This Day, That Year – January 10

Silly Symphony was a weekly Disney comic strip that debuted as a topper for the Mickey Mouse strip’s Sunday page on this day in 1932.

Did you know that:

• The first auction of tea from Assam was held in London on this day in 1839
• Thomas Laine patented the electric gas lighter on this day in 1893
• Donald Knuth, an American computer scientist and author of “The Art of Computer Programming”, was born on this day in 1938