Page 8: Historical Events In January - 10

1967  PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network   

1967  Emerson Treacy, actor (Prowler), dies after surgery at 66   

1968  US Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho   

1968  Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73   

1969  Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland   

1969  Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam.   

1969  USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus.   

1970  Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II), dies at 44   

1971  Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur.   

1971  Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer, dies at 87   

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

1972  Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK.   

1972  Al Goodman, Russian/US orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 81   

1973  Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die   

1976  Chester Arthur Burnett, US blues pianist/harmonica player, dies at 65.   

1977  Canada expels four Cubans, two of them diplomats, after RCMP spy investigation.   

1978  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.   

1978  John D Rockefeller III, US billionaire/philanthropist, dies at 71   

1979  Entertainer of the Year Awards.   

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

1980  Last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC   

1981  El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive"   

1982  -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.   

1984  Argentine ex-president/General Bignone arrested   

1984  Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashes at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die   

1984  Clara Peller inaugural asks, "Where's the Beef?".   

1984  The U.S. and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations for the inaugural time since 1867.   

1984  US establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years   

1985  Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as President of Nicaragua   

1986  Palau signs Compact of Free Association with US   

1986  STS 61-C mission scrubbed T -9m because of bad weather at Kennedy.   

1990  China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre)   

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1480  Margaret of austria: Regent of the netherlands   

1502  Hendrik niclaes: German/dutch merchant/cult leader (children of god)   

1538  Louis of nassau: Dutch general   

1573  Simon marius: German astronomer   

1607  Isaac jogues: French jesuit missionary   

1628  Jan theunisz blanckerhoff: [jan maet], seascape painter)   

1638  Niels stensen: Danish astronomer   

1638  Nicolas steno: Danish geologist   

0681  Death of Agatho: Sicilian pope (678-81),   

0866  Death of Lin-chi i-hsuan: [j rinzai gigen], zen teacher,   

0976  John i tzimisces: Co-emperor of byzantium (969-76),   

1094  Death of Caliph al-mustansir of cairo: Caliph al-mustansir of cairo (b. 1029)   

1271  Death of Otto ii: The lame, earl of gelre,   

1276  Gregorius x: [tedaldo visconti], pope,   

1542  Gerardus noviomagus: [gerrit geldenhauer], dutch theologist, die at 59   

1645  Death of William laud: Archbishop of canterbury, beheaded for treason at 71