Local history

50 years ago: Hollidaysburg Area High School graduate Scott Robison was to travel to the Philippines next week as part of the Youth for Understanding Program funded by the U.S. State Dept.

25 years ago: State nursing home inspectors were in Altoona and 11 of the 12 nursing homes with a total of 1,800 residents here passed their inspection with one being placed on provisional status.

10 years ago: The Logan Township Police Department celebrated its 50th anniversary at the municipal township building with a highlight of officers Matt Massaro and Matt Lutz demonstrating the use their police dog, a Czech German Shepherd named Blek and one named Vilo.

— Compiled by Tim Doyle

World history

Today is Wednesday, June 10, the 161st day of 2026. There are 204 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On June 10, 2018, NASA’s rover Opportunity sent its last message from the surface of Mars. Originally expected to serve a three-month mission, Opportunity functioned for over 14 years, traveling over 28 miles (45 kilometers) across Mars and providing critical discoveries about the planet’s geology.

Also on this date:

– In 1940, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared war on France and Great Britain, formally entering Italy into World War II.

– In 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at eliminating wage disparities based on gender.

– In 1977, James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., escaped from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Tennessee with six others. He was recaptured three days later.

– In 1991, 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard of Meyers, California, was abducted by Phillip and Nancy Garrido; Dugard was held by the couple for 18 years before she was found by authorities.