(-) Saint and martyr San Lorenzo is grilled to death at the age of 33 in Rome, Italy.
During his torture Lorenzo cried out "This side’s done, turn me over and have a bite." This is the legend often quoted explaining why San Lorenzo is the Patron Saint of comedians, butchers and roasters.
199 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 August 1814
(+) Founder of the chocolate company Henri Heinrich Nestlé is born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
192 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 August 1821
(x) Missouri becomes the 24th US state in Missouri, USA.
147 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 August 1866
(-) Murderer Ben Lewis is executed by hanging in Paola, Kansas, USA.
139 YEARS AGO - on Monday 10 August 1874
(+) 31st president of the USA Herbert Clark Hoover is born in West Branch, Idaho, USA.
135 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 August 1878
(+) Writer Alfred Döblin known for “Berlin Alexanderplatz”, is born in Szczecin, Poland.
117 YEARS AGO - on Monday 10 August 1896
(-) Aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal aka The Glider King, dies of a broken spine after falling 17m from a glider the day before at the age of 48 in Berlin, Germany.
His last words were "Kleine Opfer müssen gebracht werden!"
110 YEARS AGO - on Monday 10 August 1903
(x) 77 Die in subway-train crash in Paris, France.
104 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 August 1909
(+) Guitar manufacterer Leo Clarence Leonidas Fender is born in Anaheim, California, USA.
103 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 August 1910
(-) Murderer John Alexander Dickman is executed by hanging in Newcastle, United Kingdom.
95 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 August 1918
(-) Joseph Romano is beaten to death by The Axe-Man of New Orleans in Louisiana, USA.
94 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 August 1919
(-) Steve Boca is attacked by The Axe-Man of New Orleans in Louisiana, USA.
He survived.
91 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 August 1922
(-) IRA-members Reginald Dunne and Joseph O’Sullivan are executed by hanging in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
90 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 August 1923
(-) Murderer Manuel Martinez is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.
89 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 August 1924
(+) Philosopher Jean-François Lyotard is born in Versailles, France.
81 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 August 1932
(-) German Shepherd dog movie star Rin Tin Tin dies in the arms of Jean Harlow at the age of 13 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
78 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 August 1935
(+) Founder of The Process Church of the Final Judgment Robert Moore DeGrimston aka The Teacher, is born in Shanghai, China.
72 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 August 1941
(+) Serial Killer Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, is born in Liancourt, Oise, France.
(+) Lead Singer of the Ronettes Ronnie Spector originally Veronica Yvette Bennett aka The Bad Girl of Rock and Roll, is born in New York, New York, USA.
64 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 August 1949
(-) Serial Killer John George Haigh aka The Acid Bath Murderer, is executed by hanging at the age of 40 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.
56 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 August 1957
(+) Sixth victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Raymond Lamont Smith aka Ricky Beeks, is born in the USA.
51 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 August 1962
(-) Mad Marylin fan Eustolio Monroe commits suicide by an overdose of sleeping-pills at the age of 31 in Los Amarilos, Venezuela.
50 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 August 1963
(-) Shirley McLeod is shot dead by Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare, at the age of 18 in Perth, Australia.
44 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 August 1969
(-) 44-year-old Leno LaBianca and 38-year-old Rosemary LaBianca are slaughtered by The Manson Family in Los Angeles, California, USA.
39 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 August 1974
(x) 28-year-old Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, marries Sonia Szurma in Bradford, Clayton Baptist Chapel, United Kingdom.
39 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 August 1974
(-) Eileen Marie Hunley is killed by Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, at the age of 29 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
36 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 August 1977
(x) 24-year-old Serial Killer David Richard Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, is arrested in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
14 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 August 1999
(-) Murderer Kenneth D. Dunn is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
8 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 August 2005
(-) Triple murderer Gary Lynn Sterling is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
6 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 August 2007
(x) 199 Die in bomb explosion in Moscow, Russia.
5 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 August 2008
(-) Musician Isaac Hayes dies of a stroke at the age of 66 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
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