On This Day: August 10th

Israel strikes Al-Tabaeen school in eastern Gaza City, killing at least 80 Palestinians.

Derecho in Iowa becomes the most costly thunderstorm disaster in U.S. history.

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.

Philip Manshaus shoots his stepsister and attacks a mosque in the Bærum mosque shooting.

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.

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.

Forty people are killed when Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crashes at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport.

The Marikana massacre begins near Rustenburg, South Africa, resulting in the deaths of 47 people.

Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history.

The Okinawa Urban Monorail is opened in Naha, Okinawa.