Notable Historical Events on January 10th
January 10th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
49 |
Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war. |
BC AD | |
69 |
Roman emperor Galba adopts Marcus Piso Licinianus as Caesar |
236 |
St Fabian begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
1072 |
Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo |
1356 |
German emperor Charles I delegates Golden Degree |
1429 |
Order of Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary & Spain |
1430 |
Order of the Guilder forms |
1475 |
Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui. |
1514 |
Complutensian New Testament in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek & Latin finished |
1550 |
1st sitting of "Vurige Chamber" in Paris |
1642 |
King Charles I & family flee London for Oxford |
1663 |
King Charles II affirms charter of Royal African Company |
1731 |
Charles Farnese becomes duke of Parma/Piacenza |
1776 |
"Common Sense" Pamphlet by Thomas Paine, published advocating American independence |
1799 |
Friedrich von Schiller's "Die Piccolomini," premieres in Weimar |
1806 |
Dutch in Capetown surrender to British |
1808 |
Herman Daendels succeeds A Wiese as gov-gen of Neth Indies |
1811 |
Louisiana slaves rebell in 2 parishes |
1833 |
Felix Mendelssohn's "Die erste Walpurgisnacht," premieres in Berlin |
1839 |
Tea from India 1st arrives in UK |
1840 |
Penny Post mail system starts |
1845 |
Poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning begin corresponding |
1853 |
Charles Reade's "Gold," premieres in London |
1861 |
Fort Jackson & Fort Philip are taken over by LA state troops (US Civil War) |
1861 |
US forts & property seized by Mississippi |
1861 |
Florida secedes from the Union (US Civil War) |
1862 |
Battle of Big Sandy River, KY (Middle Creek) |
1862 |
Battle of Romney, WV |
1863 |
1st underground railway opens in London |
1863 |
General McClernand's Union troops surround Fort Hindman Ark |
1863 |
January-uprising begins in Poland |
1870 |
Georgia legislature reconvenes |
1870 |
John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil |
1878 |
US Senate proposes female suffrage |
1883 |
Fire at uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin kills 71. General Tom Thumb of P T Barnum fame, escapes unhurt |
1889 |
Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France |
1890 |
Edward Macdowell's "Lancelot & Elaine," premieres |
1890 |
Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Sapientiae Christianae |
1893 |
Richard Drigo's ballet "Magic Flute" premieres, St Petersburg |
1897 |
Henrik Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman," premieres in Helsingfors |
1897 |
Vincent d'Indy's "Istar" premieres in Amsterdam & Brussels |
1900 |
Lord Roberts & Lord Kitchener reach Capetown |
1901 |
Oil discovered in Texas |
1902 |
Alphons Diepenbrock's "Te Deum" premieres (Amsterdam) |
1902 |
Although it has professed neutrality in the Boer War, German Chancellor von Bulow joins others in attacking British actions in South Africa |
1906 |
The British and French begin consultations on military and naval issues |
1910 |
1st international air meet in US held, in LA |
1910 |
Lunt-Fontanne Theater (Globe) opens at 205 W 46th St NYC |
1911 |
1st photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego |
1911 |
Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified) |
1911 |
Trumper scored double cricket ton v South Africa, goes on to get 214 |
1912 |
Caillaux government in France resigns |
1912 |
World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in NY) |
1914 |
1st edition of Hague's Post under SF van Oss, published |
1914 |
Oscar Mathisen skates world record 500 m in 43.7 sec in Oslo |
1914 |
Yuan Shih-k'ai, president of the new Chinese republic, dissolves parliament and prepares a constitution of his own design: he will set himself up as dictator, preparatory to an attempt to make himself emperor |
1916 |
Russian offensive in Kaukasus |
1916 |
In retaliation for President Wilson's recognition of the Carranza government, members of Pacho Villa's revolutionary army take 17 American mining engineers from a train and shoot 16 of them in cold blood |
1917 |
The Allied Governments respond to US President Wilson's December 1916 note, giving their terms for ending the war |
1920 |
Mont Canadiens (14) & Tor St Patricks (7) score NHL record 21 goals |
1920 |
Silver reaches record $1.37 an ounce |
1923 |
Last US troops leave Rhineland (Germany) |
1923 |
Lithuania seizes & annexes country of Memel |
1925 |
France-Saarland forms |
1925 |
Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as TX gov, nation's 2nd woman governor |
1927 |
Fritz Lang's Metropolis premieres |
1928 |
G/I Gershwin/Romberg/Wodehouse's musical "Rosalie," premieres in NYC |
1928 |
Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky |
