Page 7: Historical Events In October - 10

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

1979  On this day in history paul Paray, French composer, dies at 93   

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

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

1980  Bill Thomas, actor (Buckwheat), dies on October - 10.   

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

1981  On October - 10 anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo   

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  Israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM on this day in history.   

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

1985  Orson Welles actor (Citizen Kane), dies at 70 on October - 10.   

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  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 October - 10.   

1986  Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns on this day in history.   

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  On October - 10 uS 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) returns from space   

1990  On October - 10 carlos Thompson, actor (Mistress of the World), dies at 67   

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

1991  On this day in history ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers   

1991  Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy on October - 10.   

1991  On October - 10 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 this day in history james Seay, actor (Amazing Colossal Man), dies at 78   

1993  On this day in history socialists regain power in Greece   

1993  Catherine Collard, French pianist (Debussy, Haydn), dies at 46 on October - 10.   

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

2006  On October - 10 google buys YouTube for USD$1.65 billion   

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

2007  On October - 10 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  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 October - 10.   

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

1567  Infanta Caterina Micaela of Spain (d. 1597) was born on this day in history.   

1599  On October - 10 birth of jacob Aertsz Colom, Dutch publisher (Consolation of the Sea)   

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

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

0019  Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commandant of Rijnleger, dies at 33 on October - 10.   

0413  On this day in history death of nicias, Athens politician (Peace of Nicias), killed at about 57   

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

0732  On October - 10 death of abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Moorish Governor of Andalusia   

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

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 October - 10 philippus Rovenius, [Rouveen], apostole, dies at 77