Page 8: Historical Events In January - 10

1967  Dutch Princess Margret marries Pieter van Vollenhoven on this day in history.   

1967  Lester Maddox inaugurated as Governor of Georgia on January - 10.   

1967  PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network on January - 10.   

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

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 January - 10.   

1969  On this day in history pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland   

1969  Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam on this day in history.   

1969  On this day in history uSSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus   

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

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

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

1973  On this day in history gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die   

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 January - 10.   

1978  Soyuz 27 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station on January - 10.   

1978  On January - 10 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 January - 10.   

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

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

1981  El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive" on this day in history.   

1982  -17ºF (27.2ºC) in Braemar Grampian (equals UK record) on January - 10.   

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 this day in history.   

1984  On this day in history 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  On January - 10 uS establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years   

1985  On January - 10 daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as President of Nicaragua   

1986  Palau signs Compact of Free Association with US on January - 10.   

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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 January - 10.   

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

1628  On this day in history birth of jan Theunisz Blanckerhoff, [Jan Maet], seascape painter)   

1638  Niels Stensen, Danish astronomer was born on January - 10.   

1638  Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (d. 1686) was born on January - 10.   

0681  Agatho, Sicilian pope (678-81), dies on this day in history.   

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

0976  On January - 10 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  On January - 10 death of william Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded for treason at 71