On this day in History - Jan 10

• 49 BC - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon which signalled civil war.
• 0236 - Saint Fabian begins his reign as Catholic Pope .
• 0681 - Pope Agatho dies.
• 1072 - Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.
• 1094 - Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo dies (b. 1029)
• 1259 - São Gonçalo de Amarante dies (b. 1187). Portuguese eclesiast.
• 1276 - Pope Gregory X [Tedaldo Visconti] dies.
• 1475 - Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
• 1480 - Margaret of Austria was born (d. 1530). Regent of the Netherlands.
• 1538 - Louis of Nassau was born (d. 1574). Dutch general.
• 1573 - Simon Marius was born (d. 1624). German astronomer.
• 1607 - Isaac Jogues was born (d. 1646). French Jesuit missionary.
• 1628 - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham was born (d. 1687). English statesman
• 1638 - Nicolas Steno was born (d. 1686). Danish geologist.
• 1644 - Louis François, duc de Boufflers was born (d. 1711). French marshal.
• 1645 - William Laud dies (b. 1573). Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1681 - João Batista Vieira, falecimento de, herói da Insurreição Pernambucana
• 1683 - Gasparo Visconti was born. Composer.
• 1698 - Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont dies (b. 1637). French historian.
• 1702 - Johannes Zick was born (d. 1762). German fresco painter.
• 1707 - Philibert, comte de Gramont dies (b. 1621). French writer.
• 1715 - Christian August Crusius was born (d. 1775). German philosopher and theologian.
• 1721 - Johann Philipp Baratier was born (d. 1740). German scholar.
• 1729 - Lazzaro Spallanzani was born (d. 1799). Italian biologist.
• 1738 - Ethan Allen was born (d. 1789). American Revolution military leader.
• 1754 - Edward Cave dies (b. 1691). English editor and publisher.
• 1761 - Edward Boscawen dies (b. 1711). British admiral.
• 1769 - Michel Ney was born (d. 1815). French marshal.
• 1775 - Yemelyan Pugachev dies. Russian rebel
• 1776 -Thomas Paine's Common Sense, which greatly influenced the authors of the Declaration of Independence, was published.
• 1777 - Spranger Barry dies (b. 1719). Irish actor.
• 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.
• 1794 - Georg Forster was born (d. 1754). German scientist and revolutionary.
• 1797 - Annette von Droste-Hülshoff was born (d. 1848). German writer.
• 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.
• 1811 - African-American slaves in Louisiana rebel in two parishes.
• 1811 - Marie-Joseph Chénier dies (b. 1764). French poet.
• 1812 - Georg Hermann Nicolai was born (d. 1881). German architect.
• 1815 - Sir John Alexander Macdonald dies (b. 1891). First Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1824 - Victor Emanuel I dies at 64. King of Sardinia (1802-21).
• 1828 - Herman Koeckemann was born (d. 1892). German Catholic prelate.
• 1828 - François de Neufchâteau dies (b. 1750). French statesman and intellectual figure.
• 1833 - Adrien-Marie Legendre dies (b. 1752). French mathematician.
• 1836 - Charles Ingalls was born (d. 1902). Father of Laura Ingalls Wilder
• 1840 - Louis Nazaire Bégin was born (d. 1925). French Canadian archbishop and cardinal.
• 1843 - Frank James was born (d. 1915). American outlaw.
• 1849 - Francisco Ferrer Guardia was born (d. 1909). Spanish free-thinker.
• 1850 - John Wellborn Root was born. Architect.
• 1851 - Karl Freiherr von Müffling dies (b. 1775). Prussian field marshal.
• 1858 - Heinrich Zille was born (d. 1929). German illustrator and photographer.
• 1861 - Florida secedes from the United States.
• 1862 - Samuel Colt dies (b. 1814). American inventor.
• 1863 - The first section of the London Underground Railway opens (Paddington to Farringdon Street).
• 1865 - Mary Ingalls was born (d. 1928). Elder sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
• 1866 - Pyotr Pletnyov dies (b. 1792). Russian poet.
