10 June 2005

A plane crash in Malawi, kills nine people, including Vice President Saulos Chilima.

War in Afghanistan: A U.S. airstrike resulted in the reported deaths of eleven paramilitary members of the Pakistani Frontier Corps and eight Taliban fighters in Pakistan's tribal areas.

Sudan Airways Flight 109 crashed on landing at Khartoum International Airport, killing 30 of the 214 occupants on board.

Eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she remained a captive until 2009.

Mass protests demanding direct presidential elections broke out across South Korea.

The Royal New Zealand Navy adopted a unique white ensign, to distinguish its vessels from those of the Royal Navy.

Led by John Diefenbaker (pictured), the Progressive Conservative Party won a plurality of House of Commons seats in the Canadian federal election.

American physician Bob Smith had his last alcoholic drink, marking the traditional founding date of Alcoholics Anonymous.

The United Church of Canada, the country's largest Protestant denomination, held its inaugural service at the Mutual Street Arena in Toronto.

World War I: Italian torpedo boats sank the Austro-Hungarian dreadnought SMS Szent István off the Dalmatian coast, killing 89 of the crew.

Hussein, King of Hejaz, orchestrated a revolt against the Ottoman Empire with the aim of creating a single unified and independent Arab state.

During a labor strike in Ipswich, Massachusetts, police opened fire into a crowd of strikers, killing one and injuring several others.

Mount Tarawera, a volcano in New Zealand's North Island, erupted (depicted), killing around 120 people and creating the Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley.

American Civil War: The Confederate Army only suffered eight casualties in its victory at the Battle of Big Bethel in York County, Virginia.

King Rama I moved into the Grand Palace in Bangkok, which has remained the royal residence of Siam and Thailand since then.

Bridget Bishop became the first person to be executed for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.

Thirty Years' War: France and the Dutch Republic concluded the Treaty of Compiègne, a mutual defence alliance.

Byzantine–Ottoman wars: The heavily armed Byzantine army was defeated by Ottoman forces at the Battle of Pelekanon.

Third Crusade: Frederick Barbarossa (pictured), Holy Roman Emperor, drowned in the Saleph River in Anatolia.

Eleven people are killed, including the perpetrator, and eleven others are injured, in a mass shooting at a secondary school in Graz, Austria.

A plane crash in Malawi leaves 10 people dead, including the country's Vice President Saulos Chilima.

The Opportunity rover sends its last message back to Earth. The mission was finally declared over on February 13, 2019.

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.

Sudan Airways Flight 109 crashes at Khartoum International Airport, killing 30 people.