Summary of the Day ✨ 10 June (10/06)
A day marked by tragedy as Austria experienced a deadly school shooting with 11 fatalities including the gunman, while Malawi mourned the loss of its Vice President in a plane crash that killed 10. The world also witnessed violence at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum where an elderly gunman killed a security officer before being wounded, as NASA’s Opportunity rover transmitted its final message to Earth and Sudan Airways Flight 109 crashed killing 30 passengers.
Historical Events 📜
- 2025: Eleven people are killed, including the perpetrator, and eleven others are injured, in a mass shooting at a secondary school in Graz, Austria.
- 2024: A plane crash in Malawi leaves 10 people dead, including the country’s Vice President Saulos Chilima.
- 2018: Opportunity rover, sends it last message back to Earth. The mission was finally declared over on February 13, 2019.
- 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.
- 2008: Sudan Airways Flight 109 crashes at Khartoum International Airport, killing 30 people.
- 2003: The Spirit rover is launched, beginning NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover mission.
- 2002: The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
- 2001: Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon’s first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
- 1999: Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
- 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.
- 1996: Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.
- 1994: China conducts a nuclear test for DF-31 warhead at Area C (Beishan), Lop Nur, its prominence being due to the Cox Report.
- 1991: Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she would remain a captive until 2009.
- 1990: British 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.
- 1987: June Democratic Struggle: The June Democratic Struggle starts in South Korea, and people protest against the government.
Famous Births 👶
- 2001: Julien Alfred, Saint Lucian medal-winning 100m sprinter at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
- 1999: Rafael Leão, Portuguese footballer
- 1999: Blanche, Belgian singer
- 1998: Ryan Papenhuyzen, Australian rugby league player
- 1997: Cheung Ka-long, Hong Kong foil fencer, 2020 Olympic champion
- 1996: Wen Junhui, Chinese singer and actor
- 1992: Kate Upton, American model and actress
- 1991: Alexa Scimeca Knierim, American figure skater
- 1989: David Miller, South African cricketer
- 1989: Mustapha Carayol, Gambian footballer
- 1989: Alexandra Stan, Romanian singer-songwriter, dancer, and model
- 1988: Jeff Teague, American basketball player
- 1987: Martin Harnik, German-Austrian footballer
- 1987: Amobi Okoye, Nigerian-American football player
- 1986: Al Alburquerque, Dominican baseball player
Notable Deaths 🕊️
- 2025: Suchinda Kraprayoon, Thai army general, 19th Prime Minister of Thailand (born 1933)
- 2024: Victims in the 2024 Chikangawa Dornier 228 crash:
- 2024: Victims in the 2024 Chikangawa Dornier 228 crash:
- 2024: Steele Hall, Australian politician, 36th Premier of South Australia (born 1928)
- 2023: Ted Kaczynski, American mathematician and domestic terrorist (born 1942)
- 2020: Claudell Washington, American baseball player (born 1954)
- 2018: Neal E. Boyd, American singer, winner of the 2008 season of America’s Got Talent (born 1975)
- 2017: Julia Perez, Indonesian singer and actress (born 1980)
- 2016: Christina Grimmie, American singer-songwriter (born 1994)
- 2016: Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1928)
- 2015: Robert Chartoff, American film producer and philanthropist (born 1933)
- 2015: Wolfgang Jeschke, German author and publisher (born 1936)
- 2014: Marcello Alencar, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 57th Governor of Rio de Janeiro (born 1925)
- 2014: Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer and manager (born 1951)
- 2014: Robert M. Grant, American theologian and academic (born 1917)
Holidays & Observances 🎉
- World Art Nouveau Day (Worldwide)
- Christian feast day:
Bardo - Christian feast day:
Getulius, Amancius and Cerealus - Christian feast day:
Guardian Angel of Portugal - Christian feast day:
John of Tobolsk (Russian Orthodox Church) - Christian feast day:
Landry of Paris - Christian feast day:
Maurinus of Cologne - Christian feast day:
Maximus of Aveia (or of Aquila) - Christian feast day:
Maximus of Naples - Christian feast day:
Olivia - Christian feast day:
June 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) - Portugal Day, also Day of Camões (Portugal and the Portuguese communities)