Wilder (d.1928 )
*1873 - Jack O'Neill, Irish-born baseball player (d.1935 )
* 1873 -George Orton , Canadian athlete (d.1958 )
*1880 -Manuel Azaña y Diaz , Spanish republican President (d.1940 )
* 1880 -Grock (Charles Adrien Wettach), Swiss circus clown (d.1959 )
*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 )
*1893 -Albert Jacka , Australian soldier, first Australian World War IVictoria Cross winner (d.1932 )
*1903 -Barbara Hepworth , English sculptor (d.1975 )
* 1903 -Voldemar Väli , Estonian wrestler (d.1997 )
* 1903 -Violet Wilkey , American actress (d.1976 )
*1904 -Ray Bolger , American actor/dancer (d.1987 )
*1908 -Paul Henreid , Austrian actor (d.1993 )
* 1908 -Bernard Lee , English actor (d.1981 )
*1910 -Jean Martinon , French conductor, composer (d.1976 )
*1912 -Maria Mandel , Camp leader at Auschwitz (d.1948 )
*1913 -Gustáv Husák ,President of Czechoslovakia (d.1991 )
* 1913 -Mehmet Shehu , Albanian politician (d.1981 )
*1914 -Yu Kuo-hwa , former Premier of Taiwan (d. 2000)
*1915 -Dean Dixon , U.S. conductor (d.1976 )
*1916 -Sune Bergström , Swedish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d.2004 )
* 1916 - Don Metz, Canadian ice hockey player (d.2007 )
*1917 -Jerry Wexler , American record producer (d.2008 )
*1918 -Arthur Chung ,President of Guyana (d.2008 )
*1920 -Georges Marchal , French actor (d.1997 )
* 1920 -Max Patkin , American baseball player (d.1999 )
*1921 -Rodger Ward , American race car driver (d.2004 )
*1924 -Ludmilla Chiriaeff , Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer and director (Les Grands Ballets Canadiens ) (d.1996 )
* 1924 -Max Roach , American percussionist, drummer, and composer (d.2007 )
*1926 -Musallam Bseiso , Palestinian journalist, thinker, and politician
*1927 -Gisele MacKenzie , Canadian singer (d.2003 )
* 1927 -Johnnie Ray , American singer (d.1990 )
* 1927 -Otto Stich , Swiss politician
*1928 - Philip Levine, American poet
*1929 -Derek Hammond-Stroud , English operatic baritone
*1930 -Roy Edward Disney , American film executive
*1931 -Peter Barnes , English writer (d.2004 )
*1932 -Elaine Devry , American actress
*1933 -Anton Rodgers , English actor (d.2007 )
*1934 -Leonid Kravchuk , Ukrainian politician
*1935 -Ronnie Hawkins , American musician
* 1935 -Sherrill Milnes , American baritone
*1936 -Burnum Burnum , Australian Aboriginal activist, actor, author and dreamer (d.1997 )
* 1936 -Stephen Ambrose , American historian (d.2002 )
* 1936 -Robert Woodrow Wilson , American physicist and radio astronomer, Nobel laureate
* 1936 -Al Goldstein , Americanpublisher and pornographer
*1937 -Thomas Penfield Jackson , American judge
*1938 -Donald Knuth , American mathematician and computer scientist
* 1938 -Frank Mahovlich , Canadian ice hockey player and Canadian Senator
* 1938 -Willie McCovey , American baseball player
*1939 -Jared Carter , American poet
* 1939 -David Horowitz , American author and political commentator
* 1939 -William Levy , Dutch writer
* 1939 -Scott McKenzie , American singer
* 1939 -Sal Mineo , American actor (d.1976 )
* 1939 -Bill Toomey , American athlete
*1940 -Guy Chevrette , Quebec politician
* 1940 -Ntare VI of Ankole ,Omugabe of Nkole
* 1940 -Yesudas , Indian playback singer and classical musician
*1942 - Walter Hill, American film director
*1943 -Jim Croce , American singer (d.1973 )
*1944 -Rory Byrne , South African racing car designer
* 1944 -Bernard Derome , Canadian news presenter (Le Téléjournal )
* 1944 -William Sanderson , American actor
* 1944 -Frank Sinatra, Jr. , American singer
*1945 -Jennifer Moss , English Actress (d.2006 )
* 1945 - John Fahey, Australian politician
* 1945 -Rod Stewart , Scottish singer
* 1945 -Edward Wiskoski , American professional wrestler
