10 June
Notable Births
Julien Alfred
b. 2001
Saint Lucian sprinter (born 2001)
Rafael Leão
b. 1999
Portuguese footballer (born 1999)
Blanche (singer)
b. 1999
Belgian singer and songwriter
Ryan Papenhuyzen
b. 1998
Australian rugby league footballer
Cheung Ka Long
b. 1997
Hong Kong professional fencer (born 1997)
Jun (Chinese entertainer)
b. 1996
South Korean-based Chinese singer and actor (born 1996)
Kate Upton
b. 1992
American model and actress (born 1992)
Alexa Knierim
b. 1991
American pair skater (born 1991)
David Miller (South African cricketer)
b. 1989
South African cricketer (born 1989)
Alexandra Stan
b. 1989
Romanian singer (born 1989)
Jeff Teague
b. 1988
American basketball player (born 1988)
Martin Harnik
b. 1987
Footballer (born 1987)
Amobi Okoye
b. 1987
Nigerian-born American football player (born 1987)
Al Alburquerque
b. 1986
Dominican baseball player (born 1986)
Faith Evans
b. 1973
American singer-songwriter (born 1973)
Yu Suzuki
b. 1958
Japanese video game designer (born 1958)
James McDivitt
b. 1929
American astronaut (1929–2022)
Judy Garland
b. 1922
American actress and singer (1922–1969)
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
b. 1921
Consort of Elizabeth II from 1952 to 2021
Frederick Cook
b. 1865
American explorer (1865–1940)
Notable Deaths
Suchinda Kraprayoon
d. 2025
Prime Minister of Thailand in 1992
Saulos Chilima
d. 2024
Vice President of Malawi (2014–2019, 2020–2024)
Patricia Shanil Muluzi
d. 2024
First Lady of Malawi from 1999 to 2004
Steele Hall
d. 2024
Australian politician (1928–2024)
Ted Kaczynski
d. 2023
American domestic terrorist (1942–2023)
Claudell Washington
d. 2020
American baseball player (1954–2020)
Neal E. Boyd
d. 2018
American opera singer (1975–2018)
Julia Perez
d. 2017
Indonesian actress and singer (1980–2017)
Gordie Howe
d. 2016
Canadian ice hockey player (1928–2016)
Christina Grimmie
d. 2016
American singer and YouTuber (1994–2016)
Robert Chartoff
d. 2015
American producer
Wolfgang Jeschke
d. 2015
German author (1936–2015)
Marcello Alencar
d. 2014
Brazilian politician and lawyer
Robert M. Grant (theologian)
d. 2014
American theologian and scholar (1917–2014)
Doug Bailey
d. 2013
Barbara Vucanovich
d. 2013
American politician (1921–2013)
Piero Bellugi
d. 2012
Italian conductor
Warner Fusselle
d. 2012
American sportscaster (1944–2012)
Spencer Tracy
d. 1967
American actor (1900–1967)
Frederick Barbarossa
d. 1190
Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 to 1190
On This Day in History
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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.
2025 Graz school shooting
2024
A plane crash in Malawi leaves 10 people dead, including the country's Vice President Saulos Chilima.
2024 Chikangawa Dornier 228 crash
2018
Opportunity rover, sends it last message back to Earth. The mission was finally declared over on February 13, 2019.
Opportunity (rover)
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.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
2008
Sudan Airways Flight 109 crashes at Khartoum International Airport, killing 30 people.
Sudan Airways Flight 109
2003
The Spirit rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.
Spirit (rover)
2002
The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
Kevin Warwick
2001
Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
Pope John Paul II
1999
Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
Kosovo War
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.
Khmer Rouge
1996
Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.
Northern Ireland
1994
China conducts a nuclear test for DF-31 warhead at Area C (Beishan), Lop Nur, its prominence being due to the Cox Report.
DF-31
1991
Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she would remain a captive until 2009.
Kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard
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.
British Airways Flight 5390
1987
June Democratic Struggle: The June Democratic Struggle starts in South Korea, and people protest against the government.
June Democratic Struggle
1982
Lebanon War: The Syrian Arab Army defeats the Israeli Defense Forces in the Battle of Sultan Yacoub.
1982 Lebanon War
1980
The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
African National Congress
1977
James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, Tennessee. He is recaptured three days later.
James Earl Ray
1967
The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
Six-Day War
1964
United States Senate breaks a 75-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leading to the bill's passage.
Filibuster