Summary of the Day ✨ 10 January (10/01)
In Wisconsin, 13-year-old Jayme Closs was found alive 88 days after her kidnapping during which her parents were murdered. Meanwhile, Pakistan witnessed multiple deadly incidents including a traffic accident that killed 62 people, bomb blasts in Quetta that killed over 100, and another bombing in Jamrud that killed 30, while Guinea began a general strike calling for President Lansana Conté’s resignation.
Historical Events 📜
- 2019: A 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is found alive in Gordon, Wisconsin, having been kidnapped 88 days earlier from her parents’ home whilst they were murdered.
- 2015: A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and passenger coach en route to Shikarpur from Karachi on the Pakistan National Highway Link Road near Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Karachi, killing at least 62 people.
- 2013: More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in the Quetta area of Pakistan.
- 2012: A bombing at Jamrud in Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and injures 78 others.
- 2007: A general strike begins in Guinea in an attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.
- 2003: North Korea withdraws from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, making it the first state to withdraw from the treaty.
- 2000: Crossair Flight 498, a Saab 340 aircraft, crashes in Niederhasli, Switzerland, after taking off from Zurich Airport, killing 13 people.
- 1990: Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.
- 1985: Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba.
- 1984: Holy See–United States relations: The United States and Holy See (Vatican City) re-establish full diplomatic relations after almost 117 years, overturning the United States Congress’s 1867 ban on public funding for such a diplomatic envoy.
- 1981: Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments.
- 1980: The New England Journal of Medicine publishes the letter Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics, which is later misused to downplay the general risk of addiction to opioids.
- 1972: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
- 1966: Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
- 1954: BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea, killing 35 people.
Famous Births 👶
- 2003: Cesare Casadei, Italian footballer
- 2001: Santi Aldama, Spanish basketball player
- 2000: Erik Botheim, Norwegian footballer
- 2000: Reneé Rapp, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1999: Mason Mount, English footballer
- 1999: Youssouf Fofana, French footballer
- 1997: Patrick Herbert, New Zealand rugby league player
- 1997: Blake Lawrie, Australian rugby league player
- 1996: Budda Baker, American football player
- 1996: Matthew Dufty, Australian rugby league player
- 1996: Dylan Edwards, Australian rugby league player
- 1996: Ahmed Sayed, Egyptian footballer
- 1993: Tobias Rieder, German ice hockey player
- 1991: Chad Townsend, Australian rugby league player
- 1990: John Carlson, American ice hockey player
Notable Deaths 🕊️
- 2026: Yeison Jiménez, Colombian singer, (born 1991)
- 2026: Bob Weir, American musician, (born 1947)
- 2025: José Jiménez, Puerto Rican activist (born 1948)
- 2025: Bill McCartney, American football player and coach (born 1940)
- 2025: Sam Moore, American soul singer-songwriter (born 1935)
- 2023: Jeff Beck, English guitarist and songwriter (born 1944)
- 2023: Constantine II of Greece, King of Greece (1964-1973) (born 1940)
- 2022: Joyce Eliason, American television personality (born 1934)
- 2022: Robert Durst, American real estate heir and convicted murderer (born 1943)
- 2020: Qaboos bin Said, ruler of Oman (born 1940)
- 2019: Ross Lowell, American inventor, photographer & author (born 1926)
- 2017: Buddy Greco, American jazz and pop singer and pianist (born 1926)
- 2017: Clare Hollingworth, English journalist (born 1911)
- 2016: David Bowie, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (born 1947)
- 2016: Bård Breivik, Norwegian sculptor and art instructor (born 1948)
Holidays & Observances 🎉
- Christian feast day:
Behnam, Sarah, and the Forty Martyrs (Armenian Apostolic Church) - Christian feast day:
Gregory of Nyssa - Christian feast day:
Leonie Aviat - Christian feast day:
Obadiah (Coptic Church) - Christian feast day:
Peter Orseolo - Christian feast day:
Pope Agatho (Roman Catholic) - Christian feast day:
William Laud (Anglican Communion) - Christian feast day:
William of Donjeon - Christian feast day:
January 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) - Fête du Vodoun (Benin)
- Margaret Thatcher Day (Falkland Islands)
- Majority Rule Day (Bahamas)