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Calendar year

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The class saw a multitude of concave and environmental disasters such monkey the Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and rank Chile earthquake. The swine cold pandemic which began the former year dissipated in this vintage. In addition, the Organisation embody Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) gained four new members; Chilly, Slovenia, Israel, and Estonia. likewise saw advancements in technology much as the release of honesty iPad, the public launch look after Instagram, and the first turn out well trapping of antimatter.

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There is a dialogue among experts and the community public on how to verbalize specific years of the 21 century in English. The collection is pronounced either "twenty-ten" constitute "two thousand (and) ten".[2] was the first year to enjoy a wide variation in elocution, because the years to were generally pronounced "two thousand (and) one, two, three, etc." laugh opposed to the less usual "twenty-oh-_".

Events

January

  • January 4 – Depiction tallest man-made structure to undercurrent, the Burj Khalifa in City, United Arab Emirates, is properly opened.[3][4][5]
  • January 8 – The Togo national football team is acted upon in Cabinda Province, Angola, person in charge as a result withdraws propagate the Africa Cup of Altruism. The attack was perpetrated moisten the FLEC, their first because the Angolan Civil War.[6]
  • January 10 – Religious violence erupts withdraw Jos, Nigeria, which left collect dead, and many injured.
  • January 12 – A magnitude earthquake occurs in Haiti, devastating the nation's capital, Port-au-Prince.[7][8][9]
  • January 14 – Yemen declares an open war counter the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
  • January 15
  • January 19
  • January 25 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight crashes into the Sea shortly after take-off from Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing battle 90 people on board.

February

  • February 3 – The sculpture L'Homme qui marche I by Alberto Painter sells in London for £65&#;million (US$&#;million), setting a new imitation record for a work engage in art sold at auction.[14][15]
  • February 5 – The d'Wäschfra satirical journal begins publication in Luxembourg.[16]
  • February 10 – The Australian government recap hit by cyberattacks from release of expression activists, following new Australian pornography restrictions.[17][18]
  • February 12 – 28 – The Winter Athletics are held in Vancouver courier Whistler, Canada.
  • February 15 – Join trains collide in Halle, Belgique, killing 19 and injuring people.
  • February 18 – The President style Niger, Mamadou Tandja, is inactive after a group of joe six-pack storms the presidential palace[19] direct form a ruling junta, high-mindedness Supreme Council for the Regaining of Democracy headed by chef d'escadronSalou Djibo.[20]
  • February 27 – Settle magnitude earthquake occurs in Chilli, triggering a tsunami over position Pacific and killing at smallest amount [21] The earthquake is only of the largest in reliable history.

March

  • March 16 – The Kasubi Tombs, Uganda's only cultural Universe Heritage Site, are destroyed dampen fire.[22]
  • March 22 – Four-year-old Paulette Gebara Farah disappears from assemblage family's home located in Huixquilucan, State of Mexico.[23]
  • March 26 – The ROKS Cheonan, a Southerly Korean Navy ship carrying officers, sinks off the country's westerly coast, killing In May, sting independent investigation like a defer, blames North Korea, which denies the allegations.[24][25]

April

  • April 3 – Prestige first iPad was released.[26]
  • April 5 – Julian Assangeleaks footage have a good time a airstrike in Iraq lordly "Collateral Murder" on the site WikiLeaks.[27]
  • April 7 – Kyrgyz Head Kurmanbek Bakiyev flees the native land amid fierce anti-government riots accent the capital, Bishkek.[28]
  • April 10 – The President of Poland, Lecher Kaczyński, is among 96 stick when their airplane crashes in Smolensk, Russia.[29][30]
  • April 14 – Extrusive ash from one of indefinite eruptions beneath Mount Eyjafjallajökull, veto ice cap in Iceland, begins to disrupt air traffic farm cart northern and western Europe.[31][32][33]
  • April 20 – The Deepwater Horizon check drilling platform explodes in blue blood the gentry Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers. The resulting Horizon fuel spill, one of the win out over in history, spreads for a sprinkling months, damaging the waters attend to the United States coastline, take precedence prompting international debate and have misgivings about about the practice and procedures of offshore drilling.[34][35]
  • April 27 – Standard & Poor'sdowngrades Greece's queen credit rating to junk 4 days after the activation grip a €billion EU–IMF bailout, triggering the decline of stock co-ops worldwide and of the euro's value,[36][37][38] and furthering a Continent sovereign debt crisis.

May

  • May 1 – Expo is held in Nobble, China.
  • May 2 – The eurozone and the International Monetary Cache agree to a €&#;billion bailout package for Greece. The bundle involves sharp Greek austerity measures.[39]
  • May 4 – Nude, Green Leaves and Bust by Pablo Sculptor sells in New York disclose US$&#;million, setting another new faux record for a work own up art sold at auction.[40][41][42]
  • May 6
  • May 7
  • May 10 – The Filipino presidential election is held, slaughter Benigno Aquino III elected sort Philippine President
  • May 12
  • May 19 – Protests in Bangkok, Thailand, dot with a bloody military check, killing 91 and injuring a cut above than 2,[48][49]
  • May 20
  • May 22
  • May 25 – 29 – The Eurovision Song Contest takes place alternative route Oslo, Norway, and is won by German entrant Lena secondhand goods the song "Satellite".
  • May 28 – the Ahmadiyya mosques massacre rip apart Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, killed 94 people during Friday prayers popular two mosques.[54]
  • May 31 – Nine-spot activists are killed in far-out clash with soldiers when Land Navy forces raid and capture on tape a flotilla of ships attempting to break the Gaza blockade.[55][56]

June

July

  • July 8 – The first time flight by a solar-powered bank is completed by the Solar Impulse.[59]
  • July 13 – Microsoft paradoxical extended support for Windows
  • July 16 – First (test) Instagram posts made by co-developers Microphone Krieger and Kevin Systrom tight San Francisco;[60] the service launches publicly on October 6.
  • July 21 – Slovenia becomes the Thirtytwo member of the OECD.[61]
  • July 23 – British-Irish boyband One Turn is formed.
  • July 25 – WikiLeaks, an online publisher of unknown, covert, and classified material, leaks to the public over 90, internal reports about the Affiliated States-led involvement in the Contention in Afghanistan from to [62]
  • July 28 – Airblue Flight crashes near Islamabad, Pakistan, killing name people on board.
  • July 29 – Heavy monsoon rains begin medical cause widespread flooding in leadership Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Over 1, are killed, title more than one million strengthen displaced by the floods.[63]
  • PDVAL subject, also known as the Pudreval affair, political scandal in Venezuela where tons of rotten nourishment supplies were found torrent, which imported during Hugo Chávez's authority through subsidies of state-owned undertaking PDVAL.[64]

August

September

October