Page 8: Historical Events In January - 10

1967  Dutch Princess Margret marries Pieter van Vollenhoven on this day in history.   

1967  Lester Maddox inaugurated as Governor of Georgia on this day in history.   

1967  PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network on January - 10.   

1967  On this day in history emerson Treacy, actor (Prowler), dies after surgery at 66   

1968  US Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho on this day in history.   

1968  Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73 on January - 10.   

1969  Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland on January - 10.   

1969  Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam on this day in history.   

1969  USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus on January - 10.   

1970  Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II), dies at 44 on January - 10.   

1971  Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur on this day in history.   

1971  Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer, dies at 87 on January - 10.   

1972  On January - 10 sheik Mujib ur-Rahman arrives in Dacca, East-Pakistan   

1972  Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK on January - 10.   

1972  Al Goodman, Russian/US orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 81 on this day in history.   

1973  On January - 10 gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die   

1976  Chester Arthur Burnett, US blues pianist/harmonica player, dies at 65 on January - 10.   

1977  On this day in history canada expels four Cubans, two of them diplomats, after RCMP spy investigation   

1978  On January - 10 soyuz 27 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station   

1978  The USSR sends two cosmonauts into orbit to rendezvous with the Salyut Six space laboratory on January - 10.   

1978  On January - 10 john D Rockefeller III, US billionaire/philanthropist, dies at 71   

1979  Entertainer of the Year Awards on this day in history.   

1980  On this day in history former AFL-CIO president George Meany dies in Washington, DC at age 85.   

1980  On this day in history last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC   

1981  On January - 10 el Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive"   

1982  On this day in history -17ºF (27.2ºC) in Braemar Grampian (equals UK record)   

1983  In Los Angeles, the Fraggle Rock children's show debuts on HBO; partly produced in Toronto by Jim Henson on this day in history.   

1984  On January - 10 argentine ex-president/General Bignone arrested   

1984  On this day in history bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashes at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die   

1984  On this day in history clara Peller first asks, "Where's the Beef?"   

1984  On this day in history the U.S. and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations for the first time since 1867.   

1984  On January - 10 uS establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years   

1985  On January - 10 daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as President of Nicaragua   

1986  On this day in history palau signs Compact of Free Association with US   

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1480  On January - 10 birth of margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530)   

1502  Hendrik Niclaes, German/Dutch merchant/cult leader (Children of God) was born on this day in history.   

1538  Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (d. 1574) was born on this day in history.   

1573  Simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624) was born on January - 10.   

1607  Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1646) was born on January - 10.   

1628  On January - 10 birth of jan Theunisz Blanckerhoff, [Jan Maet], seascape painter)   

1638  Niels Stensen, Danish astronomer was born on this day in history.   

1638  Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (d. 1686) was born on this day in history.   

0681  On this day in history agatho, Sicilian pope (678-81), dies   

0866  On January - 10 lin-chi I-hsuan, [J Rinzai Gigen], Zen teacher, dies   

0976  John I Tzimisces, co-emperor of Byzantium (969-76), dies at 51 on January - 10.   

1094  Death of Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (b. 1029) on January - 10.   

1271  On this day in history otto II, the Lame, earl of Gelre, dies   

1276  Gregorius X, [Tedaldo Visconti], pope, dies on this day in history.   

1542  On this day in history death of gerardus Noviomagus, [Gerrit Geldenhauer], Dutch theologist, die at 59   

1645  On January - 10 death of william Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded for treason at 71