2020 Midwest US derecho caused $11bn in damage on 10 August.
10 August marks significant events, including a 2020 derecho striking Midwest US states, causing $11bn in damage; 1792 mob attack on Paris's Tuileries Palace; 1821 Missouri becoming the 24th US state; 1945 Japan's conditional World War II surrender; 1969 Leno and Rosemary LaBianca murders; 1977 "Son of Sam" David Berkowitz's arrest; 1988 Japanese-Americans interned during WWII received reparations; 1993 Ruth Bader Ginsburg became the second female US Supreme Court justice; 2006 thwarted terrorist plot to blow up 10 US-bound planes; 2018 airline ground agent Richard Russell stole and crashed a commercial plane; and 2019 Jeffrey Epstein's death in jail.
August 10, 2024
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