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 January - 10.   

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

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

1969  USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus on January - 10.   

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  Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer, dies at 87 on January - 10.   

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

1973  Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die on January - 10.   

1976  On this day in history chester Arthur Burnett, US blues pianist/harmonica player, dies at 65   

1977  On January - 10 canada expels four Cubans, two of them diplomats, after RCMP spy investigation   

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 January - 10 john D Rockefeller III, US billionaire/philanthropist, dies at 71   

1979  On January - 10 entertainer of the Year Awards   

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

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

1983  On January - 10 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 on this day in history.   

1984  On this day in history bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashes at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die   

1984  Clara Peller first asks, "Where's the Beef?" on January - 10.   

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 this day in history.   

1985  Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as President of Nicaragua on this day in history.   

1986  On this day in history palau signs Compact of Free Association with US   

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1480  On January - 10 birth of margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530)   

1502  On this day in history birth of hendrik Niclaes, German/Dutch merchant/cult leader (Children of God)   

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  On this day in history 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  Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (d. 1686) was born on this day in history.   

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

0866  On this day in history lin-chi I-hsuan, [J Rinzai Gigen], Zen teacher, dies   

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