Page 8: Historical Events In January - 10

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

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

1967  PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network on January - 10.   

1967  On January - 10 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 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 this day in history.   

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

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  On January - 10 gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer, dies at 87   

1972  On January - 10 sheik Mujib ur-Rahman arrives in Dacca, East-Pakistan   

1972  On January - 10 triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK   

1972  On this day in history al Goodman, Russian/US orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 81   

1973  On this day in history gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die   

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 this day in history.   

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

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

1983  On January - 10 in Los Angeles, the Fraggle Rock children's show debuts on HBO; partly produced in Toronto by Jim Henson   

1984  On this day in history argentine ex-president/General Bignone arrested   

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

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 January - 10 uS establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years   

1985  Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as President of Nicaragua on January - 10.   

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

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1480  Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530) was born on January - 10.   

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

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

1628  Jan Theunisz Blanckerhoff, [Jan Maet], seascape painter) was born on January - 10.   

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

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

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

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  Death of Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (b. 1029) on this day in history.   

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