Birthdates Which Occur on January 10:
1502 Hendrik Niclaes German/Dutch merchant/cult leader (Children of God)
1635 Willem … Brakel Frisian theologist (Reasonable religion)
1644 Louis Boufflers marshall of France
1683 Gasparo Visconti composer
1701 Johann Caspar Simon composer
1738 Ethan Allen Revolutionary War fighter (led Green Mtn Boys)
1747 Abraham L Breguet French clock maker
1760 Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg composer
1766 Louis Massonneau composer
1768 James Varicick 1st AME Zion Bishop
1769 Michel Ney French marshal (Waterloo)
1780 M Heinrich C Lichtenstein German zoologist
1814 Aubrey de Vere Irish writer (Victorian Observer)
1815 Alexander Brydie Dyer Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1874
and Thomas Williams Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1825 Alexander Travis Hawthorn Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1834 John Acton English historian/parliament leader
1854 Peter Gast composer
1855 Peter J Blok Dutch historian (History of the Dutch People)
1858 Heinrich Zille German cartoonist (Cheerful Bl„tter, Simplicissimus)
1864 George Washington Carver agricultural scientist [or Jul 12]
1867 Gerhard Anschtz German parliament member
1876 Johannes W "Jan" Eisenloeffel Dutch goldsmith
1877 Frederick Gardner Cottrell inventor (elecrostatic precipitator)
1880 Eduard M Meijers Dutch lawyer (Short Cause)
and French van Cauwelaert Flemish minister/mayor of Antwerp
and Grock [Adrien Wettach], Swiss clown/circus director
and Manuel Aza¤a y D¡az PM/pres of 2nd Spanish republic (1936-39)
1882 Charles Trowbridge Vera Cruz Mexico, actor (Fatal Hour)
1883 Aleksei Tolstoi Russian poet/writer (Pjotr Peroyj) [NS]
and Florence Reed Phila, silent film actress (Dancing Girl)
and Francis X Bushman Norfolk VA, silent film actor (Ben Hur)
1884 James Philip Dunn composer
1886 Jose Antonio de Donostia composer
1887 Robinson Jeffers US, poet/playwright (Tamar & Other Poems, Medea)
1888 Emile van Bosch revue/operetta-artist (Showmen)
and Grock Switzerland, clown
1890 Douglas MacLean Phila, silent film comedian/producer (Going Up)
and Ernest Milton SF CA, actor (Cat Girl, Fiddler's Three)
1891 Jos Speybrouck Flemish painter
1892 Dumas Malone Miss, historian (Jefferson & His Time)
1894 Reginald Denham London, Broadway director (Obsession, The Bad Seed)
1897 Albert Moeschinger composer
1898 Sergei M Eisenstein Russian director (Alexandr Nevski) [OS]
19-- Bonnie Hellman SF Calif, actress (Penny Brooks-Nurse)
and Michael Schenker heavy metal rocker (MSG-Coming on Strong)
1901 Pauline Starke Joplin MO, actress (Dante's Inferno, Dance Magic)
1903 Dame Barbara Hepworth English sculptor
and Jean Morel Abbeville France, conductor
and Jens A Schade Danish writer (Schadebogen, Losses Híjsang)
1904 Jesus Garcia Leoz composer
and Ray Bolger Dorchester Mass, actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz)
1908 Bernard Lee London England, actor (M in James Bond movies)
and Paul Henreid Trieste, actor (Casablanca, 4 Horsemen of Apocalypse)
1909 Rudolf Kubin composer
1910 Galina Ulanova Russia, ballerina (Bolshoi)
and Jean Martinon Lyons France, conductor/composer
1913 Gustav Husak president of Czechoslavakia (1975-89)
1914 Claude Gallimard France, publisher
and Polly Rowles Phila Pa, actress (Aunt Laurie-Jamie)
1915 Dean Dixon Zug Switzerland, conductor
1917 Jerry Wexler music producer (Aretha Franklin/Bob Dylan)
1920 Georges Marchal Nancy France, actor (Evil Eden, Gina, Milky Way)
1925 Maxwell Roach composer
1927 Gisele MacKenzie Winnipeg Manitoba, singer/actress (Your Hit Parade)
and Johnnie Ray Dallas OR, pop singer (Cry)
and Lee Philips Bkln NY, actor (Ellery Queen)
1928 Donald Brooks fashion designer (Emmy 1983)
and Wallace Berry composer
1931 Alexander L "Alex" Boraine S Africa vicar/member of parliament
1933 Akira Miyoshi composer
1935 Georg Katzer composer
and Ronnie Hawkins Ark, rocker (The Band-Who Do You Love?)
