Page 8: Historical Events In January - 10

1967  Dutch Princess Margret marries Pieter van Vollenhoven on January - 10.   

1967  On January - 10 lester Maddox inaugurated as Governor of Georgia   

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

1968  On this day in history basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73   

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  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  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  On this day in history sheik Mujib ur-Rahman arrives in Dacca, East-Pakistan   

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  Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die on this day in history.   

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

1979  Entertainer of the Year Awards on January - 10.   

1980  On this day in history former AFL-CIO president George Meany dies in Washington, DC at age 85.   

1980  Last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC on this day in history.   

1981  On this day in history el Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive"   

1982  On this day in history -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 on January - 10.   

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

1984  On January - 10 the U.S. and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations for the first time since 1867.   

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

1985  On this day in history daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as President of Nicaragua   

1986  Palau signs Compact of Free Association with US on this day in history.   

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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 this day in history.   

1607  Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1646) was born on this day in history.   

1628  On January - 10 birth of jan Theunisz Blanckerhoff, [Jan Maet], seascape painter)   

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

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

0681  On this day in history agatho, Sicilian pope (678-81), dies   

0866  Lin-chi I-hsuan, [J Rinzai Gigen], Zen teacher, dies on this day in history.   

0976  John I Tzimisces, co-emperor of Byzantium (969-76), dies at 51 on this day in history.   

1094  On January - 10 death of caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (b. 1029)   

1271  Otto II, the Lame, earl of Gelre, dies on January - 10.   

1276  Gregorius X, [Tedaldo Visconti], pope, dies on this day in history.   

1542  Death of Gerardus Noviomagus, [Gerrit Geldenhauer], Dutch theologist, die at 59 on this day in history.   

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