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TODAY IN HISTORY

August 10

Monday, August 10, 2026

Day 221 of 2026 | Week 33 | 138 days until Christmas 🎅

HISTORIC EVENTS

1
2024

Israel strikes Al-Tabaeen school in eastern Gaza City, killing at least 80 Palestinians.

2
2020

Derecho in Iowa becomes the most costly thunderstorm disaster in U.S. history.

3
2019

Thirty-two are killed and one million are evacuated as Typhoon Lekima makes landfall in Zhejiang, China. Earlier it had caused flooding in the Philippines.

4
2019

Philip Manshaus shoots his stepsister and attacks a mosque in the Bærum mosque shooting.

5
2018

Horizon Air employee Richard Russell hijacks and performs an unauthorized takeoff on a Horizon Air Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 plane at Seattle–Tacoma International Airport in Washington, flying it for more than an hour before crashing the plane and killing himself on Ketron Island in Puget Sound.

6
2018

An anti-government rally turns into a riot when members of the Romanian Gendarmerie attack the 100,000 people protesting in front of the Victoria Palace, leading to 452 recorded injuries. The authorities alleged that the crowd was infiltrated by hooligans who began attacking law enforcement agents.

7
2014

Forty people are killed when Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crashes at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport.

8
2012

The Marikana massacre begins near Rustenburg, South Africa, resulting in the deaths of 47 people.

9
2009

Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history.

10
2003

The Okinawa Urban Monorail is opened in Naha, Okinawa.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

2015 CFDA Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award)

born in Wethersfield

1965 Cleveland Indians)

born in The Bronx

1959 Florent Vollant

Innu-Canadian musician (Kashtin)

1959 Mark Price

English drummer (All About Eve

1958 Jack Richards

English cricket wicket-keeper (8 Tests

1958 Rami Hamdallah

Palestinian politician

1956 Charlie Peacock

American jazz and contemporary Christian music pianist

1956 Dianne Fromholtz Balestrat

Australian tennis player (1977 Australian Open doubles winner and single finalist)

1956 On Ka'a Davis

American experimental jazz guitarist and co

1954 Cameron Connor

Canadian WHA and NHL ice hockey forward

1954 Sam Baker

American folk singer-songwriter ("Say Grace")

1953 Brendan Croker

English folk-rock musician and songwriter (The Five O'Clock Shadows: The Notting Hillbillies; Sally Tmms and the Drifting Cowgirls)

1953 Mark Doty

American poet and prose writer known for "My Alexandria"

1952 Ashley Putnam

American soprano (NY City Opera

1952 Cara Hayden

American librarian (1st African American and female Librarian of Congress 2016-)

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