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Births for January 10

• 1502 Hendrik Niclaes, German/Dutch merchant/cult leader (Children of God)

• 1644 Louis Boufflers, marshall of France

• 1738 Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (led Green Mtn Boys)

• 1747 Abraham L Breguet, French clock maker

• 1768 James Varicick, 1st AME Zion Bishop

• 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

• 1815 Thomas Williams, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862

• 1825 Alexander Travis Hawthorn, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1899

• 1877 Frederick Gardner Cottrell, inventor (elecrostatic precipitator)

• 1880 Eduard M Meijers, lawyer (Short Discussion)

• 1880 French van Cauwelaert, Flemish minister/mayor of Antwerp

• 1880 Grock, (Adrien Wettach), Swiss clown/circus director

• 1880 Manuel Aza€a y D¡az, PM/pres of 2nd Spanish republic (1936-39)

• 1882 Eugne Delporte, Belgium, astronomer (Asteroid Belgian/Adonis)

• 1883 Florence Reed, silent film actress (Dancing Girl)

• 1883 Francis X Bushman, silent film actor (Spy's Defeat, Ben Hur)

• 1887 Robinson Jeffers, US, poet/playwright (Tamar & Other Poems, Medea)

• 1888 Grock, (Adrien Weltach), Switzerland, clown/circus director

• 1891 Jos Speybrouck, Flemish painter

• 1892 Dumas Malone, Miss, historian (Jefferson & His Time)

• 1894 Reginald Denham, London, Broadway director (Obsession, The Bad Seed)

• 1903 Jean Morel, Abbeville France, conductor

• 1903 Jens A Damages, Danish writer (Schadebogen, Losses Híjsang)

• 1904 Ray Bolger, Dorchester Mass, actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz)

• 1908 Bernard Lee, London England, actor (M in James Bond movies)

• 1908 Paul Henreid, Trieste, actor (Casablanca, 4 Horsemen of Apocalypse)

• 1910 Galina Ulanova, Russia, ballerina (Bolshoi)

• 1910 Jean Martinon, Lyons France, conductor

• 1913 Gustav Husak, president of Czechoslavakia (1968-89)

• 1914 Claude Gallimard, France, publisher

• 1914 Polly Rowles, Phila Pa, actress (Aunt Laurie-Jamie)

• 1915 Dean Dixon, Zug Switzerland, conductor

• 1917 Jerry Wexler, music producer

• 1926 June Haver, Mrs Fred MacMurray/actress (Dolly Sisters)

• 1927 Gisele MacKenzie, Winnipeg Manitoba, singer/actress (Your Hit Parade)

• 1927 Johnnie Ray, pop singer (Cry)

• 1927 Lee Philips, Bkln NY, actor (Ellery Queen)

• 1928 Donald Brooks, fashion designer (Emmy 1983)

• 1935 Ronnie Hawkins, Ark, rocker (The Band-Who Do You Love?)

• 1935 Sherrill Milnes, Hinsdale Illinois, baritone

• 1938 Willie "Stretch" McCovey, 1st baseman (SF Giant #44)

• 1939 Bill Toomey, Phila Pa, decathelete (Olympic-gold-68)

• 1939 Sal Mineo, actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause)

• 1942 Jim Croce, singer (Time in a Bottle)

• 1943 Agustin P Justo y Rolon, president (Argentina 1931-38)

• 1945 Frank Sinatra Jr, Jersey City NJ, singer/bandleader (Golddigers)

• 1945 Rod Stewart, UK, singer (Maggie Mae, Do You Think I'm Sexy)

• 1946 Alexis Nihon Jr, Bahamas, wrestler (Olympics-1968)

• 1947 George Alec Effinger, US, sci-fi author (Nick of Time)

• 1948 Donald Fagan, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Steely Dan-Peg)

• 1948 George Foreman, Houston Tx, world heavyweight boxing champ (1973-74)

• 1948 William Sanderson, US, actor (Newhart, Blade runner)

• 1949 Teresa Graves, Houston Tx, actress (Laugh-in, Get Christie Love)

• 1949 Walter S Browne, US chess champion (1974-78, 1980-84)

• 1952 Scott Thorston, keyboards/guitarist (Motels-Only the Lonely)

