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2010 Chile earthquake The 2010 Chile earthquake and tsunami ( es, Terremoto del 27F) occurred off the coast of central Chile on Saturday, 27 February at 03:34 local time (06:34 UTC), having a magnitude of 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale, with intense shaking la ...
was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in
Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its s ...
disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of the
2010 Winter Olympics )'' , nations = 82 , athletes = 2,626 , events = 86 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = February 12, 2010 , closing = February 28, 2010 , opened_by = Governor General Michaëlle Jean , cauldron = Catriona Le May DoanNancy GreeneWayne Gretz ...
in
Vancouver Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the ...
,
British Columbia British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, ...
,
Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
; The
Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion The ''Deepwater Horizon'' drilling rig explosion was an April 20, 2010 explosion and subsequent fire on the ''Deepwater Horizon'' semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit, which was owned and operated by Transocean and drilling for B ...
and subsequent
oil spill An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially the marine ecosystem, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution. The term is usually given to marine oil spills, where oil is released into th ...
becomes the worst marine oil spill in history; Spectators watch a
football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
match with their famous
vuvuzelas The vuvuzela is a horn, with an inexpensive injection-molded plastic shell about long, which produces a loud monotone note, typically around B♭ 3 (the first B♭ below middle C). Some models are made in two parts to facilitate storage, and ...
during the
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, which was held in
South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...
; people entering the White House in
Bishkek Bishkek ( ky, Бишкек), ), formerly Pishpek and Frunze, is the capital and largest city of Kyrgyzstan. Bishkek is also the administrative centre of the Chüy Region. The region surrounds the city, although the city itself is not part of ...
on 7 April during the Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010; the remains of Tu-154 after crash on April 10, 2010 that killed Polish president Lech Kaczyński; a child is treated for injuries following
2010 Haitian earthquake A catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake struck Haiti at 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010. The epicenter was near the town of Léogâne, Ouest department, approximately west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's c ...
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2010 Chile earthquake The 2010 Chile earthquake and tsunami ( es, Terremoto del 27F) occurred off the coast of central Chile on Saturday, 27 February at 03:34 local time (06:34 UTC), having a magnitude of 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale, with intense shaking la ...
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2010 Winter Olympics )'' , nations = 82 , athletes = 2,626 , events = 86 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = February 12, 2010 , closing = February 28, 2010 , opened_by = Governor General Michaëlle Jean , cauldron = Catriona Le May DoanNancy GreeneWayne Gretz ...
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2010 Haiti earthquake A disaster, catastrophic Moment magnitude scale, magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake struck Haiti at 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010. The epicenter was near the town of Léogâne, Ouest (department), Ouest department, a ...
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Smolensk air disaster On 10 April 2010, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft operating Polish Air Force Flight 101 crashed near the Russian city of Smolensk, killing all 96 people on board. Among the victims were the president of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, and his wife, Maria, ...
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2010 was designated as: *
International Year of Biodiversity The International Year of Biodiversity (IYB) was a year-long celebration of biodiversity, biological diversity and its importance, taking place internationally in 2010. Coinciding with the date of the 2010 Biodiversity Target, the year was decla ...
*
International Year of Youth In December 2009, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 64/134 proclaiming the year commencing 12 August 2010 as the International Year of Youth. The resolution calls upon governments, civil society, individuals and communitie ...
*
2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion Almost 80 million people live below the poverty line in the European Union. Problems that arise from living in poverty may include not having enough money to spend on food and clothes, poor housing conditions, homelessness, and limited lifestyle ch ...
*International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures


Pronunciation

There is a debate among experts and the general public on how to pronounce specific years of the 21st century in English. The year 2010 is pronounced either "twenty-ten" or "two thousand ndten". 2010 was the first year to have a wide variation in pronunciation, as the years 2000 to 2009 were generally pronounced "two thousand (and) one, two, three, etc." as opposed to the less common "twenty-oh-_".


