What are the important events that happened on January 10? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
January 10: Facts & Myths About This Day
January 10 is the 10th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 356 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 28, 2023 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,414,080 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘decagon’ day.
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Capricorn is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 31 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,037 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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January 10 Historical Events
- 49 BC –Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
- 1645 –Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union.
- 1870 –John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
- 1920 –The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
- 1922 –Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State.
- 1946 –The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the moon and receiving the reflected signals.
- 1954 –BOAC Flight 781 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 explodes into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
- 1984 –The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations after 117 years.
- 2005 –A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing U.S. Route 101, the main coastal corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles, for 10 days.
Who were born on January 10?
- 1908 –Bernard Lee, English actor (d. 1981)
- 1931 –Peter Barnes, English writer (d. 2004)
- 1939 –Bill Toomey, American athlete
- 1939 –Sonosuke Fujimaki, Japanese fencer
- 1940 –Guy Chevrette, Quebec politician
- 1945 –Gunther von Hagens, German anatomist
- 1954 –Greg Towns, Australian rules footballer
- 1966 –Jeremy Sims, Australian actor
- 1985 –Abdulkader Dakka, Syrian footballer
- 1989 –Kyle Reimers, Australian rules footballer
Who died on January 10?
- 1645 –William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1573)
- 1824 –King Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia (b. 1759)
- 1833 –Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (b. 1752)
- 1883 –Dr Samuel A. Mudd, American medical doctor (b. 1833)
- 1917 –William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, American frontiersman (b. 1846)
- 1981 –Richard Boone, American actor (b. 1917)
- 1989 –Herbert Morrison, American radio reporter (b. 1905)
- 1995 –Kathleen Tynan, Canadian-British journalist, author and screenwriter (b. 1937)
- 2000 –Sam Jaffe, American producer (b. 1901)
- 2007 –Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (b. 1912)
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