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On This Day In History for January 10, 2018
This is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 355 days remaining in 2018.
- It was on this date in 1776, that Thomas Paine published his pamphlet Common Sense.
- On January 10, 1812, the first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, 82 days after departing from Pittsburgh.
- The Metropolitan Railway, the world’s oldest underground railway, opens between Paddington and Farringdon, marking the beginning of the London Underground on this date in 1863.
- January 10, 1870, John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
- 117 years ago today, the first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
- Also today in 1927, Fritz Lang’s futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
- 56 years ago today, NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
- Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications on this date in 1990.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
- German astronomer, Simon Marius, born on this date in 1573.
- Lazzaro Spallanzani, the Italian priest, biologist, and physiologist was born 289 years ago today.
- English physician and academic, founded Birkbeck, University of London, George Birkbeck was born 242 years ago today.
- Born January 10, 1780, German physician and explorer Martin Lichtenstein.
- Carl Ritter von Ghega, Italian-Austrian engineer, designed the Semmering railway was born on that same date in 1802.
- Italian paleontologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer, Luigi Pigorini, born on this date in 1842.
- American architect, designed the Rookery Building and Monadnock Building, John Wellborn Root was born 168 years ago today.
- Issai Schur, German mathematician and academic was born on that same date in 1875.
- Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, the Russian journalist, author, and poet was born 135 years ago today.
- Born January 10, 1891, German mathematician and academic Heinrich Behmann.
- Katharine Burr Blodgett, the American physicist and engineer was born 120 years ago today.
- American engineer and inventor, Gordon Kidd Teal was born 111 years ago today.
- Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate was born on that same date in 1916.
- American businessman, Roy E. Disney was born 88 years ago today.
- Also born on that same date in 1938, American computer scientist and mathematician, Donald Knuth.
- American singer-songwriter and musician, Donald Fagen is 70 today.
- Also turning 65 today is American singer-songwriter Pat Benatar.
- Also born on that same date in 1962, American computer scientist and academic, Kathryn S. McKinley.
Listener Birthdays
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And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 10, 2018
News
- Researchers Create ‘Psychedelic’ Stickers That Confuse AI Image Recognition – Slashdot
- Guardians of the Galaxy Is Leading The Unlikely Cassette Tape Revival
- The Search for Aliens Starts Now—in Antarctica
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