Today in History
10 August
265 births · 104 deaths · 61 events recorded
Notable Births
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Sophia Wilson
b. 2000
American soccer player (born 2000)
Jüri Vips
b. 2000
Estonian racing driver (born 2000)
Ja Morant
b. 1999
American basketball player (born 1999)
Ritomo Miyata
b. 1999
Japanese racing driver (born 1999)
Nick Suzuki
b. 1999
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1999)
Doyle Brunson
b. 1933
American poker player (1933–2023)
Alfred Döblin
b. 1878
German novelist, essayist, and doctor (1878–1957)
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
b. 1810
First Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy from March to June in 1861
Notable Deaths
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Anas Al-Sharif
d. 2025
Palestinian journalist (1996–2025)
Rachael Lillis
d. 2024
American voice actress (1969–2024)
Peggy Moffitt
d. 2024
American model and actress (1937–2024)
Vesa-Matti Loiri
d. 2022
Finnish actor and musician (1945–2022)
Tony Esposito
d. 2021
Canadian-American ice hockey player (1943–2021)
Jeffrey Epstein
d. 2019
American financier and child sex offender (1953–2019)
Ruth Pfau
d. 2017
German-Pakistani physician and nun
Buddy Baker
d. 2015
American racing driver (1941–2015)
On This Day in History
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2024
Israel strikes Al-Tabaeen school in eastern Gaza City, killing at least 80 Palestinians.
Israel Defense Forces
2020
Derecho in Iowa becomes the most costly thunderstorm disaster in U.S. history.
2020 Midwest derecho
2019
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.
Typhoon Lekima
2019
Philip Manshaus shoots his stepsister and attacks a mosque in the Bærum mosque shooting.
2019 Bærum murder and mosque attack
2018
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.
Horizon Air
2018
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.
2017–2019 Romanian protests
2014
Forty people are killed when Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crashes at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport.
Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915
2012
The Marikana massacre begins near Rustenburg, South Africa, resulting in the deaths of 47 people.
Marikana massacre