10 January
Notable Births
Cesare Casadei
b. 2003
Italian footballer (born 2003)
Santi Aldama
b. 2001
Spanish basketball player (born 2001)
Erik Botheim
b. 2000
Norwegian footballer (born 2000)
Reneé Rapp
b. 2000
American singer-songwriter and actress (born 2000)
Mason Mount
b. 1999
English footballer (born 1999)
Youssouf Fofana (French footballer)
b. 1999
French footballer (born 1999)
Patrick Herbert
b. 1997
NZ rugby league player (born 1997)
Blake Lawrie
b. 1997
Australian rugby league footballer
Budda Baker
b. 1996
American football player (born 1996)
Matthew Dufty
b. 1996
Australian rugby league footballer (born 1996)
Dylan Edwards
b. 1996
Australia international rugby league footballer
Zizo (footballer)
b. 1996
Egyptian footballer (born 1996)
Tobias Rieder
b. 1993
German ice hockey player (born 1993)
Chad Townsend
b. 1991
Australian rugby league footballer
John Carlson (ice hockey)
b. 1990
American ice hockey player (born 1990)
Martin Jones (ice hockey)
b. 1990
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1990)
Ishiura Shikanosuke
b. 1990
Japanese sumo wrestler
Cody Walker (rugby league)
b. 1990
Australian rugby league footballer
Ali Gabr
b. 1989
Egyptian footballer (born 1989)
Leonard Komon
b. 1988
Kenyan long-distance runner
Notable Deaths
Yeison Jiménez
d. 2026
Colombian singer (1991–2026)
Bob Weir
d. 2026
American musician (1947–2026)
José Jiménez (activist)
d. 2025
Puerto Rican activist (1948–2025)
Sam Moore
d. 2025
American singer (1935–2025)
Jeff Beck
d. 2023
English guitarist (1944–2023)
Constantine II of Greece
d. 2023
King of Greece from 1964 to 1973
Robert Durst
d. 2022
American murderer (1943–2022)
Qaboos bin Said
d. 2020
Sultan of Oman from 1970 to 2020
Ross Lowell
d. 2019
Buddy Greco
d. 2017
American singer and pianist (1926–2017)
Clare Hollingworth
d. 2017
English journalist and author (1911–2017)
David Bowie
d. 2016
English musician and actor (1947–2016)
Bård Breivik
d. 2016
Norwegian sculptor and art instructor
George Jonas
d. 2016
Canadian-Hungarian writer (1935–2016)
Junior Malanda
d. 2015
Belgian footballer (1994–2015)
Taylor Negron
d. 2015
American actor (1957–2015)
Francesco Rosi
d. 2015
Italian film director
Robert Stone (novelist)
d. 2015
American writer (1937 – 2015)
Sam Berns
d. 2014
American activist (1996–2014)
Petr Hlaváček
d. 2014
Czech shoe expert (1950–2014)
On This Day in History
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2019
A 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is found alive in Gordon, Wisconsin, having been kidnapped 88 days earlier from her parents' home whilst they were murdered.
Kidnapping of Jayme Closs
2015
A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and passenger coach en route to Shikarpur from Karachi on the Pakistan National Highway Link Road near Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Karachi, killing at least 62 people.
List of traffic collisions (2000–present)
2013
More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in the Quetta area of Pakistan.
January 2013 Pakistan bombings
2012
A bombing at Jamrud in Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and injures 78 others.
2012 Khyber Agency bombing
2007
A general strike begins in Guinea in an attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.
2007 Guinean general strike
2003
North Korea withdraws from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, making it the first state to withdraw from the treaty.
North Korea
2000
Crossair Flight 498, a Saab 340 aircraft, crashes in Niederhasli, Switzerland, after taking off from Zurich Airport, killing 13 people.
Crossair Flight 498
1990
Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.
WarnerMedia
1985
Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba.
Sandinista National Liberation Front
1984
Holy See–United States relations: The United States and Holy See (Vatican City) re-establish full diplomatic relations after almost 117 years, overturning the United States Congress's 1867 ban on public funding for such a diplomatic envoy.
Holy See–United States relations
1981
Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments.
Salvadoran Civil War
1980
The New England Journal of Medicine publishes the letter Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics, which is later misused to downplay the general risk of addiction to opioids.
The New England Journal of Medicine
1972
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
1966
Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
Tashkent Declaration
1954
BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea, killing 35 people.
BOAC Flight 781
1946
The first General Assembly of the United Nations assembles in the Methodist Central Hall, Westminster. Fifty-one nations are represented.
Methodist Central Hall, Westminster
1946
The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
United States Army Signal Corps
1941
World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
World War II
1927
Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
Fritz Lang
1920
The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I for all combatant nations except the United States.
Treaty of Versailles