Friday, January 11, 2013

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

NONE.




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.


ALL PHOTOS FROM Google Images

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