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, 482,352 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.
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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
- 236 –Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus as the twentieth pope of Rome.
- 1776 –Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.
- 1806 –Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
- 1863 –The London Underground, the world’s oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.
- 1901 –The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
- 1920 –The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
- 1922 –Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State.
- 1972 –Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
- 1990 –Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.
- 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?
- 1859 –Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, Spanish free-thinker (d. 1909)
- 1883 –Francis X. Bushman, American actor (d. 1966)
- 1887 –Robinson Jeffers, American poet (d. 1962)
- 1916 –Eldzier Cortor, American painter
- 1931 –Peter Barnes, English writer (d. 2004)
- 1939 –Sonosuke Fujimaki, Japanese fencer
- 1942 –Graeme Gahan, Australian rules footballer
- 1960 –Gurinder Chadha, British film director
- 1986 –Hideaki Ikematsu, Japanese footballer
- 1990 –Tao Li, Singaporean swimmer
Who died on January 10?
- 1654 –Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer (b. 1616)
- 1707 –Philibert, comte de Gramont, French writer (b. 1621)
- 1941 –Issai Schur, German mathematician (b. 1875)
- 1941 –Joe Penner, Hungarian-born comedian and actor (b. 1904)
- 1978 –Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan journalist (b. 1924)
- 1985 –Anton Karas, Austrian zither player and composer (b. 1906)
- 1990 –Tochinishiki Kiyotaka, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 44th Yokozuna (b. 1925)
- 1999 –Sir Edward Williams, Australian judge (b. 1921)
- 2005 –Margherita Carosio, Italian soprano (b. 1908)
- 2009 –William Frederick “Bill” Stone, British World War I veteran (b. 1900)
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