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| ITNs | Days | Continents | Countries |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 30 | 6/7 |
- Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party is elected Brazil's first female President.[1]
- At least 32 people are injured in a suicide bombing in Istanbul, Turkey.[2]
- In baseball, the San Francisco Giants defeat the Texas Rangers to win the 2010 World Series.[3]
- Authorities investigate a plot to bomb planes with cargo packages intercepted in England and Dubai, en route from Yemen to the United States.[4]
- Islamic militants attack a Catholic church in Baghdad, killing 58 people and injuring dozens of others.[5]
- In the United States midterm elections, the Democratic Party retains a majority in the Senate, while the Republican Party wins a majority of seats in the House of Representatives.[6]
- Viktor Chernomyrdin, the longest-serving Prime Minister of Russia and the founder of Gazprom company, dies at age 72.[7]
- Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes in central Cuba, killing all 68 on board.[8]
- Hurricane Tomas strikes several Caribbean nations, killing at least 24 people and causing damage estimated at US$544 million.[9]
- Flights are disrupted by repeated eruptions of Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia.[10]
- Over 400 people are killed by an outbreak of cholera in the Saint-Marc region of Haiti.[11]
- Pope Benedict XVI consecrates the Sagrada Família in Barcelona, and declares it a basilica, 128 years after its construction started.[12]
- Gebre Gebremariam and Edna Kiplagat win the 2010 New York City Marathon, as world-record holder Haile Gebrselassie announces his retirement after abandoning the race through injury.[13]
- Michel Houellebecq wins the Prix Goncourt for his novel La Carte et le Territoire.[14]
- Cyclone Jal and associated flooding kill at least 117 people in India, Thailand and Malaysia.[15]
- Opposition parties concede defeat to the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party in Burma's first elections for 20 years, after the National League for Democracy boycotts the elections.[16]
- The video game Call of Duty: Black Ops breaks the 24-hour sales record, selling 5.6 million copies.[17]
- A truck bomb is detonated outside the headquarters of the Pakistani Criminal Investigation Department in Karachi, destroying the building and killing at least 18 people.[18]
- Polish composer Henryk Górecki dies at the age of 76.[19]
- The sixteenth Asian Games commence in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China.[20]
- Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from house arrest.[21]
- In boxing, Manny Pacquiao defeats Antonio Margarito to become the sport's first octuple champion.[22]
- Sebastian Vettel becomes the youngest-ever Formula One world champion, winning the 2010 Formula One season, while Red Bull Racing wins the Constructors' Championship.[23]
- Russia defeats Brazil to win the women's volleyball world championship.[24]
- A fire destroys a high-rise apartment building in Shanghai, China, killing 42 people and injuring over 100.[25]
- Alpha Condé wins the Guinean presidential election, the first held since the 2008 coup d'état.[26]
- Prince William, second in line to the thrones of the 16 Commonwealth realms, and Kate Middleton announce their engagement to be married next year.[27]
- Researchers at CERN announce that they have trapped antihydrogen atoms for the first time.[28]
- A series of flash floods kills 136 people and disrupts more than 1.2 million others across Colombia.[29]
- At a summit in Lisbon, Portugal, the heads of government of the NATO member states adopt a new Strategic Concept and agree to develop a mutual missile defense system.[30]
- Voters in Madagascar approve a new constitution in a referendum which also sees Andry Rajoelina remain as interim president.[31]
- Eurozone countries agree to a bailout of the Republic of Ireland from the European Financial Stability Facility in response to the global financial crisis.[32]
- A stampede during festival celebrations in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, kills at least 345 people.[33]
- North Korea shells Yeonpyeong Island, prompting a military response by South Korea.[34]
- 29 miners are confirmed dead after a second explosion in the Pike River Mine, New Zealand's worst mining disaster in 96 years.[35]
- The Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands wins an absolute majority in the Tongan general election.[36]
- The Russian State Duma passes a bill officially condemning the 1940 Katyn massacre.[37]
- Tom DeLay, former Republican Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, is convicted of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering.[38]
- WikiLeaks releases a collection of more than 250,000 classified American diplomatic cables.[39]
- Canadian-American actor Leslie Nielsen dies at the age of 84.[40]
References
edit- ^ Dilma Rousseff (User:Mkativerata)
- ^ 2010 Istanbul bomb blast (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ 2010 World Series (User:Bongwarrior)
- ^ 2010 cargo plane bomb plot (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ October 2010 Baghdad church attack (User:Spencer)
- ^ United States Senate elections, 2010 and United States House of Representatives elections, 2010 (User:Tone)
- ^ Viktor Chernomyrdin (User:Tone)
- ^ Aero Caribbean Flight 883 (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Hurricane Tomas (2010) (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ 2010 eruption of Mount Merapi (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ 2010 Haitian cholera outbreak (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Sagrada Família (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ New York City Marathon, Haile Gebrselassie (User:Stephen)
- ^ Michel Houellebecq (User:Stephen)
- ^ Cyclone Jal (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Burmese general election, 2010 (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Call of Duty: Black Ops (User:Stephen)
- ^ Pakistani Criminal Investigation Department bombing (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Henryk Górecki (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ 2010 Asian Games (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Aung San Suu Kyi (User:Tone)
- ^ Manny Pacquiao (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Sebastian Vettel (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ 2010 FIVB Women's World Championship (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ 2010 Shanghai fire (User:Stephen)
- ^ Guinean presidential election, 2010 (User:Stephen)
- ^ Prince William of Wales and Kate Middleton (User:The ed17)
- ^ antihydrogen (User:Tone)
- ^ 2010 Colombia floods (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ 2010 Lisbon summit (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Malagasy constitutional referendum, 2010 (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ 2008–2010 Irish financial crisis#Bailout (User:Mkativerata)
- ^ Phnom Penh stampede (User:Stephen)
- ^ Shelling of Yeonpyeong (User:Tone)
- ^ Pike River Mine disaster (User:Daniel)
- ^ Tongan general election, 2010 (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Katyn massacre (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Tom DeLay (User:Mkativerata)
- ^ US diplomatic cables release (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Leslie Nielsen (User:HJ Mitchell)