and Sherrill Milnes Hinsdale Illinois, baritone
1938 Ivan Twigden English contractor/multi-millionaire (Twigden PLC)
and Willie "Stretch" McCovey 1st baseman (SF Giant #44)
1939 Bill Toomey Phila Pa, decathelete (Olympic-gold-68)
and Sal Mineo NYC, actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause)
1942 A Y Petrushenko cosmonaut
and Jim Croce Phila, rock vocalist (Time in a Bottle)
and Walter Hill director (48 Hours, Extreme Prejudice)
1945 Frank Sinatra Jr Jersey City NJ, singer/bandleader (Golddigers)
and Rod Stewart London, singer (Maggie Mae, Do You Think I'm Sexy)
1946 Alexis Nihon Jr Bahamas, wrestler (Olympics-1968)
and Bob Lang rock bassist (Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders)
1947 George Alec Effinger US, sci-fi author (Nick of Time)
1948 Cyril Neville US singer/percussionist (Neville Bros-Yellow Moon)
and Donald Fagen Passaic NJ, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Steely Dan-Peg)
and George Foreman Houston Tx, world HW boxing champ (1973-74, 95)
and William Sanderson Memphis Tenn, actor (Newhart, Blade runner)
1949 Linda Lovelace [Boreman], Yonkers NY, XXX actress (Deep Throat)
and Teresa Graves Houston Tx, actress (Laugh-in, Get Christie Love)
and Walter S Browne US chess champion (1974-78, 1980-84)
1952 Scott Thurston keyboardist/guitarist (Motels-Only the Lonely)
1953 Bobby Rahal Indy-car racer (over 15 wins)
and Pat Benatar [Andrezejewski], Bkln NY, singer (Hell Is for Children)
1955 Luci Martin rocker
1959 Chandra Cheesborough Jacksonville Fla, 4X100 runner (Olympic-gold-84)
and Don Letts rocker (Bad)
196- Julie Moran TV hostess (Entertainment Tonight)
1961 Evan Handler NYC, actor (Dear Mr Wonderful)
and Nadja Salerni-Sonnenberg Rome Italy, concert violinist
1963 Frank W˜nhoven soccer player (NEC)
1964 Karen Josephson Bristol Ct, synchronized swimmer (Olympic-gold-1992)
and Krista Tesreau St Louis Mo, actress (Tina-OLTL, Silk Stalkings)
and Sarah Josephson Bristol Ct, synchronized swimmer (Olympic-gold-1992)
1965 Nathan rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret)
1967 Mick Hankers Dutch dancer (Josephine, Sound of Motown)
1968 Lyle Menendez NY, accused of killing his parents (Menendez Brothers)
1973 Berry Radstraat soccer player (NEC)
1975 Shannon Kavanaugh Boston Mass, rocker (Ivory Soul)
1979 Chris H E Smith [Daddy Mack], Atlanta, rapper (Kris Kross-Warm it Up)
Deaths Which Occured January 10:
681 Agatho Sicilian pope (678-81), dies
866 Lin-chi I-hsuan [J Rinzai Gigen], Zen teacher, dies
976 John I Tzimisces emperor of Byzantium (969-76), dies
1271 Otto II the Lamme earl of Gelre
1276 Gregorius X [Tedaldo Visconti], pope, dies
1542 Gerardus Noviomagus [Gerrit Geldenhauer], theologist, dies at 59
1645 William Laud archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded at 71
1674 Jacob de Witte mayor (Dordrecht)/mathematician, dies
1754 Daniel Raap porceleinist, dies at about 51
1768 Charles Cressent French (court)furniture maker, dies at 82
1775 Jemeljan Pugatshov Russian kosak leader/"czar Peter III", dies
1778 Carolus Lin‘us "Carl von Linn‚" Swedish botanist/explorer, dies at 70
1780 Francesco A Vallotti Italian organist/composer/theorist, dies at 82
1789 Pierre Lyonet zoologist, dies
1792 Jean-Louis Laruette composer, dies at 60
1800 Johan Wikmanson composer, dies at 46
1811 Marie-Joseph de Ch‚nier French poet (Chant du D‚part), dies
1824 Victor Emmanuel I king of Sardinia (1802-21), dies at 64
1833 Antoinio da Silva Leite composer, dies at 73
1846 Etienne P de Senancour French writer (De l'amour), dies
1862 Samuel Colt inventor (6 shot revolver), dies at 47
1871 Pierre A du Terrail French writer, dies
1876 Charles EH de Coussemaker Belgian musicologist/historian, dies at 70
1889 Martin Andreas Udbye composer, dies at 69
1892 Heinrich Ludwig Egmont Dorn composer, dies at 91
1895 Benjamin Godard composer, dies at 45
1899 Gerard Keller writer (Vlugmaren), dies at 69
1908 Anna S Barbiers actress (Klaasje Zevenster), dies at 65
1927 August(us) Alleb‚ painter/lithograph, dies
1934 Marinus van der Lubbe communist, beheaded in Berlin at 24
1935 Edwin H Flack English 800/1500m runner (Oly-gold-1896), dies at 60
