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This day in history: 10 June

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Key facts

416 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 10 June.
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2025: Eleven people are killed, including the perpetrator, and eleven others are injured, in a mass shooting at a secondary school in Graz, Austria.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Blessed Diana degli Andalò

Christian feast day: Blessed Edward Poppe

Christian feast day: Bogumilus

Christian feast day: Getulius, Amancius, Cerealus and Primitivus

Christian feast day: Guardian Angel of Portugal

Christian feast day: John of Tobolsk (Russian Orthodox Church)

Christian feast day: June 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Landry of Paris

Christian feast day: Maurinus of Cologne

Christian feast day: Maximus of Aveia (or of Aquila)

Christian feast day: Olivia

Portugal Day, also Day of Camões (Portugal and the Portuguese communities)

Events

2025Eleven people are killed, including the perpetrator, and eleven others are injured, in a mass shooting at a secondary school in Graz, Austria.

2024A plane crash in Malawi leaves 10 people dead, including the country's Vice President Saulos Chilima.

2018The Opportunity rover sends its last message back to Earth. The mission was finally declared over on February 13, 2019.

2009Eighty-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

2008Sudan Airways Flight 109 crashes at Khartoum International Airport, killing 30 people.

2003The Spirit rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.

2002The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.

2001Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.

1999Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.

1997Before 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.

1996Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.

1994China conducts a nuclear test for DF-31 warhead at Area C (Beishan), Lop Nur, its prominence being due to the Cox Report.

1991Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she would remain a captive until 2009.

1990British Airways Flight 5390 lands safely at Southampton Airport after a blowout in the cockpit causes the captain to be partially sucked from the cockpit. There are no fatalities.

1987June Democratic Struggle: The June Democratic Struggle starts in South Korea, and people protest against the government.

1982Lebanon War: The Syrian Arab Army defeats the Israeli Defense Forces in the Battle of Sultan Yacoub.

1980The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.

1977James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, Tennessee. He is recaptured three days later.

1967The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.

1964United States Senate breaks a 75-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leading to the bill's passage.

1963The Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex, is signed into law by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program.

1960Trans Australia Airlines Flight 538 crashes near Mackay Airport in Mackay, Queensland, Australia, killing 29.

1957John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the 1957 Canadian federal election, ending 22 years of Liberal Party government.

1947Saab produces its first automobile.

1945World War II: Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.

1944In baseball, 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.

1944World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece, 228 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.

1944World War II: Six hundred forty-three men, women and children are massacred at Oradour-sur-Glane, France.

1942World War II: The Lidice massacre is perpetrated as a reprisal for the assassination of Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich.

1940World War II: Fascist Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom, beginning an invasion of southern France.

1940World War II: Military resistance to the German occupation of Norway ends.

1940World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions in his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.

1935Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.

1935Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.

1924Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.

1918World War I: The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks off the Croatian coast after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat; the event is recorded by camera from a nearby vessel.

1916The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire is declared by Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca.

1898Spanish–American War: In the Battle of Guantánamo Bay, U.S. Marines begin the American invasion of Spanish-held Cuba.

1886Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and burying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for three months creating a large, 17 km (11 mi) long fissure across the mountain peak.

1878League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia

Born on this day

2001Julien Alfred, Saint Lucian sprinter

1999Blanche, Belgian singer

1999Rafael Leão, Portuguese footballer

1998Ryan Papenhuyzen, Australian rugby league player

1997Cheung Ka-long, Hong Kong foil fencer, 2020 Olympic champion

1996Wen Junhui, Chinese singer and actor

1992Kate Upton, American model and actress

1991Alexa Scimeca Knierim, American figure skater

1989Alexandra Stan, Romanian singer-songwriter, dancer, and model

1989David Miller, South African cricketer

1989Mustapha Carayol, Gambian footballer

1988Jeff Teague, American basketball player

1987Amobi Okoye, Nigerian-American football player

1987James Maynard, British mathematician

1987Martin Harnik, German-Austrian footballer

1986Al Alburquerque, Dominican baseball player

1986Marco Andreolli, Italian footballer

1985Andy Schleck, Luxembourger cyclist

1985Celina Jade, Hong Kong-American actress

1985Dane Nielsen, Australian rugby league player

1985Kaia Kanepi, Estonian tennis player

1985Richard Chambers, Irish rower

1985Vasilis Torosidis, Greek footballer

1984Betsy Sodaro, American actress

1984Dirk Van Tichelt, Belgian martial artist

1984Johanna Kedzierski, German sprinter

1983Aaron Davey, Australian footballer

1983Jade Bailey, Barbadian athlete

1983Leelee Sobieski, American actress and producer

1983Marion Barber III, American football player (died 2022)

1983Steve von Bergen, Swiss footballer

1982Ana Lúcia Souza, Brazilian ballerina and journalist

1982Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland

1982Tara Lipinski, American figure skater

1981Albie Morkel, South African cricketer

1981Andrey Yepishin, Russian sprinter

1981Mat Jackson, English racing driver

1980Daniele Seccarecci, Italian bodybuilder (died 2013)

1980Dmitri Uchaykin, Russian ice hockey player (died 2013)

1980Jessica DiCicco, American actress and voice actress

Died on this day

2026Bharathiraja, Indian film and television actor, writer, director, and producer (born 1941)

2025Suchinda Kraprayoon, Thai army general, 19th Prime Minister of Thailand (born 1933)

2024Steele Hall, Australian politician, 36th Premier of South Australia (born 1928)

2024Victims in the 2024 Chikangawa Dornier 228 crash:

2023Ted Kaczynski, American mathematician and domestic terrorist (born 1942)

2020Claudell Washington, American baseball player (born 1954)

2018Neal E. Boyd, American singer, winner of the 2008 season of America's Got Talent (born 1975)

2017Julia Perez, Indonesian singer and actress (born 1980)

2016Christina Grimmie, American singer-songwriter (born 1994)

2016Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1928)

2015Robert Chartoff, American film producer and philanthropist (born 1933)

2015Wolfgang Jeschke, German author and publisher (born 1936)

2014Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer and manager (born 1951)

2014Jack Lee, American radio host and politician (born 1920)

2014Marcello Alencar, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 57th Governor of Rio de Janeiro (born 1925)

2014Robert M. Grant, American theologian and academic (born 1917)

2013Barbara Vucanovich, American lawyer and politician (born 1921)

2013Doug Bailey, American political consultant (born 1933)

2013Enrique Orizaola, Spanish footballer and coach (born 1922)

2012George Saitoti, Kenyan economist and politician, 6th Vice-President of Kenya (born 1945)

2012Georges Mathieu, French painter and academic (born 1921)

2012Gordon West, English footballer (born 1943)

2012Joshua Orwa Ojode, Kenyan politician (born 1958)

2012Piero Bellugi, Italian conductor (born 1924)

2012Sudono Salim, Chinese-Indonesian businessman, founded Bank Central Asia (born 1916)

2012Warner Fusselle, American sportscaster (born 1944)

2012Will Hoebee, Dutch songwriter and producer (born 1947)

2011Brian Lenihan Jnr, Irish lawyer and politician, 25th Irish Minister for Finance (born 1959)

2010Basil Schott, American archbishop (born 1939)

2010Sigmar Polke, German painter and photographer (born 1941)

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“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”

Lao Tzu

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