*1946 -Aynsley Dunbar , English musician
*1947 -Afeni Shakur , mother ofTupac Shakur
*1948 -Donald Fagen , American keyboardist, singer and songwriter (Steely Dan )
* 1948 -Teresa Graves , American actress and singer (d.2002 )
* 1948 -Mischa Maisky , Latvian cellist
* 1948 -Bernard Thévenet , French cyclist
*1949 -George Foreman , American boxer
* 1949 -James Lapine , American stage director
* 1949 -Linda Lovelace , American pornographic actress (d.2002 )
*1951 -Paul DiMaggio , American educator
*1952 -Scott Thurston , American musician
*1953 -Pat Benatar , American singer
* 1953 -Dennis Cooper , American author
* 1953 -Bobby Rahal , American race car driver and team owner
*1955 -Michael Schenker , German guitarist (UFO)
*1956 -Shawn Colvin , American singer
* 1956 -Antonio Muñoz Molina , Spanish writer
* 1957 -Greg Walden , American politician
*1958 -Anatoly Pisarenko , Soviet weightlifter
*1959 -Fran Walsh , New Zealand screenwriter
*1960 -Benoît Pelletier , Canadian politician
* 1960 -Samira Said , Moroccan singer
*1961 -Evan Handler , American actor
* 1961 -Janet Jones , American actress; wife ofWayne Gretzky
* 1961 -Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg , Italian-American violinist
*1962 -Michael Fortier , Canadian politician
*1963 -Mark Pryor , American politician
*1964 -Brad Roberts , Canadian singer (Crash Test Dummies )
*1965 -Butch Hartman , American animator
*1966 - Steve Kramer, American politician
*1967 -Johan Laats , Belgian judoka
*1970 -Marcus Bagwell , American professional wrestler
* 1970 -Alisa Maric , Serbian-born American chess grandmaster
*1972 -Thomas Alsgaard , Norwegian cross-country skier
* 1972 -Brian Lawler , American professional wrestler
*1973 -Ryan Drummond , American voice actor
* 1973 -Glenn Robinson , American basketball player
*1974 -Jemaine Clement , New Zealand actor
* 1974 -Davide Dionigi , Italian footballer
* 1974 -Akari Kaida , Japanese composer
* 1974 -Steve Marlet , French footballer
* 1974 -Hrithik Roshan , Indian actor
*1975 -Jake Delhomme , American football player
*1976 -Adam Kennedy , American baseball player
*1978 -Brent Smith , American singer (Shinedown )
*1980 -Matt Roney , American baseball player
* 1980 -Sarah Shahi , American actress and model
*1981 -Brian Joo , Korean-American singer
*1982 -Josh Ryan Evans , American actor (d.2002 )
*1983 -Danilo Dirani , Brazilian racing driver
* 1983 -Li Nina , Chinese aerial free-style skier
*1986 -Saleisha Stowers , American model
*1990 -Tao Li , Singaporean swimmerDeaths
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681 -Pope Agatho
*976 -John I Tzimiskes , GreekByzantine Emperor (b.925 )
*1094 - CaliphAl-Mustansir of Cairo (b.1029 )
*1276 -Pope Gregory X (bc.1210 )
*1645 -William Laud ,Archbishop of Canterbury (b.1573 )
*1654 -Nicholas Culpeper , English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer (b.1616 )
*1662 - PrinceHonoré II of Monaco (b.1597 )
*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 )
*1794 -Georg Forster , German scientist and revolutionary (d.1754 )
*1811 -Marie-Joseph Chénier , French poet (b.1764 )
*1824 - KingVictor Emmanuel I of Sardinia (b.1759 )
*1828 -François de Neufchâteau , French statesman and intellectual figure (b.1750 )
*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 )
*1863 -Lyman Beecher , US Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader (b.1775 )
*1866 -Pyotr Pletnyov , Russian poet (b.1792 )
*1883 - Dr Samuel A. Mudd, American medical doctor (b.1833 )
*1895 -Benjamin Godard , French composer (b.1849 )
*1901 - SirJames Dickson , Premier of Queensland, Australian Minister for Defence (b.1832 )
*1904 -Jean-Léon Gérôme , French painter and sculptor (b.1824 )
*1905 -Kārlis Baumanis , Latvian composer (b.1835 )
