Page 7: Historical Events In October - 10

1979  Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Zone on October - 10.   

1979  On October - 10 paul Paray, French composer, dies at 93   

1980  On October - 10 4,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strikes NW Algeria   

1980  Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated on this day in history.   

1980  On October - 10 bill Thomas, actor (Buckwheat), dies   

1980  El Asnam earthquake in Algeria killing 5,000 people on October - 10.   

1981  Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo on this day in history.   

1982  Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint on October - 10.   

1983  On October - 10 israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM   

1983  Sir Ralph [David] Richardson, English actor (Richard III), dies at 80 on October - 10.   

1985  Orson Welles actor (Citizen Kane), dies at 70 on October - 10.   

1985  On this day in history uS fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody   

1985  Yul Brynner actor (King & I), dies of cancer at 70 on October - 10.   

1985  Orson Welles, actor/dir (Citizen Kane), dies of heart attack at 70 on this day in history.   

1986  On October - 10 7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador   

1986  Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns on this day in history.   

1987  On this day in history bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album "Tunnel of Love"   

1990  Dick Jorgensen NFL referee, dies at 56 on this day in history.   

1990  US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) returns from space on October - 10.   

1990  Carlos Thompson, actor (Mistress of the World), dies at 67 on this day in history.   

1991  On October - 10 a former US postal worker Joseph Harris shoots two workers at the post office in Ridgewood, New Jersey   

1991  Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers on October - 10.   

1991  Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy on this day in history.   

1991  On this day in history redd Foxx, comedian (Sanford & Sons), dies of heart attack at 68   

1992  Floriade (Flower Show) closes at the Hague, Netherlands on this day in history.   

1992  On October - 10 james Seay, actor (Amazing Colossal Man), dies at 78   

1993  On October - 10 socialists regain power in Greece   

1993  Catherine Collard, French pianist (Debussy, Haydn), dies at 46 on October - 10.   

1994  On October - 10 anna Hauptmann, wife of Lindbergh baby kidnapper Bruno, dies at 95   

2006  On October - 10 google buys YouTube for USD$1.65 billion   

2007  On October - 10 an election and referendum in the Canadian province of Ontario takes place.   

2007  The SuccessTech Academy school shooting occurs in Cleveland, Ohio on this day in history.   

2010  On October - 10 the Netherlands Antilles are dissolved, with the islands being split up and given a new constitutional status.   

2012  Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on G protein-coupled receptors on October - 10.   

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1344  On this day in history birth of mary Plantagenet,English princess (d. 1362)   

1486  On this day in history birth of charles III, Duke of Savoy   

1567  On this day in history birth of infanta Caterina Micaela of Spain (d. 1597)   

1599  On October - 10 birth of jacob Aertsz Colom, Dutch publisher (Consolation of the Sea)   

1678  John Campbell, 2nd duke of Argyll/fieldmarshal (Union of 1707) was born on October - 10.   

1684  Jean Antoine Watteau, French rococo painter (Onverschillige) was born on October - 10.   

1700  Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (d. 1759) was born on October - 10.   

1713  Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer was born on October - 10.   

0019  Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commandant of Rijnleger, dies at 33 on October - 10.   

0413  On October - 10 death of nicias, Athens politician (Peace of Nicias), killed at about 57   

0680  Death of Hussein, grandson of prophet Mohammed, beheaded on October - 10.   

0732  Death of Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Moorish Governor of Andalusia on this day in history.   

0833  On this day in history death of al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (b. 786)   

1359  On this day in history death of king Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295)   

1616  Maria van Nassau, countess of Buren, dies at 60 on this day in history.   

1651  Philippus Rovenius, [Rouveen], apostole, dies at 77 on this day in history.