THIS DAY IN HISTORY – JANUARY 10

HISTORICAL EVENTS

49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war. This is allso where he uttered the famous phrase, "alea iacta est" – the die is cast.

1928 – The Soviet Union orders the exile of Leon Trotsky (born, Lev Davidovich Bronshtein).

1943 – Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad signalling the beginning of Hitler's greatest defeat of WWII..

1967 – PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network.

FAMOUS BIRTHS

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FAMOUS DEATHS

1917 – William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody dies of kidney failure in Denver, CO.

1951 – Henry Sinclair Lewis Sinclair Lewis, Nobel Prize Winning American novelist, short-story writer and playwright, dies at 65.

1978 – John D. Rockefeller III, billionaire/philanthropist, dies at 71.

2009 – William Frederick "Bill" Stone, one of the last five surviving World War I veterans, dies at 108.

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