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

1968  US Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho on January - 10.   

1968  Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 on this day in history.   

1969  On January - 10 pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland   

1969  Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam on January - 10.   

1969  On January - 10 uSSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus   

1970  Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II), dies at 44 on this day in history.   

1971  On this day in history bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur   

1971  Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer, dies at 87 on this day in history.   

1972  Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman arrives in Dacca, East-Pakistan on this day in history.   

1972  Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK on January - 10.   

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

1973  On January - 10 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 this day in history.   

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

1978  On this day in history the USSR sends two cosmonauts into orbit to rendezvous with the Salyut Six space laboratory.   

1978  On January - 10 john D Rockefeller III, US billionaire/philanthropist, dies at 71   

1979  On this day in history 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  Last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC on January - 10.   

1981  El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive" on January - 10.   

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 January - 10.   

1984  Argentine ex-president/General Bignone arrested on this day in history.   

1984  Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashes at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die on this day in history.   

1984  Clara Peller first asks, "Where's the Beef?" on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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 January - 10 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 January - 10.   

1607  Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1646) was born on January - 10.   

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

1638  On January - 10 birth of niels Stensen, Danish astronomer   

1638  On this day in history birth of nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (d. 1686)   

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

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  Death of Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (b. 1029) on January - 10.   

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

1276  On this day in history gregorius X, [Tedaldo Visconti], pope, dies   

1542  On this day in history death of gerardus Noviomagus, [Gerrit Geldenhauer], Dutch theologist, die at 59   

1645  On January - 10 death of william Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded for treason at 71