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Notable anniversaries in history for today: January 10
- 200th: 1824 - Victor Emanuel I, king of Sardinia (1802-21), dies at age 64.
- 90th: 1934 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist, beheaded in Berlin, Germany at age 24.
- 80th: 1944 - First mobile electric power plant delivered, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
- 80th: 1944 - British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Frank Sinatra Junior in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA; singer/bandleader (Golddiggers).
- 70th: 1954 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to W H Auden.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Brad Roberts; musician (Crash Test Dummies).
- 60th: 1964 - A Marja, Dutch author (Man of Day and Night), dies at age 46.
- 60th: 1964 - Battles between Muslims and hindus in Calcutta, India.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Krista Tesreau in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; actress (Mindy - Guiding Light, Tina - One Life To Live, Silk Stalkings).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Andre Kirwan; Canadian Football League receiver (Toronto Argonauts).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Hollis Thomas; defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagles).
- 40th: 1984 - Bulgarian Tupolev 134 plane crashes at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die.
- 40th: 1984 - Luis Aparicio, Harmon Killebrew, and D Drysdale elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
- 40th: 1984 - Suvanna Phuma, premier of Laos, dies at age 82.
- 40th: 1984 - US establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years.
- 40th: 1984 - Birth of Marouane Chamakh, Moroccan football player.
- 40th: 1984 - Argentine ex-president General Bignone arrested.
- 30th: 1994 - Catharina I "Ien" Dales, minister of Internal affairs (1989-94), dies at age 62.
- 30th: 1994 - Charles "Chub" Feeney, baseball president (National League), dies at age 72.
- 30th: 1994 - Death of Michael Aldridge at age 73; English actor (Last of the Summer Wine, Murder in the Cathedral).
- 30th: 1994 - Ukraine says it will give up world's third largest nuclear arsenal.
- 30th: 1994 - Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan agree to abolish trade tariffs.
- 25th: 1999 - HBO begins airing the TV series The Sopranos.
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Frank Parker at age 95; singer (The Jack Benny Radio Show, Arthur Godfrey troupe).
- 20th: 2004 - At the Detroit Opera House in Michigan, General Motors unveils the next-generation "C6" 2005 Corvette. It features 400-hp engine, fixed headlights, and targa top.
- 10th: 2014 - Death of Zbigniew Messner, 9th Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland (born 1929).
- 5th: 2019 - Venezuela enters a presidential crisis as Juan Guaidó and the National Assembly declare incumbent President Nicolás Maduro "illegitimate".
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