Page 8: Historical Events In January - 10

1967  On this day in history dutch Princess Margret marries Pieter van Vollenhoven   

1967  On January - 10 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  Emerson Treacy, actor (Prowler), dies after surgery at 66 on this day in history.   

1968  US Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho on this day in history.   

1968  Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 on January - 10.   

1969  Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland on this day in history.   

1969  On January - 10 sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam   

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  Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur on January - 10.   

1971  On January - 10 gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer, dies at 87   

1972  Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman arrives in Dacca, East-Pakistan on January - 10.   

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

1972  Al Goodman, Russian/US orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 81 on January - 10.   

1973  Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die on January - 10.   

1976  Chester Arthur Burnett, US blues pianist/harmonica player, dies at 65 on January - 10.   

1977  On this day in history canada expels four Cubans, two of them diplomats, after RCMP spy investigation   

1978  Soyuz 27 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1980  On January - 10 last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC   

1981  On this day in history el Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive"   

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

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

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

1984  Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashes at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die on January - 10.   

1984  Clara Peller first asks, "Where's the Beef?" on January - 10.   

1984  The U.S. and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations for the first time since 1867 on this day in history.   

1984  On this day in history uS establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years   

1985  Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as President of Nicaragua on this day in history.   

1986  On this day in history palau signs Compact of Free Association with US   

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1480  Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530) was born on this day in history.   

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 January - 10.   

1573  Simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624) was born on January - 10.   

1607  On this day in history birth of isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1646)   

1628  Jan Theunisz Blanckerhoff, [Jan Maet], seascape painter) was born on this day in history.   

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 this day in history agatho, Sicilian pope (678-81), dies   

0866  On January - 10 lin-chi I-hsuan, [J Rinzai Gigen], Zen teacher, dies   

0976  On this day in history john I Tzimisces, co-emperor of Byzantium (969-76), dies at 51   

1094  Death of Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (b. 1029) on this day in history.   

1271  Otto II, the Lame, earl of Gelre, dies on January - 10.   

1276  Gregorius X, [Tedaldo Visconti], pope, dies on this day in history.   

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

1645  On January - 10 death of william Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded for treason at 71