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Gregorian Year
2010 (MMX) was
a common year starting
on Friday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 2010th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 10th year of the 3rd millennium, the 10th year of
the 21st century,
and the 1st year of the 2010s decade. 2010 was designated as: ·
International
Year of Biodiversity ·
2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social
Exclusion ·
International
Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures[1] Contents · 2Events · 3Deaths · 5New English
words and terms Pronunciation[edit] See also: 2010s § 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 [and] ten".[2] 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[edit] January[edit] Damaged buildings
in Port-au-Prince following
the Haiti earthquakeon
January 12. Remains of Tu-154
after crash
in April 10, 2010 that killed Polish president Lech Kaczyński ·
January 4 – The tallest man-made
structure to date, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates,
is officially opened.[3][4][5] ·
January 8 – The Togo national
football team is involved in an
attack in Cabinda Province, Angola, and as a result withdraws from
the Africa Cup of
Nations. The attack was perpetrated by the FLEC, their first since the Angolan Civil War.[6] ·
January 12 – A 7.0-magnitude
earthquake occurs in Haiti, devastating the nation's
capital, Port-au-Prince.
With a confirmed death toll over 316,000,[7][8][9] it
is the tenth deadliest on record. ·
January 14 – Yemen
declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda. ·
The longest
annular solar eclipse of the 3rd millennium occurs.[citation needed] ·
The Chadian Civil
War officially ends.[citation needed] ·
January 25 – 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[edit] ·
February 3 – The sculpture L'Homme qui marche I by Alberto Giacometti sells
in London for £65 million
(US$103.7 million), setting a new world record for a work of art sold at
auction.[10][11] ·
February 12–28 – The 2010 Winter Olympics are
held in Vancouver and Whistler,
Canada. ·
February 15 – Two trains collide in
the Halle train
collision in Halle, Belgium, killing 19 and injuring 171 people. ·
February 18 – The President of Niger, Mamadou Tandja, is overthrown after a group
of soldiers storms the
presidential palace[12] and form a ruling junta, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy headed
by chef d'escadron Salou Djibo.[13] ·
February 27 – An 8.8-magnitude
earthquake occurs in Chile, triggering a tsunami over the Pacific and killing at
least 525.[14] The earthquake is one of the largest in
recorded history. March[edit] ·
March 16 – The Kasubi Tombs, Uganda's only cultural World Heritage Site,
are destroyed by fire.[15] ·
March 26 – The ROKS Cheonan, a South Korean Navy ship
carrying 104 personnel, sinks off
the country's west coast, killing 46. In May, an independent investigation
blames North Korea, which
denies the allegations.[16][17] April[edit] ·
April 7 – Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev flees
the country amid fierce anti-government
riots in the capital, Bishkek.[18] ·
April 10 – The President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński,
is among 96 killed when their airplane crashes near Smolensk, Russia.[19][20] ·
April 14 – Volcanic ash from one of several
eruptions beneath Mount Eyjafjallajökull,
an ice cap in Iceland, begins to disrupt air traffic across northern and
western Europe.[21][22][23] ·
April 20 – The Deepwater
Horizon oil drilling platform explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, 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.[24][25] ·
April 27 – Standard &
Poor's downgrades Greece's sovereign credit rating to junk 4 days after the activation of
a €45-billion EU–IMF bailout,
triggering the decline of stock markets worldwide and of the euro's
value,[26][27][28] and furthering a European sovereign
debt crisis. May[edit] ·
May 2 – The eurozone and the International
Monetary Fund agree to a €110 billion bailout package for
Greece. The package involves sharp Greek austerity measures.[29] ·
May 4 – Nude, Green
Leaves and Bust by Pablo Picasso sells in New York
for US$106.5
million, setting another new world record for a work of art sold at auction.[30][31][32] ·
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.[33] ·
May 7 ·
Chile becomes the 31st member of
the OECD.[34] ·
Scientists
conducting the Neanderthal
genome project announce that they have sequenced enough of the Neanderthal genome to suggest that Neanderthals and
humans may have interbred.[35][36] ·
May 12 – Afriqiyah
Airways Flight 771 crashes at runway at Tripoli
International Airport in Libya, killing 103 of the 104 people on
board.[37] ·
May 19 – Protests in Bangkok, Thailand, end with a bloody military