• 1869 - Grigori Rasputin was born (d. 1916). Russian monk.
• 1870 - John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
• 1873 - George Orton was born (d. 1958). Canadian athlete.
• 1873 - Jack O'Neill was born (d. 1935). Baseball player.
• 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 was born. Spanish politician, writer and President of II Republic.
• 1883 - Francis X. Bushman was born (d. 1966). American actor.
• 1883 - Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi was born (d. 1945). Russian writer.
• 1883 - Dr Samuel A. Mudd dies (b. 1833). American medical doctor.
• 1887 - Robinson Jeffers was born (d. 1962). American poet.
• 1889 - Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France.
• 1890 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Sapientiae Christianae
• 1890 - Grigory Landsberg was born (d. 1957). Russian physicist.
• 1893 - Vicente Huidobro was born (d. 1948). Chilean poet.
• 1895 - Benjamin Godard dies (b. 1849). French composer.
• 1901 - The first great Texas gusher, oil discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
• 1903 - Dame Barbara Hepworth was born. Sculptor.
• 1903 - Barbara Hepworth was born (d. 1975). British sculptor.
• 1903 - Voldemar Väli was born (d. 1997). Estonian wrestler, Olympic medalist.
• 1904 - Ray Bolger was born (d. 1987). American actor/dancer.
• 1904 - Lamartine Babo was born. Brazilian composer.
• 1904 - Jean-Léon Gérôme dies (b. 1824). French painter and sculptor.
• 1908 - Paul Henreid was born (d. 1993). Austrian actor.
• 1908 - Bernard Lee was born (d. 1981). British actor.
• 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.
• 1913 - Gustáv Husák was born (d. 1991). President of Czechoslovakia.
• 1913 - Mehmet Shehu was born (d. 1981). Albanian politician.
• 1916 - Sune Bergström 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.
• 1916 - Don Metz was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1917 - Jerry Wexler was born. American record producer.
• 1917 - William F. Cody dies (b. 1846). American frontiersman.
• 1918 - Arthur Chung was born. President of Guyana
• 1920 - League of Nations holds its first meeting and ratifies the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I.
• 1920 - Max Patkin was born (d. 1999). American baseball player.
• 1920 - Georges Marchal was born (d. 1997). French actor.
• 1921 - Rodger Ward was born (d. 2004). American race car driver.
• 1922 - Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State.
• 1923 - Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.
• 1924 - Eduardo Chillida was born. Spanish sculptor.
• 1924 - Ludmilla Chiriaeff was born (d. 1996). Canadian ballet dancer, choregrapher and director (Les Grands Ballets Canadiens).
• 1925 - António Sardinha dies in Elvas (b. 1888 in Monforte). Portuguese poet.
• 1925 - Max Roach was born. American drummer and composer.
• 1926 - Júlio Pomar was born in Lisbon. Portuguese painter and designer (Estação do Alto de Moinhos (Lisboa)
• 1927 - The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premiers.
• 1927 - Gisele MacKenzie was born (d. 2003). Canadian singer.
• 1927 - Johnnie Ray was born (d. 1990). American singer.
• 1927 - Otto Stich was born. Swiss politician
• 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.
• 1930 - Roy Edward Disney was born. American film executive.
• 1931 - Peter Barnes was born (d. 2004). English writer.
• 1934 - Leonid Kravchuk was born. Ukrainian politician.
• 1934 - Marinus van der Lubbe dies (b. 1909). Dutch communist accused of setting the Reichstag fire.
• 1935 - Ronnie Hawkins was born. American musician.
• 1935 - Sherrill Milnes was born. American baritone.
• 1936 - Stephen Ambrose was born (d. 2002). American historian.
• 1936 - Robert Wilson was born. American physicist and radio astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1937 - Thomas Penfield Jackson was born. American judge.
• 1938 - Donald Knuth was born. American mathematician and computer scientist.
• 1938 - Willie McCovey was born. American baseball player.
• 1938 - Frank Mahovlich was born. National Hockey League player and Canadian Senator
• 1939 - William Levy was born. Dutch writer.
