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10 Jan 1514
Complutensian New Testament in Hebrew Aramaic Greek & Latin finished
10 Jan 1731
Charles Farnese becomes Duke of Parma and Piacenza
10 Jan 1799
Friedrich von Schillers Die Piccolomini premieres in Weimar
10 Jan 1808
Herman Daendels succeeds A Wiese as Governor-General of Neth Indies
10 Jan 1840
Uniform Penny Post mail system starts throughout the United Kingdom
10 Jan 1861
Fort Jackson & Fort Philip are taken over by LA state troops (US Civil War)
10 Jan 1862
Romney expedition Confederate Army military expedition begins in Romney West Virginia (US Civil War)
10 Jan 1863
General McClernands Union troops surround Fort Hindman Arkansas
10 Jan 1883
Fire at uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee Wisconsin kills 71. General Tom Thumb of P T Barnum fame escapes unhurt
10 Jan 1890
Edward Macdowells Lancelot & Elaine premieres
10 Jan 1890
Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Sapientiae Christianae
10 Jan 1893
Richard Drigos ballet Magic Flute premieres St Petersburg
10 Jan 1897
Henrik Ibsens John Gabriel Borkman premieres in Helsingfors
10 Jan 1897
Vincent dIndys Istar premieres in Amsterdam & Brussels
10 Jan 1901
Oil discovered at Spindletop Beaumont marking the start of the Texas oil boom (gusher age)
10 Jan 1902
Alphons Diepenbrocks Te Deum premieres (Amsterdam)
10 Jan 1902
Although it has professed neutrality in the Boer War German Chancellor von Bulow joins others in attacking British actions in South Africa
10 Jan 1906
The British and French begin consultations on military and naval issues
10 Jan 1910
Lunt-Fontanne Theater (Globe) opens at 205 W 46th St NYC
10 Jan 1356
German emperor Charles I delegates Golden Degree
10 Jan 1429
Order of Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary & Spain
10 Jan 1475
Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
10 Jan 1911
1st photo in US taken from an airplane San Diego
10 Jan 1911
Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
10 Jan 1911
Trumper scored double cricket ton v South Africa goes on to get 214
10 Jan 1912
Worlds 1st flying boats maiden flight (Glenn Curtiss in NY)
10 Jan 1914
1st edition of Hagues Post under SF van Oss published
10 Jan 1914
Oscar Mathisen skates world record 500 m in 43.7 sec in Oslo
10 Jan 1914
Yuan Shih-kai president of the new Chinese republic dissolves parliament and prepares a constitution of his own design he will set himself up as dictator preparatory to an attempt to make himself emperor
10 Jan 1917
The Allied Governments respond to US President Woodrow Wilsons December 1916 note giving their terms for ending the war
10 Jan 1920
Montreal Canadiens (14) & Tor St Patricks (7) score NHL record 21 goals
10 Jan 1920
Inauguration of the League of Nations held in Paris
10 Jan 1925
Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as Governor of Texasr 2nd US woman governor 1st ever elected
10 Jan 1925
Allies refuse to evacuate the Cologne area of Germany as agreed
10 Jan 1927
Fritz Langs silent film Metropolis premieres in Berlin
10 Jan 1928
George Gershwin Sigmund Romberg and P. G. Wodehouses musical Rosalie premieres in New York
10 Jan 1930
Commencement of NZs 1st Test v England in Christchurch New Zealand
10 Jan 1930
Maurice Allom takes Test hat-trick England v NZ Christchurch
10 Jan 1930
Mordovian Autonomous Region in RSFSR constituted
10 Jan 1931
Philadelphia Quakers defeat Montreal ends NHL-record 15-game losing streak
10 Jan 1932
Mickey Mouse & Silly Symphony comics syndicated
10 Jan 1932
Pete the Tramp cartoon strip by C D Russell debuts
10 Jan 1938
Eduard van Beinum becomes worlds 1st conductor at Concert Hall
10 Jan 1938
Jean Anouilhs La Sauvage premieres in Paris
10 Jan 1938
Paul Vincent Carrolls White Seed premieres in NYC
10 Jan 1941
Joseph Kesselrings Arsenic & Old Lace premieres in NYC
10 Jan 1941
World War II The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
10 Jan 1942
Japan invades North Celebes Dutch East Indies
10 Jan 1943
Soviet offensive against German 6th and 4th Armies near Stalingrad
10 Jan 1944
1st mobile electric power plant delivered in Philadelphia
10 Jan 1945
LA Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close
10 Jan 1946
UN General Assembly meets for 1st time in London
10 Jan 1946
US Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon Belmar New Jersey
