So you want to have a drink but you aren't sure why? Here are some GREAT reasons to call your friends over and have a party.

January 10th


- Christian Feast Day
- Traditional Day (Benin)

January 10th


- 2005 - A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing the Highway 101, the main coastal corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles, for 10 days.
- 2003 - Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois' death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
- 2001 - A large piece of the chalk cliff at Beachy Head collapses into the sea.
- 1990 - Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc.
- 1984 - The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations after 117 years.
- 1972 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
- 1962 - Apollo Project: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket booster. It became better known as the Saturn V moon rocket, which launched every Apollo moon mission.
- 1946 - The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
- 1941 - Lend-Lease is introduced in the U.S. Congress.
- 1941 - World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
- 1929 - The Ring-tailed Lemur is officially listed at the type species for the genus Lemur by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) when it published Opinion 122, even though the genus originally described lorises.
- 1923 - Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.
- 1922 - Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State.
- 1920 - The League of Nations holds its first meeting, and ratifies the Treaty of Versailles, therefore ending World War I.
- 1916 - Erzerum Offensive during World War I, Russian victory over Ottoman Empire
- 1901 - The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
- 1870 - John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
- 1863 - The London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.
- 1861 - American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union.
- 1810 - The marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled.
- 1806 - Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
- 1776 - Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.
- 1645 - Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London.
- 1475 - Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
- 1072 - Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.
- 69 - Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba to deputy Roman Emperor.
- -49 - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.

