40th year - N° 344 Wednesday, 10 December 2025

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-) 40th year - N° 344 Wednesday, 10 December 2025

10 December / Today's 26 Events: (x) 505 years ago He Was a Firestarter Friday 10th of December 1520 37-year-old Theologian and church reformer Martin Luther publicly sets fire to the Papal Bull 'Exsurge Domine' in Schloßkirche, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. Luther defended his act in 'Why the Pope and his Recent Book are Burned' and 'Assertions Concerning All Articles'. As a consequence he was excommunicated by Pope Leo X on 3 January 1521. (x) 484 years ago  Wednesday 10th of December 1541 Thomas Culpeper is beheaded and Francis Dereham is hung, cut down while still alive, disemboweled, beheaded and quartered for having sexual relations with 18-year-old Fifth wife of Henry VIII Catherine Howard aka The Rose without a Thorn in Tyburn Tree, Tyburn, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. According to custom, Culpeper and Dereham's heads were placed on top of London Bridge. (-) 160 years ago  Sunday 10th of December 1865 1st King of Belgium Leopold I, originally Leopold George Christian Frederick of Saksen-Coburg-Saalfeld dies of complications of bronchitis at the age of 75 in Château de Laeken, Laeken, Brussel, Brabant, Belgium. (x) 157 years ago  Thursday 10th of December 1868 The first traffic control device is installed at the intersection of George and Bridge Streets in Parliament Square, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. The device had lights and it used arms which extended outwards. It was operated manually by a police officer. (-) 129 years ago  Thursday 10th of December 1896 Chemist, engineer, innovator and armaments manufacturer Alfred Bernhard Nobel aka The Merchant of Death dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 63 in San Remo, Liguria, Italy. (-) 125 years ago  Monday 10th of December 1900 Mass murderer John Filip Nordlund aka Mälarmördaren aka Mordlund aka Svarte Filip is executed by beheading by Albert Gustaf Dalman at the age of 25 in Västerås, Västmanlands Län, . Nordlund's execution was swift, striking the head off in a single blow. (x) 121 years ago  Saturday 10th of December 1904 49-year-old Bigamist and multiple murderer Johann Otto Hoch, originally John Schmidt aka The Bluebeard Murderer marries Marie Walcker in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Walcker becomes ill and dies on 12 January 1905. Three days later Hoch marries Walcker's sister Mrs. Fischer as John Hock. (+) 117 years ago  Thursday 10th of December 1908 Composer, organist and ornithologist Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen is born in Avignon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. (-) 110 years ago  Friday 10th of December 1915 Murderer Ramon Villalobo is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Arizona State Prison Complex, 1305 E Butte Avenue, Florence, Arizona, United States. (+) 106 years ago  Wednesday 10th of December 1919 Murderess Jean Lee, originally Marjorie Jean Maude Wright is born in Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia. (-) 105 years ago He Parked His Veg-O-Matic Friday 10th of December 1920 Automobile manufacturing pioneer Horace Elgin Dodge dies of Spanish flu and pneumonia at the age of 52 in Palm Beach, Florida, United States. (-) 94 years ago  Thursday 10th of December 1931 Murderer Henry Daniel Seymour is executed by hanging at the age of 39 in Oxford Prison, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. (-) 80 years ago He Couldn't Control Himself Monday 10th of December 1945 Frances Brown is battered, shot and stabbed to death by serial killerWilliam Heirens aka Catch Me Before I Kill More in Pine Crest Residential Hotel, Pine Grove Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, United States. On the bedroom wall Heirens wrote in lipstick: “For heaven’s sake catch me before I kill more I cannot control myself”. (-) 67 years ago They Were Disgruntled Wednesday 10th of December 1958 Founder of the Wisdom, Knowledge, Faith and Love Fountain of the World cult Krishna Venta, originally Francis Herman Pencovicand 9 members of the WKFL (Wisdom, Knowledge, Faith and Love) Fountain of the World are blown