Page 7: Historical Events In October - 10

1979  On October - 10 panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Zone   

1979  On October - 10 paul Paray, French composer, dies at 93   

1980  On October - 10 4,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strikes NW Algeria   

1980  On this day in history very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated   

1980  Bill Thomas, actor (Buckwheat), dies on this day in history.   

1980  El Asnam earthquake in Algeria killing 5,000 people on October - 10.   

1981  On this day in history anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo   

1982  On this day in history pope John Paul II canonizes Rev M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint   

1983  Israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM on October - 10.   

1983  On this day in history sir Ralph [David] Richardson, English actor (Richard III), dies at 80   

1985  On this day in history orson Welles actor (Citizen Kane), dies at 70   

1985  US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody on October - 10.   

1985  Yul Brynner actor (King & I), dies of cancer at 70 on October - 10.   

1985  On this day in history orson Welles, actor/dir (Citizen Kane), dies of heart attack at 70   

1986  7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador on October - 10.   

1986  On this day in history israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns   

1987  On this day in history bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album "Tunnel of Love"   

1990  Dick Jorgensen NFL referee, dies at 56 on October - 10.   

1990  US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) returns from space on October - 10.   

1990  On this day in history carlos Thompson, actor (Mistress of the World), dies at 67   

1991  A former US postal worker Joseph Harris shoots two workers at the post office in Ridgewood, New Jersey on this day in history.   

1991  Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers on October - 10.   

1991  Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy on October - 10.   

1991  On October - 10 redd Foxx, comedian (Sanford & Sons), dies of heart attack at 68   

1992  Floriade (Flower Show) closes at the Hague, Netherlands on this day in history.   

1992  James Seay, actor (Amazing Colossal Man), dies at 78 on October - 10.   

1993  Socialists regain power in Greece on this day in history.   

1993  Catherine Collard, French pianist (Debussy, Haydn), dies at 46 on this day in history.   

1994  Anna Hauptmann, wife of Lindbergh baby kidnapper Bruno, dies at 95 on this day in history.   

2006  Google buys YouTube for USD$1.65 billion on October - 10.   

2007  On this day in history an election and referendum in the Canadian province of Ontario takes place.   

2007  On this day in history the SuccessTech Academy school shooting occurs in Cleveland, Ohio.   

2010  On this day in history the Netherlands Antilles are dissolved, with the islands being split up and given a new constitutional status.   

2012  Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on G protein-coupled receptors on October - 10.   

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1344  Mary Plantagenet,English princess (d. 1362) was born on this day in history.   

1486  On October - 10 birth of charles III, Duke of Savoy   

1567  On October - 10 birth of infanta Caterina Micaela of Spain (d. 1597)   

1599  Jacob Aertsz Colom, Dutch publisher (Consolation of the Sea) was born on this day in history.   

1678  On this day in history birth of john Campbell, 2nd duke of Argyll/fieldmarshal (Union of 1707)   

1684  Jean Antoine Watteau, French rococo painter (Onverschillige) was born on October - 10.   

1700  Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (d. 1759) was born on this day in history.   

1713  On October - 10 birth of johann Ludwig Krebs, composer   

0019  Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commandant of Rijnleger, dies at 33 on this day in history.   

0413  On October - 10 death of nicias, Athens politician (Peace of Nicias), killed at about 57   

0680  Death of Hussein, grandson of prophet Mohammed, beheaded on this day in history.   

0732  Death of Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Moorish Governor of Andalusia on this day in history.   

0833  Death of al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (b. 786) on this day in history.   

1359  On this day in history death of king Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295)   

1616  Maria van Nassau, countess of Buren, dies at 60 on October - 10.   

1651  Philippus Rovenius, [Rouveen], apostole, dies at 77 on October - 10.