*1917 - William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American frontiersman (b.1846 )
*1922 -Frank Tudor , Australian Labor Opposition leader (b.1866 )
*1934 -Marinus van der Lubbe , Dutch communist accused of setting theReichstag fire (b.1909 )
*1935 -Edwin Flack , Australian athlete, first Olympic champion (b.1873 )
*1941 -Frank Bridge , English composer (b.1879 )
* 1941 - SirJohn Lavery , Northern Irish artist (b.1856 )
* 1941 -Joe Penner , Hungarian-born comedian and actor (b.1904 )
*1949 -Erich von Drygalski , German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist (b.1865 )
*1951 -Sinclair Lewis , American writer, Nobel laureate (b.1885 )
* 1951 -Yoshio Nishina , Japanese physicist (b.1890 )
*1957 -Gabriela Mistral , Chilean writer, Nobel laureate (b.1889 )
*1960 -Jack Laviolette , Canadian ice hockey player (b.1879 )
*1961 -Dashiell Hammett , American writer (b.1894 )
*1968 -Basil Sydney , English actor (b.1894 )
*1969 - John Brownlee, Australian tenor (b.1900 )
*1970 -Pavel Belyayev , Soviet 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 Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal , Nicaraguan journalist (b.1924 )
* 1978 - Don Gillis, American composer (b.1912 )
*1980 -Hughie Critz , American baseball player (b.1900 )
* 1980 -George Meany , American labor leader (b.1894 )
* 1980 -Bo Rein , American college football coach (b.1945 )
*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 )
*1984 -Souvanna Phouma , Prince and Prime Minister of Laos (b.1901 )
*1985 -Anton Karas , Austrian zither player and composer (b.1906 )
*1986 -Jaroslav Seifert , Czech writer, Nobel laureate (b.1901 )
*1987 -Marion Hutton , American singer and actress (b.1919 )
* 1987 - Sir David Robinson, English philanthropist and entrepreneur (b.1904 )
*1989 - Herbert Morrison, American radio reporter (b.1905 )
* 1989 -Colin Winchester , Australian Assistant Police Commissioner, murdered (b.1933 )
*1992 -Roberto Bonomi , Argentine racing driver (b.1919 )
*1995 -Kathleen Tynan , Canadian-British journalist, author and screenwriter (b.1937 )
*1997 -Elspeth Huxley , British journalist and writer (b.1907 )
* 1997 -Sheldon Leonard , American film producer, actor, and director (b.1907 )
* 1997 -Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd , Scottish chemist, Nobel laureate (b.1907 )
*1999 - Sir Edward Williams, Australian judge (b.1921 )
*2000 - Sam Jaffe, American producer (b.1901 )
*2002 -W.A. Criswell , American (Baptist) preacher (b.1909 )
*2004 -Spalding Gray , American actor and screenwriter (b.1941 )
* 2004 -Alexandra Ripley , American author (b.1934 )
*2005 -Gene Baylos , American comedian (b.1906 )
* 2005 -Margherita Carosio , Italian soprano (b.1908 )
* 2005 -James Forman , American civil rights leader (b.1928 )
* 2005 -Kalevi Hämäläinen , Finnish cross country skier (b.1932 )
* 2005 -Erwin Hillier , British cinematographer (b.1911 )
* 2005 - Jack Horner, American sports journalist (b.1912 )
* 2005 - Joséphine-Charlotte, Grandduchess of Luxembourg (b.1927 )
* 2005 - Metropolitan Wasyly Fedak, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (b.1909 )
*2007 -Carlo Ponti , Italian film producer (b.1912 )
* 2007 -Bradford Washburn , American explorer (b.1910 )
*2008 -Christopher Bowman , American figure skater (b.1967 )
* 2008 -Maila Nurmi , aka Vampira, Finnish-born American actress (b.1921 )
* 2008 -Mikhail Minin , RussianSoviet soldier (b.1922 )Holidays and observances
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**Peter Orseolo,Doge of Venice andsaint
*Coptic Church :
**Obadiah
*January 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) External links
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