Historical Events In October - 10

1979  On this day in history panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Zone  

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

1980  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

1981  Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo on October - 10.  

1982  On October - 10 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 this day in history.  

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  On October - 10 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 October - 10.  

1985  Orson Welles, actor/dir (Citizen Kane), dies of heart attack at 70 on October - 10.  

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

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

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

1990  On this day in history dick Jorgensen NFL referee, dies at 56  

1990  US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) returns from space on this day in history.  

1990  Carlos Thompson, actor (Mistress of the World), dies at 67 on this day in history.  

1991  On October - 10 a former US postal worker Joseph Harris shoots two workers at the post office in Ridgewood, New Jersey  

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

1991  On this day in history greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy  

1991  Redd Foxx, comedian (Sanford & Sons), dies of heart attack at 68 on this day in history.  

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

1992  James Seay, actor (Amazing Colossal Man), dies at 78 on this day in history.  

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

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

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 this day in history.  

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

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 October - 10.  

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

1684  On October - 10 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  Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer was born on this day in history.  

0019  On this day in history julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commandant of Rijnleger, dies at 33  

0413  Death of Nicias, Athens politician (Peace of Nicias), killed at about 57 on October - 10.  

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

0732  On October - 10 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  Maria van Nassau, countess of Buren, dies at 60 on October - 10.  

1651  Philippus Rovenius, [Rouveen], apostole, dies at 77 on this day in history.