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TODAY IN HISTORY

June 10

Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Day 161 of 2026 | Week 24 | 198 days until Christmas 🎅

HISTORIC EVENTS

1
2025

Eleven people are killed, including the perpetrator, and eleven others are injured, in a mass shooting at a secondary school in Graz, Austria.

2
2024

A plane crash in Malawi leaves 10 people dead, including the country's Vice President Saulos Chilima.

3
2018

Opportunity rover, sends it last message back to Earth. The mission was finally declared over on February 13, 2019.

4
2009

Eighty-eight year-old James Wenneker von Brunn opens fire inside the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and fatally shoots Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns. Other security guards returned fire, wounding von Brunn, who was apprehended.

5
2008

Sudan Airways Flight 109 crashes at Khartoum International Airport, killing 30 people.

6
2003

The Spirit rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.

7
2002

The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.

8
2001

Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.

9
1999

Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.

10
1997

Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1971 Bruno Ngotty

French soccer defender (6 caps; Lyon 237 games

1971 Leanza Cornett

American TV host and Miss America winner

1970 Laurel Korholz

American rower and coach (World C'ship gold eight 1995; Olympic silver 2004)

1969 Gina Prince-Bythewood

American director and screenwriter (The Woman King)

1969 Kate Snow

American TV journalist (NBC Nightly News)

1969 Ronny Johnsen

Norwegian soccer defensive midfielder (62 caps; FC Eik-Tønsberg

1968 Jimmy Shea

American skeleton racer and gold medalist (2002 Winter Olympics)

1968 Susan Haskell

Canadian actress (One Life to Live

1967 Emma Anderson

British alt-rock guitarist and songwriter (Lush; Sing-Sing)

1966 David Platt

English soccer midfielder (62 caps; Crewe Alexandra

1966 Doug McKeon

American actor (Big Shamus Little Shamus

1964 Ben Daniels

British actor (The Crown)

1964 Gary Wallis

British session and touring drummer

1964 Jimmy Chamberlin

American drummer (The Smashing Pumpkins - "1979"

1964 Vincent Perez

Swiss actor (The Crow-City of Angels)

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