Today is Sunday, January 10, the 10th day of 2021 with 355 to follow.
The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mars, Mercury, Uranus and Venus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Capricorn. These include the poet Robinson Jeffers in 1887; the musician Ronnie Hawkins in 1935 (age 86); the historian Stephen Ambrose in 1936; Olympic decathlon champion Bill Toomey in 1939 (age 82); singer Jim Croce in 1943; singer Frank Sinatra Jr. in 1944; actor William Sanderson in 1944 (age 77); singer / songwriter Rod Stewart in 1945 (age 76); the musician Donald Fagen in 1948 (age 73); X-rated film actress Linda Lovelace in 1949; boxer George Foreman in 1949 (age 72); singer Pat Benatar in 1953 (age 68); singer Shawn Colvin in 1956 (age 65); New Zealand screenwriter Fran Walsh in 1959 (age 62); Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, in 1973 (age 48); actor Jemaine Clement in 1974 (age 47); rapper Chris Smith in 1979 (age 42); Keyshia Ka’oir model in 1985 (age 36).
On this date in history:
In 1789, the first U.S. presidential election was held nationwide. The electorate unanimously elected George Washington as president and John Adams as vice president.
In 1861, Florida withdrew from the United States.
In 1878, a constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote was introduced into the U.S. Senate. It was not until 42 years later that the change was implemented.
In 1901, oil was discovered at the Spindletop application near Beaumont, Texas, launching the Southwest oil boom.
In 1920, the League of Nations came into being in the wake of the Treaty of Versailles.
In 1946, the first meeting of the UN General Assembly was called in London.
In 1957, six dynamite explosions wreaked havoc on four black churches in Montgomery, Ala., And the homes of two ministers. No one was injured.
In 1984, the United States established full diplomatic relations with the Vatican for the first time in 116 years.
In 1994, Lorena Bobbitt went to court to have her husband, John Wayne Bobbitt, sentenced. He was found not guilty on the grounds of a complaint less than two weeks later.
In 2003, North Korea announced its withdrawal from the 1979 nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
In 2008, Edmund Hillary, who gained international fame as a member of the first climbing party to the scale of Mount Everest, died in Auckland, New Zealand, at the age of 88.
In 2017, a federal jury sentenced self-avowed white supremacist Dylann Roof to death for shooting nine people at a historic black church in Charleston, SC
In 2019, Jayme Close, a Wisconsin teenager who went missing was found alive three months after she was abducted and her parents killed. The 13-year-old escaped with her captor, who kept him at home when she was abducted.
Thinking for the day: “Architecture is fashion: It’s a matter of proportions.” – French fashion designer Coco Chanel