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Events on the year of 2010 in history

Events
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01 Jan 2010 A suicide car bomber detonates at a volleyball tournament in Lakki Marwat, Pakistan, killing 105 and injuring 100 more.
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04 Jan 2010 Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, is officially opened.
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07 Jan 2010 Muslim gunmen in Egypt open fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians, killing eight of them and one Muslim bystander.
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08 Jan 2010 Gunmen from an offshoot the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attacked the bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three.
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12 Jan 2010 An earthquake occurs killing an estimated 316,000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-au-Prince.
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14 Jan 2010 Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
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17 Jan 2010 Rioting begins between Muslim and Christian groups in Jos, Nigeria, resulting in at least 200 deaths.
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22 Jan 2010 Conan O'Brien performs his last Tonight Show on NBC as a part of the 2010 Tonight Show conflict.
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27 Jan 2010 The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.
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28 Jan 2010 Five murderers of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh are hung.
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31 Jan 2010 Avatar becomes the first film to gross over $2 billion worldwide.
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08 Feb 2010 A freak storm in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying over two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 travelers.
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13 Feb 2010 A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.
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20 Feb 2010 In Madeira Island, Portugal, heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, resulting in at least 43 deaths, in the worst disaster in the history of the archipelago.
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23 Feb 2010 Unknown criminals pour more than 2.5 million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the river Lambro, in northern Italy, sparking an environmental disaster.
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27 Feb 2010 An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggered a tsunami which struck Hawaii shortly after.
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11 Mar 2010 Economist and businessman Sebastián Piñera is sworn in as President of Chile, while three earthquakes, the strongest measuring magnitude 6.9 and all centered next to Pichilemu, capital of Cardenal Caro province, hit central Chile during the ceremony.
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26 Mar 2010 The ROKS Cheonan sinks off the west coast of South Korea near Baengnyeong Island in the Yellow Sea, killing 46 seamen.
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29 Mar 2010 Two female suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour, killing 40.
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03 Apr 2010 Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.
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05 Apr 2010 Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.
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06 Apr 2010 Maoist rebels kill 76 CRPF officers in Dantewada district, India.
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10 Apr 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński and dozens of other senior officials
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12 Apr 2010 A train derails near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people.
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14 Apr 2010 Nearly 2,700 are killed in a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai, China.
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20 Apr 2010 The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months.
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21 Apr 2010 The controversial Kharkiv Pact (Russian Ukrainian Naval Base for Gas Treaty) is signed in Kharkiv, Ukraine, by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev; it will be unilaterally terminated by Russia on March 31, 2014.
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05 May 2010 Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek government-debt crisis.
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11 May 2010 David Cameron becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following talks between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats to form the UK's first coalition government since World War II after elections produced a hung parliament.
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15 May 2010 Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.
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19 May 2010 The Royal Thai Armed Forces concludes its crackdown on protests by forcing the surrender of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship leaders.
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21 May 2010 JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year.
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22 May 2010 An Air India Express Boeing 737 goes over a cliff and crashes upon landing at Mangalore, India, killing 158 of the 166 people on board. It is the worst crash involving a Boeing 737.
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23 May 2010 Jamaican police begin a manhunt for drug lord Christopher Coke, after the United States requested his extradition, leading to three days of violence during which at least 73 bystanders are killed.
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28 May 2010 In West Bengal, India, a train derailment and subsequent collision kills 141 passengers.
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31 May 2010 In international waters, armed Shayetet 13 commandos, intending to force the flotilla to anchor at the Ashdod port, boarded ships trying to break the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip, resulting in nine civilian deaths.
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04 Jun 2010 Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40.
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13 Jun 2010 A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth.
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16 Jun 2010 Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.
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19 Jun 2010 The Wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling was held at Storkyrkan in Stockholm.
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24 Jun 2010 John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in professional tennis history.
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24 Jun 2010 Julia Gillard assumed office as the first female Prime Minister of Australia.
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25 Jul 2010 WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
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03 Aug 2010 Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage.
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05 Aug 2010 The Copiapó mining accident occurs, trapping 33 Chilean miners approximately 2,300 ft (700 m) below the ground.
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05 Aug 2010 Ten members of International Assistance Mission Nuristan Eye Camp team are killed by persons unknown in Kuran wa Munjan District of Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan.
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08 Aug 2010 2010 China floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people.
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13 Aug 2010 The MV Sun Sea docks in CFB Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada, carrying 492 Sri Lankan Tamils.
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14 Aug 2010 The first-ever Youth Olympic Games are held in Singapore.
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04 Sep 2010 Canterbury earthquake: A 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes the South Island of New Zealand at 4:35 am causing widespread damage and several power outages.
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07 Sep 2010 A Chinese fishing trawler collided with two Japanese Coast Guard patrol boats in disputed waters near the Senkaku Islands. The collisions occurred around 10am, after the Japanese Coast Guard ordered the trawler to leave the area. After the collisions, Japanese sailors boarded the Chinese vessel and arrested the captain, Zhan Qixiong.
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19 Sep 2010 The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.
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04 Oct 2010 The Ajka plant accident in western Hungary releases about a million cubic metres (35 million cubic feet) of liquid alumina sludge. Nine people are killed and 122 injured, and the Marcal and Danube rivers are severely contaminated.
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10 Oct 2010 The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.
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10 Oct 2010 Cable channel The Hub made its debut in the United States.
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13 Oct 2010 The 2010 Copiapó mining accident in Copiapó, Chile comes to an end as all 33 miners arrive at the surface after surviving a record 69 days underground awaiting rescue.
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04 Nov 2010 Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes into Guasimal, Sancti Spíritus. All 68 passengers and crew were killed.
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04 Nov 2010 Qantas Flight 32, an Airbus A380, suffers an uncontained engine failure over Indonesia shortly after taking off from Singapore, crippling the jet. The crew manage to safely return to Singapore, saving all 469 passengers and crew.
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08 Dec 2010 With the second launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 and the first launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.
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08 Dec 2010 The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus at a distance of about 80,800 km.
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15 Dec 2010 A boat carrying 90 asylum seekers crashes into rocks off the coast of Christmas Island, Australia, killing 48 people.
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17 Dec 2010 Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself on fire. This act became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring.
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22 Dec 2010 The repeal of the Don't ask, don't tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama.
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23 Dec 2010 A monsoonal trough crosses the northeastern coast of Australia from the Coral Sea, bringing mass flooding across Queensland.
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28 Dec 2010 Arab Spring: Popular protests begin in Algeria against the government.
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