Events


January

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January 4 Events Pre-1600 *46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina. * 871 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army. 1601–1900 *1649 – Engli ...
– The tallest man-made structure to date, the
Burj Khalifa The Burj Khalifa (; ar, برج خليفة, , Khalifa Tower), known as the Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration in 2010, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is known for being the world’s tallest building. With a total height ...
in
Dubai Dubai (, ; ar, دبي, translit=Dubayy, , ) is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the 7 emirates of the United Arab Emirates.The Government and Politics of ...
,
United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia (The Middle East). It is located at th ...
, is officially opened. *
January 8 Events Pre-1600 * 307 – Emperor Huai of Jin, Jin Huaidi becomes emperor of China in succession to his father, Emperor Hui of Jin, Jin Huidi, despite a challenge from his uncle, Sima Ying. * 871 – Æthelred I, King of Wessex, Æthel ...
– The Togo national football team is attacked in
Cabinda Province Cabinda (formerly called Portuguese Congo, kg, Kabinda) is an exclave and province of Angola in Africa, a status that has been disputed by several political organizations in the territory. The capital city is also called Cabinda, known locall ...
,
Angola , national_anthem = " Angola Avante"() , image_map = , map_caption = , capital = Luanda , religion = , religion_year = 2020 , religion_ref = , coordina ...
, and as a result withdraws from the
Africa Cup of Nations The Africa Cup of Nations referred to as AFCON (french: Coupe d'Afrique des Nations, sometimes referred to as CAN, or TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons), and sometimes as African Cup of Nations, is the main internati ...
. The attack was perpetrated by the
FLEC The Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda ( pt, Frente para a Libertação do Enclave de Cabinda, FLEC) is a guerrilla and political movement fighting for the independence of the Angolan province of Cabinda.AlʻAmin Mazrui, Ali. ...
, their first since the Angolan Civil War. * January 10—Religious violence erupts in Jos Nigeria, which left scores dead, and many injured. *
January 12 Events Pre-1600 * 475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire. *1528 – Gustav I of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden, having already reigned s ...
– A 7.0-magnitude earthquake occurs in
Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...
, devastating the nation's capital,
Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince ( , ; ht, Pòtoprens ) is the capital and most populous city of Haiti. The city's population was estimated at 987,311 in 2015 with the metropolitan area estimated at a population of 2,618,894. The metropolitan area is define ...
. With a confirmed death toll over 316,000 It is one of the deadliest earthquakes on record. *
January 14 Events Pre-1600 *1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence. *1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary. 1601–1900 *1639 – The "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Fundamenta ...
Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group
al-Qaeda Al-Qaeda (; , ) is an Islamic extremism, Islamic extremist organization composed of Salafist jihadists. Its members are mostly composed of Arab, Arabs, but also include other peoples. Al-Qaeda has mounted attacks on civilian and military ta ...
. *
January 15 Events Pre-1600 * 69 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, beginning a reign of only three months. * 1541 – King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of ...
** The longest annular solar eclipse of the
3rd millennium In contemporary history, the third millennium of the anno Domini or Common Era in the Gregorian calendar is the current millennium spanning the years 2001 to 3000 ( 21st to 30th centuries). Ongoing futures studies seek to understand what is l ...
occurs. ** The Chadian Civil War officially ends. **
Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...
withdraws from
ALBA ''Alba'' ( , ) is the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland. It is also, in English language historiography, used to refer to the polity of Picts and Scottish people, Scots united in the ninth century as the Kingdom of Alba, until it developed i ...
. *
January 25 Events Pre-1600 * 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate. * 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty ...
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean shortly after take-off from Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing all 90 people on board.


February

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February 3 Events Pre-1600 * 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states. *1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire. *1488 – ...
– The sculpture ''
L'Homme qui marche I ''L’Homme qui marche I'' ( ''The Walking Man I'' or ''The Striding Man I'', lit. ''The Man who Walks I'') is the name of any one of the cast bronze sculptures that comprise six numbered editions plus four artist proofs created by Swiss ...
'' by
Alberto Giacometti Alberto Giacometti (, , ; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker. Beginning in 1922, he lived and worked mainly in Paris but regularly visited his hometown Borgonovo to see his family and ...
sells in London for £65 million (US$103.7 million), setting a new world record for a work of art sold at auction. *
February 10 Events Pre-1600 * 1258 – Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end. * 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparkin ...
– The
Australian government The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government, is the national government of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Like other Westminster-style systems of government, the Australian Government i ...
is hit by
cyberattacks A cyberattack is any offensive maneuver that targets computer information systems, computer networks, infrastructures, or personal computer devices. An attacker is a person or process that attempts to access data, functions, or other restricted ...
from freedom of expression activists, following recent Australian pornography restrictions. *
February 12 Events Pre-1600 *1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna. *1429 – English forces under ...
28 – The
2010 Winter Olympics )'' , nations = 82 , athletes = 2,626 , events = 86 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = February 12, 2010 , closing = February 28, 2010 , opened_by = Governor General Michaëlle Jean , cauldron = Catriona Le May DoanNancy GreeneWayne Gretz ...
are held in
Vancouver Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the ...
and Whistler, Canada. *
February 15 Events Pre-1600 * 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus * 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia. * 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberi ...
– Two trains collide in the Halle train collision in
Halle Halle may refer to: Places Germany * Halle (Saale), also called Halle an der Saale, a city in Saxony-Anhalt ** Halle (region), a former administrative region in Saxony-Anhalt ** Bezirk Halle, a former administrative division of East Germany ** Hall ...
,
Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...
, killing 19 and injuring 171 people. *
February 18 Events Pre-1600 * 1229 – The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy. * 1268 &ndas ...
– The President of Niger, Mamadou Tandja, is overthrown after a group of soldiers storms the presidential palace and form a ruling junta, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy headed by '' chef d'escadron'' Salou Djibo. *
February 27 Events Pre-1600 * 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Nicene Christianity. * 425 – The University of Constantinople ...
– An 8.8-magnitude earthquake occurs in
Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...
, triggering a
tsunami A tsunami ( ; from ja, 津波, lit=harbour wave, ) is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explo ...
over the Pacific and killing at least 525. The earthquake is one of the largest in recorded history.


March

* March 16 – The
Kasubi Tombs The Kasubi Tombs in Kampala, Uganda, is the site of the burial grounds for four kabakas (kings of Buganda) and other members of the Baganda royal family. As a result, the site remains an important spiritual and political site for the Ganda peop ...
,
Uganda }), is a landlocked country in East Africa East Africa, Eastern Africa, or East of Africa, is the eastern subregion of the African continent. In the United Nations Statistics Division scheme of geographic regions, 10-11-(16*) territor ...
's only cultural
World Heritage Site A World Heritage Site is a landmark or area with legal protection by an international convention administered by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). World Heritage Sites are designated by UNESCO for h ...
, are destroyed by fire. *
March 22 Events Pre-1600 * 106 – Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province of Arabia Petraea. * 235 – Roman emperor Severus Alexander is murdered, marking the start of the Crisis of the Third Century. * 871 – Æthelr ...
– Four-year-old
Paulette Gebara Farah Paulette may refer to: *Paulette (name), French feminine given name *Paulette (tax) * Paulette Caveat - a caveat filed in 1973 by a group of Dene chiefs at the land titles office in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories to gain a legal interest in 40 ...
disappears from her family's home located in Huixquilucan, State of Mexico. * March 26 – The ROKS ''Cheonan'', a South Korean Navy ship carrying 104 personnel,
sinks A sink is a bowl-shaped plumbing fixture for washing hands, dishwashing, and other purposes. Sinks have a tap (faucet) that supply hot and cold water and may include a spray feature to be used for faster rinsing. They also include a drain to ...
off the country's west coast, killing 46. In May, an independent investigation 2010 like a 2011 one. blames
North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...
, which denies the allegations.


