Page 8: Historical Events In January - 10

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

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

1967  PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network on this day in history.   

1967  Emerson Treacy, actor (Prowler), dies after surgery at 66 on January - 10.   

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

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 January - 10.   

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

1972  Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK on this day in history.   

1972  On January - 10 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  On January - 10 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  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  John D Rockefeller III, US billionaire/philanthropist, dies at 71 on January - 10.   

1979  Entertainer of the Year Awards on this day in history.   

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 January - 10 el Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive"   

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

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  On January - 10 argentine ex-president/General Bignone arrested   

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

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

1985  On January - 10 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 this day in history.   

1538  On January - 10 birth of louis of Nassau, Dutch general (d. 1574)   

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

1607  On January - 10 birth of isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1646)   

1628  Jan Theunisz Blanckerhoff, [Jan Maet], seascape painter) was born on January - 10.   

1638  Niels Stensen, Danish astronomer was born on this day in history.   

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

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

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

1271  On this day in history otto II, the Lame, earl of Gelre, dies   

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

1542  Death of Gerardus Noviomagus, [Gerrit Geldenhauer], Dutch theologist, die at 59 on January - 10.   

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