January 10

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_10

49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.

1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil

1901 – The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.

1920 – The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I for all combatant nations except the United States.

1927 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.

1946 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.

1990 – Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.

• 1843 – Frank James, American soldier and criminal (d. 1915)

1908 – Paul Henreid, Italian-American actor and director (d. 1992

1919 – Milton Parker, American businessman, co-founded the Carnegie Deli

1936 – Stephen E. Ambrose, American historian and author

1938 – Willie McCovey, American baseball player 

1939 – Sal Mineo, American actor

1943 – Jim Croce, American singer-songwriter 

1945 – Rod Stewart, British singer-songwriter

1949 – George Foreman, American boxer, actor, and businessman

1953 – Pat Benatar, American singer-songwriter

Also Bernard Lee, director Walter Hill, and actor William Sanderson. 

• A burning gusher
• Smoke above a burning oil well, Jennings, La.
• c1902.
• https://www.loc.gov/item/2002706258/