January 10 birthdays
1912 MARIA MANDL
Mandl was an SS-Helferin (SS helper) known for her role in the Holocaust as a topranking official at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. She is believed to have been directly complicit in the deaths of 500,000 prisoners. Mandl was executed for war crimes.
1945 ROD STEWART
Stewart has sold more than 25 million albums worldwide and has had 10 No. 1 albums and 31 top 10 singles on the British charts. His music career started in 1962 when he began busking with a harmonica.
1949 GEORGE FOREMAN
Foreman is a two-time world heavyweight champion and an Olympic gold medallist. His gold medal came at the 1968 Olympics. He turned professional the next year and claimed the heavyweight crown with a second-round knockout of the previously undefeated Joe Frazier.
1953 PAT BENATAR
Benatar’s second album, 1980’s Crimes of Passion, was her most successful work and peaked at number two on the US and French album chart. Its single, Hit Me With Your Best Shot, reached the top 10 in the US and Canada.
1959 FRAN WALSH
The partner of filmmaker Peter Jackson, Walsh has contributed to all of their films since 1989. She won three Academy Awards for the final LOTR instalment, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
1974 JEMAINE CLEMENT
As part of the Grammy Award-winning comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, Clement has released several albums and produced comedy series for the BBC and HBO. He co-wrote, co-directed and costarred in What We Do in the
Shadows with Taika Waititi.
1981 JARED KUSHNER
Kushner is the son of former real estate developer Charles Kushner and is married to Ivanka Trump, the daughter of former US president Donald Trump.
1645
The archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, is beheaded at Tower Hill, London, after having persecuted Puritans. Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense, a 50-page pamphlet that sells more than 500,000 copies and calls for a war of independence that will become the American Revolution.
The first 6km of the London Underground railway opens. The network is popular despite fumes from coke-burning locomotives. Stanley F.
James, 20, of Chatswood, is swimming at The Orchards, in the upper Lane Cove River, when a shark takes his left leg off below the knee at 5pm. It pulls him under but he resurfaces and is pulled into a boat. Taken home in an ambulance, he remains conscious but dies at 9.45pm.
1776 1863 1903 1917 1920 1929
US soldier and showman “Buffalo” Bill Cody dies, aged 70.
League of Nations starts in Geneva, with Australia an original member.
Tintin and his dog Snowy, cartoon creations of Belgian artist Herge (Georges Remi), make their firstappearance.
John Moncrieff and George Hood leave Richmond, near Sydney, in an attempt to make the first flight from Australia to New Zealand. The flight is unsuccessful and they are never seen again.
1928 1956
Elvis Presley (above) records his first songs for RCA Victor, including subsequent No. 1 hit Heartbreak Hotel, in the first of two days of recording at Nashville. Intense rainfall in Queensland causes the worst flash flooding on record as water engulfs Toowoomba. Brisbane floodwaters peak on January 13; 22 people die.
2011