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 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 355 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 28, 2021 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 27,362,880 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 22 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 3,307 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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January 10 Historical Events
- 236 –Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus as the twentieth pope of Rome.
- 1645 –Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London.
- 1941 –World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
- 1946 –The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the moon and receiving the reflected signals.
- 1946 –The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
- 1972 –Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
- 1985 –Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
- 1990 –Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.
- 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.
- 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?
- 1729 –Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist (d. 1799)
- 1864 –Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (d. 1931)
- 1891 –Heinrich Behmann, German mathematician (d. 1970)
- 1919 –Milton Parker, American businessman (d. 2009)
- 1940 –Yesudas, Indian playback singer and classical musician
- 1958 –Eddie Cheever, American racing car driver
- 1963 –Malcolm Dunford, New Zealand footballer
- 1963 –Mark Pryor, American politician
- 1966 –Murali Nair, Indian film director
- 1985 –Jaroslav Kolbas, Slovak footballer
Who died on January 10?
- 1777 –Spranger Barry, Irish actor (b. 1719)
- 1833 –Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (b. 1752)
- 1863 –Lyman Beecher, US Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader (b. 1775)
- 1895 –Benjamin Godard, French composer (b. 1849)
- 1901 –Sir James Dickson, Premier of Queensland, Australian Minister for Defence (b. 1832)
- 1904 –Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (b. 1824)
- 1941 –Frank Bridge, English composer (b. 1879)
- 1981 –Fawn M. Brodie, American historian (b. 1915)
- 1997 –Sheldon Leonard, American film producer, actor, and director (b. 1907)
- 2005 –Erwin Hillier, British cinematographer (b. 1911)
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