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On this day — June 10

A hand-curated thread of what happened on this date, across centuries.

2025

Milestone

Eleven people are killed

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

2024

Politics

A plane crash in Malawi leaves 10 people dead

including the country's Vice President Saulos Chilima.

2018

Milestone

Opportunity rover, sends it last message back to Earth

The mission was finally declared over on February 13, 2019.

2009

Disaster

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

Milestone

Sudan Airways Flight 109 crashes at Khartoum International Airport

killing 30 people.

2003

Milestone

The Spirit rover is launched

beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.

2002

Politics

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

2001

Milestone

Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint

Saint Rafqa.

1999

Politics

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

1997

Milestone

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

Milestone

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

1994

Politics

China conducts a nuclear test for DF-31 warhead at Area C (Beishan)

Lop Nur, its prominence being due to the Cox Report.

1991

Milestone

Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California

she would remain a captive until 2009.

1990

Milestone

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

Milestone

June Democratic Struggle

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