April

* April 3 – The first
iPad The iPad is a brand of iOS and iPadOS-based tablet computers that are developed by Apple Inc. The iPad was conceived before the related iPhone but the iPhone was developed and released first. Speculation about the development, operating s ...
was released. * April 7
Kyrgyz Kyrgyz, Kirghiz or Kyrgyzstani may refer to: * Someone or something related to Kyrgyzstan *Kyrgyz people *Kyrgyz national games *Kyrgyz language *Kyrgyz culture *Kyrgyz cuisine *Yenisei Kirghiz *The Fuyü Gïrgïs language in Northeastern China ...
President Kurmanbek Bakiyev flees the country amid fierce anti-government riots in the capital,
Bishkek Bishkek ( ky, Бишкек), ), formerly Pishpek and Frunze, is the capital and largest city of Kyrgyzstan. Bishkek is also the administrative centre of the Chüy Region. The region surrounds the city, although the city itself is not part of ...
. *
April 5 Events Pre-1600 * 823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I. * 919 – The second Fatimid invasion of Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, sets out from Raqqada at the head of his a ...
Julian Assange Julian Paul Assange ( ; Hawkins; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian editor, publisher, and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. WikiLeaks came to international attention in 2010 when it published a series of leaks provided by U.S. Army inte ...
leaks footage of a 2007
airstrike An airstrike, air strike or air raid is an offensive operation carried out by aircraft. Air strikes are delivered from aircraft such as blimps, balloons, fighters, heavy bombers, ground attack aircraft, attack helicopters and drones. The offic ...
in
Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...
titled "
Collateral Murder On July 12, 2007, a series of air-to-ground attacks were conducted by a team of two U.S. AH-64 Apache helicopters in Al-Amin al-Thaniyah, New Baghdad, during the Iraqi insurgency which followed the invasion of Iraq. On April 5, 2010, the attacks ...
" on the website
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. *
April 10 Events Pre-1600 * 428 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople. * 837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles). * 1407 ...
– The President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, is among 96 killed when their airplane crashes near Smolensk,
Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...
. *
April 14 Events Pre-1600 * 43 BC – Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of Mark Antony in the Battle of Forum Gallorum. * 69 – Vitellius, commanding Rhine-based armies, defeats Roman emperor Otho ...
Volcanic ash Volcanic ash consists of fragments of rock, mineral crystals, and volcanic glass, created during volcano, volcanic eruptions and measuring less than 2 mm (0.079 inches) in diameter. The term volcanic ash is also often loosely used t ...
from one of several eruptions beneath Mount Eyjafjallajökull, an
ice cap In glaciology, an ice cap is a mass of ice that covers less than of land area (usually covering a highland area). Larger ice masses covering more than are termed ice sheets. Description Ice caps are not constrained by topographical features ...
in
Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its s ...
, begins to disrupt air traffic across northern and western Europe. * April 20 – The Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform explodes in the
Gulf of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico ( es, Golfo de México) is an oceanic basin, ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of ...
, killing 11 workers. The resulting Horizon oil spill, one of the largest in history, spreads for several months, damaging the waters and the United States coastline, and prompting international debate and doubt about the practice and procedures of
offshore drilling Offshore drilling is a mechanical process where a wellbore is drilled below the seabed. It is typically carried out in order to explore for and subsequently extract petroleum that lies in rock formations beneath the seabed. Most commonly, the te ...
. *
April 27 Events Pre-1600 * 247 – Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ''ludi saeculares''. * 395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of ...
Standard & Poor's S&P Global Ratings (previously Standard & Poor's and informally known as S&P) is an American credit rating agency (CRA) and a division of S&P Global that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks, bonds, and commodities. S&P is con ...
downgrades Greece's sovereign credit rating to junk 4 days after the activation of a
The euro sign () is the currency sign used for the euro, the official currency of the eurozone and unilaterally adopted by Kosovo and Montenegro. The design was presented to the public by the European Commission on 12 December 1996. It consists o ...
45-billion EU
IMF The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution, headquartered in Washington, D.C., consisting of 190 countries. Its stated mission is "working to foster globa ...
bailout, triggering the decline of
stock market A stock market, equity market, or share market is the aggregation of buyers and sellers of stocks (also called shares), which represent ownership claims on businesses; these may include ''securities'' listed on a public stock exchange, as ...
s worldwide and of the
euro The euro ( symbol: €; code: EUR) is the official currency of 19 out of the member states of the European Union (EU). This group of states is known as the eurozone or, officially, the euro area, and includes about 340 million citizens . ...
's value, and furthering a European sovereign debt crisis.