10 Jan 1947
Finians Rainbow opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 725 performances
10 Jan 1947
British stop ships Independence & In-Gathering from landing in Israel
10 Jan 1947
Greek steamer Himara strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard
10 Jan 1948
Call Me Mister closes at National Theater NYC after 734 performances
10 Jan 1949
1st Jewish family show Goldbergs premieres on CBS
10 Jan 1951
Maurice Richard scores his 16th career hat trick in the Montreal Canadiens 3-0 win over NY Rangers to bring his career total to 274 goals passes Howie Morenz as NHLs 2 all-time leading goal scorer
10 Jan 1952
Jean Anouilhs La valse des toradors premieres in Paris
10 Jan 1953
My Darlin Aida closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 89 performances
10 Jan 1953
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Archibald MacLeish
10 Jan 1953
NFL Pro Bowl National Conference beats American Conference 27-7
10 Jan 1954
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to W H Auden
10 Jan 1954
A Comet jet airliner crashes in the Mediterranea 35 people are missing
10 Jan 1955
Ordet directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer starring Henrik Malberg Emil Hass Christensen is released
10 Jan 1960
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz
10 Jan 1962
Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages & kill 3500
10 Jan 1964
US version of That Was The Week That Was premieres
10 Jan 1964
Introducing the Beatles released 1st Beatles album released in the US
10 Jan 1965
Bollingen prize for poetry awarded to Horace Gregory
10 Jan 1965
WKBD TV channel 50 in Detroit MI (IND) begins broadcasting
10 Jan 1966
India & Pakistan sign Tashkent Declaration peace accord
10 Jan 1966
The Georgia House of Representatives votes 184-12 to deny Julian Bond his seat as a result of his opposition to the Vietnam War
10 Jan 1967
Lester Maddox inaugurated as Governor of Georgia
10 Jan 1967
PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network
10 Jan 1967
17th NBA All-Star Game West beats East 135-120 at Daly City California
10 Jan 1969
Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland
10 Jan 1969
Sweden is the 1st Western country to recognize North Vietnam
10 Jan 1969
USSRs Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus
10 Jan 1970
Preview Center opens at Walt Disney World Florida - first building to open
10 Jan 1971
Light Lively & Yiddish closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 87 performances
10 Jan 1971
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur
10 Jan 1971
Irish Republican Army (IRA) carry out a punishment attack tarring and feathering 4 men accused of criminal activities in Belfast
10 Jan 1972
Triple album set Concert for Bangladesh released in UK
10 Jan 1973
For the first time graduates studying from home with the Open University receive their degrees
10 Jan 1977
20th hat trick in Islander history - Bobby Nystrom
10 Jan 1978
Soyuz 27 carring 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station launched
10 Jan 1979
1st brother Billy Carter makes allegedly anti-Semitic remarks
10 Jan 1980
Jim Stewart Bruins rookie goalie allows 3 goals in his 1st 4 mins & a total of 5 in 1st period he never again plays in NHL
10 Jan 1981
El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens general offensive
10 Jan 1981
John Severin sets 100-mi unicycle speed record 9 h 21 m
10 Jan 1982
-17F (27.2C) in Braemar Grampian (equals UK record)
10 Jan 1982
Freezer Bowl Bengals beat Chargers in -59F (-51C) to win AFC championship
10 Jan 1982
Petra Schneider swims world record 1500 m freestyle (1543.31)
10 Jan 1982
NBCs premiere of TV film Will G. Gordon Liddy based on the Watergate conspirator participant and convict
10 Jan 1982
AFC Championship Riverfront Stadium Cincinnati Cincinnati Bengals beat San Diego Chargers 27-7
10 Jan 1982
NFC Championship Candlestick Park SF San Francisco 49ers beat Dallas Cowboys 28-27
10 Jan 1983
NY Supreme Court issues a preliminary injunction barring NY Yankees from playing season-opening series against Tigers in Denver
10 Jan 1984
Argentine ex-president and general Reynaldo Bignone arrested
10 Jan 1984
Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashes at Sofia airport in Bulgaria 50 die
10 Jan 1984
