10 Januar

The **10t o Januar** is the 10t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 355 days ti come (356 in lowp years).

## Events

* 1806 - Dutch settlers in Cape Toun surrender tae the Breetish.
* 1861 - Florida secedes frae the Unitit States.
* 1920 - The Treaty o Versailles takes effect.
* 1922 - Arthur Griffith is electit Preses o the Erse Free State.
* 1923 - Lithuanie annexes Memel, locatit in until then-East Proushie.
* 1946 - The first Unitit Naitions General Assembly meets in Lunnon.
* 1957 - Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
* 1984 - The Unitit States an Vatican Ceety stairt diplomatic relations.
* 2005 - Italy bans smokin in public places.
* 2011 - Severe flash floodin in the Lockyer Valley, Queensland, Australie, kills 9 fowk.
* 2013 - Ower 100 fowk are kilt in bomb attacks across Pakistan.
* 2015 - A road accident near Karachi, Pakistan, kills 62 fowk.
* 2015 - Beer contaminatit wi crocodile bile kills at least 56 fowk at a funeral in Mozambique.
* 2016 - Carles Puigdemont becomes Preses o Catalonie.
* 2020 - Sultan o Oman Qaboos bin Said al Said dees agit 79, sax month short o 50 year on the throne; his cousin Haitham bin Tariq is installed as his successor the naxt day.

## Births

* 1480 - Margaret o Austrick, Duchess o Savoy (d. 1530)
* 1741 - Princess Elizabeth o Great Breetain (d. 1759)
* 1769 - Michel Ney, French sodger an militar commander (d. 1815)
* 1785 - John Fleming, Scots naituralist (d. 1857)
* 1873 - William Lambie, Scots fitbawer (d. ?)
* 1879 - Bobby Walker, Scots fitbawer (d. 1930)
* 1883 - Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Roushie jurnalist, author an poet (d. 1945)
* 1913 - Gustáv Husák, Preses o Czechoslovakie (d. 1991)
* 1922 - Billy Liddell, Scots fitbawer (d. 2001)
* 1928 - Philip Levine, American poet (d. 2015)
* 1934 - Leonid Kravchuk, 1st Preses o Ukraine
* 1936 - Robert Woodrow Wilson, American astronomer
* 1938 - Donald Knuth, American computer scientist an mathemateecian
* 1939 - Davie Wilson, Scots fitbawer
* 1939 - Scott McKenzie (Philip Blondheim), American sangster-sangwriter (d. 2012)
* 1945 - Sir Rod Stewart, Breetish sangster
* 1947 - Peer Steinbrück, German politeecian
* 1949 - George Foreman, American boxer an entrepreneur
* 1959 - Maurizio Sarri, Italian fitbaw manager
* 1960 − Brian Cowen, Erse politeecian an umwhile Taoiseach
* 1962 - Ford Kiernan, Scots comedian, actor an writer
* 1965 - Butch Hartman, American animator, director, writer, producer an actor
* 1977 - Michelle O'Neill, Northren Erse politeecian
* 1981 - Jared Kushner, American real estate investor an Presidential advisor
* 1984 - Marouane Chamakh, Moroccan fitbawer
* 1986 - Kirsten Flipkens, Belgian tennis player
* 2004 - Kaitlyn Maher, American sangster

## Daiths

* 1276 - Pape Gregory X (b. 1210)
* 1694 - Andrew Balfour, Scots botanist, antiquary an beuk collector (b. 1630)
* 1778 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (b. 1707)
* 1794 - Georg Forster, German scientist (b. 1754)
* 1824 - Victor Emmanuel I o Sardinie (b. 1759)
* 1833 - Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathemateecian (b. 1752)
* 1862 - Samuel Colt, American inventor (b. 1814)
* 1878 - Andrew Murray, Scots lawer, botanist, zoologist an entomologist (b. 1812)
* 1917 - Buffalo Bill, American frontiersman an showman (b. 1846)
* 1928 - Ralph Aitken, Scots fitbawer (b. 1863)
* 1945 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (b. 1889)
* 1951 - Sinclair Lewis, American writer (b. 1885)
* 1956 - Peter O'Rourke, Scots fitbawer (b. 1873)
* 1964 - Dashiell Hammett, American writer (b. 1894)
* 1971 - Coco Chanel, French fashion designer (b. 1883)
* 1986 - Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer (b. 1901)
* 1997 - Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scots chemist (b. 1907)
* 1997 - George Young, Scots fitbawer (b. 1922)
* 2014 - Ian Redford, Scots fitbawer (b. 1960)
* 2015 - Francesco Rosi, Italian film director (b. 1922)
* 2015 - Robert Stone, American writer (b. 1932)
* 2016 - David Bowie, Inglis sangster, muisicker an actor (b. 1947)
* 2017 - Roman Herzog, Preses o Germany (b. 1934)
* 2017 - Oliver Smithies, Breetish-American geneticist (b. 1925)
* 2020 - Qaboos bin Said al Said, Sultan o Oman (b. 1940)

## Halidays
* Majority Rule Day (Bahamas)