41st year - Nr 130 Sunday, 10 May 2026

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41st year - Nr 130 Sunday, 10 May 2026

10 May / Today's 30 Events:

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(-) 211 years ago Wednesday 10th of May 1815 Johanna Miltenberg is poisoned with arsenic by serial poisoner Gesche Gottfried aka Der Engel von Bremen in Bremen, Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Germany. Johanna was Gottfried's daughter.

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(-) 208 years ago Sunday 10th of May 1818 Silversmith, engraver, early industrialist and Patriot Paul Revere dies of natural causes at the age of 83 in Charter Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 188 years ago Thursday 10th of May 1838 Actor and assassin John Wilkes Booth aka The Man Who Shot President Abraham Lincoln is born in Bel Air, Maryland, United States.

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(+) 177 years ago Thursday 10th of May 1849 Victim of Jack the Ripper Martha Tabram, originally Martha White is born in Southwark, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 127 years ago The History of Dance on Film Began Wednesday 10th of May 1899 Stage dancer, singer and actor Fred Astaire, originally Frederick Austerlitz is born in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.

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(-) 122 years ago Tuesday 10th of May 1904 Journalist and explorer Henry Morton Stanley, originally John Rowlands aka Bula Matari (Breaker of Rocks) known for his quote “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” dies of unknown causes at the age of 63 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 106 years ago Monday 10th of May 1920 Serial killer John Reginald Halliday Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place dies of unknown causes in Spring Hall Register Office, Huddersfield Road, Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(x) 102 years ago Saturday 10th of May 1924 29-year-old 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation John Edgar Hoover is appointed by President Calvin Coolidge as fifth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in FBI Headquarters, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

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(x) 85 years ago He Had an Important Message Saturday 10th of May 1941 47-year-old Nazi leader and Stellvertreter des Führers Rudolf Walter Richard Hess flies to the United Kingdom in a Messerschmitt Bf 110, presumably with a peace-mission, but he crashes and parachuted out of the plane in Floors Farm, Eaglesham, Scotland, United Kingdom. Identifying himself as Hauptmann Alfred Horn, Hess said he had an important message for the Duke of Hamilton.

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(-) 81 years ago He Didn't Need His Glasses Anymore Thursday 10th of May 1945 Gauleiter of Sudetengau Konrad Ernst Eduard Henlein commits suicide by cutting his veins with his broken glasses at the age of 47 in Plzeň, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia.

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(+) 80 years ago He Was a Hurdy Gurdy Baby Friday 10th of May 1946 Singer-songwriter Donovan, originally Donovan Philips Leitch is born in Maryhill, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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(+) 74 years ago Saturday 10th of May 1952 Mass murderer Thomas Watt Hamilton known for The Dunblane Massacre is born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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(+) 71 years ago Tuesday 10th of May 1955 Murderer Mark David Chapman aka The Man Who Shot John Lennon is born in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.

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(+) 69 years ago Friday 10th of May 1957 Musician Sid Vicious, originally John Simon Ritchie known from The Sex Pistols is born in Lewisham, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(x) 60 years ago Tuesday 10th of May 1966 28-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 17. Aktion in his studio in Wien, Wien, Austria. Nitsch' 17. Aktion lasted three hours.

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(x) 59 years ago it was Hash Wednesday 10th of May 1967 25-year-old Rolling Stone Brian Lewis Hopkins Jones is arrested for drug possession by Detective Sergeant David Patrick of the Scotland Yard in Courtfield Road 1, Kensington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom. When the police showed Jones their finds they recorded that he said: "Yes, it is hash."

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(x) 56 years ago Sunday 10th of May 1970 Bomb attack by Radical left organisation the Weather Underground on the National Guard Association of the United States in National Guard Memorial Building, 1 Massachusetts Ave, N.W., Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

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(-) 49 years ago Tuesday 10th of May 1977 Actress Joan Crawford, originally Lucille Fay LeSueur dies of a myocardial infarction at the age of 73 in The Imperial House, 150 East 69th Street, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States.

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(+) 45 years ago Sunday 10th of May 1981 Victim of Andrei Chikatilo aka The Rostov Ripper Aleksandr 'Sasha' Dyakonov is born in Rostov, Rostov Oblast, Russia.

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(-) 39 years ago Sunday 10th of May 1987 Tempera painter and presumed mass poisoner Sadamichi Hirasawa dies of pneumonia at the age of 95 in Hachioji, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan. Hirasawa had been on death row for 32 years. He spent his time painting and writing his autobiography 'My Will: the Teikoku Bank Case'.

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(x) 39 years ago Sunday 10th of May 1987 Eight members of the Irish Republican Army East Tyrone Brigade are killed in an ambush by the British Army's Special Air Service in Royal Ulster Constabulary Base, Loughgall, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Two IRA member were unarmed when killed and a civilian was also killed and another wounded by the SAS after unwittingly driving into the ambush zone and being mistaken for IRA attackers.

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(x) 33 years ago Monday 10th of May 1993 188 die in Kader toy factory fire in Phutthamonthon Sai 4 Road, Sam Phran, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand. Workers in the first building who tried to escape found the ground floor exit doors locked, and the stairwells soon collapsed. Many workers jumped from the second-, third-, and fourth-floor windows in order to escape the flames, resulting in severe injuries or death.

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(-) 32 years ago Tuesday 10th of May 1994 Serial killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown is executed by lethal injection at the age of 52 in Stateville Correctional Center, Crest Hill, Illinois, United States. After the execution began, one of the three lethal drugs clogged the tube leading to Gacy's arm, and therefore stopped flowing. Blinds, covering the window through which witnesses observe the execution, were then drawn. The clogged tube was replaced with a new one, the blinds were opened, and the execution process resumed. The entire procedure took 18 minutes. It is reported that his final spoken words were simply "Kiss my ass."

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(x) 30 years ago Friday 10th of May 1996 51-year-old Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion and Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv Hanna Elise Krabbe known from Kommando Holger Meins is released from prison in Justizvollzugsanstalt Lübeck, Lauerhöfer Felde, St. Gertrud, Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Krabbe spent 21 years of a life sentence in prison for her involvement in the bombing of the German embassy in Stockholm on 24 April 1975.

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24 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 10th of May 2002 A rat in a corner on the Rhône quai in Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France.

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(-) 24 years ago Friday 10th of May 2002 Cop killer Lynda Cheryle Lyon Block is executed by Yellow Mama at the age of 54 in Holman Correctional Facility, Ross Road, Atmore, Alabama, United States. Block was the first woman executed in the state of Alabama since 1957. Block had no last meal request nor did she make a final statement.

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(x) 20 years ago Wednesday 10th of May 2006 45-year-old Murderer and cannibal Armin Meiwes aka Der Metzgermeister is convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole in Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany.

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(x) 19 years ago Thursday 10th of May 2007 Noise music band Club Moral play their 127th concert as Bum Collar at the FRONTforyou #8 festival in Fotomuseum, Waalsekaai 47, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(-) 11 years ago Sunday 10th of May 2015 Performance and installation artist Chris Christopher Burden dies of melanoma at the age of 69 in Topanga Canyon, California, United States.

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(-) 5 years ago Monday 10th of May 2021 Serial killer Michel Paul Fourniret aka The Ogre of the Ardennes dies of pneumonia at the age of 79 in Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Boulevard de l'Hôpital, XIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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