What Happened On January 10

What Happened On Jan 10 Events

1860 Jan 10 Pemberton Mill Collapse
What is likely the worst industrial accident in Massachusetts history occurred on January 10, 1860. A large mill located in Lawrence collapsed without warning, and resulted in the death o...
1861 Jan 10 Florida Secedes From The Union
On January 10, 1861, delegates to the Florida Convention in Tallahassee voted to secede from the United States of America. The following month, Florida was one of six Deep South states t...
1862 Jan 10 Battle of Middle Creek
Other Names: None Location: Floyd County Campaign: Offensive in Eastern Kentucky (1862) Date(s): January 10, 1862 Principal Commanders: Col. James Garfield [US]; Brig. Gen. Hu...
1862 Jan 10 Union Army Claims Strategic Victory in Eastern Kentucky
The Battle of Middle Creek was an engagement in southeastern Kentucky during the American Civil War. The battle, along with the battle of Mill Springs allowed for the Union armies to inva...
1897 Jan 10 Mohandes Gandhi is Nearly Lynched by White Settlers in Durban upon Returning from a Brief Trip to Fetch his Family in India
It is a measure of Gandhi’s success as a publicist that the Indian National Congress Recorded its protest against the disabilities imposed upon the Indian settlers in South Africa, and th...
1908 Jan 10 Gandhi is Arrested for the First Time, for Refusing to Carry an Obligatory ID Card in South Africa
In January 1908, he was arrested for breach of the registration law and clapped into prison. The following month he was released after an understanding seemed to have been reached with t...
1915 Jan 10 Woman's Peace Party is formed
On the outbreak of the First World War a group of women pacifists in the United States began talking about the need to form an organization to help bring it to an end. On the 10th January...
1917 Jan 10 William "Buffalo Bill" Cody dies
William F. Cody died of kidney failure on January 10, 1917, surrounded by family and friends at his sister's house in Denver. On his deathbed, Cody was baptized into the Roman Catholic Ch...
1938 Jan 10 Northwest Airlines Flight 2 Crashes into the Bridger Mountains, Killing 10
Northwest Airlines Flight 2, registration NC17388, was a Lockheed 14H Super Electra aircraft which crashed into the Bridger Mountains about 12 miles northeast of Bozeman, Montana, on Janu...
1940 Jan 10 Meeting Between President Franklin Roosevelt and Historic Peace Churches
The Historic Peace Churches met with President Franklin Roosevelt in order to discuss conscientious objection in the event of another war. The 1940 meeting did little to change the mind o...
1940 Jan 10 The Mechelen Incident
The Mechelen Incident of 10 January 1940, also known as the Mechelen affair, was an event during the Phoney War. A German aircraft with an officer on-board carrying the plans for Fall Gel...
1952 Jan 10 "The Greatest Show On Earth" Is Released
The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 drama film set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The film was produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille, and won the Academ...
1954 Jan 10 British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 781 Crashes
BOAC Flight 781 departed Rome, Italy on a flight to London, England. While climbing through 27,000 feet, the plane experienced a sudden in-flight break-up and crashed into the Mediterrane...
1957 Jan 10 T. S. Eliot Marries Esme Valerie Fletcher
Valerie Eliot, née Fletcher, who in middle age resembled Margaret Thatcher, was not a conventionally pretty girl, but in letters written in the weeks after their secret marriage in Januar...
1967 Jan 10 FDA Approves Aton's Edecrin
Treating swelling due to congestive heart failure, liver problems, and severe kidney problems. It may also be used for other conditions as determined by your doctor. Edecrin is a loop ...
1982 Jan 10 Dwight Clark Makes "The Catch" of a Joe Montana Pass to Win the NFC Championship Game
The Catch refers to the winning touchdown reception by Dwight Clark off a Joe Montana pass in the January 10, 1982, NFC Championship Game between the Dallas Cowboys and the San Francisco ...
2004 Jan 10 New England Patriots defeat Tennessee Titans, 17-14
FOXBOROUGH -- When it was over, when the Tennessee Titans had come so close, once again, their quarterback and team conscience, Steve McNair, had a simple message for his teammates. "I...
2005 Jan 10 Kreator release Enemy of God
Enemy of God is the eleventh studio album by German thrash metal band Kreator. The gothenburg influences of the band's previous album, Violent Revolution, became more prominent on this al...
2006 Jan 10 Apple Introduces iMac Core Duo
Apple has begun referring to this model as the iMac (Early 2006), but we're calling it the iMac Core Duo. Maybe we'll switch to Apple's nomenclature when the next generation is released.....
2009 Jan 10 Boston Bruins defeat Carolina Hurricanes, 5-1
The instant after Matt Hunwick crunched Justin Williams with a questionable open-ice hit late in the second period, the Bruins rookie defenseman understood that the Hurricanes would be se...
2009 Jan 10 Taylor Swift Performs On Saturday Night Live
On January 10, 2009, Swift made her first musical guest appearance on Saturday Night Live, making her the youngest country singer to appear as a musical guest on the show in its 33-year r...
2010 Jan 10 Arizona Cardinals defeat Green Bay Packers, 51-45
Shoot-out doesn't quite capture it. Epic scoring melee comes closer. It was the game missing any defense. "The question is can anybody stop anybody?" Fox game announcer Joe Buck ...
2010 Jan 10 Baltimore Ravens defeat New England Patriots, 33-14
In the middle of the 1976 baseball season, when newly acquired outfielder Bobby Darwin walked into the Red Sox clubhouse, he was greeted by Dwight Evans, who told him, “You’re going to e...
2010 Jan 10 Boston Celtics defeat Toronto Raptors, 114-107
Rajon Rondo had 22 points, 13 assists and 10 rebounds for his first triple-double of the season, Rasheed Wallace scored a season-high 29 points and the Boston Celtics beat Toronto 114-107...
2010 Jan 10 Los Angeles Lakers defeat Milwaukee Bucks, 95-77
Los Angeles — The offensively challenged Milwaukee Bucks got off their six-game Western trip off to an unsightly start Sunday night by getting blown out of the Staples Center, 95-77, by t...
2012 Jan 10 Mitt Romney Wins New Hampshire Republican Primary
Former Massachusetts Governor, Mitt Romney, won the New Hampshire Republican Primary for the 2012 Presidential Nomination. Texas Congressman, Ron Paul - considered a long-shot and a prote...