(-) Roman Emperor Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus dies at the age of 62 in Balae, Italy.
429 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 July 1584
(-) Prince and Count of Nassau Willem Van Oranje aka Willem De Zwijger aka William The Silent, is shot in the chest by Catholic Frenchman Balthasar Gérard at the age of 51 in Delft, Prinsenhof, the Netherlands.
King of Spain Philip II offered a reward of 25,000 crowns to anyone who killed William the Silent, calling him a "pest on the whole of Christianity and the enemy of the human race". It was the first assassination by use of a handgun.
157 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 July 1856
(+) Engineer Nikola Tesla aka The Man who Invented the Twentieth Century, is born in Smiljan, Austria.
142 YEARS AGO - on Monday 10 July 1871
(+) Writer Marcel Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Proust is born in Paris, Auteuil, France.
125 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 July 1888
(+) Artist Giorgio De Chirico is born in Volos, Greece.
123 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 July 1890
(x) Wyoming becomes the 44th United State in Wyoming, USA.
118 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 July 1895
(+) Composer Carl Orff is born in München, Germany.
94 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 July 1919
(-) Murderer Henry Perry is executed by hanging in London, United Kingdom.
88 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 July 1925
(x) 31-year-old Guru Meher Baba originally Merwan Sheriar Irani aka The Silent Avatar, decides to keep silent for the rest of his life.
He communicated with an alphabet board until his death in in 1969.
77 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 July 1936
(-) Murderer Frank Rascon is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
66 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 July 1947
(+) Musician Arlo Guthrie is born in New York, New York, USA.
55 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 July 1958
(-) The heaviest human being recorded in the history of the world Robert Earl Hughes dies of uremia at the age of 32 in Baylis, Illinois, USA.
At the age of six, he weighed about 92 kilograms (200 lb); at ten, he weighed 171 kilograms (380 lb). By the time of his death, he weighed over half a ton.
51 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 July 1962
(x) The Telstar satellite is shot into space in Houston, Cape Canaveral, Texas, USA.
46 YEARS AGO - on Monday 10 July 1967
(-) Mary Fleszar is sexually assaulted, stabbed to death and her hands and feet cut off by Norman John Collins aka The Michigan Coed Killer, at the age of 19 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
43 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 July 1970
(x) 30-year-old Serial Killer Mike James Mitchell DeBardeleben aka The Lethal Shadow, marries 18-year-old Caryn in Silver Springs, Maryland, USA.
41 YEARS AGO - on Monday 10 July 1972
(+) Murderer Robbie Lyons is born in North Carolina, USA.
(x) 16-year-old Playboy John Paul Getty III is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
37 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 July 1976
(x) Due to an explosion in the ICMESA-factory, a highly poisonous cloud of Dioxine TCDD escapes in Seveso, Italy.
36 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 July 1977
(-) Maureen Long is attacked by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, in Bradford, Bowling Black Lane, United Kingdom.
She survived.
34 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 July 1979
(x) 26-year-old Serial Killer David Richard Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, is attacked with a razor, almost cutting his throat, by an unidentified fellow-inmate in New York, Attica Prison, New York, USA.
31 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 July 1982
(-) Elsbet Warnecke is attacked and raped by Thomas Rath aka The Devil’s Moor Murderer, at the age of 18 in Bremen, Germany.
27 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 July 1986
(-) Miss Hungary Csilla Andrea Molnar commits suicide by an overdose of Lidocaine sleeping-pills at the age of 17 in Fonyod, Lake Balaton, Hungary.
21 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 July 1992
(-) British Chief Executioner Albert Pierrepoint dies in a nursing home at the age of 87 in Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom.
He executed at least 433 men and 17 women, including some 200 Nazi war criminals.
16 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 July 1997
(x) 52-year-old Serial Killer Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, marries his long time sweetheart Clara Neal in the visiting room in Fallsburg, Sullivan Correctional Institute, New York, USA.
According to the institution's policy, the newlyweds will be able to enjoy conjugal visits. Shawcross used Neal's car to pick up, have sex with, and then kill his victims.
13 YEARS AGO - on Monday 10 July 2000
(x) 250 Die in leaking petroleum pipeline explosion in Nigeria.
Villagers had been scavenging gasoline.
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