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 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 355 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 28, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,736,467,200 seconds 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 19 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 4,403 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.
- 236 –Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus as the twentieth pope of Rome.
- 1806 –Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union.
- 1870 –John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
- 1901 –The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
- 1922 –Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State.
- 1923 –Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.
- 1999 –Sanjeev Nanda kills three policemen in New Delhi with his car, an act for which he was later acquitted, resulting in a sharp drop in public confidence in the Indian legal system.
- 2003 –Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois’ death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
Who were born on January 10?
- 1810 –Jeremiah S. Black, American jurist & statesman; 24th United States Attorney General; and 23rd United States Secretary of State (d. 1883)
- 1848 –Reinhold Sadler, 9th Governor of Nevada (d. 1906)
- 1898 –Katharine Blodgett, American scientist and inventor (d. 1979)
- 1936 –Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist, radio astronomer, Nobel laureate
- 1951 –Paul DiMaggio, American educator
- 1960 –Benoît Pelletier, Canadian politician
- 1962 –Michael Fortier, Canadian politician
- 1974 –Jemaine Clement, New Zealand actor
- 1974 –Steve Marlet, French footballer
- 1987 –César Cielo, Brazilian swimmer
Who died on January 10?
- 1761 –Edward Boscawen, British admiral (b. 1711)
- 1777 –Spranger Barry, Irish actor (b. 1719)
- 1825 –Ioannis Varvakis, Greek national hero and benefactor (b. 1745)
- 1833 –Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (b. 1752)
- 1941 –Sir John Lavery, Northern Irish artist (b. 1856)
- 1982 –Paul Lynde, American comedian (b. 1926)
- 1986 –Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1901)
- 1992 –Roberto Bonomi, Argentine racing driver (b. 1919)
- 2002 –W.A. Criswell, American (Baptist) preacher (b. 1909)
- 2005 –Kalevi Hämäläinen, Finnish cross country skier (b. 1932)
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