• 1939 - Sal Mineo was born (d. 1976). American actor.
• 1939 - Bill Toomey was born. American athlete.
• 1939 - Scott McKenzie was born. American singer.
• 1940 - Guy Chevrette was born. Quebec politician
• 1941 - Lend-Lease is introduced into the U.S. Congress.
• 1941 - Frank Bridge dies (b. 1879). English composer.
• 1941 - Sir John Lavery dies (b. 1856). Northern Irish artist.
• 1941 - Joe Penner dies (b. 1904). Hungarian-born comedian and actor.
• 1942 - Mickey Rooney, actor, got married with an younger actress until them not well known, Ava Gardner/ O actor Mickey Rooney de 21 anos casa com uma jovem atriz de 19 anos, até então pouco conhecida, chamada Ava Gardner.
• 1942 - Walter Hill was born. American film director.
• 1943 - Jim Croce was born (d. 1973). American singer.
• 1943 - Agustin P Justo y Rolon President of Argentina (1931-38), dies at 66 .
• 1944 - Frank Sinatra, Jr. was born. American singer.
• 1944 - Rory Byrne was born. South African racing car designer
• 1944 - Bernard Derome was born. French Canadian news presenter (Le Téléjournal)
• 1945 - Edward Wiskoski was born. American professional wrestler
• 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.
• 1946 - Aynsley Dunbar was born. British drummer
• 1947 - Stanford University reported the isolation of the polio virus.
• 1948 - Donald Fagen was born. American keyboardist
• 1948 - Teresa Graves was born (d. 2002). American actress and singer.
• 1948 - Mischa Maisky was born. Latvian cellist
• 1948 - William Sanderson was born. American actor
• 1948 - Bernard Thévenet was born. French cyclist
• 1949 - George Foreman was born. American boxer.
• 1949 - James Lapine was born. American stage director.
• 1949 - Linda Lovelace was born (d. 2002). American pornographic film actress.
• 1951 - Sinclair Lewis dies (b. 1885). American writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1951 - Yoshio Nishina dies (b. 1890). Japanese physicist.
• 1952 - Scott Thurston was born. American musician, songwriter
• 1953 - Pat Benatar was born. American singer
• 1953 - Dennis Cooper was born. American author
• 1953 - Bobby Rahal was born. American race car driver
• 1955 - Michael Schenker was born. German guitarist (UFO)
• 1956 - Shawn Colvin was born. American singer.
• 1956 - Antonio Muñoz Molina was born. Spanish writer.
• 1957 - Gabriela Mistral dies (b. 1889). Chilean poetess, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1945.
• 1957 - Harold Macmillan becomes the prime minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1958 - Shawn Colvin was born. Folk singer .
• 1958 - Anatoly Pisarenko was born. Soviet weightlifter
• 1959 - Simon Sunatori was born. Canadian inventor
• 1959 - Fran Walsh was born. New Zealand screenwriter
• 1960 - Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser lays the foundation stone of the Aswan High Dam, Egypt.
• 1960 - Benoît Pelletier was born. Quebec politician
• 1960 - Jack Laviolette dies (b. 1879). National Hockey League player.
• 1961 - Evan Handler was born. American actor
• 1961 - Janet Jones was born. American actress, wife of Wayne Gretzky
• 1961 - Dashiell Hammett dies (b. 1894). American writer.
• 1962 - Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages & kill 3,500.
• 1964 - Panama severs diplomatic relations with US .
• 1964 - Brad Roberts was born. Canadian singer (Crash Test Dummies)
• 1965 - Sirr al-Khatim al-Khalifa, the Sudanese prime minister, admits to providing aid to Congolese rebels.
• 1965 - Zetti (Armelino Donizte Quagliato) was born. Brazilian football player (goalkeeper)
• 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.
• 1970 - Marcus Bagwell was born. American professional wrestler
• 1970 - Pavel Belyayev dies (b. 1925). Cosmonaut.
• 1971 - Sergi Bruguera was born. Italian tennis star.