May

* May 1Expo 2010 is held in
Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...
,
China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
. * May 2 – The
eurozone The euro area, commonly called eurozone (EZ), is a currency union of 19 member states of the European Union (EU) that have adopted the euro (€) as their primary currency and sole legal tender, and have thus fully implemented EMU policies ...
and the
International Monetary Fund The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution, headquartered in Washington, D.C., consisting of 190 countries. Its stated mission is "working to foster globa ...
agree to a €110 billion bailout package for Greece. The package involves sharp Greek
austerity Austerity is a set of political-economic policies that aim to reduce government budget deficits through spending cuts, tax increases, or a combination of both. There are three primary types of austerity measures: higher taxes to fund spend ...
measures. * May 4 – ''
Nude, Green Leaves and Bust ''Nude, Green Leaves and Bust'' (french: Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur) is a 1932 painting by Pablo Picasso, featuring his mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter. The painting was in the personal collection of Los Angeles art collectors Sidney and France ...
'' by
Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...
sells in New York for
US$ The United States dollar (symbol: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ or U.S. Dollar, to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official ...
106.5 million, setting another new world record for a work of art sold at auction. * May 6 – The 2010 Flash Crash, a trillion-dollar stock market crash, occurs over 36 minutes, initiated by a series of automated trading programs in a feedback loop. * May 7 **
Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...
becomes the 31st member of the
OECD The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; french: Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, ''OCDE'') is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate e ...
. ** Scientists conducting the
Neanderthal genome project The Neanderthal genome project is an effort of a group of scientists to sequence the Neanderthal genome, founded in July 2006. It was initiated by 454 Life Sciences, a biotechnology company based in Branford, Connecticut in the United States and ...
announce that they have sequenced enough of the
Neanderthal Neanderthals (, also ''Homo neanderthalensis'' and erroneously ''Homo sapiens neanderthalensis''), also written as Neandertals, are an extinct species or subspecies of archaic humans who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago. While th ...
genome In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is all the genetic information of an organism. It consists of nucleotide sequences of DNA (or RNA in RNA viruses). The nuclear genome includes protein-coding genes and non-coding ge ...
to suggest that Neanderthals and humans may have
interbred In biology, a hybrid is the offspring resulting from combining the qualities of two organisms of different breeds, varieties, species or genera through sexual reproduction. Hybrids are not always intermediates between their parents (such as in ...
. * May 12
Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 was a scheduled international Afriqiyah Airways passenger flight that crashed on 12 May 2010 at about 06:01 local time (04:01 UTC) on approach to Tripoli International Airport, about short of the runway. Of the 10 ...
crashes at runway at
Tripoli International Airport Tripoli International Airport () is a closed international airport built to serve Tripoli, the capital city of Libya. The airport is located in the area of Qasr bin Ghashir, from central Tripoli. It used to be the hub for Libyan Airlines, Af ...
in
Libya Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya bo ...
, killing 103 of the 104 people on board. * May 19Protests in
Bangkok Bangkok, officially known in Thai language, Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estima ...
,
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, end with a bloody military crackdown, killing 91 and injuring more than 2,100. *
May 20 Events Pre-1600 * 325 – The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church. * 491 – Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed '' Augusta'' is able to choose her ...
** Scientists announced that they have created a functional
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. ** Five paintings worth €100 million are stolen from the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. *
May 22 Events Pre-1600 * 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu. * 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. * 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt. * 11 ...
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overshoots the runway at
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in India, killing 158 and leaving 8 survivors. * May 2529 – The
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takes place in
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, and is won by
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with the song "
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". * May 28 – the
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in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, killed 94 people during Friday prayers at two mosques. * May 31 – Nine activists are killed in a clash with soldiers when Israeli Navy forces raid and capture a flotilla of ships attempting to break the Gaza blockade.


June

* June 9 – The
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win their first
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since
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. * June 1014Ethnic riots in
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and
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result in the deaths of hundreds. * June 11
July 11 Events Pre-1600 * 472 – After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in St. Peter's Basilica and put to death. * 813 – Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, abd ...
– The
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is held in South Africa, and is won by
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. * June 18 – '' Toy Story 3'', the highest-grossing film of the year, is released by
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and
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. * June 24
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following the resignation of Kevin Rudd.


July

*
July 8 Events Pre-1600 * 1099 – Some 15,000 starving Christian soldiers begin the siege of Jerusalem by marching in a religious procession around the city as its Muslim defenders watch. * 1283 – Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese ...
– The first 24-hour flight by a
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is completed by the Solar Impulse. * July 13 – Microsoft ends extended support for Windows 2000. * July 16 – First (test) Instagram posts made by co-developers Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom in San Francisco; the service launches publicly on October 6. * July 21 – Slovenia becomes the 32nd member of the
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. *July 23 – British-Irish boyband One Direction is formed. * July 25 –
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, an online publisher of anonymous, covert, and classified material, leaks to the public Afghan War documents leak, over 90,000 internal reports about the United States-led involvement in the War in Afghanistan (2001–present), War in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010. * July 28 – Airblue Flight 202 crashes near Islamabad, Pakistan, killing all 152 people on board. * July 29 – Heavy monsoon rains begin to cause 2010 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa floods, widespread flooding in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Over 1,600 are killed, and more than one million are displaced by the floods. *PDVAL affair, also known as the Pudreval affair, political scandal in Venezuela where tons of rotten food supplies were found torrent, which imported during Hugo Chávez's government through subsidies of state-owned enterprise PDVAL.


August

* August 10 – The World Health Organization declares the 2009 swine flu pandemic, H1N1 influenza pandemic over, saying worldwide flu activity has returned to typical seasonal patterns. * August 16 – AIRES Flight 8250, A Boeing 737 Next Generation, Boeing 737-700, crashed on landing at San Andrés (island), San Andrés, Colombia. * August 21 – 2010 Australian federal election:
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's Australian Labor Party, Labor Gillard Government, Government is re-elected, narrowly defeating the Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal/National Party of Australia, National Coalition (Australia), Coalition led by Tony Abbott.