Clara Peller 1st asks Wheres the Beef in commercial for Wendys hamburger chain
10 Jan 1984
Luis Aparicio Harmon Killebrew & D Drysdale elected to Hall of Fame
10 Jan 1984
US re-establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after almost 117 years
10 Jan 1986
Palau signs Compact of Free Association with US
10 Jan 1986
NASAs STS-61-C mission scrubbed T -9m because of bad weather at Floridas Kennedy Space Center
10 Jan 1986
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of the Los Angeles Lakers scores his 34000th career point during 124-102 win over Indiana Pacers only NBA player to reach the milestone at that time remains all-time leader (38387)
10 Jan 1988
Dont Get God Started closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 86 performances
10 Jan 1989
LA Kings center Wayne Gretzky becomes NHLs all-time leading scorer in combined regular season & playoff points 4 assists in 5-4 home win over Edmonton brings his total to 2011 1 more than Gordie Howe
10 Jan 1990
Les Miserables opens at Mechanic Theatre Baltimore
10 Jan 1990
China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre)
10 Jan 1990
NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players
10 Jan 1991
Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans
10 Jan 1991
US Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis
10 Jan 1992
8th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins
10 Jan 1993
My Favorite Year closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC after 37 performances
10 Jan 1993
Sea Gull closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 48 performances
10 Jan 1994
Trial of Lorena Bobbitt who cut off her husbands penis begins
10 Jan 1994
Ukraine says it will give up worlds 3rd largest nuclear arsenal
10 Jan 1994
Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan agrees to abolish trade tariffs
10 Jan 1995
Late Late Show with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS at 1230 AM
10 Jan 1996
Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
10 Jan 1996
Boston guard Dana Barros sinks a 3-point field goal in his 89th straight game during the Celtics 113-104 win over Sacramento Kings NBA record streak ends in next game when he goes 0 from 9
10 Jan 1997
Dow Corning provides 295 billion to settle breast implant suits
10 Jan 1997
Italys new 1000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map
10 Jan 1998
Utah Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan wins his 600th NBA game with a 111-84 victory at the Houston Rockets
10 Jan 1998
Vancouver Canucks veteran center Mark Messier becomes the 6th player in NHL history to record 1000 assists in a 2-2 tie against the Florida Panthers at General Motors Place
10 Jan 1999
Fatboy Slim (Norman Cook) achieves his third UK No.1 single with Praise You
10 Jan 2001
A large piece of the chalk cliff at Beachy Head collapses into the sea.
10 Jan 2001
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will not be designated as a national monument the White House announces a move environmentalist groups had been pressing for to prevent oil drilling
10 Jan 1883
Fire at uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee Wisconsin kills 71. General Tom Thumb of P. T. Barnum fame escapes unhurt
10 Jan 1914
Norwegian speed skater Oscar Mathisen skates world 500m record in 43.7s in Oslo Norway
10 Jan 1920
Montreals Newsy Lalonde scores 6 goals as Canadiens beat Toronto St. Patricks 14-7 at Mount Royal Arena Montreal combined 21 goals an NHL record
10 Jan 1953
3rd NFL Pro Bowl Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum National Conference beats American Conference 27-7 MVP Don Doll Detroit Lions DB
10 Jan 1982
AFC Championship Riverfront Stadium Cincinnati Cincinnati Bengals beat San Diego Chargers 27-7 in the Freezer Bowl
10 Jan 2003
NBA announces Charlotte N.C. is awarded an NBA expansion franchise to be known as the Charlotte Bobcats and start play in 2004-05 eventually changes to the Charlotte Hornets for the 2014-15 season
10 Jan 2004
Hopman Cup Tennis Perth Lindsay Davenport & James Blake beat Slovakian pair Daniela Hantuchov & Karol Kuera 6-2 6-3 for a 2-1 win and 3rd American title
10 Jan 2005
A mudslide occurs in La Conchita California killing 10 people injuring many more and closing the Highway 101 the main coastal corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles for 10 days.
