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, 473,568 hours 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.
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.
- 69 –Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba to deputy Roman Emperor.
- 1475 –Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
- 1645 –Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London.
- 1946 –The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the moon and receiving the reflected signals.
- 1962 –Apollo Project: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle. It became better known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
- 1972 –Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
- 1981 –Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments
- 1984 –The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations after 117 years.
- 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?
- 1904 –Ray Bolger, American actor and dancer (d. 1987)
- 1911 –Norman Heatley, English biologist (d. 2004)
- 1917 –Jerry Wexler, American record producer (d. 2008)
- 1936 –Al Goldstein, American publisher and pornographer
- 1960 –Samira Said, Moroccan singer
- 1973 –Ryan Drummond, American voice actor
- 1981 –Inga Jankauskaitė, Lithuanian actress and singer
- 1982 –Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (d. 2002)
- 1986 –Hideaki Ikematsu, Japanese footballer
- 1990 –César Ruiz, Peruvian footballer
Who died on January 10?
- 1707 –Philibert, comte de Gramont, French writer (b. 1621)
- 1851 –Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (b. 1775)
- 1941 –Joe Penner, Hungarian-born comedian and actor (b. 1904)
- 1961 –Dashiell Hammett, American writer (b. 1894)
- 1968 –Basil Sydney, English actor (b. 1894)
- 1970 –Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1925)
- 1999 –Sir Edward Williams, Australian judge (b. 1921)
- 2000 –Sam Jaffe, American producer (b. 1901)
- 2002 –W.A. Criswell, American (Baptist) preacher (b. 1909)
- 2005 –Jack Horner, American sports journalist (b. 1912)
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