1929 |
Elmer Rice's "Street Scene," premieres in NYC |
1930 |
Commencement of NZ's 1st Test, v England Christchurch |
1930 |
Maurice Allom takes Test hat-trick England v NZ Christchurch |
1930 |
Mordovian Autonomous Region in RSFSR constituted |
1931 |
Phila Quakers defeat Montreal, ends NHL-record 15-game losing streak |
1932 |
"Mickey Mouse" & "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated |
1932 |
"Pete the Tramp" cartoon strip by C D Russell debuts |
1938 |
Eduard van Beinum becomes world's 1st conductor at Concert Hall |
1938 |
Jean Anouilh's "La Sauvage," premieres in Paris |
1938 |
Paul Vincent Carroll's "White Seed," premieres in NYC |
1939 |
Bradman hits 186 SA v Qld before Christ catches him at short-leg |
1941 |
Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic & Old Lace," premieres in NYC |
1941 |
Seyss-Inquart begins registration of Jews |
1941 |
World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura. |
1942 |
Japan invades North-Celebes, Neth Indies |
1943 |
Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad |
1943 |
1st US pres to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco |
1944 |
1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Phila |
1944 |
British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma |
1945 |
LA Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close |
1945 |
No one is elected to baseball's Hall of Fame |
1946 |
UN General Assembly meets for 1st time (London) |
1946 |
US Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon, Belmar, NJ |
1947 |
"Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 725 performances |
1947 |
British stop ships Independence & In-Gathering from landing in Israel |
1947 |
Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard |
1948 |
"Call Me Mister" closes at National Theater NYC after 734 performances |
1949 |
1st Jewish family show "Goldbergs" premieres on CBS |
1949 |
RCA introduces 45 RPM record |
1951 |
1st jet passenger trip made |
1951 |
UN headquarters opens in Manhattan NY |
1952 |
Jean Anouilh's "La valse des toréadors," premieres in Paris |
1953 |
"My Darlin' Aida" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 89 perfs |
1953 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Archibald MacLeish |
1953 |
NFL Pro Bowl: National Conference beats American Conference 27-7 |
1954 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to W H Auden |
1956 |
Elvis records "Heartbreak Hotel" |
1957 |
Anthony Eden resigns & Harold Macmillan becomes PM Britain |
1957 |
Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick rules Bing Crosby can keep token stock in the Det Tigers, even though he owns part of Pittsburgh Pirates |
1958 |
Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 on the UK pop charts |
1960 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz |
1962 |
4,000 die in avalanche, Ranrahirca, Peru |
1962 |
Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages & kill 3,500 |
1964 |
Battles between moslems & hindus in Calcutta |
1964 |
Panama severs diplomatic relations with US |
1964 |
US version of "That Was The Week That Was," premieres |
1965 |
Bollingen prize for poetry awarded to Horace Gregory |
1965 |
NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 34-14 |
1965 |
WKBD TV channel 50 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting |
1966 |
India & Pakistan sign peace accord |
1966 |
Julian Bond denied seat in Ga legislature for opposing Vietnam War |
1967 |
Edward Brooke, takes (Sen-R-Mass) seat as 1st popular elected black |
1967 |
Lester Maddox inaugurated as governor of Georgia |
1967 |
PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network |
1968 |
US Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho |
1969 |
Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland |
1969 |
Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam |
1969 |
USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus |
1970 |
Preview Center Opens |
1971 |
"Light, Lively & Yiddish" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 87 perfs |
1971 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur |
1971 |
Members of the Irish Republican Army carry out a 'punishment attack' by tarring and feathering 4 men accused of criminal activities in Catholic areas of Belfast |
1972 |
Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman arrives in Dacca, East-Pakistan |
1972 |
Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK |
1973 |
Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die |
1977 |
20th hat trick in Islander history - Bobby Nystrom |
1978 |
Soyuz 27 carring 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched |
1979 |
1st brother Billy Carter makes allegedly anti-Semitic remarks |
1979 |
Entertainer of the Year Awards |
1980 |
Last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC |
1980 |
