41st year - Nº 100 Friday, 10 April 2026

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41st year - Nº 100 Friday, 10 April 2026

10 April / Today's 43 Events:

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(-) 441 years ago Wednesday 10th of April 1585 226th Pope Gregorius XIII, originally Ugo Boncompagni dies of unknown causes at the age of 83 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(+) 197 years ago Friday 10th of April 1829 Founder of the Salvation Army William Booth is born in Sneinton, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 179 years ago His Birth Was not Published Saturday 10th of April 1847 Newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, originally József Pulitzer known for the Pulitzer Prizes is born in Makó, Csongrád Megye, Hungary.

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(-) 121 years ago Monday 10th of April 1905 Murderer Fou Tchou-Li is executed by Ling Chi aka death by a thousand cuts in Beijing, Hebei, China. Tchou-Li’s death was captured on film and the images famously captivated Georges Bataille for the expression of seeming ecstasy on the face of the dying man.

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(+) 115 years ago He Wasn’t Too Exotic at All Monday 10th of April 1911 Composer Martin Denny aka The Father of Exotica is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(x) 109 years ago Tuesday 10th of April 1917 133 die in Eddystone Ammunition Corporation artillery shell plant explosion in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(-) 107 years ago Thursday 10th of April 1919 Revolutionary leader and founder of Zapatismo Emiliano Zapata is riddled with bullets by Colonel Jesus Guajardo and his men at the age of 40 in Hacienda de San Juan, Chinameca, Morelos, Mexico.

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(+) 97 years ago Wednesday 10th of April 1929 Actor Max von Sydow, originally Carl Adolf von Sydow is born in Lund, Skåne, Sweden.

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(+) 94 years ago He Had a Perfect Smile Sunday 10th of April 1932 Artist James Lee Byars is born in Detroit, Michigan, United States.

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(+) 94 years ago Sunday 10th of April 1932 Actor Omar Sharif, originally Michel Demitri Chalhoub is born in Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt.

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(+) 91 years ago Wednesday 10th of April 1935 Rapist John Arthur Bennett is born in Virginia, United States.

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(x) 91 years ago Wednesday 10th of April 1935 Reichsmarschall and Nazi leader Hermann Wilhelm Göring is born in Berlin, Berlin, Germany. 30.000 soldiers lined the streets as the Görings paraded through the city.

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(+) 90 years ago Friday 10th of April 1936 Pop singer Ricky Valance, originally David Spencer known for his hit single ‘Tell Laura I Love Her’ is born in Ynysddu, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 85 years ago Thursday 10th of April 1941 Writer Paul Edward Theroux is born in Medford, Massachusetts, United States.

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(x) 73 years ago Friday 10th of April 1953 14-year-old Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald attempts to assassinate Major-General Edwin Walker in Dallas, Texas, United States. Oswald considered Walker a "fascist" and the leader of a "fascist organization". Walker was sitting at a desk in his dining room when Oswald fired at him from less than 30m away. The bullet struck the wooden frame of the window which deflected its path. Walker was injured in the forearm by fragments.

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(-) 72 years ago The Reel Stopped Running Saturday 10th of April 1954 Film pioneer Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière dies of unknown causes at the age of 92 in Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France.

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(-) 67 years ago Friday 10th of April 1959 Murderer Leonard Melvin Shockley is executed by the gas chamber at the age of 17 in Maryland State Penitentiary, East Madison Street, Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Shockley was the last instance of a juvenile being executed in America. His 23-year-old brother Harold Edward received life in prison.

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(-) 64 years ago Tuesday 10th of April 1962 Musician Stuart Fergusson Victor 'Stu' Sutcliffe aka The Fifth Beatle dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 22 in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. The cause of Sutcliffe's ruptured aneurysm resulting in cerebral paralysis due to bleeding into the right ventricle of the brain, is believed to have been started by an earlier head injury as he was either kicked in the head or thrown head first against a brick wall during a fight outside Lathom Hall, after a performance in January 1961.

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(x) 63 years ago Wednesday 10th of April 1963 129 die in USS Thresher submarine implosion in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States.

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(x) 62 years ago Friday 10th of April 1964 39-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Materialaktion nr. 5 / Verschnürung Eines Weiblichen Körpers' in Obere Augartenstraße 14a, Wien, Wien, Austria.

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(-) 60 years ago Sunday 10th of April 1966 Writer Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh dies of heart failure at the age of 63 in Combe Florey, Somerset, United Kingdom.

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(x) 53 years ago Tuesday 10th of April 1973 108 die in Invicta International Airlines Vickers Vanguard 952 Flight 435 crash in Herrenmatt, Hochwald, Solothurn, Switzerland. Most of the 139 passengers on the charter flight were women-members of the Axbridge Ladies Guild on a shopping trip to Basel, Switzerland. There were 37 survivors.

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(x) 52 years ago Wednesday 10th of April 1974 36-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 45. Aktion in Studio Morra, Via Calabritto, Napoli, Campania, Italy.

