Page 8: Historical Events In January - 10

1967  On January - 10 dutch Princess Margret marries Pieter van Vollenhoven   

1967  Lester Maddox inaugurated as Governor of Georgia on this day in history.   

1967  On January - 10 pBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network   

1967  On this day in history emerson Treacy, actor (Prowler), dies after surgery at 66   

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

1968  On this day in history basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73   

1969  Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland on January - 10.   

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

1969  USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus on this day in history.   

1970  Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II), dies at 44 on this day in history.   

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

1971  Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer, dies at 87 on this day in history.   

1972  On this day in history 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  Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die on this day in history.   

1976  Chester Arthur Burnett, US blues pianist/harmonica player, dies at 65 on this day in history.   

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  The USSR sends two cosmonauts into orbit to rendezvous with the Salyut Six space laboratory on January - 10.   

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

1979  Entertainer of the Year Awards on January - 10.   

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

1980  Last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC on January - 10.   

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 this day in history.   

1984  Argentine ex-president/General Bignone arrested on January - 10.   

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

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  On this day in history daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as President of Nicaragua   

1986  On January - 10 palau signs Compact of Free Association with US   

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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 January - 10.   

1573  Simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624) was born on this day in history.   

1607  Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1646) was born on January - 10.   

1628  On January - 10 birth of jan Theunisz Blanckerhoff, [Jan Maet], seascape painter)   

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

1638  On January - 10 birth of nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (d. 1686)   

0681  Agatho, Sicilian pope (678-81), dies on January - 10.   

0866  Lin-chi I-hsuan, [J Rinzai Gigen], Zen teacher, dies on January - 10.   

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

1094  Death of Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (b. 1029) on January - 10.   

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

1276  On January - 10 gregorius X, [Tedaldo Visconti], pope, dies   

1542  Death of Gerardus Noviomagus, [Gerrit Geldenhauer], Dutch theologist, die at 59 on this day in history.   

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