Historical Events In January - 10

1967  On this day in history dutch Princess Margret marries Pieter van Vollenhoven   

1967  Lester Maddox inaugurated as Governor of Georgia on this day in history.   

1967  On this day in history pBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network   

1967  Emerson Treacy, actor (Prowler), dies after surgery at 66 on January - 10.   

1968  US Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho on this day in history.   

1968  On January - 10 basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73   

1969  On January - 10 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 this day in history.   

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

1971  Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur on this day in history.   

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

1972  On January - 10 al Goodman, Russian/US orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 81   

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

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

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

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  Last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC on January - 10.   

1981  On January - 10 el Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive"   

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

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

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

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1480  Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530) was born on this day in history.   

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 January - 10 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  On this day in history birth of niels Stensen, Danish astronomer   

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

0681  Agatho, Sicilian pope (678-81), dies on January - 10.   

0866  On January - 10 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 January - 10 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 this day in history death of william Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded for treason at 71