up in their subterranean chambers at the age of 47 in Fountain of the World, 585 Box Canyon Road, Canoga Park, Chatsworth, California, United States. The blast was a suicide bombing instigated by disgruntled former followers Peter Duma Kamenoff and Ralph Muller who had charged that Venta mishandled cult funds and had been intimate with their wives. (-) 58 years ago He Wasn't Docking at the Bay Sunday 10th of December 1967 Singer-songwriter Otis Ray Redding dies in a Beechcraft H19 plane crash due to poor weather conditions at the age of 26 in Lake Monona, Wisconsin, United States. The other victims of the crash were four members of the Bar-Kays—guitarist Jimmy King, tenor saxophonist Phalon Jones, organist Ronnie Caldwell and drummer Carl Cunningham, their valet Matthew Kelly and pilot Richard Fraser. (-) 47 years ago  Sunday 10th of December 1978 Cult film director Ed Edward Davis Wood aka The Worst Director of All Time dies of a heart attack at the age of 54 in Hollywood, California, United States. (-) 46 years ago  Monday 10th of December 1979 Dorothy Williams is beaten and stabbed by serial killer Gerald Stano aka Blind Fury in Tampa, Florida, United States. (x) 45 years ago  Wednesday 10th of December 1980 32-year-old Serial killer Metod Trobec aka The Monster of Dolenja Vas is found guilty of the rape and murder of 5 young girls in Stari Log, Primorsko-Goranska, Yugoslavia. (-) 39 years ago  Wednesday 10th of December 1986 Actress Susan Cabot, originally Harriet Shapiro is beaten to death with a weightlifting bar by her 22-year-old dwarf son Timothy Scott Roman at the age of 59 in Encino, California, United States. Roman, who suffered from psychological problems, was subsequently charged with involuntary manslaughter and received a three-year suspended sentence. (-) 33 years ago  Thursday 10th of December 1992 Double murderer Kavin Wayne Lincecum is executed by lethal injection at the age of 29 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. (-) 31 years ago  Saturday 10th of December 1994 50-year-old advertising executive Thomas Mosser is killed when opening Bomb #15 sent by 52-year-old Mathematician and serial bomber Theodore John 'Ted' Kaczynski aka The Unabomber in 15 Aspen Drive, North Caldwell, New Jersey, United States. Kaczynski explained in a letter sent to the New York Times that Mosser was targeted because he handled PR for the Exxon Valdez incident. This was incorrect. (-) 31 years ago  Saturday 10th of December 1994 Agnes Nijkamp is raped and stabbed to death by serial killer Guy Georges aka Le Tueur de la Bastille in Cours de l'Etoile d'Or, XIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France. (-) 23 years ago He Paid $4.20 from His Prison Account Tuesday 10th of December 2002 Murderer Desmond Keith Carter is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Raleigh State Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Carter declined a special meal. Instead he bought two cheeseburgers, a steak sub, and two Cokes from the prison canteen for which he paid $4.20 from his prison account. (-) 19 years ago 300 Criminal Charges Were Still Pending Sunday 10th of December 2006 Dictatorial president Augusto Pinochet, originally Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte dies of congestive heart failure and pulmonary edema at the age of 91 in Hospital Militar 1, Santiago, Región Metropolitana, Chile. By the time of his death about 300 criminal charges were still pending against Pinochet in Chile for numerous human rights violations during his 17-year rule and tax evasion and embezzlement during and after his rule. (x) 9 years ago  Saturday 10th of December 2016 Noise music band Club Moral play their 147th concert in Le Marquis de Sade, 39 Rue de Paris, Rennes, Bretagne, France. (x) 7 years ago  Monday 10th of December 2018 54-year-old Serial killer Mikhail Viktorovich Popkov aka The Angarsk Werewolf is convicted of 56 murders and sentenced to a second life sentence in Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. In January 2015 Popkov was already sentenced to life in prison for 22 murders and two attempted murders. In July 2020 Popkov confessed to more killings, bringing the total number of admitted victims to 83.

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