Wednesday 10th of April 1585

226th Pope Gregorius XIII dies of unknown causes at the age of 83 in Vatican City, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Friday 10th of April 1829

Founder of the Salvation Army William Booth is born in Sneinton, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom.

Saturday 10th of April 1847

Newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer known for the Pulitzer Prizes is born as József Pulitzer in Makó, Csongrád Megye, Hungary.

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.

Monday 10th of April 1911

Composer Martin Denny aka The Father of Exotica is born in New York City, New York, United States.

Tuesday 10th of April 1917

133 die in Eddystone Ammunition Corporation artillery shell plant explosion in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States.

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.

Wednesday 10th of April 1929

Actor Max von Sydow is born as Carl Adolf von Sydow in Lund, Skåne, Sweden.

Sunday 10th of April 1932

Actor Omar Sharif is born as Michel Demitri Chalhoub in Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt.

Sunday 10th of April 1932

Artist James Lee Byars is born in Detroit, Michigan, United States.

Wednesday 10th of April 1935

Rapist John Arthur Bennett is born in Virginia, United States.

Wednesday 10th of April 1935

42-year-old Reichsmarschall and Nazi leader Hermann Wilhelm Göring marries 42-year-old Emma Sonnemann aka Die Hohe Frau des Deutschen Reiches in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

30.000 soldiers lined the streets as the Görings paraded through the city.

Friday 10th of April 1936

Pop singer Ricky Valance known for his hit single ‘Tell Laura I Love Her’ is born as David Spencer in Ynysddu, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom.

Thursday 10th of April 1941

Writer Paul Edward Theroux is born in Medford, Massachusetts, United States.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wednesday 10th of April 1963

129 die in USS Thresher submarine implosion in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States.

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.

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.

Tuesday 10th of April 1973

108 die in Invicta International Airlines Vickers Vanguard 952 Flight 435 crash in Hochwald, Herrenmatt, 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.

Wednesday 10th of April 1974

36-year-old Wiener Aktionist Hermann Nitsch performs his 45. Aktion in Studio Morra, Via Calabritto, Napoli, Campania, Italy.

Sunday 10th of April 1977

24-year-old Serial killer David Richard Berkowitz 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.

Tuesday 10th of April 1979

Composer Nino Giovanni Rota dies of coronary thrombosis at the age of 68 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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.

Thursday 10th of April 1980

14-year-old Steven Wood is sodomised, beaten and strangled by serial killer William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Tuesday 10th of April 1984

16-year-old 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.

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.

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.

Thursday 10th of April 1997

71-year-old Lillian Heath Philippe is beaten and stabbed to death by serial killer Daniel Blank aka The Parish River Killer in Gonzales, Texas, United States.

Friday 10th of April 1998

31-year-old Serial killer Alfred Gaynor aka The Springfield Strangler is arrested in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.

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.

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.

Thursday 10th of April 2008

Murderer Masahito Sakamoto is executed by hanging at the age of 42 in Tokyo Detention House, Tokyo, Katsushika, Kantō, Japan.

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, Antwerpen, Borgerhout, 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.

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.

Thursday 10th of April 2008

Double murderer Kaoru Okashita is executed by hanging at the age of 61 in Tokyo Detention House, Tokyo, Katsushika, Kantō, Japan.

Thursday 10th of April 2008

Double murderer Katsuyoshi Nakamoto is executed by hanging at the age of 64 in Osaka, Kinki, Japan.

Thursday 10th of April 2008

Murderer Masaharu Nakamura is executed by hanging at the age of 61 in Osaka, Kinki, Japan.

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.

Thursday 10th of April 2014

My shadow on a tree in Hanssenspark, Vilvoorde, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium.

Sunday 10th of April 2016

110 die in firework stock explosion and fire in Puttingal Temple, Paravur, Kerala, India.