Public Holidays on August 10

• 🌍 National Day (Singapore)
• 🌍 National Day (observed) (Singapore)
• 🌍 National Women's Day (South Africa)
• 🌍 National Women's Day (observed) (South Africa)

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On This Day in History — August 10

• 2014 — Forty people are killed when Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crashes at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport.
• 2012 — The Marikana massacre begins near Rustenburg, South Africa, resulting in the deaths of 47 people.
• 2009 — Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history.
• 2003 — The highest temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom, 38.5 °C (101.3 °F) in Kent, England. It is the first time the United Kingdom has recorded a temperature over 100 °F (38 °C).
• 2003 — The Okinawa Monorail is opened in Naha, Okinawa.
• 2001 — The 2001 Angola train attack occurred, causing 252 deaths.

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Notable Births on August 10

• 1997 — Kylie Jenner, American television personality and model
• 1994 — Bernardo Silva, Portuguese footballer
• 1993 — Andre Drummond, American basketball player
• 1993 — Yuto Nakajima, Japanese actor, dancer, model, singer, and idol
• 1993 — Shin Hye-jeong, South Korean singer
• 1992 — Chanel Simmonds, South African tennis player

Notable Deaths on August 10

• 2017 — Ruth Pfau, German-Pakistani doctor and nun (b. 1929)
• 2015 — Buddy Baker, American race car driver and sportscaster (b. 1941)
• 2015 — Endre Czeizel, Hungarian physician, geneticist, and academic (b. 1935)
• 2015 — Knut Osnes, Norwegian footballer and coach (b. 1922)
• 2015 — Eriek Verpale, Belgian author and poet (b. 1952)
• 2014 — Jim Command, American baseball player and scout (b. 1928)

Public Holidays on August 11

• 🌍 Mountain Day (Japan)
• 🌍 山の日 (Japan)

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Religious Observances on August 11

• Islamic: Martyrdom of Sayyidina al-Hassan al-Mujtaba (ر)

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On This Day in History — August 11

• 2017 — At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt.
• 2012 — At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
• 2006 — The oil tanker M/T Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.
• 2003 — NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
• 2003 — Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
• 1984 — "We begin bombing in five minutes": United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.

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Notable Births on August 11

• 1994 — Storm Sanders, Australian tennis player
• 1994 — Anton Cooper, New Zealand cross-country cyclist
• 1994 — Joseph Barbato, French footballer
• 1991 — Cristian Tello, Spanish footballer
• 1990 — Lenka Juríková, Slovak tennis player
• 1989 — Junior Heffernan, Irish cyclist and triathlete (d. 2013)

Notable Deaths on August 11

• 2017 — Yisrael Kristal, Polish-Israeli supercentenarian; oldest living Holocaust survivor and one of the ten oldest men ever (b. 1903)
• 2017 — Segun Bucknor, Nigerian musician and journalist (b. 1946)
• 2015 — Serge Collot, French viola player and educator (b. 1923)
• 2015 — Harald Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager (b. 1941)
• 2015 — Richard Oriani, Salvadoran-American metallurgist and engineer (b. 1920)
• 2014 — Vladimir Beara, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1928)