On this day: 10 January

Years ago today

Events · 15

• 49 BCE(Julian date)
  Caesar's Civil War — one of the last politico-military conflicts in the Roman Republic before the establishment of the Roman Empire
• 1475
  Battle of Vaslui — battle between Stephen III of Moldavia and the Ottoman governor of Rumelia, Hadım Suleiman Pasha
• 1871
  Battle of Le Mans — 1871 Prussian victory during the Franco-Prussian War
• 1876
  Plan of Tuxtepec
• 1916
  Erzurum Offensive — 1916 military operation
• 1920
  Treaty of Versailles — most important of the peace treaties of the First World War which ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers
• 1923
  Klaipėda Revolt — 1923 uprising
• 1929
  The Adventures of Tintin — series of 24 comic albums by Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi (Hergé‎)
• 1938
  Northwest Airlines Flight 2 — 1938 aviation accident
• 1954
  BOAC Flight 781 — aviation accident
• 1966
  Tashkent Declaration — peace agreement between India and Pakistan advocated by USSR
• 2000
  Crossair Flight 498 — aviation accident
• 2007
  2007 Guinean general strike — 2007 general strike in Guinea
• 2013
  January 2013 Pakistan bombings — 2013 terror attacks in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan
• 2021
  2021 Kyrgyz presidential election — presidential election in Kyrgyzstan

Births · 60

• 1480(Julian date)
  Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy — Austrian archduchess and regent of the Netherlands (1480-1530)
• 1573(Julian date)
  Simon Marius — German astronomer (1573–1624)
• 1745
  Isaac Titsingh — Dutch diplomat (1745 - 1812)
• 1769
  Michel Ney — French general (1769–1815)
• 1780
  Hinrich Lichtenstein — German physician, explorer, botanist and zoologist (1780-1857)
• 1797
  Annette von Droste-Hülshoff — German composer and writer (1797–1848)
• 1802
  Carl Ritter von Ghega — Austrian railway designer (1802–1860)
• 1834
  John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton — British politician and historian (1834–1902)
• 1835
  Fukuzawa Yukichi — Modern Enlightenment thinker, educator, philosopher, scholar, author, writer, journalist, translator, entrepreneur, and founder of Keio University in Japan's Meiji era (1835-1901)
• 1859
  Francisco Ferrer — Spanish freethinker, anarchist and educator (1859–1909)
• 1880
  Manuel Azaña — prime minister of Spain, president of Spain (1880-1940)
• 1887
  Robinson Jeffers — American poet (1887–1962)
• 1898
  Katharine Burr Blodgett — American physicist (1898-1979)
• 1903
  Barbara Hepworth — English sculptor (1903–1975)
• 1904
  Ray Bolger — American actor (1904–1987)
• 1908
  Bernard Lee — British actor (1908–1981)
• 1908
  Paul Henreid — Austrian-American actor and film director
• 1913
  Gustáv Husák — Czechoslovak politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (1913-1991)
• 1913
  Mehmet Shehu — Prime Minister of Albania (1913-1981)
• 1916
  Sune Bergström — Swedish biochemist (1916–2004)
• 1918
  Arthur Chung — First President of Guyana, Senior Magistrate, Sworn Land Surveyor (1918–2008)
• 1924
  Max Roach — American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer (1924–2007)
• 1928
  Philip Levine — American poet (1928-2015)
• 1930
  Roy E. Disney — longtime senior executive for The Walt Disney Company (1930-2009)
• 1934
  Leonid Kravchuk — Ukrainian politician, 1st President of Ukraine

Deaths · 60

• 681(Julian date)
  Agatho — pope
• 976
  John I Tzimiskes — Byzantine emperor
• 987
  Pietro I Orseolo — doge of Venice, Monk, Hermit (928-987)
• 1055(Julian date)
  Bretislaus I — Duke of Bohemia from 1034 to 1055
• 1094(Julian date)
  Al-Mustansir — Egyptian caliph from 1036 to 1094/95
• 1218(Julian date)
  Hugh I of Cyprus — King of Cyprus (1193-1218)
• 1276(Julian date)
  Gregory X — Pope from 1271 to 1276
• 1358(Julian date)
  Abu Inan Faris — Marinid sultan
• 1645
  William Laud — Archbishop of Canterbury (1573-1645)
• 1654
  Nicholas Culpeper — English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer (1616-1654)
• 1754
  Edward Cave — British publisher
• 1775(Julian date)
  Yemelyan Pugachev — leader of a Russian peasant uprising (1742–1775)
• 1778
  — Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778); developed the foundations of modern taxonomy
• 1794
  Georg Forster — German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary (1754-1794)
• 1811
  Marie-Joseph Chénier — French poet, dramatist and politician (1764-1811)
• 1824
  Vittorio Emanuele I of Sardinia — King of Sardinia (1802-1821)
• 1855
  Mary Russell Mitford — English author and dramatist (1787–1855)
• 1862
  Samuel Colt — 19th-century American industrialist and inventor (1814–1862)
• 1895
  Benjamin Godard — French violinist and composer (1849–1895)
• 1904
  Jean-Léon Gérôme — French painter and sculptor (1824–1904)
• 1905
  Kārlis Baumanis — Latvian composer (1835–1905)
• 1917
  Buffalo Bill — American frontiersman and showman (1846–1917)
• 1922
  Ōkuma Shigenobu — Japanese politician (1838-1922)
• 1926
  Eino Leino — Finnish poet and journalist (1878–1926)
• 1935
  Edwin Flack — Australian middle distance runner and tennis player (1873-1935)