January 10
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[edit] Births
- 1945 - Rod Stewart, singer
[edit] Deaths
- 681 - Pope Agatho
- 1276 - Pope Gregory X
- 1645 - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1573)
- 1778 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (b. 1707)
- 1811 - Marie-Joseph Chénier, French poet (b. 1764)
- 1862 - Samuel Colt, American inventor (b. 1814)
- 1895 - Benjamin Godard, French composer (b. 1849)
- 1917 - William F. Cody, American frontiersman (b. 1846)
- 1934 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist, accused of Reichstag fire (b. 1909)
- 1941 - Frank Bridge, English composer (b. 1879)
- 1941 - Joe Penner, comedian, actor
- 1951 - Sinclair Lewis, American writer (b. 1885)
- 1957 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (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
- 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, comedian
- 1987 - Sir David Robinson, British philanthropist and entrepreneur (b. 1904)
- 1997 - Sheldon Leonard, American producer, actor, director
- 1997 - Elspeth Huxley, journalist, writer
- 2000 - Sam Jaffe, American producer (b. 1901)
- 2004 - Spalding Gray, American actor, screenwriter, and monologue artist (b. 1941)
- 2004 - Alexandra Ripley, author
- 2005 - Gene Baylos, comedian
- 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, sports journalist
- 2005 - Joséphine-Charlotte, Grandduchess of Luxembourg (b. 1927)
[edit] Events
- 49 BC - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon which signalled 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.
- 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. 51 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.
- 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.
