1893 – At Augsburg, Rudolf Diesel's prime model runs on its own power for the first time. Because of this, August 10 is the International Biodiesel Day.
2003 – The highest temperature ever recorded in England, 38.5°C, occurs in Kent; the record holds until 2019, when a temperature of 38.7 degrees Celsius is measured at the University of Cambridge.
2003 – Yuri Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space, to a woman on the ground in Texas.
2006 – British police prevent an attempt by Islamist terrorists to blow up Transatlantic airliners.
2017 – Swedish journalist Kim Wall disappears after going on inventor Peter Madsen's submarine to interview him, in the Oresund between Denmark and Sweden; Madsen is later found to have murdered her and is found guilty of the crime.