(-) 252nd Pope Leo XII originally Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga, dies at the age of 68 in Rome, Italy.
176 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 February 1837
(-) Poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin dies at the age of 37 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
He was mortally wounded in a duel with Georges D'Anthès, the alleged lover of his wife, two days earlier.
(x) 25-year-old Dwarf Charles Sherwood Stratton aka General Tom Thumb, marries Lavinia Warren in Grace Episcopal Church, Bronx, New York, USA.
130 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 February 1883
(+) Revolutionary Fanya Yefimovna Kaplan aka The Woman Who Tried to Kill Lenin, is born in Volhynian Governorate, Russia.
123 YEARS AGO - on Monday 10 February 1890
(+) Writer Boris Leonidowitsch Pasternak is born in Moscow, Russia.
120 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 February 1893
(+) Comedian and actor Jimmy James Francis Durante aka The Schnozzola, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
115 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 February 1898
(+) Dramatist Berthold Eugen Friedrich Brecht is born in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany.
115 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 February 1898
(+) Writer Joseph Kessel known for ‘Belle de Jour’, is born in Clara, Entre Rios, Argentina.
90 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 February 1923
(-) Scientist William Konrad Röntgen dies of carcinoma of the intestine at the age of 77 in München, Germany.
81 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 February 1932
(-) Writer Edgar Richard Horatio Wallace known for ‘King Kong’, dies of diabetes at the age of 56 in Beverley Hills, California, USA.
74 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 February 1939
(-) 260th Pope Pius XI originally Achille Ratti, dies at the age of 81 in Rome, Italy.
71 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 February 1942
(-) Evelyn Oatley aka Nita Ward, is strangled and sexually mutilated with a can opener as second victim by Gordon Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper, at the age of 35 in London, Wardour Street, United Kingdom.
59 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 February 1954
(x) 59-year-old Guru Meher Baba originally Merwan Sheriar Irani aka The Silent Avatar, declares he is the Avatar, an incarnation of God in India.
51 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 February 1962
(x) The United States and Russia exchange the spies Gary Powers and Rudolf Abel against each other in Berlin, Germany.
40 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 February 1973
(x) 18-year-old David Allan Oliker, 18-year-old Robert Michael Spector, 19-year-old Brian Scott Card and 15-year-old Mark John Dreibelbis are shot dead by Mass-murderer Herbert William Mullin in Santa Cruz, Henry Cowell State Park, The Garden of Eden Overlook, California, USA.
35 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 February 1978
(x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is added to the list of the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted in the USA.
16 YEARS AGO - on Monday 10 February 1997
(-) Murderer Richard Jr. Brimage is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
14 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 February 1999
(-) Serial Killer George Cordova aka Spiderman, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
11 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 February 2002
(-) Murderer and literary talent Jack Henry Abbott known for The Belly of the Beast, commits suicide by hanging with a shoelace in his prison cell at the age of 58 in Alden, Wende Correctional Facility, New York, USA.
11 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 February 2002
(-) Adolf Hitler’s private secretary Traudl Junge originally Gertraud Humps, dies of cancer at the age of 81 in München, Bavaria, Germany.
10 YEARS AGO - on Monday 10 February 2003
(-) Wrestler and bodybuilder Curt Hennig aka Mr Perfect, dies of a heart attack at the age of 44 in a hotel room, Tampa, Florida, USA.
"I am the greatest wrestler, the greatest athlete the state of Minnesota has ever produced."
8 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 February 2005
(-) Playwright and author Arthur Asher Miller dies of congenital heart failure at the age of 89 in Roxbury, Connecticut, USA.
5 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 February 2008
(-) Actor Roy Richard Scheider dies of multiple myeloma at the age of 75 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
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