Historical Events In January - 10

1967  Dutch Princess Margret marries Pieter van Vollenhoven on this day in history.   

1967  On this day in history lester Maddox inaugurated as Governor of Georgia   

1967  On this day in history pBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network   

1967  On January - 10 emerson Treacy, actor (Prowler), dies after surgery at 66   

1968  On this day in history uS Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho   

1968  Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 on this day in history.   

1969  On this day in history pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland   

1969  Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam on January - 10.   

1969  On January - 10 uSSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus   

1970  On January - 10 pavel Ivanovich Belyayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II), dies at 44   

1971  On January - 10 bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur   

1971  On this day in history gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer, dies at 87   

1972  On January - 10 sheik Mujib ur-Rahman arrives in Dacca, East-Pakistan   

1972  On January - 10 triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK   

1972  On this day in history al Goodman, Russian/US orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 81   

1973  On January - 10 gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die   

1976  On this day in history chester Arthur Burnett, US blues pianist/harmonica player, dies at 65   

1977  Canada expels four Cubans, two of them diplomats, after RCMP spy investigation on this day in history.   

1978  On this day in history soyuz 27 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station   

1978  On this day in history the USSR sends two cosmonauts into orbit to rendezvous with the Salyut Six space laboratory.   

1978  On this day in history john D Rockefeller III, US billionaire/philanthropist, dies at 71   

1979  On January - 10 entertainer of the Year Awards   

1980  Former AFL-CIO president George Meany dies in Washington, DC at age 85 on January - 10.   

1980  Last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC on this day in history.   

1981  El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive" on January - 10.   

1982  On this day in history -17ºF (27.2ºC) in Braemar Grampian (equals UK record)   

1983  In Los Angeles, the Fraggle Rock children's show debuts on HBO; partly produced in Toronto by Jim Henson on January - 10.   

1984  Argentine ex-president/General Bignone arrested on this day in history.   

1984  On January - 10 bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashes at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die   

1984  On January - 10 clara Peller first asks, "Where's the Beef?"   

1984  The U.S. and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations for the first time since 1867 on January - 10.   

1984  US establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years on January - 10.   

1985  Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as President of Nicaragua on January - 10.   

1986  Palau signs Compact of Free Association with US on this day in history.   

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1480  On this day in history birth of margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530)   

1502  Hendrik Niclaes, German/Dutch merchant/cult leader (Children of God) was born on January - 10.   

1538  Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (d. 1574) was born on this day in history.   

1573  On this day in history birth of simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624)   

1607  Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1646) was born on this day in history.   

1628  On this day in history birth of jan Theunisz Blanckerhoff, [Jan Maet], seascape painter)   

1638  On January - 10 birth of niels Stensen, Danish astronomer   

1638  Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (d. 1686) was born on this day in history.   

0681  On January - 10 agatho, Sicilian pope (678-81), dies   

0866  On this day in history lin-chi I-hsuan, [J Rinzai Gigen], Zen teacher, dies   

0976  John I Tzimisces, co-emperor of Byzantium (969-76), dies at 51 on January - 10.   

1094  On January - 10 death of caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (b. 1029)   

1271  Otto II, the Lame, earl of Gelre, dies on this day in history.   

1276  Gregorius X, [Tedaldo Visconti], pope, dies on January - 10.   

1542  On this day in history death of gerardus Noviomagus, [Gerrit Geldenhauer], Dutch theologist, die at 59   

1645  Death of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded for treason at 71 on this day in history.