Page 7: Historical Events In October - 10

1979  Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Zone on this day in history.   

1979  Paul Paray, French composer, dies at 93 on October - 10.   

1980  On this day in history 4,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strikes NW Algeria   

1980  Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated on October - 10.   

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

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

1981  Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo on this day in history.   

1982  Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint on October - 10.   

1983  On October - 10 israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM   

1983  On October - 10 sir Ralph [David] Richardson, English actor (Richard III), dies at 80   

1985  On October - 10 orson Welles actor (Citizen Kane), dies at 70   

1985  On this day in history uS fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody   

1985  Yul Brynner actor (King & I), dies of cancer at 70 on this day in history.   

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

1986  7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador on this day in history.   

1986  On October - 10 israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns   

1987  On October - 10 bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album "Tunnel of Love"   

1990  On October - 10 dick Jorgensen NFL referee, dies at 56   

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

1990  On October - 10 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 October - 10.   

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

1991  On October - 10 greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy   

1991  On this day in history redd Foxx, comedian (Sanford & Sons), dies of heart attack at 68   

1992  On this day in history floriade (Flower Show) closes at the Hague, Netherlands   

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

1993  On this day in history socialists regain power in Greece   

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

1994  On this day in history anna Hauptmann, wife of Lindbergh baby kidnapper Bruno, dies at 95   

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

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

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

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

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

1567  Infanta Caterina Micaela of Spain (d. 1597) was born on October - 10.   

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

1700  On October - 10 birth of lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (d. 1759)   

1713  Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer was born on this day in history.   

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

0413  Death of Nicias, Athens politician (Peace of Nicias), killed at about 57 on this day in history.   

0680  On this day in history death of hussein, grandson of prophet Mohammed, beheaded   

0732  Death of Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Moorish Governor of Andalusia on October - 10.   

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  Maria van Nassau, countess of Buren, dies at 60 on this day in history.   

1651  On this day in history philippus Rovenius, [Rouveen], apostole, dies at 77