January 10
Today in America's Present Past
1607 | Missionary explorer Isaac Jogues was born.
1776 | Thomas Paine published “Common Sense.”
1791 | Indian Wars: The Siege of Dunlap’s Station.
1812 | The first steamboat traversed the Ohio to Mississippi Rivers after departing Pittsburgh and arrived in New Orleans.
1842 | SCOTUS: Justice Peter Daniels was sworn in.
1843 | Outlaw Frank James was born.
1861 | Civil War: Florida became the third state to secede.
1862 | Entrepreneur Samuel Colt died.
1863 | Cleric Lyman Beecher died.
1870 | Entrepreneur John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil.
1887 | Poet Robinson Jeffers was born.
1898 | Physicist Katharine Burr Blodgett was born.
1901 | Texas’ first oil gusher was discovered in Beaumont, Texas.
1907 | Engineer Gordon Kidd Teal was born.
1916 | Painter Eldzier Cortor was born.
1917 | Journalist Gerry Wexler was born.
1917 | Buffalo Bill died.
1920 | WWI: The Treaty of Versailles took effect, formally ending war.
1924 | Entrepreneur Earl Bakken was born.
1927 | Musician Johnnie Ray was born.
1930 | Entrepreneur Roy E. Disney (Walt’s nephew) was born.
1936 | Astronomer Robert Woodrow Wilson was born.
1939 | Author David Horowitz was born.
1939 | Actor Sal Mineo was born.
1943 | Musician Jim Croce was born.
1944 | Entertainer Frank Sinatra, Jr. was born.
1946 | The U.S. Army successfully bounced radio signals off the moon.
1949 | Boxer George Forman was born.
1951 | Novelist Sinclair Lewis died.
1953 | Musician Pat Benatar was born.
1953 | Race car driver Bobby Rahal was born.
1954 | Historian Chester Wilmont died.
1961 | Author Dashiell Hammett died.
1981 | Entrepreneur Jared Kushner was born.
1984 | The U.S. reestablishes diplomatic relations with the Vatican following a break in 1867.