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(x) 49 years ago He Told Him to Shut up Harvey Sunday 10th of April 1977 24-year-old Serial killer David Richard Berkowitz, originally Richard David Falco aka Son of Sam mails a threatening letter to his neighbour Sam Carr to shut up his black Labrador Retriever dog Harvey in 35 Pine Street, Yonkers, New York, United States. Berkowitz claimed that Harvey was possessed by an ancient demon and that it issued irresistible commands that Berkowitz must kill people.

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(-) 47 years ago Tuesday 10th of April 1979 Composer Nino Giovanni Rota dies of coronary thrombosis at the age of 68 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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(x) 46 years ago Thursday 10th of April 1980 21-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Push = Push' in Prinsenhof 03, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Pushing a drawing pin into the wall with my shoulder. Pushing a drawing pin into my shoulder with the wall.

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(-) 46 years ago Thursday 10th of April 1980 Steven Wood is sodomised, beaten and strangled by serial killer William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(x) 42 years ago Tuesday 10th of April 1984 Dawnette Sue Wilt is abducted, drugged, stabbed, beaten and left for dead by serial killer Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer in Southlake Shopping Mall, Merrilville, Indiana, United States. Wilt was dumped still alive three days later in the woods along an isolated highway in upstate New York.

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(x) 39 years ago Friday 10th of April 1987 Noise music band Club Moral play their 67th concert at the Amalthea festival in Limelight, Persijnstraat 6, Kortrijk, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(x) 35 years ago Wednesday 10th of April 1991 140 die in Moby Prince ferry and Agip Abruzzo oil tanker collision and fire in Livorno Harbour, Livorno, Toscana, Italy. The only survivor of the crew and passengers of the ferry was the young ship's boy Alessio Bertrand from Napoli.

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(-) 29 years ago Thursday 10th of April 1997 Lillian Heath Philippe is beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Daniel Blank aka The Parish River Killer in Gonzales, Texas, United States.

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(x) 28 years ago Friday 10th of April 1998 31-year-old Serial killer Alfred Gaynor aka The Springfield Strangler is arrested in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.

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(-) 24 years ago Wednesday 10th of April 2002 Murderer Jose Santellan is executed by lethal injection at the age of 40 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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22 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 10th of April 2004 Recording of a collaborate video work by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven and Mauro Pawlowski starring Dennis Denys in Kattenberg 79, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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(x) 18 years ago Thursday 10th of April 2008 49-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Ulrike Meinfuchs, Gudrun Fuchslein, AndreVos Baader und Jan-Carl Voske' in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. With the help of a professional hairdresser and photographer I reconstructed four photos that members of the so-called 'Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe / Rote Armee Fraktion' made of themselves.

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(x) 18 years ago Thursday 10th of April 2008 49-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV performs 'Aktion im ReforMuhka' in M_hka, Leuvenstraat 32, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium. I spread out a sheet on the floor and threw pamphlets at the audience. On a small tv-monitor played an excerpt of a documentary on Holger Meins. I placed objects and books onto the canvas and the canvas turned into a prison cell. Then I took out several ingredients for baking: butter, sugar, eggs, flour, and also some earth from my Hole. I mixed everything into dough and baked 2 classic sand-cookies. I undressed to my underwear and force-fed myself violently to eat the cookies.

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(-) 18 years ago Thursday 10th of April 2008 Murderer Masahito Sakamoto is executed by hanging at the age of 42 in Tokyo Detention House, Katsushika, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.

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(-) 18 years ago Thursday 10th of April 2008 Double murderer Kaoru Okashita is executed by hanging at the age of 61 in Tokyo Detention House, Katsushika, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.

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(-) 18 years ago Thursday 10th of April 2008 Double murderer Katsuyoshi Nakamoto is executed by hanging at the age of 64 in Osaka, Kinki, Japan.

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(-) 18 years ago Thursday 10th of April 2008 Murderer Masaharu Nakamura is executed by hanging at the age of 61 in Osaka, Kinki, Japan.

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(x) 16 years ago Saturday 10th of April 2010 96 die in Polish Air Force Tupolev Tu-154M crash in Smolensk, Smolensk Oblast, Russia. Passengers included president Lech Kaczyński and his wife Maria, former president Ryszard Kaczorowski, the chief of the Polish General Staff and other senior Polish military officers, the president of the National Bank of Poland, Poland's deputy foreign minister, Polish government officials, 15 members of the Polish parliament, senior members of the Polish clergy, and relatives of victims of the Katyn massacre. They were en route from Warsaw to attend an event marking the 70th anniversary of the massacre.

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12 years ago The Eyes had it Thursday 10th of April 2014 My shadow on a tree in Hanssenspark, Vilvoorde, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium.

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(x) 10 years ago Sunday 10th of April 2016 110 die in firework stock explosion and fire in Puttingal Temple, Paravur, Kerala, India.

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