10 Jan 1839
Tea from India 1st arrives in the United Kingdom
10 Jan 1897
Ukrainian bacteriologist Wademar Haffkine performs the first human trial for a vaccine for the plague on himself during the Bombay epidemic
10 Jan 1946
US Army bounces 1st radar signal off the Moon from Ft. Monmouth New Jersey
10 Jan 1954
A Comet jet airliner crashes in the Mediterranean 35 people are missing
10 Jan 1978
Soyuz 27 launches carrying 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
10 Jan 1072
Robert Guiscards Norman force conquers Palermo
10 Jan 1839
First tea from leaves of indigenous plants of Assam India arrives in the United Kingdom [date approximate] [1]
10 Jan 1853
Charles Reades play Gold premieres in London
10 Jan 1964
Vee-Jay Records releases Introducing the Beatles the 1st Beatles album released in the US
10 Jan 1972
Geoge Harrison and Friends triple live album set The Concert for Bangladesh released in UK
10 Jan 1977
Steve Allens Meeting Of The Minds a round table talk-show in which he interviews figures from history debuts on PBS
10 Jan 1995
Late Late Show with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS at 1230 AM program airs until 1999
10 Jan 1356
German Emperor Charles I promulgates the Golden Bull to regulate the election of a new king - the most important constitutional document of the Holy Roman Empire
10 Jan 1808
Herman Daendels succeeds Albertus Wiese as Governor-General of Dutch-East Indies
10 Jan 1930
New Zealands 1st game of Test cricket is held in Christchurch NZ. Englishman Maurice Allom takes a Test hat-trick.
10 Jan 1965
Bollingen Prize for Poetry awarded to Horace Gregory [1]
10 Jan 1965
WKBD TV channel 50 in Detroit Michigan (IND) begins broadcasting
10 Jan 1984
Conductor Eugene Ormandy leads his last concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall NYC
10 Jan 1993
Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens musical My Favorite Year adapted from the 1982 film and starring Evan Pappas Tim Curry Andrea Martin and Lainie Kazan closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 37 performances
10 Jan 1839
First tea from leaves of indigenous plants of Assam India arrives in the United Kingdom [date approximate] [1]
10 Jan 1870
Georgia legislature reconvenes after Supreme Court of Georgia ruled that elected African Americans who had been expelled had the right to hold office and were reinstated
10 Jan 1902
Alphons Diepenbrocks Te Deum premieres in Amsterdam Netherlands
10 Jan 1927
Howard Lindsay and Bertrand Robinsons stage comedy Tommy starring Alan Bunce Peg Entwistle and Sidney Toler opens at the Gaiety Theatre NYC runs for 232 performances
10 Jan 1946
UN General Assembly meets for the first time in London
10 Jan 1948
Harold Romes musical Call Me Mister starring Betty Garrett closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 734 performances
10 Jan 1948
J.B Priestleys stage drama An Inspector Calls closes at the Booth Theatre NYC after 95 performances
10 Jan 1952
Jean Anouilhs play La valse des toradors (The Waltz of the Toreadors) premieres at the Comdie des Champs-Elyses in Paris
10 Jan 1971
Musical Light Lively & Yiddish closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 87 performances
10 Jan 1986
Pacific island nation of Palau signs Compact of Free Association with US
10 Jan 1993
Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens musical My Favorite Year adapted from the 1982 film and starring Evan Pappas Tim Curry Andrea Martin and Lainie Kazan closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 37 performances and a Tony Award for Martin
10 Jan 1995
The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS at 1230 AM hosts the program until 1999
10 Jan 1616
English diplomat Thomas Roe presents Mughal Emperor Jahangir with a English coach at the imperial court at Ajmer - considered an inadequate gift
10 Jan 1799
Friedrich von Schillers play Die Piccolomini premieres in Weimar
10 Jan 1806
Dutch forces in Capetown surrender to the British
10 Jan 1862
Battle of Big Sandy River Kentucky (Middle Creek)
10 Jan 1890
Edward Macdowells symphonic poem Lancelot & Elaine premieres in Boston
10 Jan 1938
Eduard van Beinum debuts as conductor of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam Netherlands
10 Jan 1941
Nazi Reichskommissar for the Occupied Netherlands Arthur Seyss-Inquart begins registration of Jews
10 Jan 1952
Cargo ship SS Flying Enterprise sinks in the English Channel after weeks of trying to salvage it
10 Jan 1973
First Biennial exhibition of American contemporary art in its current format opens at the Whitney Museum - now one of the worlds leading art shows [1]
10 Jan 1986