Jim Stewart, Bruin's rookie goalie allows 3 goals in his 1st 4 mins & a total of 5 in 1st period; he never again plays in NHL |
1981 |
El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive" |
1981 |
John Severin sets 100-mi unicycle speed record, 9 h 21 m |
1982 |
-17°F (27.2°C) in Braemar Grampian (equals UK record) |
1982 |
"Freezer Bowl", Bengals beat Chargers in -59°F (-51°C) to win AFC championship |
1982 |
Petra Schneider swims world record 1500 m freestyle (15:43.31) |
1982 |
"The Catch" - iconic moment in NFL history - Dwight Clark makes a fingertip catch for a touchdown from Joe Montana with 58 seconds left (SF 49ers win the game and go on to win the Super Bowl) |
1983 |
NY Supreme Court issues a preliminary injunction barring NY Yankees from playing season-opening series against Tigers in Denver |
1984 |
Argentine ex-president/general Bignone arrested |
1984 |
Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashs at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die |
1984 |
Clara Peller 1st asks, "Where's the Beef?" |
1984 |
Luis Aparicio, Harmon Killebrew, & D Drysdale elected to Hall of Fame |
1984 |
US establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years |
1985 |
Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as president of Nicaragua |
1986 |
Palau signs Compact of Free Association with US |
1986 |
STS 61-C mission scrubbed T -9m because of bad weather at Kennedy |
1988 |
"Don't Get God Started" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 86 perfs |
1990 |
"Les Miserables," opens at Mechanic Theatre, Baltimore |
1990 |
China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre) |
1990 |
NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players |
1991 |
Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans |
1991 |
US Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis |
1992 |
8th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins |
1993 |
"My Favorite Year" closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC after 37 perfs |
1993 |
"Sea Gull" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 48 performances |
1993 |
Maiden flight of Ultrair (Houston to LA) |
1994 |
Trial of Lorena Bobbitt who cut off her husband's penis, begins |
1994 |
Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal |
1994 |
Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan agrees to abolish trade tariffs |
1995 |
"Late Late Show" with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS at 12:30 AM |
1996 |
Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners |
1996 |
Jimmy Johnson announced as new coach of Miami Dolphins |
1997 |
"Rehersal," closes at Criterion Theater NYC |
1997 |
1st Comet of 1997 Discovered: Comet 1997 A1 |
1997 |
4,000th episode of "Entertainment Tonight" |
1997 |
Dow Corning provides $295 billion to settle breast implant suits |
1997 |
Italy's new 1,000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map |
1997 |
Right-winger Arnoldo Aleman sworn in as president of Nicaragua |
1998 |
18th United Negro College Fund raises (rebroadcasted Jan 17th) |
1999 |
25th People's Choice Awards: Tom Hanks & Sandra Bullock win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Helen Hunt win (TV) |
1999 |
Fatboy Slim (Norman Cook) achieves his third UK No.1 single with 'Praise You' |
1999 |
"The Sopranos", starring James Gandolfini as mobster Tony Soprano, debuts on HBO |
2001 |
A large piece of the chalk cliff at Beachy Head collapses into the sea. |
2001 |
The White House announces it will not designate the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as a national monument; environmentalist groups had been pressing for national monument status for the ANWR to prevent oil drilling |
2005 |
A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing the Highway 101, the main coastal corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles, for 10 days. |
2006 |
32nd People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Sandra Bullock win (Motion Picture) and Ray Romano & Jennifer Garner win (TV) |
2010 |
The US economy is expected to get worse with more job cuts, it is reported today |
2011 |
Lionel Messi wins the inaugural FIFA Ballon d'Or, for being the best football player in 2010 |
2011 |
Ian McKellen officially confirms that he will reprise the role of Gandalf in "The Hobbit" film adaptations |
2013 |
81 people are killed and 120 are wounded by a twin bombing in Quetta, Pakistan |
2013 |
39th People's Choice Awards: Robert Downey, Jr & Jennifer Lawrence win (Movie Star) and Nathan Fillion & Ellen Pompeo win (TV Drama) |
2017 |
Cristiano Ronaldo beats Lionel Messi to win Fifa best player award |
2018 |
California mudslides kill at least 13 in area ravaged by wildfire |
2018 |
Little damage as mag 7.6 quake hits in sea north of Honduras |
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