Notable Birthdays for January 10
Thomas Mifflin (1744-1800) - Officer for the Continental Army and the first Governor of Pennsylvania.
Alexander Brydie Dyer (1815-1874) - Major General for the Union Army.
Alexander Travis Hawthorn (1825-1899) - Brigadier-General for the Confederate Army.
Charles Ingalls (1836-1902) - Father of author Laura Ingalls Wilder.
John Wellborn Root (1850-1891) - Architect who designed the Rookery Building and Monadnock Building.
George Washington Carver (1864-1943) - Black agricultural scientist who studied peanuts and agriculture.
Mary Ingalls (1865-1928) - Sister of author Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Frederick Gardner Cottrell (1877-1948) - Chemist and inventor of the electrostatic precipitator.
Ray Bolger (1904-1987) - Fondly remembered for his role as Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz.
Jerry Wexler (1917-2008) - Journalist credited with coining the term Rhythm and Blues.
Milton Parker (1919-2009) - Co-founder of the Carnegie Deli (NY).
Rosella Hightower (1920-2008) - World-renowned ballerina.
Earl Bakken (1924-2018) - Inventor of the first battery-operated, wearable artificial pacemaker.
Robert Woodrow Wilson (1936-Still Living) - Physicist who discovered cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB).
Donald Knuth (1938-Still Living) - Considered the Father of the Analysis of Algorithms.
Jim Croce (1943-1973) - Singer-songwriter known for hits like Time in a Bottle and Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.
Donald Fagen (1948-Still Living) - Co-founder and lead singer for the band Steely Dan.
George Foreman (1949-Still Living) - World heavyweight champion boxer and Olympic Gold Mentalist.
Pat Benatar (1953-Still Living) - Rock singer for hits like Heartbreaker, Love is a Battlefield, and Hit Me with Your Best Shot.
Jared Kushner (1981-Still Living) - Real estate investor.
Memorable Events for January 10
1776 - Common Sense is published by Thomas Paine.
1870 - John D. Rockefeller creates the Standard Oil company.
1901 - The Automobile Club of America installs signs on all major highways.
1911 - The first photo is taken from an airplane over San Diego.
1943 - President Roosevelt becomes the first President to visit a foreign country during wartime.
1946 - The U.S. Army bounces the first radar signal off the moon.
1949 - The first 45 RPM record is introduced by RCA.
1984 - Clara Peller asks Where's the Beef? in commercial for Wendy's.