Births on January 10

Percy Cerutty

Born on January 10, 1895

Percy Cerutty, Australian athletics coach (d. 1975)

Percy Wells Cerutty (10 January 1895 – 14 August 1975) was an Australian athletics coach in the 1950s and 1960s.

The eccentric Australian pioneered a home-spun system of "Stotan" training, embracing a holistic regime of natural diets, hard training in natural surroundings, and mental stimulation.

Cerutty coached Herb Elliott to a series of world record performances, culminating in an Olympic gold medal in the 1960 Rome Games.

References

Percy Cerutty

Choose Another Date

Events on 1895

24 Feb

Cuban War of Independence
Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ends with the Spanish-American War in 1898.
3 Apr

Oscar Wilde
The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
6 Apr

John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry
Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
7 May

Alexander Stepanovich Popov
In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
28 Jun

Greater Republic of Central America
El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Greater Republic of Central America.

Births on January 10

Percy Cerutty

Born on January 10, 1895

References

Choose Another Date

Events on 1895

Cuban War of Independence

Oscar Wilde

John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry

Alexander Stepanovich Popov

Greater Republic of Central America