(x) 37-year-old Reformer Martin Luther burns his copy of the Papal Bull "Exsurge Domine" in Wittenberg, Elster Gate, Germany.
472 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 December 1541
(x) Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are hung, cut down while still alive, disemboweled, beheaded and quartered for having sexual relations with Fifth wife of Henry VIII, Katherine Howard aka The Rose without a Thorn, in London, Tyburn Tree, London City of, United Kingdom.
Their heads were put on display on London Bridge.
148 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 December 1865
(-) King of Belgium Leopold I originally Leopold George Christian Frederick of Saksen-Coburg-Saalfeld, dies at the age of 75 in Brussels, Laken, Brussels, Belgium.
145 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 December 1868
(x) The first traffic lights are installed outside the House of Parliament in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
117 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 December 1896
(-) Inventor of dynamite Alfred Bernhard Nobel aka The Merchant of Death, dies of a stroke at the age of 63 in Sanremo, Italy.
113 YEARS AGO - on Monday 10 December 1900
(-) Mass murderer John Filip Nordlund aka Mälarmördaren aka Mordlund aka Svarte Filip, is executed by beheading at the age of 25 in Västerås, Sweden.
105 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 December 1908
(+) Composer Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen is born in Avignon, Vaucluse, France.
98 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 December 1915
(-) Murderer Ramon Villalobo is executed by hanging at the age of 29 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, United States.
93 YEARS AGO - on Friday 10 December 1920
(-) Automobile manufacturing pioneer Horace Elgin Dodge dies of pneumonia at the age of 52 in New York, Ritz-Carlton hotel, New York, United States.
82 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 December 1931
(-) Murderer Henry Daniel Seymour is executed by hanging in Oxford, United Kingdom.
69 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 December 1944
(x) The 18th Army Headquarters announces that it is allowed to eat the meat from dead enemy soldiers in Japan.
68 YEARS AGO - on Monday 10 December 1945
(-) Actress and stunt-woman Mary Wiggins commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 36 in North Hollywood, California, United States.
68 YEARS AGO - on Monday 10 December 1945
(-) Frances Brown is battered, shot and stabbed to death by William Heirens aka Catch Me Before I Kill More, at the age of 30 in Chicago, Pine Grove Avenue, Pine Crest Residential Hotel, Illinois, United States.
On the bedroom wall he wrote in lipstick: “For heaven’s sake catch me before I kill more I cannot control myself”.
(-) Cult Leader Krishna Venta originally Francis Herman Pencovic and 9 members of the WKFL (Wisdom, Knowledge, Faith and Love) Fountain of the World are blown up in their subterranean chambers at the age of 47 in Chatsworth, California, United States.
The blast was presumably instigated by two former members of the cult, Peter Duma Kamenoff and Ralph Muller.
46 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 December 1967
(-) Musician Otis Redding known for “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay”, dies in an air-plane crash at the age of 26 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.
44 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 December 1969
(-) Leona Roberts is presumably abducted and killed as tenth victim by Zodiac at the age of 16 in Bolinas Lagoon, California, United States.
39 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 December 1974
(-) P. J. is assaulted by Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, in Baltimore, Homeland, Maryland, United States.
His son Mike accompanied him.
35 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 December 1978
(-) Filmmaker Edward D. Davis Wood Jr. dies of a heart attack at the age of 54 in North Hollywood, California, United States.
34 YEARS AGO - on Monday 10 December 1979
(-) Dorothy Williams is beaten and stabbed by Gerald Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, at the age of 17 in Tampa, Florida, United States.
33 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 December 1980
(x) 33-year-old Serial Killer Metod Torinus aka The Vampire Killer, is found guilty of the rape and murder of 5 young girls in Yugoslavia.
He burned their bodies in his bread-oven.
27 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 December 1986
(-) Actress Harriet Roman is beaten to death by her 22-year-old dwarf son in Encino, California, United States.
21 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 10 December 1992
(-) Murderer Kavin Lincecum is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
19 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 December 1994
(x) Advertising executive Thomas Mosser is killed when opening a package sent by 52-year-old Theodore Ted Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, in North Caldwell, New Jersey, United States.
19 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 10 December 1994
(-) Agnès Nijkamp is raped and stabbed to death by Guy Georges aka Le Tueur de la Bastille, in Paris, Paris - Ile-de-France, France.
16 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 10 December 1997
(-) Serial Killer Michael Lee Lockhart is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, United States.
11 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 10 December 2002
(-) Murderer Desmond Keith Carter is executed by lethal injection at the age of 35 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, United States.
7 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 10 December 2006
(-) Military president and dictator Augusto Pinochet dies of congestive heart failure and pulmonary edema after suffering a heart attack a week earlier at the age of 91 in Santiago, Chile.
There were still over 300 criminal charges for abuse of human rights pending.
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