January 10th, 1979

Born on January 10th, 1979

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on January 10th?

January 10th, 2007

A general strike began in Guinea as an attempt to force President Lansana Conté to resign, eventually resulting in the appointment of two new prime ministers.

January 10th, 1993

The Braer Storm, the strongest extratropical cyclone ever recorded in the North Atlantic, reached peak intensity.

January 10th, 1985

Sir Clive Sinclair launched the Sinclair C5 personal electric vehicle, "one of the great marketing bombs of postwar British industry", which later became a cult collectable despite its commercial failure.

January 10th, 1966

India and Pakistan signed the Tashkent Declaration to end the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965.

January 10th, 1946

The first session of the United Nations General Assembly convened at the Methodist Central Hall in London with representatives from 51 member states.

January 10th, 1941

Greco-Italian War: The Greek army captured the strategically important Klisura Pass in Albania.

January 10th, 1929

Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, the first volume of The Adventures of Tintin by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé, began serialisation.

January 10th, 1927

The science fiction film Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang, was released in Germany.

January 10th, 1923

Lithuanian residents of the Klaipėda Region began a revolt, ahead of a League of Nations decision on their future which they expected to be against their interest.

January 10th, 1917

Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the Ross Sea party were rescued after being stranded for several months.

January 10th, 1901

The first great gusher of the Texas oil boom was discovered in the Spindletop oil field near Beaumont.

January 10th, 1863

Service began on the Metropolitan Railway (construction depicted) between Paddington and Farringdon Street, today the oldest segment of the London Underground.

January 10th, 1812

New Orleans (pictured), the first steamship on the Mississippi River, arrived at New Orleans to complete its maiden voyage.

January 10th, 1776

Common Sense, a pamphlet by Thomas Paine denouncing British rule in the Thirteen Colonies, was published.

January 10th, 1475

Moldavian–Ottoman Wars: Stephen the Great led Moldavian forces to defeat an Ottoman attack under Hadım Suleiman Pasha near Vaslui in present-day Romania.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 10th

Born on January 10th, 1979

45

Anna Lesko

Moldovan-Romanian singer

*January 10th, 1979, Chișinău

45

Michel Morandais

French basketball player

*January 10th, 1979, Les Abymes

45

Henrik Tallinder

Swedish ice hockey player

*January 10th, 1979, Stockholm

45

Alessandro Mori Nunes

Association football player

*January 10th, 1979, Assis Chateaubriand

45

Geraldo dos Santos Júnior

Brazilian footballer

*January 10th, 1979, Curitiba

45

Simone Cavalli

Italian footballer

*January 10th, 1979, Parma

45

Luís Eduardo Schmidt

Brazilian footballer

*January 10th, 1979, Jaú

45

Hans Henrik Andreasen

Danish footballer

*January 10th, 1979, Ringkøbing

45

Maximilian Brückner

German actor

*January 10th, 1979, Munich

45

Cash Garner Warren

American film producer

*January 10th, 1979, Los Angeles

45

Louise Carver

South African singer-songwriter and pianist

*January 10th, 1979, Cape Town

45

Lindsey Fawcett

British actress

*January 10th, 1979, Liverpool

45

Jesús Mendoza

Mexican footballer

*January 10th, 1979, Lagos de Moreno

45

Thorsten Thielow

German cinematographer

*January 10th, 1979, Tübingen

45

Matthew Le Nevez

Australian actor

*January 10th, 1979, Canberra

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44

Dani Kind

Canadian actress

*January 10th, 1980, Toronto

18

Angelina Jordan

Norwegian singer

*January 10th, 2006, Oslo

47

Tim Ricke

German actor

*January 10th, 1977, Duisburg

42

Reid Carolin

American film producer, director and screenwriter

*January 10th, 1982, Lake Forest

31

Rauw Alejandro

Puerto Rican singer and songwriter

*January 10th, 1993, San Juan

44

Sarah Shahi

American actress and model (born 1980)

*January 10th, 1980, Euless

36

Marvin Martin

French association football player

*January 10th, 1988, Paris

49

Marina Hands

French actress

*January 10th, 1975, 16th arrondissement of Paris

50

Hrithik Roshan

Indian film actor

*January 10th, 1974, Mumbai

55

Andreas Reinke

German association football player and manager (born 1969)

*January 10th, 1969, Krakow am See

50

Jemaine Clement

New Zealand actor and musician

*January 10th, 1974, Masterton

43

David Aganzo

Spanish footballer

*January 10th, 1981, Madrid

65

Fran Walsh

New Zealand screenwriter and producer

*January 10th, 1959, Wellington

50

Mehdi Nebbou

French actor (1974)

*January 10th, 1974, Bayonne

92

Fritz Schachermeyr

Austrian classical scholar and archaeologist

*January 10th, 1895, Urfahr †December 26th, 1987, Eisenstadt

38

Kirsten Flipkens

Belgian tennis player

*January 10th, 1986, Geel

46

Brent Smith

American singer

*January 10th, 1978, Knoxville

51

Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

German composer and writer

*January 10th, 1797, Burg Hülshoff †May 24th, 1848, Meersburg Castle

50

Sergei Eisenstein

Soviet filmmaker (1898–1948)

*January 10th, 1898, Riga †February 11th, 1948, Moscow

44

Fernanda Ferreira

Brazilian volleyball player

*January 10th, 1980, Belo Horizonte

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45

Gao Ling

Chinese badminton player

*March 14th, 1979, Wuhan

45

Yang Wei

Chinese badminton player

*January 13th, 1979, Guangdong

44

Tine Baun

Danish badminton player

*July 21st, 1979, Hørsholm

44

Deborah Secco

Brazilian actress

*November 26th, 1979, Rio de Janeiro

45

Johan Harstad

Norwegian author

*February 10th, 1979, Stavanger Municipality

44

Saralee Thungthongkam

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1979, Bangkok

44

Anders Kristiansen

Badminton player

*September 7th, 1979, Frederikssund Municipality

44

Nikhil Kanetkar

Badminton player

*May 13th, 1979, Pune

44

Guf

Russian rapper

*September 23rd, 1979, Ivanteyevskaya Street

44

Ghayath Almadhoun

Swedish poet

*July 19th, 1979, Damascus

45

Dan Tangnes

Norwegian ice hockey player (1979-)

*March 8th, 1979, Oslo

44

Patricia Aulitzky

Austrian actress

*July 7th, 1979, Salzburg

44

Mia Audina

Indonesian badminton player

*August 22nd, 1979, Jakarta

44

Chen Hong

Badminton player

*November 28th, 1979, Changting County

45

Ingo Kindervater

Badminton player

*January 1st, 1979, Burgwedel

44

Vincent Kartheiser

American actor

*May 5th, 1979, Minneapolis

44

Britta Andersen

Badminton player

*December 19th, 1979, Aarhus

44

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

44

Chris Pratt

American actor (born 1979)

*June 21st, 1979, Virginia

45

Lise Risom Olsen

Norwegian actress

*March 1st, 1979, Fredrikstad Municipality

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No: With 365 days 1979 is a normal year and no leap year.

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