On This Day January 10th

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January 10th is the Tenth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 355 days remain until the end of the year.

 

Events

49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of the civil war.

1430 – Philip the Good, the Duke of Burgundy, establishes the Order of the Golden Fleece, the world's most prestigious, exclusive, and expensive order of chivalry.

1776 – American Revolution: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.

1812 – The first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River arrived in New Orleans 82 days after departing from Pittsburgh.

1863 – The Metropolitan Railway, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between Paddington and Farringdon, marking the beginning of the London Underground.

1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.

1927 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.

1990 – the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications forms Time Warner.

 

Birthdays

1715 – Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1775)

1780 – Martin Lichtenstein, German physician and explorer (d. 1857)

1875 – Issai Schur, German mathematician and academic (d. 1941)

1896 – Yong Mun Sen, Malaysian watercolor painter (d. 1962)

1916 – Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)

1930 – Roy E. Disney, American businessman (d. 2009)

1949 – George Foreman was an American boxer, actor, and businessman.

1953 – Pat Benatar, American singer-songwriter

1973 – Glenn Robinson, American basketball player

1988 – Leonard Patrick Komon, Kenyan runner.

 

Holiday Spotlight

National Oysters Rockefeller Day

Oysters Rockefeller is an innovation in the art of cooked oysters and is loved by people worldwide. The history behind the invention of this dish is fascinating.

 A humble family-owned restaurant in New Orleans established by Antoine Alciatore — Antoine’s Restaurant — specialized in snail dishes in the late 1850s. At the end of the 1880s, there was a shortage of European snails. This was when Jules Alciatore, the son of Antoine Alciatore, decided to replace snails with locally sourced oysters. He combined a butter sauce with green vegetables and invented a rich dish with oysters as the primary ingredient. It was so prosperous that it was named after the millionaire John D. Rockefeller, the wealthiest man at the time. 

 Grilled Oysters Rockefeller became a popular dish in just a few months across America and worldwide. Many chefs and restaurants now serve their variant of Oysters Rockefeller. The original recipe is a closely guarded family secret. It has been lab-tested, and some ingredients, including parsley and chives, were figured out, but the original has never been copied successfully.  Today, Antoine’s restaurant serves hundreds of servings of this dish daily and has dished millions of portions of Oysters Rockefeller since that first. Antonie’s celebrates this day by offering orders of Oysters Rockefeller for just $5 for those in New Orleans.


 Other Include

Bittersweet Chocolate Day

Houseplant Appreciation Day

League of Nations Day

National Cut Your Energy Costs Day

National Oysters Rockefeller Day

National Peculiar People Day

Save the Eagles Day

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