Historical Events on January 10.

1.  1616, 10th January: British Ambassador Sir Thomas Roe met Jahangir in Ajmer.

2. 1730, 10th January: Construction of Shaniwarwada began in Pune.

3. 1806, 10th January: Dutch colonists in Cape Town surrendered to the British.

4. 1863, 10th January: The world’s first underground rail service began in London. The arrival of Metro service in London’s high speed and congested life brought a big revolution.

5. 1870, 10th January: Churchgate Railway Station opened in Mumbai.

6. 1991, 10th January: UN Secretary-General Javier Perez went to the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, in his last attempt to avert the Kuiyyar Gulf War.

7. 1916, 10th January: Russia defeated the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.

8. 1920, 10th January: World War I ended with the Treaty of Versailles.

9. 1929, 10th January: The world-famous comic The Adventures of Tintin published for the first time.

10. 1966, 10th January: India and Pakistan signed the Tashkent Agreement.

11. 1972, 10th January: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returned to Bangladesh, the newly independent country, after serving nine months in a Pakistani prison.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on January 10.

1.  1510: Achyutananda Das, a 16th-century poet seer and Vaishnava saint from Odisha, India.

2. 1775: Baji Rao II, the 12th and the last Peshwa of the Maratha Empire.

3. 1930: Roy E. Disney, a longtime senior executive for the Walt Disney Company.

4. 1938: Donald Knuth, an American computer scientist, mathematician, and professor.

5. 1940: K. J. Yesudas, an Indian playback singer, and musician from Kerala.

6. 1949: Allu Aravind, an Indian film producer, and distributor. 

7. 1950: Suchitra Bhattacharya, an Indian novelist.

8. 1971: Rakesh Chaurasia, an Indian flautist.

9. 1974: Hrithik Roshan, an Indian actor.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on January 10.

1.  1774: Pratap Singh II, the Maharana of Mewar Kingdom.

2. 1778: Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist, zoologist, and physician. He is known as the “father of modern taxonomy’.

3. 1833: Adrien-Marie Legendre, a French mathematician.

4. 1951: Sinclair Lewis, an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright. He is the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

5. 1967: Radhabinod Pal, a Bengali jurist from India.

6. 1971: Coco Chanel, a French fashion designer, and businesswoman.

7. 2010: Patcha Ramachandra Rao, an Indian metallurgist, and administrator.