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  On January - 10 emerson Treacy, actor (Prowler), dies after surgery at 66   

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 this day in history pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland   

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

1969  USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus on this day in history.   

1970  On this day in history pavel Ivanovich Belyayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II), dies at 44   

1971  On January - 10 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 January - 10.   

1972  On this day in history triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK   

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

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 this day in history.   

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

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 this day in history john D Rockefeller III, US billionaire/philanthropist, dies at 71   

1979  On January - 10 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  Last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC on January - 10.   

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  On this day in history 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 January - 10.   

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

1984  On January - 10 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 January - 10 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  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  On January - 10 birth of hendrik Niclaes, German/Dutch merchant/cult leader (Children of God)   

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 this day in history.   

1607  On January - 10 birth of isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1646)   

1628  Jan Theunisz Blanckerhoff, [Jan Maet], seascape painter) was born on this day in history.   

1638  On this day in history birth of niels Stensen, Danish astronomer   

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

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 January - 10.   

1094  Death of Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (b. 1029) on January - 10.   

1271  Otto II, the Lame, earl of Gelre, dies on this day in history.   

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

1542  On January - 10 death of gerardus Noviomagus, [Gerrit Geldenhauer], Dutch theologist, die at 59   

1645  On this day in history death of william Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded for treason at 71