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What happened in history on this day: January 10?
On January 10 in ...
- 1888 - Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince is granted a US patent for an "Apparatus for producing animated pictures".
- 1949 - CBS TV debuts the Jewish family show The Goldbergs.
- 1971 - PBS airs Masterpiece Theatre for the first time, hosted by Alistair Cooke.
- 1988 - The Disney Channel debuts the animated TV show The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
- 1995 - CBS premieres The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder.
- 1997 - The syndicated TV show Entertainment Tonight airs its 4,000th episode.
- 1999 - HBO begins airing the TV series The Sopranos.
Births on January 10
- 1882 - Birth of Charles Trowbridge in Vera Cruz, Mexico; actor (Fatal Hour).
- 1883 - Birth of Florence Reed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; silent film actress (Dancing Girl).
- 1883 - Birth of Francis X Bushman in Norfolk, Virginia, USA; silent film actor (Ben Hur, Spy's Defeat).
- 1890 - Birth of Douglas MacLean in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; silent film comedian/producer (Going Up).
- 1890 - Birth of Ernest Milton in San Francisco, California, USA; actor (Cat Girl, Fiddler's Three).
- 1904 - Birth of Ray Bolger AKA Raymond Wallace Bulcao in Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA; actor/dancer (Tin Woodsman - Wizard of Oz, hosted - Bell Telephone Hour, Grampa - The Partridge Family TV show).
- 1908 - Birth of Bernard Lee in London, England; actor (M in James Bond movies).
- 1908 - Birth of Paul Henreid in Trieste, Austria-Hungary; actor (Casablanca film, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse film, Goodbye Mr. Chips film), director (Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV show, Schlitz Playhouse TV show, Big Valley TV show, The Iron Horse Tv show, Bracken's World TV show).
- 1914 - Birth of Polly Rowles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Aunt Laurie - Jamie, The Defenders TV show, The Nurses TV show, Somerset TV show, US Steel Hour TV show, Alcoa Hour TV show, Philco TV Playhouse TV show, Kraft TV Theatre TV show, Studio One TV show).
- 1920 - Birth of Georges Marchal in Nancy, France; actor (Evil Eden, Gina, Milky Way).
- 1927 - Birth of Marie LaFeche AKA Gisele MacKenzie in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; singer and program host (CBC radio show, Your Hit Parade TV show, Jack Benny Show TV show, "Hard to Get" song).
- 1927 - Birth of Lee Philips in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (The Adventures of Ellery Queen TV show (1959)), director (My World TV show, Welcome to It TV show, The Governor and JJ TV show, Gidget TV show, The Waltons TV show, The Practice TV show, Diagnosis Murder TV show).
- 1939 - Birth of Sal Mineo in The Bronx, New York, USA; actor/singer (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause film, The Gene Krupa Story film).
- 1948 - Birth of William Sanderson in Memphis, Tennessee, USA; actor (Larry - Newhart, Deuce - Babylon 5, Blade Runner, Deadwood).
- 1949 - Birth of Teresa Graves in Houston, Texas, USA; actress (Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In TV show, Get Christie Love TV show).
- 1961 - Birth of Evan Handler in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Dear Mr Wonderful, Studio 60, Sex and the City).
- 1961 - Birth of Janet Jones in Bridgeton, Missouri, USA; actress (American Anthem, Flamingo Kid).
- 1964 - Birth of Krista Tesreau in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; actress (Mindy - Guiding Light, Tina - One Life To Live, Silk Stalkings).
- 1967 - Birth of Trini Alvarado; actor (Frighteners, Sensibility and Sense, Dreams Don't Die).
- 1980 - Birth of Sarah Shahi; actress (Life, The L-Word).
Deaths on January 10
- 1939 - Jameson Thomas, actor (Piccadilly, Farmer's Wife), dies at age 50.
- 1961 - Death of Dashiell Hammett at age 66 from throat cancer; author (Maltese Falcon, radio series Sam Spade, radio and TV's The Thin Man).
- 1967 - Emerson Treacy, actor (Prowler), dies after surgery at age 66.
- 1968 - Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at age 73.
- 1968 - Howard Smith, actor (Harvey Griffin - Hazel), dies at age 74.
- 1972 - Death of Al Goodman at age 81; Russian/American orchestra leader (Fred Allen radio show, NBC Comedy Hour TV show, Colgate Comedy Hour TV show).
- 1981 - Death of Richard Boone of throat cancer at age 63; actor (Paladin - Have Gun Will Travel TV show, Medic TV show, The Richard Boone Show TV show).
- 1982 - Death of Paul Lynde at age 55 from cardiac arrest due to extreme substance; American actor/comedian (Bye Bye Birdie, Hollywood Squares TV show, The Perry Como Show TV show, Uncle Arthur - Bewitched TV show, The Dean Martin Show TV show, Donny and Marie TV show, The Paul Lynde Show TV show).
- 1989 - Death of Donald Voorhees of pheumonia at age 85; orchestra leader, musical director (Bell Telephone Hour on radio and TV).
- 1990 - Juliet Berto, screenwriter/actress (Bastienne Bastien), dies at age 42.
- 1990 - Yvonne Peattie Marquard, actress (Donovan's Reef), dies.
- 1992 - Barbara Couper, British actress (Last Days of Dolwyn), dies at age 89.
- 1994 - Death of Michael Aldridge at age 73; English actor (Last of the Summer Wine, Murder in the Cathedral).
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