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  Emerson Treacy, actor (Prowler), dies after surgery at 66 on this day in history.   

1968  On January - 10 uS Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho   

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 January - 10.   

1969  On this day in history sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam   

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

1971  On this day in history gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer, dies at 87   

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

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

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

1977  Canada expels four Cubans, two of them diplomats, after RCMP spy investigation on January - 10.   

1978  On this day in history soyuz 27 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station   

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  On this day in history entertainer of the Year Awards   

1980  On this day in history 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  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  On this day in history clara Peller first asks, "Where's the Beef?"   

1984  On this day in history 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  Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as President of Nicaragua on January - 10.   

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 this day in history.   

1538  Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (d. 1574) was born on this day in history.   

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

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  On January - 10 birth of niels Stensen, Danish astronomer   

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

0681  On January - 10 agatho, Sicilian pope (678-81), dies   

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

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 January - 10.   

1645  Death of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded for treason at 71 on January - 10.