• 1971 - Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel dies (b. 1883) . French fashion designer.
• 1972 - Mujibur Rahman assume o cargo de primeiro chefe de governo do novo Estado independente de Bangladesh.
• 1972 - Thomas Alsgaard was born. Norwegian cross-country skier
• 1972 - Brian Lawler was born. American professional wrestler
• 1972 - Aksel Larsen dies (b. 1897). Danish politician.
• 1973 - El cineasta español Luis Buñuel, galardonado en Hollywood con el premio al mejor filme extranjero por "El discreto encanto de la burguesía".
• 1973 - Ryan Drummond was born. American voice actor
• 1973 - Glenn Robinson was born. American basketball player in the NBA
• 1974 - Steve Marlet was born. French footballer
• 1974 - Hrithik Roshan was born. Indian actor
• 1975 -Ugandan diplomat Bernadette Olowo is the first female ambassador to the Vatican.
• 1975 - Jake Delhomme was born. American football player
• 1976 - Adam Kennedy was born. Baseball player.
• 1976 - Howlin' Wolf dies (b. 1910). American musician.
• 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.
• 1978 - Gavin McCann was born. English football player
• 1978 - Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal dies (b. 1924). Nicaraguan journalist.
• 1980 - Janelle Pierzina was born. American television personality
• 1980 - George Meany dies (b. 1894). American labor leader.
• 1980 - Bo Rein dies (b. 1945). Former college football coach at North Carolina State and LSU
• 1980 - Hughie Critz dies (b. 1900). Baseball player.
• 1981 - Katherine Alexander dies (b. 1898). American actress.
• 1981 - Richard Boon dies (b. 1917). American actor.
• 1981 - Fawn M. Brodie dies (b. 1915). American historian.
• 1982 - Paul Lynde dies (b. 1926). American comedian.
• 1982 - Josh Ryan Evans was born (d. 2002). American actor.
• 1982 - The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C was recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire. This equaled the record set in the same place on February 11, 1895. The record would be equalled again at Altnaharra on December 30, 1995
• 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 dies at 82. Premier of Laos.
• 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.
• 1985 - Anton Karas dies (b. 1906). Viennese zither player and composer.
• 1986 - Jaroslav Seifert dies (b. 1901). Czech writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1987 - Sir David Robinson dies (b. 1904). British philanthropist and entrepreneur.
• 1987 - Marion Hutton dies (b. 1919). American singer and actress.
• 1989 - Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola.
• 1989 - Valentin Petrovich Glushko dies (b. 20 Aug 1908). Soviet rocket scientist who was a pioneer developer of rocket engines (1946-74).
• 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
• 1997 - Elspeth Huxley dies (b. 1907). British journalist and writer.
• 1997 - Sheldon Leonard dies (b. 1907). American producer, actor, and director.
• 1997 - Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd dies (b. 1907). Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1999 - The Sopranos airs its pilot episode on HBO.
• 1999 - A large piece of the chalk cliff at Beachy Head collapsed into the sea.
• 2000 - America Online announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion, the largest corporate merger in history.
• 2000 - Sam Jaffe dies (b. 1901). American producer.
• 2001 - Wikipedia starts as part of Nupedia. It becomes a separate site five days later.
• 2003 - North Korea announced that it was withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
• 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 dies 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.
• 2005 - A mudslide occurred in La Conchita, CA killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing the Highway 101, the main coastal corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles, for 10 days.
• 2005 - Gene Baylos dies (b. 1906). American comedian.
• 2005 - Metropolitan Wasyly Fedak dies (b. 1909). Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada.
• 2005 - Margherita Carosio dies (b. 1908). Italian soprano.
• 2005 - James Forman dies (b. 1928). American civil rights leader.
• 2005 - Erwin Hillier dies (b. 1911). British cinematographer.
• 2005 - Gordon John "Jack" Horner dies (b. 1912). American sports journalist.
• 2005 - Joséphine-Charlotte dies (b. 1927). Grandduchess of Luxembourg.