On this day in History - Jan. 10

• 49 BC - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon which signalled civil war.
• 0236 -St Fabian begins his reign as Catholic Pope .
• 0681 - Pope Agatho dies.
• 1072- Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.
• 1276 - Pope Gregory X [Tedaldo Visconti] dies.
• 1645 - William Laud, arcebispo de Canterbury, é acusado de traição e decapitado.
• 1681 - João Batista Vieira, falecimento de, herói da Insurreição Pernambucana
• 1683 - Gasparo Visconti was born, composer.
• 1776 -Thomas Paine's Common Sense, which greatly influenced the authors of the Declaration of Independence, was published.
• 1778 - Carolus Linnaeus dies (born 23 May 1707) Swedish botanist and explorer who was the first to frame principles for defining genera and species of organisms and to create a uniform system for naming them.
• 1806 - Dutch in Cape Town surrender to the British.
• 1808 - Pelas 11 horas da manhã, a frota que levava a corte para o Brasil, cruza a linha do Equador. D. Maria I e o Príncipe Regente tornavam-se os primeiros monarcas europeus a passar para o hemisfério austral.
• 1809 - Caiena, capital da Guiana francesa, a Norte do Brasil, é conquistada pelo exército português. A capitulação foi assinada no dia 12.
• 1810 - Marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled.
• 1824 - Victor Emanuel I, King of Sardinia (1802-21), dies at 64.
• 1850 -John Wellborn Root was born, architect .
• 1861 - Florida secedes from the United States.
• 1862 - Samuel Colt, American inventor (b. 1814).
• 1863 - The first section of the London Underground Railway opens (Paddington to Farringdon Street).
• 1869 - Grigori Rasputin, nacimiento de, místico y cortesano ruso.
• 1870 - John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
• 1877 - Se establece en España el servicio militar obligatorio (cuatro años de servicio activo y cuatro en la reserva).
• 1878 - A. Sargent, senador dos Estados Unidos da América pelo estado da Califórnia, apresentou uma proposta de Emenda Constitucional, dando o direito de voto às mulheres. A Emenda só foi aprovada em 1920.
• 1880 - Manuel Azaña, nacimiento de , político, escritor y presidente de la II República española.
• 1883 - Aleksei Tolstoy, was born ,writer (d. 1945) .
• 1887 - Robinson Jeffers was born; poet.
• 1989 - Valentin Petrovich Glushko dies (born 20 Aug 1908) Soviet rocket scientist who was a pioneer developer of rocket engines (1946-74).
• 1889 - Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France.
• 1890 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Sapientiae Christianae
• 1893 - Vicente Huidobro, nacimiento de , poeta chileno.
• 1901 - The first great Texas gusher, oil discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
• 1903 - Dame Barbara Hepworth was born, sculptor.
• 1904 - Lamartine Babo, nascimento de, compositor brasileiro da MPB.
• 1910- Galina Ulanova, was born in S.Petersburgo [d. 1998]; Russian ballerina(Bolshoi).
• 1912 - O primeiro hidroavião, inventado por Glenn Curtiss, realizou o seu primeiro vôo em Hammondsport, no estado americano de Nova Iorque.
• 1916 - Sune K. Bergström was born, Swedish biochemist who shared the 1982 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, (with Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson and John Robert Vane) for the isolation, identification, and analysis of prostaglandins and related biologically active substances.
• 1920 -The League of Nations came into existence.
• 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.
• 1924 - Eduardo Chillida, nascimento de, escultor espanhol.
• 1927 - The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premiers.
• 1928 - Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky .
• 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.
• 1936 - Robert Woodrow Wilson, nascimento de, cientista americano, Prêmio Nobel de Física 1978.
• 1941 - Lend-Lease is introduced into the U.S. Congress.
• 1942 - O ator Mickey Rooney de 21 anos casa com uma jovem atriz de 19 anos, até então pouco conhecida, chamada Ava Gardner.
• 1943 -Agustin P Justo y Rolon President of Argentina (1931-38), dies at 66 .
• 1945 - Rod Stewart, was born , English singer .
• 1945 -Frank Sinatra Jr, was born in Jersey City NJ, singer / bandleader (Golddigers)
• 1946 - First General Assembly of the United Nations with 51 countries represented.
• 1946-The first General Assembly of the United Nations convened in London.
• 1947- Stanford University reported the isolation of the polio virus.
• 1948 - Teresa Graves, American actress, singer (d. 2002) .
• 1949 - George Foreman was born, boxer .
• 1949 - Linda Lovelace,was born, pornographic film actress (d. 2002)
• 1953 - Pat Benatar, was born, Polish-American singer .
• 1956 - Antonio Muñoz Molina, nacimiento de, escritor español.
• 1957 - Gabriela Mistral, fallecimiento de (n. 1889) ; poetisa chilena que obtuvo el Premio Nóbel de Literatura em 1945.
• 1957 - Harold Macmillan becomes the prime minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1958 - Shawn Colvin was born, folk singer .
• 1960 -Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser lays the foundation stone of the Aswan High Dam, Egypt.
• 1962 -Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages & kill 3,500.
• 1964-Panama severs diplomatic relations with US .
• 1965 -Sirr al-Khatim al-Khalifa, the Sudanese prime minister, admits to providing aid to Congolese rebels.
• 1967 - The first African-American senator elected by popular vote, Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, took his seat.
• 1969 -Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam.
• 1969 - After 147 years, the last issue of the Saturday Evening Post is published.
• 1971 -Sergi Bruguera, was born , Italian tennis star.
• 1971 - Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer, dies (b. 1883) .
• 1972 - Mujibur Rahman assume o cargo de primeiro chefe de governo do novo Estado independente de Bangladesh.
• 1973 - El cineasta español Luis Buñuel, galardonado en Hollywood con el premio al mejor filme extranjero por "El discreto encanto de la burguesía".
• 1975 -Ugandan diplomat Bernadette Olowo is the first female ambassador to the Vatican.
• 1977 -Lord Alexander R. Todd died (born 2 Oct 1907) Baron Alexander Robertus Todd (of Trumpington) was a British biochemist whose research on the structure and synthesis of nucleotides, nucleosides, and nucleotide coenzymes gained him the 1957 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
• 1978 -Pedro Joaquín Chamorro director and owner of La Prensa, is assassinated in Managua .
• 1984 - Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashs at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die .
• 1984-The U.S. and the Vatican reestablished diplomatic relations after a 117-year break 1984 - Suvanna Phuma, Premier of Laos, dies at 82 .
• 1984 - The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations.
• 1984 - Argentine ex-president General Bignone arrested .
• 1985 - Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as President of Nicaragua .
• 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).
• 1995 - El Rey de España, Juan Carlos I y el ex presidente de Estados Unidos, Jimmy Carter obtienen el Premio de la Paz de la UNESCO.
• 1997 -Right-winger Arnoldo Aleman sworn in as President of Nicaragua
• 2000 - America Online announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion, the largest corporate merger in history.
• 2003 -Jose Maria Gutierrez dies of a heart attack at age 69.Argentinean actor/writer/director was nominated for the Palm d’Or for Best short film in 1969 for "El Triunfo de la Muerte." Mr. Gutierrez appeared in over thirty films and directed another six.
• 2004 - Sidney Miller died of Parkinson's Disease at age 87; Actor/director/composer he appeared in over 100 films and directed a number of television shows.
• 2004 - Alexandra Ripley died of natural causes at age 71. Ms. Ripley was chosen by the estate of Margaret Mitchell to write "Scarlett," a sequel to "Gone With the Wind." Ms. Ripley specialized in writing historical novels.