September

* September 4 – A 2010 Canterbury earthquake, 7.1 magnitude earthquake rocks Christchurch, New Zealand causing large amounts of damage but no direct fatalities. It is the first in a series of earthquakes between 2010 and 2012 that resulted in the deaths of 187 people and over $40 billion worth of damage. Seismologists noted that the earthquake sequence was highly unusual, and likely to never happen again anywhere else in the world. * September 7 – Israel becomes the 33rd member of the
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. *September 22 – Anonymous (hacker group), Anonymous initiates Operation Payback, a Cyberattack, coordinated cyberattack on multiple corporations, law firms, and politicians over the banning of File sharing website, file-sharing websites such as LimeWire and The Pirate Bay and also the Sarah Palin, politicians and financial institutions against
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, a whistleblower website.


October

* October 3 – Germany makes final reparation payment for World War I. * October 3–October 14, 14 – 2010 Commonwealth Games takes place in Delhi, India. *October 4 – An industrial accident at a caustic waste reservoir chain took place at the Ajkai Timföldgyár alumina plant in Ajka, Veszprém County, in western Hungary.[3][4] On 4 October 2010, at 12:25 CEST (10:25 UTC), the northwestern corner of the dam of reservoir number 10 collapsed, freeing approximately one million cubic metres (35 million cubic feet) of liquid waste from red mud lakes. The mud was released as a 1–2 m (3–7 ft) wave, flooding several nearby localities, including the village of Kolontár and the town of Devecser.[Ten people died, and 150 people were injured. About 40 square kilometres (15 sq mi) of land were initially affected. The spill reached the Danube on 7 October 2010. *October 6 – Instagram was launched. * October 10 – The Netherlands Antilles are Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles, dissolved, with the islands being split up and given a new constitutional status. * October 12 – The Finnish Yle TV2 channel's ''Ajankohtainen kakkonen'' current affairs program featured controversial Homoilta, ''Homoilta'' episode (literally "gay night"), which led to the resignation of almost 50,000 Finns from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, Evangelical Lutheran Church. * October 22 **The International Space Station surpasses the List of spaceflight records, record for the longest continuous human occupation of space, having been continuously inhabited since November 2, 2000 (3641 days). **The Iraq War documents leak, 2010 Iraq War Documents leak occurs, being deemed the biggest Us government, US government News leak, leak in history.
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being responsible for revealing Iraq War Logs, 391832 documents concerning the Iraq War, 2003 Iraq War which revealed approximately 60% of the Casualties of the Iraq War, Iraqi deaths were civilian casualties, the Iraq Body Count project, Iraq War body count project showing the casualty percentage is closer to 80%. * October 23 – In 2010 G-20 Seoul summit preparations, preparation for the Seoul summit, finance ministers of the G-20 major economies, G-20 agree to reform the
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and shift 6% of the International Monetary Fund#Members' quotas and voting power, and board of governors, voting shares to developing nations and countries with emerging markets. * October 25 – An 2010 Mentawai earthquake and tsunami, earthquake and consequent tsunami off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, kills over 400 people and leaves hundreds missing. * October 26 – 2010 eruptions of Mount Merapi, Repeated eruptions of Mount Merapi volcano in Central Java, Indonesia, and accompanying pyroclastic flows of scalding gas, pumice, and volcanic ash descending the erupting volcano kill 353 people and force hundreds of thousands of residents to evacuate. * October 28 – Dilma Rousseff is elected, becoming the first (and, so far, the only) female president from Brazil. * October 31 – Expo 2010 concludes in
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,
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.


November

* November – Sophie Paris Vietnam, a French owned, direct selling, fashion company is founded. * November 4 – Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board. * November 11–November 12, 12 – The 2010 G-20 Seoul summit, G-20 summit is held in Seoul, South Korea. Korea becomes the first non-G8 nation to host a G-20 leaders summit. * November 13 – Burma, Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from her house arrest after being incarcerated since 1989. * November 14 – Sebastian Vettel became the youngest F1 Champion after a 4 way championship fight * November 17 – Researchers at CERN trap 38 antihydrogen atoms for a sixth of a second, marking the first time in history that humans have trapped antimatter. * November 20 – Participants of the 2010 Lisbon summit, 2010 NATO Lisbon summit issue the NATO Lisbon Summit Declaration, Lisbon Summit Declaration. * November 21 – Eurozone countries agree to a Post-2008 Irish economic downturn#Economic Adjustment Programme for Ireland, rescue package for the Republic of Ireland from the European Financial Stability Facility in response to the country's Post-2008 Irish economic downturn, financial crisis. * November 23 –
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Bombardment of Yeonpyeong, shells Yeonpyeong Island, prompting a military response by South Korea. The incident causes an escalation of tension on the Korean Peninsula and prompts widespread international condemnation. The United Nations declares it to be one of the most serious incidents since the end of the Korean War. * November 28 –
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releases a collection of more than 250,000 American United States diplomatic cables leak, diplomatic cables, including 100,000 Classified information in the United States, marked "secret" or "confidential". * November 29 – The European Union agree to an €85 billion Bailout, rescue deal for Ireland from the European Financial Stability Facility, the
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and bilateral loans from the United Kingdom, Denmark and Sweden. * November 29 – December 10 – The 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Cancún, Mexico. Also referred to as the 16th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 16), it serves too as the 6th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 6).


December

* December – Comet Hale Bopp was found again around 30.7 Astronomical unit, AU away from the Sun. The previous time the Comet was found was in April 1997. * December 9 – Estonia becomes the 34th member of the
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. * December 17 – The attempted suicide of Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor in Tunisia, triggers the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring throughout the Arab world. * December 21 – The first December 2010 lunar eclipse, total lunar eclipse to occur on the day of the Northern winter solstice and Southern summer solstice since List of 17th century lunar eclipses, 1638 takes place.


Full date unknown

* D'Wäschfra (2010), ''D'Wäschfra'' (2010) satire newspaper is published in Luxembourg.


