29th year - N° 130 Saturday, 10 May 2014

BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)
29th year - N° 130 Saturday, 10 May 2014

10 May / Today's 5 Events:

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(+) 176 years ago Thursday 10th of May 1838 Actor and assassin John Wilkes Booth aka The Man Who Shot President Abraham Lincoln is born in Bel Air, Maryland, United States.

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(x) 94 years ago Monday 10th of May 1920 21-year-old Serial killer John Reginald Halliday Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place marries Ethel Simpson Waddington in Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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(x) 21 years ago Monday 10th of May 1993 188 die in Kader toy factory fire in Phutthamonthon Sai 4 Road, Sam Phran, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand. Workers in the first building who tried to escape found the ground floor exit doors locked, and the stairwells soon collapsed. Many workers jumped from the second-, third-, and fourth-floor windows in order to escape the flames, resulting in severe injuries or death.

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(-) 20 years ago Tuesday 10th of May 1994 Serial killer John Wayne Gacy aka The Killer Clown is executed by lethal injection at the age of 52 in Stateville Correctional Center, Crest Hill, 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. The entire procedure took 18 minutes. It is reported that his final spoken words were simply "Kiss my ass."

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12 years ago The Eyes had it Friday 10th of May 2002 A rat in a corner on the Rhône quai in Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France.

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