On This Day = January 10

Bithdays + Events

FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN + SAL MINEO

BIRTHDAYS

• 1858 = Heinrich Zille = German illustrator and photographer

• 1883 = Francis X. Bushman = American actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1904 = Ray Bolger = American actor and dancer

• 1916 = Eldzier Cortor = American painter

• 1917 = Jerry Wexler = American journalist and producer

• 1919 = Milton Parker = American businessman and Carnegie Deli co-founder

• 1927 = Johnnie Ray = American singer-songwriter

• 1930 = Roy E. Disney = American businessman

• 1935 = Ronnie Hawkins = American rockabilly singer-songwriter

• 1935 = Sherrill Milnes = American opera singer and educator

• 1939 = Sal Mineo = American actor 🌈

• 1943 = Jim Croce = American singer-songwriter

• 1944 = Frank Sinatra = Jr. = American singer and actor

• 1944 = Jeffrey Catherine Jones = American comics and fantasy artist

• 1944 = William Sanderson = American actor

• 1945 = Rod Stewart = British singer-songwriter

• 1947 = James Morris = American opera singer

• 1948 = Donald Fagen = American singer-songwriter

• 1949 = George Foreman = American boxer, actor, and businessman

• 1949 = Linda Lovelace = American adult actor and activist

• 1953 = Pat Benatar = American singer-songwriter

• 1956 = Shawn Colvin = American singer-songwriter

• 1959 = Fran Walsh = New Zealand screenwriter and producer

• 1961 = Evan Handler = American actor

• 1964 = Brad Roberts = Canadian singer-songwriter

• 1974 = Jemaine Clement = New Zealand comedian, actor, and musician

EVENTS

• 49 BC = Julius Caesar defies the Roman Senate and crosses the Rubicon, uttering "alea iacta est" (the die is cast), signaling the start of civil war and his appointment as Roman dictator for life.

• 1776 = Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.

• 1812 = The first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, 82 days after departing from Pittsburgh.

• 1863 = The Metropolitan Railway, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between Paddington and Farringdon, marking the beginning of the London Underground.

• 1870 = John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.

• 1901 = The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.

• 1927 = Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.

• 1929 = Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, the first volume of The Adventures of Tintin by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé, is released.

• 1946 = The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.

• 1978 = Thirty-five men in Bethesda, MD, who are married to women and have attractions to men, meet and create the Gay Married Men’s Association. Now named the Gay and Married Men’s Association, for over thirty years, GAMMA has been offering support to men who are or have been involved in long-term heterosexual relationships and who are now coming to terms with their sexual attraction to other men.

• 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.

• 1990 = Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.