• 1953 Bobby Rahal, Indy-car racer (over 15 wins)

• 1953 Pat Benatar, (Andrejewski), Bkln NY, singer (Hell Is for Children)

• 1959 Chandra Cheesborough, Jacksonville Fla, 4X100 runner (Olympic-gold-84

• 1959 Don Letts, rocker (Bad)

• 1961 Nadja Salerni-Sonnwnberg, Rome Italy, concert violinist

• 1964 Karen Josephson, Bristol Ct, synchronized swimmer (Olympic-gold-1992)

• 1964 Krista Tesreau, actress (Guiding Light)

• 1964 Sarah Josephson, Bristol Ct, synchronized swimmer (Olympic-gold-1992)

• 1965 Nathan, rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret)

• 1967 Mick Hankers, dancer (Ted de Braak/Josephine)

• 1975 Shannon Kavanaugh, Boston Mass, rocker (Ivory Soul)

• 1979 Chris H E Smith, (Daddy Mack), Atlanta, rapper (Kris Kross-Warm it Up

Passings for January 10

• 681 Agatho, Sicilian pope (678-81), dies

• 976 John I Tzimisces, emperor of Byzantium (969-76), dies

• 1276 Gregorius X, (Tedaldo Visconti), pope, dies

• 1645 William Laud, archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded

• 1674 Jacob de Witte, mayor (Dordrecht)/mathematician, dies

• 1778 Carolus Lin‘us "Carl von Linn‚", Swedish botanist/explorer, dies

• 1789 Pierre Lyonet, zoologist, dies

• 1811 Marie-Joseph de Ch‚nier, French poet (Chant du D‚part), dies

• 1824 Victor Emanuel I, king of Sardinia (1802-21), dies

• 1846 Etienne P de Senancour, French writer (De l'amour), dies

• 1871 Pierre A du Terrail, French writer, dies

• 1899 Gerard Keller, writer (Vlugmaren), dies at 69

• 1927 August(us) Alleb‚, painter/lithograph, dies

• 1934 Marinus van der Lubbe, communist, beheaded in Berlin at 24

• 1938 Willem de Vreese, Flemish linguist, dies

• 1943 Agustin P Justo y Rolon, pres Argentina (1931-38), dies

• 1943 J Arthur S Berson, Austrian meteorologist, dies

• 1951 Harry Sinclair Lewis, US writer (Nobel 1930), dies

• 1961 Dashiell Hammett, US detective writer (Thin Man), dies at 66

• 1964 A Marja, (ATE Mooy), author (Man of Day & Night), dies at 46

• 1968 Howard Smith, actor (Harvey Griffin-Hazel), dies at 74

• 1972 Al Goodman, orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 81

• 1972 Georg Rendl, Austria miner/beekeeper/writer (Satan auf Erde), dies

• 1978 John D Rockefeller III, US billionaire/philanthropist, dies at 71

• 1978 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 Paul Lynde, comedian (Uncle Arthur-Bewitched), dies at 55

• 1986 Joseph Kraft, US columnist, dies at 61

• 1993 Noorjahan Begum, "adulterous" wife in Bangladesh, stoned to death

Special events for January 10

• 236 St Fabian begins his reign as Catholic Pope

• 681 St Agatho ends his reign as Catholic Pope

• 1429 Order of the Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary & Spain

• 1514 Complutensian New Testament in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek & Latin finishe

• 1776 "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published

• 1806 Dutch in Cape Town, South Africa surrender to the British

• 1810 French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I & Jos‚phine

• 1811 Louisiana slaves rebell in 2 parishes

• 1840 Penny Post mail system started

• 1845 Poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning begin corresponding

• 1861 Florida becomes 3rd state to secede

• 1861 Ft Jackson & Ft Philip are taken over by LA state troops

• 1861 US forts & property seized by Mississippi

• 1862 Battle of Big Sandy River, KY (Middle Creek)

