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On This Day, August 10
- 2024: Israel strikes Al-Tabaeen school in eastern Gaza City, killing at least 80 Palestinians.
- 2020: Derecho in Iowa becomes the most costly thunderstorm disaster in U.S. history.
- 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.
- 2019: Philip Manshaus shoots his stepsister and attacks a mosque in the Bærum mosque shooting.
- 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.