1938 Willem de Vreese Flemish linguist, dies
1939 Jameson Thomas actor (Piccadilly, Farmer's Wife), dies at 50
Julius Bittner Austria composer (Missa Austriaca), dies at 64
1941 Frank Bridge composer, dies at 61
Joseph Schmidlin German church historian, murdered at 67
1943 Agustin P Justo y Rolon president (Argentina 1931-38), dies at 66
Agustin P Justo y Rolon president (Argentina 1931-38)
J Arthur S Berson Austrian meteorologist, dies
1944 Frank Bridge English violinist/composer (Sea), dies at 61
1951 Athos Palma composer, dies at 60
Harry Sinclair Lewis US writer (Nobel 1930), dies
1953 Theo Mackeben German pianist/composer (Der Goldene K„fig), dies at 56
1954 Fred Raymond composer, dies at 53
1956 Henricus P Bremmer art historian (Beeldende Kunst), dies at 84
1961 Dashiell Hammett US detective writer (Thin Man), dies at 66
1963 Tadeusz Szeligowski composer, dies at 66
1964 A Marja [ATE Mooy], author (Man of Day & Night), dies at 46
1967 Emerson Treacy actor (Prowler), dies after surgery at 67
Vilem Petrzelka composer, dies at 77
1968 Basil Sydney actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73
Howard Smith actor (Harvey Griffin-Hazel), dies at 74
Josue Teofilo Wilkes composer, dies at 85
Theophilus E D”nges South Afr Internal minister, dies at 69
1971 Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel French entrepeneur, dies at 87
1972 Al Goodman orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 81
Georg Rendl Austria miner/beekeeper/writer (Satan auf Erde), dies
Sverre Jordan composer, dies at 82
1976 Chester Arthur Burnett US blues pianist/harmonica player, dies at 65
Howlin' Wolf rocker, dies following brain surgery at 65
1978 Don Gillis composer, dies at 66
John D Rockefeller III US billionaire/philanthropist, dies at 71
Pedro Joaqu¡n Chamorro of La Prensa, assassinated in Managua
1980 George Meany labor leader, dies at 85
1981 Richard Boone actor (Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel), dies at 63
1982 Lazar Weiner composer, dies at 84
Paul Lynde comedian (Uncle Arthur-Bewitched), dies at 55
1984 Suvanna Phuma premier of Laos, dies at 82
1986 Joseph Kraft US columnist, dies at 61
1990 Juliet Berto screenwriter/actress (Bastienne Bastien), dies at 42
Yvonne Peattie Marquard actress (Donovan's Reef), dies
1991 Dimitris Myrat dies of cancer at 62
1992 Barbara Couper British actress (Last Days of Dolwyn), dies at 89
1993 Diana Adams ballerina, dies
Noorjahan Begum "adulterous" wife in Bangladesh, stoned to death
1994 Catharina I "Ien" Dales min of Internal affairs (1989-94), dies at 62
Michael Aldridge actor (Murder in the Cathedral), dies at 73
Holidays Which Occur January 10:
Religious Observances on January 10:
RC Feast of St Gonzalvo
681 RC Feast of St Agatho, Roman Catholic pope (678-81)
1276 RC Feast of St Gregory X, Roman Catholic pope (1271-76)
1429 ORTH St Paul of Obnora
1645 Ang Commemoration of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury
Things to Remember for January 10:
Flowers-carnation & snowdrop Gem-garnet
National Soup-National Egg Month-National Hobby Month
10 Days Astrological sign: Capricorn
[Ancient Rome] (a d iv Id Jan)
Highlights in History Which Occur January 10:
49 -BC- Julius C‘sar crosses Rubicon, invades Italy
69 Roman emperor Galba adopts Mark Piso Licinianus as C‘sar
236 St Fabian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
681 St Agatho ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1072 Robert Guiscard occupies Palermo
1356 German emperor Charles I delegates Golden Degree
1429 Order of Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary & Spain
1430 Duke Philip the Good marries Isabella of Portugal
and Order of the Guilder forms
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 Karel Farnese becomes duke of Parma/Piacenza
1776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published
1799 Friedrich von Schiller's "Die Piccolomini," premieres in Weimar
1806 Dutch in Cape Town, South Africa surrender to British
1808 Herman Daendels succeeds A Wiese as gov-gen of Neth Indies
1810 French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I & Jos‚phine
1811 Louisiana slaves rebell in 2 parishes