Births

*
May 20 Events Pre-1600 * 325 – The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church. * 491 – Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed '' Augusta'' is able to choose her ...
– Lady Cosima Windsor, daughter of the Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster, Earl and Claire Windsor, Countess of Ulster, Countess of Ulster.


Deaths


January

* January 1 – Lhasa de Sela, American-born singer-songwriter (b. 1972) * January 3 – Mary Daly, American feminist philosopher and theologian (b. 1928) *
January 4 Events Pre-1600 *46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina. * 871 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army. 1601–1900 *1649 – Engli ...
** Sandro de América, Argentine singer and actor (b. 1945) ** Johan Ferrier, 1st President of Suriname (b. 1910) ** Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese dual atomic bomb survivor (b. 1916) * January 10 – Crispin Sorhaindo, 4th President of Dominica (b. 1931) * January 11 ** Miep Gies, Dutch humanitarian (b. 1909) ** Éric Rohmer, French film director (b. 1920) * January 13 – Teddy Pendergrass, American singer-songwriter (b. 1950) *
January 15 Events Pre-1600 * 69 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, beginning a reign of only three months. * 1541 – King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of ...
– Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927) * January 17 ** Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (b. 1914) ** Erich Segal, American author, screenwriter, and educator (b. 1937) * January 22 ** Iskandar of Johor, 8th King of Malaysia (b. 1932) ** Jean Simmons, British actress (b. 1929) * January 24 – Pernell Roberts, American actor (b. 1928) *
January 25 Events Pre-1600 * 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate. * 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty ...
– Ali Hassan al-Majid, Iraqi politician and military commander (b. 1941) * January 27 ** Zelda Rubinstein, American actress and human rights activist (b. 1933) ** J. D. Salinger, American author (b. 1919) ** Howard Zinn, American historian (b. 1922)


February

* February 1 ** David Brown (producer), David Brown, American film producer and writer (b. 1916) ** Steingrímur Hermannsson, 19th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1928) ** Justin Mentell, American artist and actor (b. 1982) *
February 3 Events Pre-1600 * 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states. *1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire. *1488 – ...
– Frances Reid, American actress (b. 1914) * February 5 – Ian Carmichael, English actor (b. 1920) * February 7 – André Kolingba, 4th President of the Central African Republic (b. 1936) *
February 10 Events Pre-1600 * 1258 – Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end. * 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparkin ...
** Charlie Wilson (Texas politician), Charlie Wilson, American politician (b. 1933) ** José Joaquín Trejos Fernández, 35th President of Costa Rica (b. 1916) * February 11 – Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer (b. 1969) * February 14 – Dick Francis, British author and jockey (b. 1920) * February 17 – Kathryn Grayson, American actress and singer (b. 1922) *
February 18 Events Pre-1600 * 1229 – The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy. * 1268 &ndas ...
– Ariel Ramírez, Argentine composer (b. 1921) * February 19 – Lionel Jeffries, English actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1926) * February 20 – Alexander Haig, 59th United States Secretary of State (b. 1924)


March

* March 4 – Vladislav Ardzinba, Soviet-born politician (b. 1945) * March 6 – Mark Linkous, American singer-songwriter (b. 1962) * March 10 ** Corey Haim, Canadian actor (b. 1971) ** Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Egyptian Muslim cleric (b. 1928) * March 11 – Merlin Olsen, American football player and actor (b. 1940) * March 12 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish author and journalist (b. 1920) * March 14 – Peter Graves, American actor (b. 1926) * March 17 – Alex Chilton, American singer-songwriter (b. 1950) * March 18 – Fess Parker, American actor (b. 1924) * March 20 – Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepalese politician (b. 1924) * March 21 – Wolfgang Wagner, German festival director (b. 1919) *
March 22 Events Pre-1600 * 106 – Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province of Arabia Petraea. * 235 – Roman emperor Severus Alexander is murdered, marking the start of the Crisis of the Third Century. * 871 – Æthelr ...
** James Black (pharmacologist), James Black, British pharmacologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924) ** Valentina Tolkunova, Soviet and Russian singer (b. 1946) * March 24 – Robert Culp, American actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1930) * March 25 – Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, German political scientist (b. 1916) * March 27 – Vasily Smyslov, Soviet-Russian chess grandmaster (b. 1921) * March 28 ** Herb Ellis, American jazz guitarist (b. 1921) ** June Havoc, Canadian-American actress (b. 1912) * March 30 – Martin Sandberger, German army officer (b. 1911)


April

* April 1 ** John Forsythe, American actor (b. 1918) ** Tzannis Tzannetakis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1928) * April 2 – Chris Kanyon, American professional wrestler (b. 1970) * April 3 – Eugène Terre'Blanche, South African politician and white supremacist (b. 1941) * April 6 ** Anatoly Dobrynin, Soviet diplomat and politician (b. 1919) ** Corin Redgrave, English actor and activist (b. 1939) * April 7 – Christopher Cazenove, English actor (b. 1943) * April 8 ** Malcolm McLaren, British musician and manager (b. 1946) ** Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwean politician (b. 1925) *
April 10 Events Pre-1600 * 428 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople. * 837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles). * 1407 ...
** Dixie Carter, American actress (b. 1939) **Killed in plane crash near Smolensk: *** Krystyna Bochenek, Polish journalist, and politician (b. 1953) *** Ryszard Kaczorowski, 9th President of Poland (b. 1919) *** Lech Kaczyński, 13th President of Poland (b. 1949) *** Maria Kaczyńska, First Lady of Poland (b. 1942) *** Janusz Kurtyka, Polish historian (b. 1960) *** Tadeusz Płoski, Polish bishop (b. 1956) *** Sławomir Skrzypek, President of the National Bank of Poland (b. 1963) *** Jerzy Szmajdziński, Polish politician (b. 1952) * April 11 – Vicki Draves, American Olympic athlete (b. 1924) *
April 14 Events Pre-1600 * 43 BC – Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of Mark Antony in the Battle of Forum Gallorum. * 69 – Vitellius, commanding Rhine-based armies, defeats Roman emperor Otho ...
– Peter Steele, American musician (b. 1962) * April 15 ** Michael Pataki, American actor (b. 1938) ** Jack Herer, American activist and author (b. 1939) * April 16 – Tomáš Špidlík, Czech cardinal (b. 1919) * April 19 – Guru (rapper), Guru, American rapper (b. 1961) * April 20 – Dorothy Height, American civil rights activist and educator (b. 1912) * April 21 – Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish sports official (b. 1920) * April 25 – Alan Sillitoe, British novelist (b. 1928) * April 30 – Paul Augustin Mayer, Paul Mayer, German cardinal (b. 1911)


