EST. DECEMBER 1994 • 30+ YEARS ONLINE
yow.com 🐯
Owned continuously since 1994
TODAY IN HISTORY
August 10
Monday, August 10, 2026
Day 221 of 2026 | Week 33 | 138 days until Christmas 🎅
HISTORIC EVENTS
Israel strikes Al-Tabaeen school in eastern Gaza City, killing at least 80 Palestinians.
Derecho in Iowa becomes the most costly thunderstorm disaster in U.S. history.
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.
Philip Manshaus shoots his stepsister and attacks a mosque in the Bærum mosque shooting.
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.
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.
Forty people are killed when Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crashes at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport.
The Marikana massacre begins near Rustenburg, South Africa, resulting in the deaths of 47 people.
Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history.
The Okinawa Urban Monorail is opened in Naha, Okinawa.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
born in Wethersfield
born in The Bronx
Innu-Canadian musician (Kashtin)
English drummer (All About Eve
English cricket wicket-keeper (8 Tests
Palestinian politician
American jazz and contemporary Christian music pianist
Australian tennis player (1977 Australian Open doubles winner and single finalist)
American experimental jazz guitarist and co
Canadian WHA and NHL ice hockey forward
American folk singer-songwriter ("Say Grace")
English folk-rock musician and songwriter (The Five O'Clock Shadows: The Notting Hillbillies; Sally Tmms and the Drifting Cowgirls)
American poet and prose writer known for "My Alexandria"
American soprano (NY City Opera
American librarian (1st African American and female Librarian of Congress 2016-)
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