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  4,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strikes NW Algeria on this day in history.   

1980  On October - 10 very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated   

1980  On this day in history bill Thomas, actor (Buckwheat), dies   

1980  On October - 10 el Asnam earthquake in Algeria killing 5,000 people   

1981  On October - 10 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  On this day in history israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM   

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

1985  Orson Welles actor (Citizen Kane), dies at 70 on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history yul Brynner actor (King & I), dies of cancer at 70   

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 this day in history.   

1986  Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns on October - 10.   

1987  Bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album "Tunnel of Love" on October - 10.   

1990  Dick Jorgensen NFL referee, dies at 56 on this day in history.   

1990  On this day in history uS 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) returns from space   

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  On this day in history ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers   

1991  Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy on this day in history.   

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 October - 10.   

1992  On October - 10 james Seay, actor (Amazing Colossal Man), dies at 78   

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

1993  On this day in history catherine Collard, French pianist (Debussy, Haydn), dies at 46   

1994  Anna Hauptmann, wife of Lindbergh baby kidnapper Bruno, dies at 95 on October - 10.   

2006  Google buys YouTube for USD$1.65 billion on this day in history.   

2007  On October - 10 an election and referendum in the Canadian province of Ontario takes place.   

2007  The SuccessTech Academy school shooting occurs in Cleveland, Ohio on October - 10.   

2010  On October - 10 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 this day in history.   

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1344  Mary Plantagenet,English princess (d. 1362) was born on October - 10.   

1486  Charles III, Duke of Savoy was born on October - 10.   

1567  On this day in history birth of infanta Caterina Micaela of Spain (d. 1597)   

1599  Jacob Aertsz Colom, Dutch publisher (Consolation of the Sea) was born on October - 10.   

1678  John Campbell, 2nd duke of Argyll/fieldmarshal (Union of 1707) was born on October - 10.   

1684  On this day in history birth of jean Antoine Watteau, French rococo painter (Onverschillige)   

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  On October - 10 julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commandant of Rijnleger, dies at 33   

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

0680  On October - 10 death of hussein, grandson of prophet Mohammed, beheaded   

0732  On this day in history death of abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Moorish Governor of Andalusia   

0833  Death of al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (b. 786) on October - 10.   

1359  Death of King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295) on October - 10.   

1616  On this day in history maria van Nassau, countess of Buren, dies at 60   

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