Friday, February 10, 2017

32nd year - N° 41 Friday, 10 February 2017

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32nd year - N° 41 Friday, 10 February 2017

10 February / Today's 14 Events:
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188 years ago

Tuesday 10th of February 1829

252nd Pope Leo XII, originally Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola Sermattei della Genga dies of unknown causes at the age of 69 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.


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180 years ago

Friday 10th of February 1837

Poet and writer Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin dies because of a shot through the spleen suffered in a duel at the age of 38 in St. Petersburg, Northwestern Federal District, Russia.

Two days before Pushkin challenged his wife Natalya's alleged lover and brother in-law Georges d'Anthès to a duel which left both men injured.


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127 years ago

Monday 10th of February 1890

Writer Boris Leonidovich Pasternak is born in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.


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127 years ago

Monday 10th of February 1890

Revolutionary Fanya Yefimovna Kaplan, originally Feiga Haimovna Roytblat aka The Woman Who Tried to Kill Lenin is born in Volhynian Governorate, Russia.


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124 years ago

Friday 10th of February 1893

Comedian and actor Jimmy James Francis Durante aka The Great Schnozzola is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States.


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94 years ago

Saturday 10th of February 1923

Physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen dies of carcinoma of the intestine at the age of 78 in München, Bayern, Germany.

It is not believed Röntgen's carcinoma was a result of his work with ionizing radiation because of the brief time he spent on those investigations and because he was one of the few pioneers in the field who used protective lead shields routinely.


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88 years ago

Sunday 10th of February 1929

Mass murderess Priscilla Joyce Ford is born in Berren Springs, Michigan, United States.


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78 years ago

Friday 10th of February 1939

259th Pope Pius XI, originally Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti dies of a heart attack at the age of 82 in Palazzo Apostolico, Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Some believe Pius XI was murdered based on the fact that his primary physician was Dr. Francesco Petacci, father of Claretta Petacci, Mussolini's mistress.


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75 years ago

Tuesday 10th of February 1942

Evelyn Oatley, originally Nita Ward is strangled by serial killer Gordon Cummins aka The Blackout Ripper in Wardour Street, Soho, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Oatley's throat had been cut and she was mutilated by a can opener.


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39 years ago

Friday 10th of February 1978

32-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 FBI Headquarters, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.


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15 years ago

Sunday 10th of February 2002

Murderer and literary talent Jack Henry Abbott known for ‘In the Belly of the Beast’ commits suicide by hanging with a shoelace at the age of 58 in Wende Correctional Facility, Erie County, Alden, New York, United States.

Abbott left a suicide note, the contents of which have not been made public.



13 years ago The Eyes had it

Tuesday 10th of February 2004

A stack of dried fish outside a shop in Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia.


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3 years ago

Monday 10th of February 2014

Actress Shirley Temple dies of natural causes at the age of 86 in 115 LakeView Drive, Woodside, California, United States.


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3 years ago

Monday 10th of February 2014

21 militants of the ad-Dawla al-Islāmiyya fi al-'Irāq wa-sh-Shām (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) terrorist group are killed when an instructor at a training camp unwittingly used a belt packed with explosives while conducting a demonstration for suicide bombers in Baġdād, Muḥāfaẓät Baġdād, Iraq.


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