This day in History - January 10

432 Historic Events for January 10
1887 Birth Robinson Jeffers, US, poet/playwright (Tamar and Other Poems, Medea)
1888 Birth Emile van Bosch, Dutch revue/operetta-artist (Fair Folks)
1888 Birth Grock, Switzerland, clown
1889 Death Martin Andreas Udbye, composer, dies at 68
1889 Event Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France
1890 Birth Douglas MacLean, Phila, silent film comedian/producer (Going Up)
1890 Birth Ernest Milton, SF CA, actor (Cat Girl, Fiddler's Three)
1890 Event Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Sapientiae Christianae
1890 Event Edward Macdowell's "Lancelot and Elaine," premieres
1891 Birth Jos Speybrouck, Flemish painter
1892 Birth Dumas Malone, Miss, historian (Jefferson and His Time)
1892 Death Heinrich Ludwig Egmont Dorn, composer, dies at 91
1893 Event Richard Drigo's ballet "Magic Flute" premieres, St Petersburg
1894 Birth Reginald Denham, London, Broadway director (Obsession, The Bad Seed)
1895 Death Benjamin Louis Paul Godard, composer, dies at 45
1897 Event Henrik Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman," premieres in Helsingfors
1897 Event Vincent d'Indy's "Istar" premieres in Amsterdam and Brussels
1897 Birth Albert Moeschinger, composer
1898 Birth Sergei M Eisenstein, Russian director (Alexandr Nevski) [OS]
1899 Death Gerard Keller, Dutch writer (Vlugmaren), dies at 69
1900 Event Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener reach Capetown
1901 Event Oil discovered in Texas
1901 Birth Pauline Starke, Joplin MO, actress (Dante's Inferno, Dance Magic)
1902 Event Alphons Diepenbrock's "Te Deum" premieres (Amsterdam)
1903 Birth Jens A Schade, Danish writer (Schadebogen, Losses Híjsang)