May

* May 2 – Lynn Redgrave, British actress (b. 1943) * May 4 – Luigi Poggi, Italian cardinal (b. 1917) * May 5 ** Giulietta Simionato, Italian opera singer (b. 1910) ** Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, 13th President of Nigeria (b. 1951) * May 8 – Andor Lilienthal, Hungarian chess grandmaster (b. 1911) * May 9 – Lena Horne, American singer and actress (b. 1917) * May 10 – Frank Frazetta, American artist (b. 1928) * May 11 – Doris Eaton Travis, American dancer and actress (b. 1904) * May 14 – Goh Keng Swee, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (b. 1918) * May 16 ** Ronnie James Dio, American musician (b. 1942) ** Oswaldo López Arellano, Honduran two-time former president (b. 1921) ** Hank Jones, American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger, and composer (b. 1918) * May 17 ** Bobbejaan Schoepen, Belgian singer (b. 1925) ** Yvonne Loriod, French pianist (b. 1924) * May 18 – Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian writer (b. 1930) *
May 22 Events Pre-1600 * 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu. * 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. * 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt. * 11 ...
** Hasri Ainun, 3rd First Spouses of Indonesia, First Lady of Indonesia (b. 1937) ** Martin Gardner, American science author (b. 1914) * May 24 – Paul Gray (American musician), Paul Gray, American musician (b. 1972) * May 28 – Gary Coleman, American actor, voice artist and comedian (b. 1968) * May 29 – Dennis Hopper, American actor, filmmaker, photographer and artist (b. 1936) * May 31 – Louise Bourgeois, French-born American sculptor (b. 1911)


June

* June 1 – Andrei Voznesensky, Soviet-Russian poet (b. 1933) * June 2 – Giuseppe Taddei, Italian baritone (b. 1916) * June 3 ** Vladimir Arnold, Soviet-Russian mathematician (b. 1937) ** Rue McClanahan, American actress (b. 1934) * June 10 – Sigmar Polke, German painter and photographer (b. 1941) * June 13 – Jimmy Dean, American singer, actor, and businessman (b. 1928) * June 14 – Leonid Kizim, Soviet-Ukrainian cosmonaut (b. 1941) * June 15 – Bekim Fehmiu, Yugoslavian actor (b. 1936) * June 16 ** Marc Bazin, 4th Prime Minister of Haiti (b. 1932) ** Ronald Neame, English film producer, director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (b. 1911) * June 18 ** Marcel Bigeard, French military officer (b. 1916) ** José Saramago, Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922) * June 19 – Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (b. 1962) * June 23 ** Mohammed Mzali, former Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1925) ** Pete Quaife, English musician, artist and author (b. 1943) * June 26 – Algirdas Brazauskas, 9th President of Lithuania (b. 1932) * June 27 – Dolph Briscoe, American politician (b. 1923) * June 28 – Robert Byrd, American politician (b. 1917)


July

* July 1 – Ilene Woods, American actress and singer (b. 1929) * July 5 ** Cesare Siepi, Italian opera singer (b. 1923) ** Nasr Abu Zayd, Egyptian Qur'anic theologian (b. 1943) * July 9 – Vonetta McGee, American actress (b. 1945) * July 13 – George Steinbrenner, American businessman and owner of the New York Yankees (b. 1930) * July 14 – Charles Mackerras, Australian conductor (b. 1925) * July 19 – Lorenzen Wright, professional basketball player (b. 1975) * July 24 – Alex Higgins, Northern Irish snooker player (b. 1949) * July 27 – Maury Chaykin, American-Canadian actor (b. 1949) * July 29 – Zheng Ji (biochemist), Zheng Ji, Chinese nutritionist and biochemist (b. 1900) * July 31 ** Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Italian screenwriter and actress (b. 1914) ** Mitch Miller, American oboist and record producer (b. 1911)


August

* August 5 – Godfrey Binaisa, 5th President of Uganda (b. 1920) * August 6 – Tony Judt, British historian (b. 1948) * August 7 – Bruno Cremer, French actor (b. 1929) * August 8 – Patricia Neal, American actress (b. 1926) * August 9 – Ted Stevens, American politician (b. 1923) * August 12 – Guido de Marco, 6th President of Malta (b. 1931) * August 13 – Lance Cade, American professional wrestler (b. 1981) * August 14 – Abbey Lincoln, American jazz vocalist and civil rights advocate (b. 1930) * August 16 – Nicola Cabibbo, Italian physicist (b. 1935) * August 17 – Francesco Cossiga, 63rd Prime Minister and 8th President of Italy (b. 1928) * August 18 – Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma, Spanish aristocrat (b. 1930) * August 22 – Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav footballer (b. 1923) * August 23 – Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime film director (b. 1963) * August 26 ** William B. Lenoir, William Lenoir, American astronaut (b. 1939) ** Raimon Panikkar, Spanish theologian (b. 1918) * August 27 – Anton Geesink, Dutch judoka (b. 1934) * August 28 – Sinan Hasani, 10th President of Yugoslavia (b. 1922) * August 30 ** Alain Corneau, French film director and writer (b. 1943) ** Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer (b. 1910) * August 31 – Laurent Fignon, French road bicycle racer (b. 1960)


