Wednesday 10th of March 0483

47th Pope Simplicius dies of unknown causes in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

Friday 10th of March 1876

29-year-old Scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call to his assistant Thomas Watson at the receiving end in an adjoining room using a liquid transmitter in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Bell said "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."

Thursday 10th of March 1892

Composer Arthur Oscar Honegger is born in Le Havre, Haute-Normendie, France.

Saturday 10th of March 1906

1099 die in coal mine dust explosion in Compagnie des Mines de Courrières, Courrières, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

Monday 10th of March 1919

2-year-old Mary Cortimiglia is beaten to death by serial killer The Axeman of New Orleans in Corner of Jefferson Avenue and Second Street, Gretna, Louisiana, United States.

Mary's parents Charles and Rosie were also attacked and suffered skull fractures but survived.

Wednesday 10th of March 1920

Writer, poet, musician, actor and engineer Boris Vian aka Vernon Sullivan aka Bison Ravi aka Baron Visi aka Brisavion is born in Ville-d'Avray, Île-de-France, France.

Saturday 10th of March 1928

Cop killer John Leonard Whitfield is shot dead after escaping from the State Penitentiary with the help of a prison guard at the age of 50 in Columbus, Ohio, United States.

Saturday 10th of March 1928

Assassin James Earl Ray aka The Man Who Shot Martin Luther King is born in Alton, Illinois, United States.

Tuesday 10th of March 1931

Murderer Alfred Arthur Rouse aka the Blazing Car Murderer is executed by hanging by Thomas Pierrepoint at the age of 37 in Bedford Gaol, Bedford, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom.

Rouse burned to death an unknown hitchhiker whom he had rendered unconscious inside his car, seeking to fabricate his own death on 6 November 1930.

Tuesday 10th of March 1936

Boxer and presumed mass murderer Iwao Hakamada is born in Yūtō, Shizuoka, Japan.

Friday 10th of March 1944

Murderer Ernest L. Hoefgen is executed by hanging at the age of 31 in Lansing Correctional Facility, 301 E Kansas Avenue, Lansing, Kansas, United States.

Hoefgen called for two chicken dinners and got both. He asked for peaches and cream with the noon meal and changed this dessert to ice cream for the evening meal.

Sunday 10th of March 1957

Founder of al-Qaeda Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden is born in Riyāḍ, Manţiqat ar Riyāḍ, Saudi Arabia.

Monday 10th of March 1958

Actress Sharon Vonne Stone known from the erotic thriller Basic Instinct is born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, United States.

Friday 10th of March 1967

21-year-old Maria Teresa López de Sepulveda gives birth to 4 boys and 4 girls, who all die within 14 hours in Mexico City, Mexico.

It was the first confirmed birth of octuplets worldwide.

Monday 10th of March 1969

44-year-old Wiener Aktionist Otto Muehl performs 'Aktion nr. 52 / Pissaktion / Apollo 10 – Danke Schön' at the Hamburger Filmschau in Star-Club, Große Freiheit 39, Hamburg, St. Pauli, Hamburg, Germany.

Friday 10th of March 1972

Murder plotter Dustin John Higgs is born in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States.

Monday 10th of March 1975

89-year-old Adele Price is strangled by serial killer Patrick Mackay aka Franklin Bollvolt the First in 13 Lowndes Square, London, Knightsbridge, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Monday 10th of March 1980

Cardiologist Herman Tarnower aka The Scarsdale Diëtist is shot four times at close range by his 57-year-old lover Jean Struven Harris at the age of 70 in Purchase, New York, United States.

Harris supposedly got mad at Tarnower when she found lingerie of 38-year-old secretary-receptionist at the Scarsdale Medical Center and love rival Lynne Tryforos in the bedroom.

Tuesday 10th of March 1981

34-year-old Serial rapist Kevin Frederick Harlan Coe aka the South Hill Rapist is arrested on six charges of first degree rape in Spokane, Washington, United States.

Authorities believd Coe was actually responsible for numerous incidents of peepings, flashings, indecent assaults and at least 43 rapes.

Saturday 10th of March 1984

Noise music band Club Moral play their 33rd concert in JC Den Uil, Dorp Oost 37, Zwijndrecht, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Sunday 10th of March 1985

Soviet leader Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko dies of a combination of chronic emphysema, an enlarged and damaged heart, congestive heart failure and liver cirrhosis at the age of 74 in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

Friday 10th of March 1989

26-year-old Serial killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune falls in a coma due to AIDS and is put in an oxygen-tent in Hôpital Bichat-Claude-Bernard, 46, Rue Henri-Huchard, Paris, XVIIIe, Île-de-France, France.

Tuesday 10th of March 1992

Murderer Robyn Leroy Parks is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, Oklahoma, United States.

A mere two minutes after the drugs had entered Parks' bloodstream he began reacting violently to the drugs. The muscles in his jaw, neck and abdomen went into spasm. Parks began gasping and even looked like his was choking. He was eventually pronounced painfully dead 11 minutes later.

Tuesday 10th of March 1992

Artist Francis Bacon dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 83 in Madrid, Área metropolitana de Madrid, Spain.

Monday 10th of March 1997

51-year-old Serial killer Peter William Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper is stabbed in both eyes with a Parker Rollerball pen by Ian Kay aka The Woolworth Killer in Broadmoor Hospital, Crowthorne, Berkshire, United Kingdom.

Sutcliffe lost the vision in his left eye and his right eye was severely damaged.

Wednesday 10th of March 1999

50-year-old Xenophobic serial bomber Franz Fuchs is sentenced to life imprisonment in Graz, Steiermark, Austria.

Wednesday 10th of March 2004

Mastering our 'Livingstone' CD in a professional studio in Brussel, Brabant, Belgium.

Monday 10th of March 2008

Serial killer Richard Fran Biegenwald aka The Jersey Shore Thrill Killer dies of respiratory and kidney failure at the age of 68 in St Francis Medical Center, 601 Hamilton Avenue, Trenton, New Jersey, United States.

Thursday 10th of March 2016

Musician Keith Noel Emerson known from Emerson, Lake and Palmer commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 72 in Santa Monica, California, United States.