Page 8: Historical Events In March - 04
Tuesday, 10 February 2026
1966 North Sea Gas was inaugural pumped ashore by BP 

1966 Studebaker of Canada formally ends car production finally 

1966 Janis Medins, composer, dies at 75. 

1967 World Ice Dance Championship in Vienna won by Diane Towler and Bernard Ford (Great Britain). 

1968 Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title 

1968 Martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign 

1968 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched 

1968 Alexandre Cellier, composer, dies at 84 

1969 RCMP to replace remaining dog teams with snowmobiles, Sargent York and his faithful dog Yukon can now rest easy 

1970 French submarine "Eurydice" explodes 

1971 "City Command" kidnaps 4 US military men at Ankara, Turkey 

1971 Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- marries Margaret Sinclair in St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church; inaugural Prime Minister to marry while in office; couple divorce in 1984 

1972 Last train run between Penrith to Keswick UK. 

1972 Libya and USSR signs cooperation treaty 

1973 15th Grammy Awards The inaugural Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America. 

1973 15th Grammy Awards: The inaugural Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America. 

1974 David Hares' "Knuckle", premieres in London. 

1974 In this year, Harold Wilson formally adopts in place of resigning Ed Heath as British premier 

1974 Adolph Gottlieb, US painter, dies at 71 

1977 A 7.2 earthquake occurred in Romania, it was centered about 170 kilometers northeast of Bucharest. It killed 1500, injured about 10500, and caused extensive damage in Bucharest and other parts of Romania. 

1977 Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan at Port-of-Spain. 

1977 Earthquake in Romania, results in the deaths of 1541. 

1977 The inaugural big CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico 

1978 In this year, Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue. 

1979 200th episode of "All in the Family" 

1979 US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings 

1980 Robert Mugabe forms Zimbabwe's inaugural black government 

1980 In this year, Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF claims parliamentary election in Zimbabwe. 

1981 Torin Thatcher, actor (Houdini, Isranbul, Lady Godiva), dies 

1982 NASA launches Intelsat V. 

1984 Shalva Mikhaylovich Mshvelidze, composer, dies at 79 

1985 Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA. 

1985 War veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai". 

1989 Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline. 

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