September

* September 5 – Shoya Tomizawa, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1990) * September 7 – Glenn Shadix, American actor (b. 1952) * September 9 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess grandmaster (b. 1935) * September 11 ** Harold Gould, American actor (b. 1923) ** Kevin McCarthy (actor), Kevin McCarthy, American actor (b. 1914) * September 12 – Claude Chabrol, French film director (b. 1930) * September 14 ** Caterina Boratto, Italian actress (b. 1915) ** Clive Donner, English film director (b. 1926) * September 18 – Egon Klepsch, German politician (b. 1930) * September 22 ** Jackie Burroughs, English-born Canadian actress (b. 1939) ** Eddie Fisher (singer), Eddie Fisher, American singer and actor (b. 1928) * September 24 – Gennady Yanayev, Soviet politician; mastermind of the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt (b. 1937) * September 26 – Gloria Stuart, American actress (b. 1910) * September 28 – Arthur Penn, American film director (b. 1922) * September 29 ** Georges Charpak, French Nobel physicist (b. 1924) ** Tony Curtis, American actor (b. 1925) * September 30 – Stephen J. Cannell, American director and producer (b. 1941)


October

* October 4 – Norman Wisdom, British actor and comedian (b. 1915) * October 7 – Milka Planinc, Prime Minister of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia from 1982 to 1986 (b. 1924) * October 9 – Maurice Allais, French Nobel economist (b. 1911) * October 10 – ** Solomon Burke, American soul musician (b. 1940) ** Joan Sutherland, Australian opera singer (b. 1926) * October 13 – Mary Malcolm, British BBC television personality (b. 1918) * October 14 – Benoit Mandelbrot, French-American mathematician (b. 1924) * October 16 – Barbara Billingsley, American actress (b. 1915) * October 18 – Billy Raimondi, American baseball player (b. 1912) * October 19 – Tom Bosley, American actor (b. 1927) * October 20 ** Bob Guccione, American photographer (b. 1930) ** Farooq Leghari, 9th President of Pakistan (b. 1940) * October 23 – David Thompson (Barbadian politician), David Thompson, 6th Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1961) * October 25 – Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican musician (b. 1951) * October 27 ** Lisa Blount, American actress (b. 1957) ** Néstor Kirchner, 54th President of Argentina (b. 1950) * October 28 ** James MacArthur, American actor (b. 1937) ** Jonathan Motzfeldt, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (b. 1938) * October 30 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch writer (b. 1927) * October 31 – Ted Sorensen, American lawyer, speechwriter (b. 1928)


November

* November 2 – Rudolf Barshai, Soviet-Russian conductor and violist (b. 1924) * November 3 ** Jerry Bock, American composer (b. 1928) ** Viktor Chernomyrdin, 31st Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1938) * November 5 ** Jill Clayburgh, American actress (b. 1944) ** Hajo Herrmann, German fighter pilot and lawyer (b. 1913) * November 6 – Jo Myong-rok, North Korean military officer (b. 1928) * November 8 – Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentinian admiral (b. 1925) * November 10 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (b. 1919) * November 12 ** Stanisław Bobak, Polish ski jumper (b. 1956) ** Ernst von Glasersfeld, Austrian-born American philosopher (b. 1917) ** Henryk Górecki, Polish composer (b. 1933) * November 13 – Luis García Berlanga, Spanish film director and screenwriter (b. 1921) * November 19 – Pat Burns, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1952) * November 25 – Peter Christopherson, English musician and artist (b. 1955) * November 27 – Irvin Kershner, American film director (b. 1923) * November 28 – Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American actor (b. 1926) * November 29 ** Bella Akhmadulina, Soviet-Russian poet (b. 1937) ** Mario Monicelli, Italian actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1915)


December

* December 7 – Kari Tapio, Finnish singer (b. 1945) * December 10 – John B. Fenn, American Nobel chemist (b. 1917) * December 12 ** Timothée Malendoma, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1935) ** Tom Walkinshaw, British racing car driver and team owner (b. 1946) * December 13 – Richard Holbrooke, American diplomat (b. 1941) * December 14 – Pascal Rakotomavo, 10th Prime Minister of Madagascar (b. 1934) * December 15 – Blake Edwards, American film director (b. 1922) * December 17 – Captain Beefheart, American musician (b. 1941) * December 20 – Avraham Tamir, Israeli major-general (b. 1924) * December 21 – Enzo Bearzot, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1927) * December 23 – Celestino Rocha da Costa, 2nd Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (b. 1938) * December 25 – Carlos Andrés Pérez, 55th President of Venezuela (b. 1922) * December 26 ** Salvador Jorge Blanco, 48th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1926) ** Albert Ghiorso, American nuclear scientist (b. 1915) ** Teena Marie, American musician, songwriter and producer (b. 1956) * December 29 ** Avi Cohen, Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1956) ** Pavel Kolchin, Soviet cross-country skier (b. 1930) * December 30 ** Ellis Clarke, 1st President of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1917) ** Bobby Farrell, Dutch musician and performing artist from Aruba (b. 1949) * December 31 – Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor (b. 1927)


Nobel Prizes

* Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki (chemist), Akira Suzuki * Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Economics – Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides * Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Mario Vargas Llosa * Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Liu Xiaobo * Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Physiology or Medicine – Robert G. Edwards


New English words and terms

*''Arab spring'' *''gamification'' *''libfix''


See also

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References

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