Daily Calendar for Friday, January 10, 2025

Carolus Linnaeus (botanist) – 1778
Buffalo Bill Cody (frontiersman) – 1917
Sinclair Lewis (novelist) – 1951
Dashiell Hammett (author of detective stories, including The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man) – 1961
Richard Boone (actor) – 1981
John Dye (actor) – 2011
David Bowie (musician) – 2016

Thomas Paine published Common Sense, a pamphlet calling for independence from England – 1776
Florida seceded from the Union (U.S. Civil War)– 1861
The first line of London’s underground transportation system opened– 1863
Standard Oil Company was incorporated– 1870
Spindletop, the first great Texas oil strike, was discovered– 1901
First aerial photography– 1911
League of Nations founded– 1920
Juan de la Cierva demonstrated the first autogyro in Spain– 1923
World’s first communication through space occurred when radar pulses from Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, echoed from the Moon– 1946
First UN General Assembly met in London– 1946
Columbia Inc. and Radio Corp. of America introduced 33 1/3 rpm and 45 rpm vinyl records– 1949
Elvis Presley made his first recording in Nashville— Heartbreak Hotel was the A side, I Was The One was the B-side– 1956
Two African American students were admitted to the University of Georgia, marking the first step toward racial integration of the state’s public school system– 1961
State Representative Julian Bond was denied a seat in the Georgia legislature because of his opposition to the Vietnam War– 1966
Masterpiece Theater made its television debut– 1971
U.S. and the Vatican reestablished full diplomatic relations after more than 100 years– 1984
Daniel Ortega inaugurated for a 6 year term as president of Nicaragua– 1985
Judy Sweet became the first woman elected NCAA president– 1991

The temperature in Charleston, South Carolina, dropped from 70F to 26F. The next morning, it plummeted to 15F.– 1745
Charleston, South Carolina, received 10 inches of snow– 1800
The Big Snow in central New York State dropped up to 60 inches– 1836
Temperature dropped 47 degrees in 15 minutes at Rapid City, South Dakota– 1911
Rochester, New York, had its coldest morning since January 16, 1994, with a record -12 degrees F– 2004
Boston’s Logan International Airport recorded a low of -3 degrees F, 2 degrees chillier than the previous record for January 10, set in 1875. It was the city’s coldest day since January 16, 1994, when thermometers registered -4 degrees– 2004
A huge mudslide crashed down on homes in the tiny town of La Conchita, about 70 miles northwest of Los Angeles– 2005
Vancouver had 23 consecutive days of rain– 2006