1833 Felix Mendelssohn's "Die erste Walpurgisnacht," premieres in Berlin
1840 Penny Post mail system started
1845 Poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning begin corresponding
1853 Charles Reade's "Gold," premieres in London
1861 Florida becomes 3rd state to secede
and Ft Jackson & Ft Philip are taken over by LA state troops
and US forts & property seized by Mississippi
1862 Battle of Big Sandy River, KY (Middle Creek)
and Battle of Romney, WV
1863 1st underground railway opens in London
and General McClernand's Union troops surrounds Fort Hindman Ark
and January-uprising begins in Poland
1870 Georgia legislature reconvenes
and John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil
1877 J Perrotin discovers asteroid #170 Maria
1878 US Senate proposes female suffrage
1883 Fire at uninsured New hall 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
and Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Sapientiae Christianae
1893 Richard Drigo's ballet "Magic Flute" premieres, St Petersburg
1894 A Charlois discovers asteroid #381 Myrrha
1897 Henrik Ibsens "John Gabriel Borkman," premieres in Helsingfors
and Vincent d'Indy's "Istar"
1900 Lord Roberts & Lord Kitchener reach Capetown
1901 Oil discovered at Spindletop claim near Beaumont, Texas
1902 Alphons Diepenbrock's "Te Deum" premieres (Amsterdam)
1904 M Wolf discovers asteroid #522 Helga
and R S Dugan discovers asteroid #521 Brixia
1910 1st international air meet in US held, in LA
and J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #696 Leonora
1911 1st photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego
and Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
1912 Caillaux govt in France resigns
and World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (NY)
1914 1st edition of Hague's Post under SF van Oss, published
and Oscar Mathisen skates world record 500 m in 43.7 sec in Oslo
1916 Russian offensive in Kaukasus
1920 League of Nations' 1st meeting, Treaty of Versailles in effect
and Mont Canadiens (14) & Tor St Patricks (7) score NHL record 21 goals
and Silver reaches record $1.37 an ounce
1923 Last US troops leave Rhineland (Germany)
and Lithuania seizes & annexes country of Memel
1925 France-Saarland forms
and Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as TX gov, nation's 2nd woman governor
1927 Fritz Lang's Metropolis premieres
and J Comas Sola discovers asteroid #1626 Sadeya
1928 G/I Gershwin/Romberg/Wodehouse's musical "Rosalie," premieres in NYC
and Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky
and Stalin sends Trotsky to Wjerny, Siberia
1929 Elmer Rice's "Street Scene," premieres in NYC
1930 Mordovian Autonomous Region in RSFSR constituted
1931 Phila Quakers defeat Montr‚al, ends NHL-record 15-game losing streak
1932 "Mickey Mouse" & "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated
and "Pete the Tramp" cartoon strip by C D Russell debuts
1938 Eduard van Beinum becomes world's 1st conductor at Concert Hall
and Jean Anouilh's "La Sauvage," premieres in Paris
and Paul Vincent Carroll's "White Seed," premieres in NYC
1939 M B Protitch discovers asteroid #2348 Michkovitch
1941 Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic & Old Lace," premieres in NYC
and Seys-Inquart begins registration of Jews
1942 Japan invades North-Celebes, Neth Indies
1943 Russian offensive against German Army
1st US pres to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for
and Casablanca, Morocco
1944 1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Phila
and British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma
1945 LA Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close
1946 UN General Assembly convenes for 1st time (London)
and US Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon, Belmar, NJ
1947 British stop ships Independence & In-Gathering from landing in Israel
and Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf
south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard
1949 1st Jewish family show "Goldbergs" premieres on CBS
and RCA introduces 45 RPM record
1951 1st jet passenger trip made
and Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1578 Kirkwood
