Template:Selected anniversaries/January 10

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

1946 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.

2015 – A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involves beer that was deliberately contaminated with crocodile bile leaving at least 56 dead and nearly 200 hospitalized.

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

1891 – Heinrich Behmann, German mathematician and academic (d. 1970)

1898 – Katharine Burr Blodgett, American physicist and engineer (d. 1979)

1654 – Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist, physician, and astrologer (b. 1616)

1833 – Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1752)

1895 – Eli Whitney Blake, Jr., American chemist, physicist, and academic (b. 1836)