January 10, 1909 (Sunday)
- In Sion, Switzerland, 40 worshippers were killed and 60 others injured when their church collapsed during services. The pillars of an ancient crypt beneath the church had given way.
- The explosion at the Leiter Colliery in Zeigler, Illinois killed 26 coal miners. Only two men survived the blast.
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Famous quotes containing the word january:
“and you undid the reins
and I undid the buttons,
the bones, the confusions,
The New England postcards,
the January ten o’clock night,
and we rose up like wheat....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)