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On this day: January 10

POSTED: 10:35 AM PST Jan 09, 2013 UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Jan 09, 2013

Caesar crosses the Rubicon, the London Underground opens, RCA introduces the 45 rpm single, The Beatles' first U.S. record is released, and Wendy's asks "Where's the Beef?," all on this day.

OTD January 10 - Dashiell Hammett — 27 / 40

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1961: American writer Dashiell Hammett, best known for his hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, including "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Thin Man," dies of lung cancer at the age of 66 in New York City.

OTD January 10 - Rubicon

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OTD January 10 - Carl Linnaeus

OTD January 10 - steamboat New Orleans

OTD January 10 - Frank James

OTD January 10 - Samuel Colt

OTD January 10 - London Underground

OTD January 10 - Samuel Mudd

OTD January 10 - Lucas gusher

OTD January 10 - Ray Bolger

OTD January 10 - Buffalo Bill Cody

OTD January 10 - Treaty of Versailles

OTD January 10 - Metropolis

OTD January 10 - Tintin

OTD January 10 - Ronnie Hawkins

OTD January 10 - Stephen Ambrose

OTD January 10 - Willie McCovey

OTD January 10 - Sal Mineo

OTD January 10 - Walter Hill

OTD January 10 - Jim Croce

OTD January 10 - Rod Stewart

OTD January 10 - United Nations General Assembly

OTD January 10 - RCA 45 records

OTD January 10 - George Foreman

OTD January 10 - Sinclair Lewis

OTD January 10 - Pat Benatar

OTD January 10 - Dashiell Hammett

OTD January 10 - Introducing the Beatles

OTD January 10 - Edward Brooke

OTD January 10 - Surveyor 7

OTD January 10 - The Beatles

OTD January 10 - Masterpiece Theatre

OTD January 10 - Howlin' Wolf

OTD January 10 - Rockford Files

OTD January 10 - Vatican City

OTD January 10 - Where's the Beef

OTD January 10 - Time Warner

OTD January 10 - Spalding Gray

OTD January 10 - Iraq surge

OTD January 10 - Tom DeLay

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