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January 10, 2015

Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 7, 2015, covering January 10, 2015.

  1. 1
    Album cover for 1989 by Taylor Swift

    1989

    Taylor Swift

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    9
  2. 2
    Album cover for The Pinkprint by Nicki Minaj

    The Pinkprint

    Nicki Minaj

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    2
  3. 3
    Album cover for That's Christmas To Me by Pentatonix

    That's Christmas To Me

    Pentatonix

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    10
  4. 4
    Album cover for FOUR by One Direction

    FOUR

    One Direction

    Last week
    7
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    6
  5. 5
    Album cover for In The Lonely Hour by Sam Smith

    In The Lonely Hour

    Sam Smith

    Last week
    6
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    28

Notable Deaths

Junior Malanda

2015Junior Malanda, Belgian footballer (born 1994)[†]

Bernard Malanda-Adje known as his nickname Junior Malanda, was a Belgian professional footballer who last played for German club VfL Wolfsburg as a defensive midfielder.

Taylor Negron

2015Taylor Negron, American actor, playwright, and painter (born 1957)[†]

Brad Stephen "Taylor" Negron was an American actor, comedian, writer and artist. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Albert in Punchline (1988) and as Milo in the 1991 action comedy The Last Boy Scout.

Francesco Rosi

2015Francesco Rosi, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1922)[†]

Francesco Rosi was an Italian film director and screenwriter. His film The Mattei Affair won the Palme d'Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Rosi's films, especially those of the 1960s and 1970s, often appeared to have political messages, while the topics of his later films became less politically oriented and more angled toward literature. He made his debut with his first self-directed film in 1958 and continued to direct until 1997, his last film being the adaptation of Primo Levi's book, The Truce.

Robert Stone (novelist)

2015Robert Stone, American novelist and short story writer (born 1937)[†]

Robert Anthony Stone was an American novelist, journalist, and college professor.

Historical Events

2015 Karachi traffic accident

2015A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and passenger coach en route to Shikarpur from Karachi on the Pakistan National Highway Link Road near Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Karachi, killing at least 62 people.[†]

The 2015 Karachi traffic accident occurred on 10 January 2015, when a passenger bus in transit from Karachi to Shikarpur crashed into an oil tanker killing up to 62 people including 6 children. The bus was carrying up to 80 people, with 62 inside the bus and 10 on top, due to overcrowding. Traveling in the morning, most of the passengers were asleep when the bus crashed.

Historical Context for January 10, 2015

In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]