(-) 226th Pope Gregorius XIII originally Ugo Buoncompagni, dies at the age of 83 in Rome, Italy.
184 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 April 1829
(+) Founder of the Salvation Army, William Booth is born in Sneinton, United Kingdom.
166 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 April 1847
(+) Publisher Joseph Pulitzer originally József Politzer, is born in Makó, Hungary.
102 YEARS AGO - on Monday 10 April 1911
(+) Musician Martin Denny is born in New York, New York, USA.
96 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 April 1917
(x) 125 Die in munitions-plant explosion in Chester, USA.
94 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 April 1919
(-) Revolutionary Leader Emiliano Zapata Salazar is shot dead by Colonel Jesus Guajardo at the age of 39 in Cuatla Morelos, Mexico.
84 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 April 1929
(+) Actor Max Von Sydow is born in Lund, Sweden.
81 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 April 1932
(+) Actor Omar Sharif originally Michael Shalhoub, is born in Alexandria, Egypt.
81 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 April 1932
(+) Artist James Lee Byars is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
78 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 April 1935
(x) 42-year-old Nazi-leader Hermann Göring marries Emma Sonnenheim in Berlin, Germany.
30.000 soldiers lined the streets as they drove through the city.
78 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 April 1935
(+) Private First Class and child rapist John Arthur Bennett is born in Virginia, USA.
72 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 April 1941
(+) Writer Paul Edward Theroux is born in Medford, Massachussets, USA.
59 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 April 1954
(-) Film pioneer Auguste Marie Louis Nicholas Lumière dies at the age of 91 in Lyon, France.
54 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 April 1959
(-) Murderer Leonard Shockley is executed by Old Sparky in Maryland, USA.
51 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 April 1962
(-) Musician Stuart ‘Stu’ Fergusson Victor Sutcliffe aka The Fifth Beatle, dies of cerebral paralysis, after bleeding in the right ventricle of his brain at the age of 21 in Hamburg, Germany.
50 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 April 1963
(x) 129 Die in US Tresher submarine shipwreck in the North Atlantic.
47 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 April 1966
(-) Writer Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh dies at the age of 62 in Combe Florey, United Kingdom.
47 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 April 1966
(-) King of the Gypsies Christian Johannes Modeste dies at the age of 51.
47 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 April 1966
(-) Mary Pierce is murdered by Richard Speck aka Born to Raise Hell, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
41 YEARS AGO - on Monday 10 April 1972
(-) Fiat-Director Oberdan Sallustro is assassinated by the Revolutionary People’s Army at the age of 56 in Argentina.
40 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 April 1973
(x) 104 Shopping housewives Die in British Vanguard turboprop crash in Basel, Switzerland.
36 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 April 1977
(x) 23-year-old Serial Killer David Richard Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, mails a threatening letter to his neighbour Sam Carr to shut up his dog Harvey in New York, Yonkers, New York, USA.
34 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 April 1979
(-) Composer Nino Rinaldi Rota dies at the age of 67 in Rome, Italy.
33 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 April 1980
(-) Steven Wood is sodomised, beaten and strangled by William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 16 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
33 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 April 1980
(x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Push = Push" in Gent, Prinsenhof 03, East Flanders, Belgium.
29 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 April 1984
(-) Dawnette Wilt is abducted, sexually assaulted and tortured by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 16 in Merrilville, Southlake Shopping Mall, Indiana, USA.
After 3 days she is found alive.
22 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 April 1991
(x) Die in Moby Prince ferry fire due to collision with the oil tanker Agip Abruzzo in Livorno, Italy.
16 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 April 1997
(-) Lillian Philippe is beaten and stabbed to death as third victim by Daniel Blank at the age of 71 in Gonzales, Texas, USA.
11 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 April 2002
(-) Murderer Jose Sr. Santellan is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
5 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 April 2008
(-) Murderer Masahito Sakamoto is executed by hanging at the age of 41 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.
5 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 April 2008
(-) Murderer Kaoru Okashita is executed by hanging at the age of 61 in Tokyo Detention Centre, Japan.
5 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 April 2008
(-) Murderer Katsuyoshi Nakamoto is executed by hanging at the age of 64 in Osaka, Japan.
5 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 April 2008
(-) Murderer Masaharu Nakamura is executed by hanging at the age of 61 in Osaka, Japan.
(x) 48-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Aktion im ReforMuhka" in Antwerpen, A4 #2 Launch @ M_hka, Antwerpen, Belgium.
3 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 April 2010
(x) 96 Die in Polish Air Force Tupolev 154 crash in Smolensk, Russia.
Passengers included the Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria Kaczynska, the Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army and other senior military officers, the central bank governor, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and government officers, vice-speakers and members of parliament, and senior members of clergy. They were en-route from Warsaw to attend an event to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre.
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