41st year - Nr 253 Thursday, 10 September 2026

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41st year - Nr 253 Thursday, 10 September 2026

10 September / Today's 34 Events:

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(+) 622 years ago Monday 10th of September 1404 Baron, knight, companion-in-arms of Jeanne D'Arc and serial killer of children Gilles de Rais, originally Gilles de Montmorency-Laval aka Gilles de Retz is born in Château de Champtocé, Champtocé-sur-Loire, Maine-et-Loire, France.

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(+) 539 years ago Saturday 10th of September 1487 221st Pope Julius III, originally Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte is born in Monte San Savino, Toscana, Italy.

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(+) 441 years ago Tuesday 10th of September 1585 Composer Ercole Porta is born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

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(+) 367 years ago Wednesday 10th of September 1659 Composer Henry Purcell is born in St Ann's Lane, Old Pye Street, Westminster, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 143 years ago Monday 10th of September 1883 Baronet and murderer Jock John Henry Delves Broughton aka Sir Murder is born in Doddington Hall, Doddington, Cheshire, United Kingdom.

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(+) 140 years ago Friday 10th of September 1886 Poet and writer Hilda Doolittle aka H. D. is born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(x) 138 years ago He Had Alibis Monday 10th of September 1888 38-year-old Polish Jewish bootmaker John Pizer aka Leather Apron is arrested in London, Greater London, United Kingdom. Pizer was suspected of being Jack the Ripper. He was cleared of suspicion when it turned out that he had alibis for two of the murders.

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(+) 136 years ago Wednesday 10th of September 1890 Poet and writer Franz Viktor Werfel is born in Praha, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia.

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(+) 133 years ago Sunday 10th of September 1893 KZ-Aufseherin in Ravensbrück, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen Johanna Bormann aka Wiesel is born in Birkenfeld, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.

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(-) 130 years ago Thursday 10th of September 1896 Marie Moussier-Lorut is killed by serial killer Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est in Busset, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.

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(+) 129 years ago Friday 10th of September 1897 Writer and philosopher Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille is born in Billom, Puy-de-Dôme, France.

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(+) 108 years ago Tuesday 10th of September 1918 German Shepherd dog movie star Rin Tin Tin is born in Flirey, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.

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(-) 106 years ago Friday 10th of September 1920 Actress and model Olive Thomas, originally Oliveretta Elaine Duffy dies of acute nephritis caused by accidently drinking mercury bichloride in a drunken mood in the Hotel Ritz five days earlier at the age of 74 in American Hospital, 63 Blvd Victor Hugo, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France.

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(-) 100 years ago Friday 10th of September 1926 Murderer Henry Jackson is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Moundsville State Penitentiary, 818 Jefferson Avenue, Moundsville, West Virginia, United States.

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(+) 93 years ago Sunday 10th of September 1933 Fashion designer Karl Otto Lagerfeld is born in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

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(x) 90 years ago Nothing Remained Below the Hips Thursday 10th of September 1936 The dismembered body of an unidentified man is found as victim of Unidentified serial killer Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run aka the Cleveland Torso Murderer in East 37th Street, Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Only half the torso was found. Nothing remained below the hips. The head was never found nor the body identified.

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(+) 86 years ago Tuesday 10th of September 1940 Multiple child murderer Robert Anthony Bob Buell is born in Norwood, Ohio, United States.

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(x) 65 years ago Sunday 10th of September 1961 83 die in President Airlines Douglas DC-6B crash in River Shannon, Shannon, Munster, Ireland.

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(x) 60 years ago Saturday 10th of September 1966 41-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Translation – Action for Two Voices' with Juan Hidalgo at the 'Destruction In Art Symposium' in African Centre, 33 King Street, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 55 years ago Friday 10th of September 1971 Actress Pier Angeli, originally Anna Maria Pierangeli commits suicide by acute barbiturate poisoning at the age of 39 in 355 S. McCarty Drive, Beverly Hills, California, United States. Angeli couldn’t bear the death of James Dean with whom she was romantically involved.

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(x) 54 years ago Sunday 10th of September 1972 30-year-old Serial killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderers (with Ian Brady) is taken out for a one and a half hour walk on Hampstead Heath by Governer of the prison Dorothy Wing in Holloway Prison, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(-) 54 years ago Sunday 10th of September 1972 Pop artist Evelyne Devaux Axell dies in a car crash at the age of 37 in Zwijnaarde, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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(x) 52 years ago Tuesday 10th of September 1974 Start of the trial against 40-year-old Journalist and leader of the Rote Armee Fraktion Ulrike Marie Meinhof considering her part in the escape of Andreas Baader in 1970 in Schwurgerichtskammer des Landgerichts III, Tegeler Weg 17-21, Moabit, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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(x) 50 years ago Friday 10th of September 1976 176 die in British Airways Flight 476 Hawker Siddeley Trident and Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 550 Douglas DC-9 mid-air collision in Vrhovec, Zagrebačka županija, Yugoslavia.

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(-) 49 years ago His Head Was the Last One Saturday 10th of September 1977 Murderer Hamida Djandoubi is executed by the Guillotine by Marcel Chevalier at the age of 28 in Baumettes Prison, 239 Chemin de Morgiou, Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. Djandoubi was the last person to be executed in Western Europe and the last person executed by beheading in the Western world.

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(x) 44 years ago Friday 10th of September 1982 Noise music band Club Moral play their 18th concert in Surplus, Kanaalkom, Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium. Also played: Pseudo Code, Etat Brut, Waving Ondulata, Kaa Antilope, D 333, Front 242, Luc Van Acker

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(-) 43 years ago The Coffin Was Big and Heavy Saturday 10th of September 1983 Jon Brower Minnoch aka the Heaviest Human Ever Recorded dies of heart and respiratory failure at the age of 42 in Seattle, Washington, United States. At the age of 12, Minnoch weighed 133 kilograms with an estimated height of 170cm and by age 22 he weighed 230 kilograms and was 185cm in height. At the age of 36 it was estimated that Minnoch must have weighed in excess of 635 kg. At the time of his death Minnoch weighed 362 kg.

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(-) 39 years ago Thursday 10th of September 1987 Cop killer Joseph Blaine Starvaggi is executed by lethal injection at the age of 45 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Starvaggi had no last meal request.

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(-) 27 years ago Friday 10th of September 1999 Rapist and murderer Willis Jay Barnes is executed by lethal injection at the age of 51 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 24 years ago Tuesday 10th of September 2002 Double murderer Tony Lee Walker is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Walker's last meal request was for french fries, five pieces of fried chicken, and three Dr. Peppers.

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(-) 23 years ago Wednesday 10th of September 2003 Double murderer Larry Allen Hayes is executed by lethal injection at the age of 55 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States. Hayes' last meal request was for two bacon double cheeseburgers, French fries, onion rings, ketchup, cole slaw, two diet Cokes, one quart of milk, one pint of Rocky Road ice cream, one pint of fried okra, salad dressing, tomato and onion.

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21 years ago The Eyes had it Saturday 10th of September 2005 A parade of mule carts with bricks for the construction of Wim Delvoye's tattooed pigs' New Quarters at the Convergence exhibition in 798 Art District, Dashanzi, Beijing, Hebei, China.

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(-) 7 years ago Tuesday 10th of September 2019 Double murderer Mark Anthony Soliz is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, 815 12th Street, Huntsville, Texas, United States.

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(-) 6 years ago Thursday 10th of September 2020 Actress Diana Enid Elizabeth Rigg known for playing Emma Peel in the 1960s TV series The Avengers dies of cancer at the age of 82 in London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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