• 1862 Battle of Romney, WV

• 1863 1st underground railway opens in London

• 1870 Georgia legislature reconvenes

• 1870 John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil

• 1877 J Perrotin discovers asteroid #170 Maria

• 1878 US Senate proposes female sufferage

• 1889 Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France

• 1893 Richard Drigo's ballet "The Magic Flute" premiers, St Petersburg

• 1894 A Charlois discovers asteroid #381 Myrrha

• 1901 Oil discovered at Spindletop claim near Beaumont, Texas

• 1904 M Wolf discovers asteroid #522 Helga

• 1904 R S Dugan discovers asteroid #521 Brixia

• 1910 1st international air meet in US held, in LA

• 1910 J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #696 Leonora

• 1911 1st photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego

• 1911 Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)

• 1912 World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (NY)

• 1920 League of Nations' 1st meeting, Treaty of Versailles in effect

• 1920 Mont Canadiens (14) & Tor St Patricks (7) score NHL record 21 goals

• 1920 Silver reaches record $1.37 an ounce

• 1923 Last US troops leave the Rhine

• 1923 Latvian troops occupy Memel near France

• 1925 France-Saarland forms

• 1925 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as TX gov, nation's 2nd woman governor

• 1927 Fritz Lang's Metropolis premieres

• 1927 J Comas Sola discovers asteroid #1626 Sadeya

• 1928 Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky

• 1928 Stalin sends Trotsky to Wjerny, Siberia

• 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

• 1932 "Pete the Tramp" cartoon strip by C D Russell debuts

• 1938 Eduard van Beinum becomes world's 1st conductor at Concert Hall

• 1939 M B Protitch discovers asteroid #2348 Michkovitch

• 1941 Seys-Inquart begins registration of Jews

• 1942 Japan invades North-Celebes, Neth Indies

• 1944 1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Phila

• 1945 LA Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close

• 1946 UN General Assembly convenes for 1st time (London)

• 1946 US Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon, Belmar, NJ

• 1949 1st Jewish family show "The Goldbergs" premiers on CBS

• 1951 1st jet passenger trip made

• 1951 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1578 Kirkwood

• 1951 S Arend discovers asteroid #2973 Paola

• 1951 UN headquarters opens in Manhattan NY

• 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£

• 1962 Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages & kill 3,500

• 1964 Battles between muslims & hindus in Calcutta

• 1964 US version of "That Was The Week That Was," premiers

• 1965 WKBD TV channel 50 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting

• 1966 Julian Bond denied seat in Ga legislature for opposing Vietnam War

• 1967 Edward Brooke, takes (Sen-R-Mass) seat as 1st popular elected black

• 1967 Lester Maddox elected governor of Georgia

• 1967 PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network

• 1967 Princess Margret marries Mr Pieter van Vollenhoven

• 1968 "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1

• 1968 US Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho

• 1969 Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland

• 1969 Sweden recognizes North Vietnam

• 1969 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

• 1972 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

• 1981 John Severin sets 100-mi unicycle speed record, 9 h 21 m

• 1981 N G Thomas discovers asteroids #2366 Aaryn, #2683 Brian & #2895 Memno

• 1982 Bengals beat the Chargers in -59øF to win the AFC championship

• 1983 K Herkenhoff discovers asteroids #3489 Lottie & #3532 Tracie

• 1983 R Kirk & D Rudy discovers asteroid #3412 Kafka

• 1984 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

• 1986 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)

• 1997 Entertainment Tonight's 4,000th show (scheduled)

Songs for date January 10

• 01/10/41 --- I Hear A Rhapsody (Dorsey, Jimmy)

• 01/10/41 --- Along The Sante Fe Trail (Miller, Glenn)

• 01/10/41 --- Stardust (Shaw, Artie)

• 01/10/47 --- Gal In Calico, A (Crosby, Bing)

• 01/10/47 --- For Sentimental Reasons, (I Love You) (Howard, Eddy)

• 01/10/47 --- For Sentimental Reasons, (I Love You) (Spivak, Charlie)

• 01/10/47 --- For Sentimental Reasons, (I Love You) (Shore, Dinah)

• 01/10/70 --- Hey There Lonely Girl (Holman, Eddie)

• 01/10/70 --- Arizona (Lindsay, Mark)

• 01/10/70 --- Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (Sly & The Family Stone)

• 01/10/76 --- Golden Years (Bowie, David)

• 01/10/76 --- Theme From S.W.A.T. (Rhythm Heritage)