and S Arend discovers asteroid #2973 Paola
and UN headquarters opens in Manhattan NY
1952 Jean Anouilh's "La valse des tor‚adors," premieres in Paris
1953 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Archibald Macleish
1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WH Auden
1956 Elvis records "Heartbreak Hotel"
1957 Anthony Eden resigns & Harold Macmillan becomes PM Britain
1958 Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1
1960 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz
1962 4,000 die in avalanche, Ranrahirca, Per£
and Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages & kill 3,500
1964 Battles between moslems & hindus in Calcutta
and US version of "That Was The Week That Was," premieres
1965 Bollingen prize for poetry awarded to Horace Gregory
and WKBD TV channel 50 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting
1966 India & Pakistan sign peace accord
and Julian Bond denied seat in Ga legislature for opposing Vietnam War
1967 Edward Brooke, takes (Sen-R-Mass) seat as 1st popular elected black
and Lester Maddox elected governor of Georgia
and PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network
and Princess Margret marries Mr Pieter van Vollenhoven
1968 "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1
and US Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho
1969 Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland
and Sweden recognizes North Vietnam
and USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus
1970 Preview Center Opens
1971 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur
1972 LA Lakers 33 straight win streak snapped, losing to Bucks 120-104
and Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman arrives in Dacca, East-Pakistan
and Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK
1973 Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die
1975 P Wild discovers asteroid #2218 Wotho
1977 20th hat trick in Islander history-Bobby Nystrom
1978 Soyuz 27 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1979 1st brother Billy Carter makes allegedly anti-Semitic remarks
1980 Last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC
Jim Stewart, Bruin's rookie goalie allows 3 goals in his 1st 4 mins
and & a total of 5 in 1st period; he never again plays in NHL
1981 El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive"
and John Severin sets 100-mi unicycle speed record, 9 h 21 m
and N G Thomas discovers asteroids #2366 Aaryn, #2683 Brian & #2895 Memnon
1982 -17øF (27.2øC) in Braemar Grampian (record)
and Bengals beat Chargers in -59øF (-51øC) to win AFC championship
and Petra Schneider swims world record 1500 m freestyle (15:43.31)
1983 K Herkenhoff discovers asteroids #3489 Lottie & #3532 Tracie
and R Kirk & D Rudy discovers asteroid #3412 Kafka
1984 Argentine ex-president/general Bignone arrested
and US establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican
1985 Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as president of Nicaragua
1986 Palau signs Compact of Free Association with US
and STS 61-C mission scrubbed T -9m because of bad weather at Kennedy
1990 NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players
1991 US Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis
1993 Maiden flight of Ultrair (Houston to LA)
1995 "Late Late Show" with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS at 12:30 AM
1996 Jimmy Johnson announced as new coach of Miami Dolphins
1997 Entertainment Tonight's 4,000th show (scheduled)
1883 Fire at the uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
kills 71. General Tom Thumb of P.T. Barnum fame, escapes unhurt.
1947 Greek steamer 'Himara' struck a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf
south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard.
1962 Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroyed 7 villages & killed
3,500 people.
Your Special Reminders for January 10:
10th day of year with 355 remaining (Numerology = 2)
and 1857 -3øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
and 1876 60øF highest temperature for this date in NYC
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