Almanac for April 10th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for April 10th: https://ko-fi.com/post/April-10-Where-the-Wild-Things-Are-G2G41DG0PT

Bummer April 10th

April 10, 1931: Lebanese-American novelist Kahlil Gibran dies at age 48 of cirrhosis and tuberculosis.

April 10, 1945: Gloria Dickson dies of asphyxia along with her pet dog. The 27-year-old film and stage actor is sleeping in a second-floor bedroom when an unextinguished cigarette sets a chair on the first floor on fire. Dickson awakens and is apparently attempting to escape her burning house via the bathroom window when she and the dog are overtaken by smoke and fumes.

April 10, 1962: Stu Sutcliffe, the 21-year-old Scottish musician and original Beatles bass player, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage. This internal injury, a ruptured aneurysm, may have been related to a head injury Sutcliffe suffered in 1961 as a result of a street fight in which John Lennon also suffered minor injuries.

April 10, 2003: When the United States invades the Iraqi capital of Baghdad to depose Saddam Hussein, officials at the Iraqi National Library and Archives fear that its archives of papers related to Hussein and his Ba’athist Party will incriminate them. They hire local people, many of them poor and likely motivated by the money, to loot and set fire to the library. These acts destroy about 60% of the archives and 25% of the library materials, including one of the oldest known copies of the Koran.

April 10, 2016: Fireworks stored for an upcoming celebration inside Puttingal Temple in Kerala, India, cause an explosion and subsequent fire that kills 111 people and injures more than 300 others, some of them severely burned.