January 10th


- 1990 - Tao Li, Singaporean swimmer
- 1989 - Kyle Reimers, Australian rules footballer
- 1987 - César Cielo Filho, Brazilian swimmer
- 1986 - Abigail Clancy, English model
- 1986 - Saleisha Stowers, American model
- 1985 - Alex Meraz, American actor
- 1983 - Danilo Dirani, Brazilian racing driver
- 1983 - Li Nina, Chinese aerial skier
- 1982 - Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (d. 2002)
- 1981 - Brian Joo, American-born Korean singer
- 1980 - Petri Lindroos, Finnish musician (Ensiferum)
- 1980 - Sarah Shahi, American actress and model
- 1980 - Nelson Cuevas, Paraguayan footballer
- 1979 - Bodo Sieber, German rugby player
- 1978 - Brent Smith, American singer (Shinedown)
- 1976 - Adam Kennedy, American baseball player
- 1976 - Ian Poulter, English golfer
- 1975 - Jake Delhomme, American football player
- 1974 - Jemaine Clement, New Zealand actor
- 1974 - Davide Dionigi, Italian footballer
- 1974 - Akari Kaida, Japanese composer
- 1974 - Steve Marlet, French footballer
- 1974 - Hrithik Roshan, Indian actor
- 1973 - Ryan Drummond, American voice actor
- 1973 - Glenn Robinson, American basketball player
- 1973 - Félix Trinidad, Puerto Rican boxer
- 1972 - Thomas Alsgaard, Norwegian cross-country skier
- 1972 - Brian Lawler, American wrestler
- 1970 - Buff Bagwell, American wrestler
- 1970 - Alisa Maric, Serbian-born chess grandmaster
- 1967 - Johan Laats, Belgian judoka
- 1966 - Steve Kramer, American politician
- 1965 - Butch Hartman, American animator
- 1964 - Brad Roberts, Canadian singer (Crash Test Dummies)
- 1963 - Mark Pryor, American politician
- 1963 - David Dewayne Johnson, American convicted murderer (d. 2000)
- 1962 - Michael Fortier, Canadian politician
- 1961 - Evan Handler, American actor
- 1961 - Janet Jones, American actress
- 1961 - Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Italian violinist
- 1960 - Gurinder Chadha, British film director
- 1960 - Brian Cowen, Taoiseach of Ireland
- 1960 - Benoît Pelletier, Canadian politician
- 1960 - Samira Said, Moroccan singer
- 1959 - Fran Walsh, New Zealand screenwriter
- 1958 - Anatoly Pisarenko, Soviet weightlifter
- 1957 - Greg Walden, American politician
- 1956 - Shawn Colvin, American singer
- 1956 - Antonio Muñoz Molina, Spanish writer
- 1955 - Michael Schenker, German guitarist (UFO)
- 1953 - Pat Benatar, American singer
- 1953 - Dennis Cooper, American author
- 1953 - Bobby Rahal, American racing driver and team owner
- 1952 - Scott Thurston, American musician
- 1951 - Paul DiMaggio, American educator
- 1950 - Roy Blunt, American politician, House minority whip
- 1950 - Ernie Wasson, American gardener and writer
- 1949 - George Foreman, American boxer
- 1949 - James Lapine, American stage director
- 1949 - Linda Lovelace, American pornographic actress (d. 2002)
- 1948 - Donald Fagen, American musician (Steely Dan)
- 1948 - Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (d. 2002)
- 1948 - Mischa Maisky, Latvian cellist
- 1948 - Bernard Thévenet, French cyclist
- 1947 - Afeni Shakur, mother of Tupac Shakur
- 1947 - Peer Steinbrück, German politician
- 1946 - Aynsley Dunbar, English musician
- 1945 - John Fahey, Australian politician
- 1945 - Jennifer Moss, English Actress (d. 2006)
- 1945 - Rod Stewart, Scottish singer
- 1945 - Edward Wiskoski, American wrestler
- 1944 - Rory Byrne, South African racing car designer
- 1944 - Bernard Derome, Canadian news presenter
- 1944 - William Sanderson, American actor
- 1944 - Frank Sinatra, Jr., American singer
- 1943 - Jim Croce, American singer (d. 1973)
- 1942 - Walter Hill, American film director
- 1940 - Guy Chevrette, Quebec politician
- 1940 - Harry Gant, American racing driver
- 1940 - Ntare VI of Ankole, Omugabe of Nkole
- 1940 - Yesudas, Indian playback singer and classical musician
- 1939 - Jared Carter, American poet
- 1939 - David Horowitz, American author and political commentator
- 1939 - William Levy, Dutch writer
- 1939 - Scott McKenzie, American singer
- 1939 - Sal Mineo, American actor (d. 1976)
- 1939 - Bill Toomey, American athlete
- 1938 - Donald Knuth, American mathematician and computer scientist
- 1938 - Frank Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player and Canadian Senator
- 1938 - Willie McCovey, American baseball player
- 1937 - Thomas Penfield Jackson, American judge
- 1936 - Stephen Ambrose, American historian (d. 2002)
- 1936 - Burnum Burnum, Australian activist, actor and author (d. 1997)
- 1936 - Al Goldstein, American publisher and pornographer
- 1936 - Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist, radio astronomer, Nobel laureate
- 1935 - Ronnie Hawkins, American musician
- 1935 - Sherrill Milnes, American baritone
- 1934 - Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician
- 1933 - Anton Rodgers, English actor (d. 2007)
- 1932 - Elaine Devry, American actress
- 1931 - Peter Barnes, English writer (d. 2004)
- 1930 - Roy Edward Disney, American film executive (d. 2009)
- 1929 - Derek Hammond-Stroud, English operatic baritone
- 1928 - Philip Levine, American poet
- 1927 - Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian singer (d. 2003)
- 1927 - Lee Philips, American actor (d. 1999)
- 1927 - Johnnie Ray, American singer (d. 1990)
- 1927 - Otto Stich, Swiss politician
- 1926 - Musallam Bseiso, Palestinian journalist and politician
- 1924 - Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer and director (d. 1996)
- 1924 - Max Roach, American musician and composer (d. 2007)
- 1921 - Rodger Ward, American racing driver (d. 2004)
- 1920 - Georges Marchal, French actor (d. 1997)
- 1920 - Max Patkin, American baseball player (d. 1999)
- 1919 - Terukuni Manz?, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 38th Yokozuna (d. 1977)
- 1918 - Arthur Chung, President of Guyana (d. 2008)
- 1917 - Jerry Wexler, American record producer (d. 2008)
- 1916 - Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
- 1916 - Don Metz, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
- 1916 - Eldzier Cortor, American painter
- 1915 - Dean Dixon, American conductor (d. 1976)
- 1914 - Yu Kuo-hwa, Premier of Taiwan (d. 2000)
- 1913 - Gustáv Husák, President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1991)
- 1913 - Mehmet Shehu, Albanian politician (d. 1981)
- 1912 - Maria Mandel, Austrian Auschwitz prison guard (d. 1948)
- 1910 - Jean Martinon, French conductor and composer (d. 1976)
- 1908 - Paul Henreid, Austrian actor (d. 1993)
- 1908 - Bernard Lee, English actor (d. 1981)
- 1905 - Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, director (d. 1993)
- 1904 - Ray Bolger, American actor and dancer (d. 1987)
- 1903 - Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor (d. 1975)
- 1903 - Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler (d. 1997)
- 1903 - Violet Wilkey, American actress (d. 1976)
- 1898 - Katharine Blodgett, American scientist and inventor (d. 1979)
- 1893 - Albert Jacka, Australian soldier, first Victoria Cross winner (d. 1932)
- 1890 - Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (d. 1957)
- 1887 - Robinson Jeffers, American poet (d. 1962)
- 1883 - Francis X. Bushman, American actor (d. 1966)
- 1883 - Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi, Russian writer (d. 1945)
- 1880 - Manuel Azaña y Diaz, Spanish republican President (d. 1940)
- 1873 - Jack O'Neill, Irish-born baseball player (d. 1935)
- 1873 - George Orton, Canadian athlete (d. 1958)
- 1865 - Mary Ingalls, sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1928)
- 1864 - Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (d. 1931)
- 1859 - Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, Spanish free-thinker (d. 1909)
- 1858 - Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer (d. 1929)
- 1850 - John Wellborn Root, American architect (d. 1891)
- 1843 - Frank James, American outlaw (d. 1915)
- 1840 - Louis Nazaire Bégin, Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d. 1925)
- 1836 - Charles Ingalls, father of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1902)
- 1834 - Lord Acton, British historian (d. 1902)
- 1828 - Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (d. 1892)
- 1815 - Sir John Alexander Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1891)
- 1812 - Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (d. 1881)
- 1810 - Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman (d. 1883)
- 1797 - Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (d. 1848)
- 1769 - Michel Ney, French marshal (d. 1815)
- 1750 - Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine, British Lord Chancellor (d. 1823)
- 1738 - Ethan Allen, American military leader (d. 1789)
- 1729 - Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist (d. 1799)
- 1721 - Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (d. 1740)
- 1715 - Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1775)
- 1702 - Johannes Zick, German painter (d. 1762)
- 1654 - Joshua Barnes, English scholar (d. 1712)
- 1644 - Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (d. 1711)
- 1638 - Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (d. 1686)
- 1628 - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1687)
- 1607 - Isaac Jogues, French missionary (d. 1646)
- 1573 - Simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624)
- 1538 - Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (d. 1574)
- 1480 - Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530)