(-) Patriot, silversmith and activist Paul Revere dies at the age of 83 in Boston, Charter Street, Massachusetts, United States.
175 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 May 1838
(+) Murderer John Wilkes Booth aka The Man Who Shot President Abraham Lincoln, is born in Bel Air, Maryland, United States.
(+) Victim of Jack the Ripper, Martha Tabram aka Martha Turner, is born in London, Southwark, London City of, United Kingdom.
114 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 May 1899
(+) Actor Fred Astaire originally Fréderic Austerlitz, is born in Omaha, Nebraska, United States.
109 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 May 1904
(-) Explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley originally John Rowlands aka Bula Matari (Breaker of Rocks), dies at the age of 63 in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
93 YEARS AGO - on Monday 10 May 1920
(x) 22-year-old Serial Killer John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, marries Ethel Simpson Waddington in Halifax Registry Office, United Kingdom.
89 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 May 1924
(x) 29-year-old FBI-boss John Edgar Hoover is inaugurated as director of the Federal Bureau in Washington, District Columbia, United States.
80 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 May 1933
(x) Thousands of ‘entartete’ books are burned by the Nazis on public squares in various cities, Germany.
73 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 May 1940
(x) Nazi-Germany attacks Belgium, Holland and Luxemburg.
72 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 May 1941
(x) 47-year-old Nazi leader Rudolf Walter Richard Hess flies to the United Kingdom, presumably with a peace-mission, but he crashes and is taken prisoner of war in Scotland, United Kingdom.
67 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 May 1946
(+) Musician Donovan is born in Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
61 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 May 1952
(+) Mass Murderer Thomas Watt Hamilton is born in Scotland, United Kingdom.
58 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 May 1955
(+) Murderer David Mark Chapman aka The Man Who Shot John Lennon, is born in Decatur, Georgia, United States.
56 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 May 1957
(+) Sex Pistol Sid Vicious originally Simon John Ritchie, is born in Lewisham, United Kingdom.
46 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 May 1967
(x) 25-year-old Rolling Stone Brian Lewis Hopkin Jones is arrested for drug use in Sussex, United Kingdom.
43 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 May 1970
(x) Bomb attack by Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen on the National Guard Association building in Washington, District Columbia, United States.
36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 May 1977
(-) Actress Joan Crawford dies of a heart attack at the age of 73 in New York, New York, United States.
26 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 May 1987
(-) Mass-Murderer Sadamichi Hirasawa aka Jiro Yamaguchi, dies of pneumonia at the age of 95 in in a prison, Japan.
He spent 39 years on Death Row.
26 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 May 1987
(x) 8 members of the Terrorist Movement Provisional Irish Republican Army are killed in an ambushed police-attack in Loughall, Ireland.
20 YEARS AGO - on Monday 10 May 1993
(x) 188 Die in Kader Toy Factory fire in Sam Phran District, Thailand.
19 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 May 1994
(-) Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 52 in Stateville Prison, 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.
17 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 May 1996
(x) 50-year-old SPK and Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Hanna Elise Krabbe is released from prison after 21 years for her part in the occupation of the West German embassy in Stockholm in Lübeck, Germany.
12 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 May 2001
(x) 120 Die in football game stampede in Ghana.
11 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 May 2002
(-) Cop Killer Lynda Lyon Block is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 54 in Holman Correctional Facility, Alabama, United States.
She was the last person to be electrocuted in Alabama.
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