South Pacific island nation of Palau signs Compact of Free Association with US
10 Jan 2001
A large piece of the chalk cliff at Beachy Head collapses into the sea near East Sussex England
10 Jan 2005
A mudslide occurs in La Conchita California killing 10 people injuring many more and closing Highway 101 the main coastal corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles for 10 days
10 Jan 2013
81 people are killed and 120 are wounded by a twin bombing in Quetta Pakistan
10 Jan 2015
57 people are killed after an oil tanker collided with a passenger coach outside of Karachi Pakistan
10 Jan 2015
72 people are killed & 169 hospitalized after a mass poisoning of beer with crocodile bile at a funeral in Mozambique
10 Jan 2019
13-year-old Jayme Closs escapes her kidnapper after 3 months in captivity in Wisconsin
10 Jan 2019
Canadian astronomers report fast radio bursts (FRBs) of probable extragalactic origin one repeating six times at the CHIME observatory British Columbia
10 Jan 1833
Felix Mendelssohns cantata Die erste Walpurgisnacht premieres in Berlin Germany
10 Jan 1897
Henrik Ibsens play John Gabriel Borkman premieres in Helsingfors
10 Jan 1897
Vincent dIndys orchestral piece Istar premieres in Amsterdam and Brussels
10 Jan 1902
Dutch composer Alphons Diepenbrocks Te Deum premieres in Amsterdam Netherlands
10 Jan 1911
First photo in the US taken from an airplane San Diego
10 Jan 1912
Worlds first flying boats maiden flight (Glenn Curtiss in NY)
10 Jan 1920
Silver reaches a record high of 1.37 per ounce
10 Jan 1938
Jean Anouilhs play La Sauvage premieres in Paris
10 Jan 1964
Vee-Jay Records releases Introducing the Beatles the first Beatles album released in the US
10 Jan 1973
First biennial exhibition of American contemporary art in its current format opens at the Whitney Museum now one of the worlds leading art shows [1]
10 Jan 1984
Clara Peller first asks Wheres the beef in a commercial for Wendys hamburger chain
10 Jan 1984
Conductor Eugene Ormandy leads his last concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall NYC
10 Jan 1996
Jimmy Johnson announced as new coach of NFLs Miami Dolphins
10 Jan 2000
America Online (AOL) announces it will buy Time Warner for 165 billion [1]
10 Jan 2011
Ballon dOr Barcelona forward Lionel Messi wins second straight award from teammates Andrs Iniesta and Xavi Brazilian forward Marta wins womens award for 5th consecutive year
10 Jan 2011
Ian McKellen officially confirms that he will reprise the role of Gandalf in The Hobbit film adaptations
10 Jan 2017
Multiple bombings across Afghanistan kill at least 64 including 11 UAE diplomats at the governors estate in Kandahar
10 Jan 2019
Lady Gaga apologises for working with R. Kelly in light of docuseries Surviving R. Kelly
10 Jan 2019
Oceans warming faster than previous thought due to fossil fuel burning according to data published in journal Science
10 Jan 2019
Opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi proclaimed winner in Democratic Republic of the Congo presidency elections in a disputed result
10 Jan 2019
Philip Glass Symphony No. 12 (Lodger) based loosely on David Bowies 1979 album Lodger premieres with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by John Adams at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles California
10 Jan 2021
America records more than 3000 deaths a day for the first time reaching 3249 passing 375000 deaths in total a day later
10 Jan 2022
Crytocurrency Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao now one of the worlds richest billionaires with net worth of 96 billion according to Bloomberg
10 Jan 2022
US reports 1.34 million new COVID-19 infections a global record with Omicron variant accounting for an estimated 95% of cases [1]
10 Jan 2024
Kawhi Leonard signs a 153 million extension with the Los Angeles Clippers over the next three years
10 Jan 2024
State of emergency declared in Papa New Guinea after 16 people die in violent riots and looting during a police strike [1]
10 Jan 2024
US Secretary of the Navy announces that a future destroyer will be named in honor of Charles J. French known as the Human Tugboat for heroic actions in the South Pacific in 1942 [1]
10 Jan 2025
Climate scientists report that 2024 is Earths hottest year on record and the first year to pass the symbolic 1.5 C temperature limit agreed upon at the Paris Climate Accord in 2015 [1]
10 Jan 2025
NASA confirms 2024 the worlds warmest year on record topping the previous high set in 2023 [1]
10 Jan 2025
Singing drummer Ringo Starr releases his 21st solo album Look Up his second country music tinged collection is produced by T-Bone Burnet and features guests Billy Strings and Molly Tuttle