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January 10

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Event anniversary

Tashkent Declaration

60 years ago

Born this day

1898

Sergei Eisenstein

Would be 128

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Oldest record

551st

Battle of Vaslui

event anniversary

Famous births29

1573 · 453 yrs

Simon Marius

Simon Marius (Latinized form of Simon Mayr; 10 January 1573 – 5 January 1625) was a German astronomer. He was born in Gunzenhausen, near Nuremberg, but spent most of his life in the city of Ansbach.

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ScienceDied aged 51

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1769 · 257 yrs

Michel Ney

Michel Ney, 1st Prince de la Moskowa, 1st Duke of Elchingen (English: NAY, French:; 10 January 1769 – 7 December 1815), was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.

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MilitaryDied aged 46

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1834 · 192 yrs

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, 13th Marquess of Groppoli, (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902), better known as Lord Acton, was an English Catholic historian, Liberal politician, and writer.

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PoliticsDied aged 68

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1835 · 191 yrs

Fukuzawa Yukichi

Fukuzawa Yukichi (Japanese: 福澤諭吉; 10 January 1835 – 3 February 1901) was a Japanese writer, educator, and philosopher who is regarded as one of the key figures of the Meiji era for his efforts to introduce and promote Western ideas and institutions in Japan.

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LiteratureDied aged 66

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1880 · 146 yrs

Manuel Azaña

Manuel Azaña Díaz (Spanish pronunciation:; 10 January 1880 – 3 November 1940) was a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1933 and 1936), organizer of the Popular Front in 1935 and the last President of the Republic (1936–1939).

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PoliticsWould be 146

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1898 · 128 yrs

Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (22 January 1898 – 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, film editor and film theorist. Considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, he was a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage.

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FilmWould be 128

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1913 · 113 yrs

Gustáv Husák

Gustáv Husák (UK: HOO-sak, US: HOO-sahk, HEW-; Slovak:; born Augustin Husák; 10 January 1913 – 18 November 1991) was a Slovak politician who served as the long-time First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1969 to 1987 and the President of Czechoslovakia from 1975 to 1989.

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PoliticsWould be 113

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1916 · 110 yrs

Sune Bergström

Karl Sune Detlof Bergström (10 January 1916 – 15 August 2004) was a Swedish biochemist. In 1975, he was appointed to the Nobel Foundation Board of Directors in Sweden, and was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University, together with Bengt I. Samuelsson.

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ScienceWould be 110

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1927 · 99 yrs

Megumu Tamura

Megumu Tamura (田村恵, Tamura Megumu; January 10, 1927 – October 8, 1986) was a Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.

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1934 · 92 yrs

Leonid Kravchuk

Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk (Ukrainian: Леонід Макарович Кравчук, IPA:; 10 January 1934 – 10 May 2022) was a Ukrainian politician who served as the first president of Ukraine from 5 December 1991 to 19 July 1994.

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PoliticsWould be 92

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1936 · 90 yrs

Robert Wilson

Robert Woodrow Wilson (born January 11, 1936) is an American astronomer who shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arno Penzias "for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation".

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ScienceAge 90

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1938 · 88 yrs

Donald Knuth

Donald Ervin Knuth ( kə-NOOTH; born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is a professor emeritus at Stanford University.

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ScienceAge 88

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Famous deaths21

1778 · 248 yrs

Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy".

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ScienceDied aged 70

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1794 · 232 yrs

Georg Forster

Johann George Adam Forster, also known as Georg Forster (German:; 27 November 1754 – 10 January 1794), was a German geographer, naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary.

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ScienceDied aged 39

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1862 · 164 yrs

Samuel Colt

Samuel Colt (July 19, 1814 – January 10, 1862) was an American inventor, industrialist, and businessman who established Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company and made the mass production of revolvers commercially viable.

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TechnologyDied aged 47

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1904 · 122 yrs

Jean-Léon Gérôme

Jean-Léon Gérôme (French:; 11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism.

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ArtDied aged 79

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1917 · 109 yrs

Buffalo Bill

William Frederick Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917), better known as Buffalo Bill, was an American soldier, bison hunter, and showman. One of the most famous figures of the American Old West, Cody began performing at the age of 23.

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FilmDied aged 70

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1922 · 104 yrs

Ōkuma Shigenobu

Marquess Ōkuma Shigenobu (Japanese: 大隈重信; 11 March 1838 – 10 January 1922) was a Japanese statesman who was a leading figure in the Meiji and Taishō eras of Japan, serving as Prime Minister in 1898, and from 1914 to 1916.

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PoliticsDied aged 83

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1926 · 100 yrs

Eino Leino

Eino Leino (born Armas Einar Leopold Lönnbohm; 6 July 1878 – 10 January 1926) was a Finnish poet and journalist who is considered one of the pioneers of Finnish poetry and a national poet of Finland. His poems combine modern and Finnish folk elements.

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LiteratureWould be 148

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1951 · 75 yrs

Sinclair Lewis

Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.

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LiteratureWould be 141

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1957 · 69 yrs

Gabriela Mistral

Lucila Godoy Alcayaga (Latin American Spanish:; 7 April 1889 – 10 January 1957), known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral (Spanish:), was a Chilean poet-diplomat, journalist and educator. She read widely in theosophy, became a member of the secular or Third Franciscan order in 1925, but rarely attended mass.

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LiteratureWould be 137

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1961 · 65 yrs

Dashiell Hammett

Samuel Dashiell Hammett ( duh-SHEEL HAM-it; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist.

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LiteratureWould be 132

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1971 · 55 yrs

Coco Chanel

Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel ( shə-NEL; French:; 19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was a French fashion designer and businesswoman. The founder and namesake of the Chanel brand, she was credited in the post–World War I era with popularising a sporty, casual chic as the feminine standard of style.

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ArtWould be 143

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1986 · 40 yrs

Jaroslav Seifert

Jaroslav Seifert (Czech:; 23 September 1901 – 10 January 1986) was a Czech writer, poet and journalist. Seifert was awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his poetry which endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit and versatility of man".

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Events5

1475 · 551 yrs

Battle of Vaslui

The Battle of Vaslui (also referred to as the Battle of Podul Înalt or the Battle of Racova) was a battle that was fought on 10 January 1475, between Stephen III of Moldavia and the Ottoman governor of Rumelia, Hadım Suleiman Pasha.

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War

1916 · 110 yrs

Erzurum Offensive

The Erzurum offensive (Russian: Эрзурумское сражение, romanized: Erzurumskoe srazhenie; Turkish: Erzurum Taarruzu) or Battle of Erzurum (Turkish: Erzurum Muharebesi) was a major winter offensive by the Imperial Russian Army on the Caucasus Campaign, during the First World War that led to the capture of the strategic…

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War

1966 · 60 yrs

Tashkent Declaration

The Tashkent Declaration was signed between India and Pakistan on 10 January 1966 to resolve the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.

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Politics

1992 · 34 yrs

Friendly Floaties

Friendly Floatees are plastic bath toys (including rubber ducks) marketed by The First Years and made famous by the work of Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer who models ocean currents on the basis of flotsam movements.

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Disaster

2011 · 15 yrs

2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or

The 2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or (lit. '2010 FIFA Golden Ball'), was the inaugural year for FIFA's awards for the top football players and coaches of the year.

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