Video: 'MASTERPIECE: Celebrating 50 Years'
(Sunday, January 10, 1971, 9:00-10:00 p.m. EST) — Masterpiece Theatre (now called Masterpiece), a drama anthology television series produced by WGBH Boston, premiered tonight in the U.S. on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which began operations only three months ago.
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(Saturday, January 10, 1981) — “Love on the Rocks” by Neil Diamond peaked at #2 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for three weeks.
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(Saturday, January 10, 1981) — “Guilty” by Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb peaked at #3 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks.
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(Saturday, January 10, 1981) — “Tell It Like It Is” by Heart peaked at #8 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks.
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Video: 'Florida in the Civil War'
(Thursday, January 10, 1861; nine weeks after the 1860 United States presidential election) — 65 days after Abraham Lincoln’s victory in the presidential election of 1860 on a platform which opposed the expansion of slavery into the western territories, Florida became the third state to secede today when a special secession convention formally known as the “Convention of the People of Florida” meeting in Tallahassee voted to leave the Union.
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