Historical Events In January - 10

1967  Dutch Princess Margret marries Pieter van Vollenhoven on January - 10.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1968  On January - 10 uS Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho   

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 this day in history.   

1969  On this day in history sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam   

1969  On this day in history uSSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus   

1970  Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II), dies at 44 on this day in history.   

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

1971  On January - 10 gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer, dies at 87   

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

1972  On January - 10 triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK   

1972  Al Goodman, Russian/US orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 81 on January - 10.   

1973  Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die on this day in history.   

1976  Chester Arthur Burnett, US blues pianist/harmonica player, dies at 65 on this day in history.   

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

1978  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1978  John D Rockefeller III, US billionaire/philanthropist, dies at 71 on January - 10.   

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

1980  Former AFL-CIO president George Meany dies in Washington, DC at age 85 on January - 10.   

1980  Last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC on January - 10.   

1981  On this day in history el Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive"   

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

1983  On January - 10 in Los Angeles, the Fraggle Rock children's show debuts on HBO; partly produced in Toronto by Jim Henson   

1984  Argentine ex-president/General Bignone arrested on January - 10.   

1984  Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashes at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die on this day in history.   

1984  Clara Peller first asks, "Where's the Beef?" on this day in history.   

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

1984  US establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years on this day in history.   

1985  Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as President of Nicaragua on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history birth of hendrik Niclaes, German/Dutch merchant/cult leader (Children of God)   

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  Jan Theunisz Blanckerhoff, [Jan Maet], seascape painter) was born on this day in history.   

1638  On January - 10 birth of niels Stensen, Danish astronomer   

1638  On this day in history birth of nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (d. 1686)   

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

0866  On this day in history 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  On January - 10 death of caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (b. 1029)   

1271  Otto II, the Lame, earl of Gelre, dies on January - 10.   

1276  On January - 10 gregorius X, [Tedaldo Visconti], pope, dies   

1542  On January - 10 death of gerardus Noviomagus, [Gerrit Geldenhauer], Dutch theologist, die at 59   

1645  Death of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded for treason at 71 on this day in history.