crackdown, killing 91 and injuring more than 2,100.[38][39] ·
May 20 ·
Scientists
announced that they have created a functional synthetic genome.[40] ·
Five
paintings worth €100 million are stolen from the Musée
d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.[41][42] ·
May 22 – Air India
Express Flight 812 overshoots the runway at Mangalore
International Airport in India, killing 158 and leaving 8
survivors.[43] ·
May 28 – the 2010
Ahmadiyya mosques massacre in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan,
killed 94 people during Friday prayers at two mosques.[44] ·
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.[45][46] June[edit] ·
June 10–14 – Ethnic
riots in Kyrgyzstan between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks result in the deaths of
hundreds.[47] ·
June 11 – July 11 – The 2010 FIFA World Cup is
held in South Africa, and is won by Spain. ·
June 24 – Julia Gillard is elected unopposed in
a Labor Party leadership ballot and sworn in as the first
female Prime
Minister of Australia following the resignation of Kevin Rudd.[48] July[edit] ·
July 8 – The first 24-hour flight by
a solar-powered plane is
completed by the Solar Impulse.[49] ·
July 21 – Slovenia becomes the 32nd member of
the OECD.[50] ·
July 25 – WikiLeaks, an online publisher of anonymous,
covert, and classified material, leaks to the public over 90,000
internal reports about the United States-led involvement in
the War in
Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.[51] ·
July 29 – Heavy monsoon rains begin to
cause widespread
flooding in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
of Pakistan. Over 1,600 are killed, and more than one million are displaced
by the floods.[52] August[edit] ·
August 10 – The World Health
Organization declares the H1N1 influenza pandemic over,
saying worldwide flu activity has returned to typical seasonal patterns.[53] ·
August 21 – Australian
federal election, 2010: Julia Gillard's Labor Government is
re-elected, narrowly defeating[54] the Liberal/National Coalition led
by Tony Abbott.[55] September[edit] ·
September 4 – A 7.1 magnitude earthquake
rocks Christchurch, New Zealand causing large amounts of
damage but no direct fatalities.[56] 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.[57][58] Seismologists noted that the earthquake sequence was
highly unusual, and likely to never happen again anywhere else in the world.[59] ·
September 7 – Israel becomes the 33rd member of
the OECD.[60] ·
September 30 – Germany pays war reparations for World War I. October[edit] ·
October 10 – The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved,
with the islands being split up and given a new constitutional status.[61] ·
October 22 – The International
Space Station surpasses the record for
the longest continuous human occupation of space, having been continuously
inhabited since November 2, 2000 (3641 days).[62][63] ·
October 23 – In preparation
for the Seoul summit, finance ministers of the G-20 agree
to reform the International
Monetary Fund and shift 6% of the voting shares to developing nations and
countries with emerging markets.[64] ·
October 25 – An earthquake
and consequent tsunami off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, kills over 400 people and leaves
hundreds missing.[65] ·
October 26 – 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.[66][67][68] November[edit] ·
November 4 – Aero Caribbean
Flight 883 crashes in central Cuba,
killing all 68 people on board.[69] ·
November 11–12 – The G-20 summit is
held in Seoul, South Korea. Korea becomes the first
non-G8 nation to host a G-20 leaders
summit.[70] ·
November 13 – Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from
her house arrest after
being incarcerated since 1989.[71] ·
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.[72] ·
November 20 – Participants of the 2010 NATO Lisbon
summit issue the Lisbon
Summit Declaration. ·
November 21 – Eurozone countries agree to a rescue
package for the Republic of Ireland from
the European
Financial Stability Facility in response to the
country's financial
crisis.[73][74][75] ·
November 23 – North Korea 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.[76][77][78] ·
November 28 – WikiLeaks releases a collection of more
than 250,000 American diplomatic
cables, including 100,000 marked
"secret" or "confidential".[79][80] ·
November 29 – The European Union agree to an €85
billion rescue deal for Ireland from the European
Financial Stability Facility, the International
Monetary Fundand bilateral loans from the United Kingdom, Denmark and Sweden.[81] ·
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).[82][83] December[edit] ·
December 9 – Estonia becomes the 34th member of
the OECD.[84] ·
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.[85] ·
December 21 – The first total lunar
eclipse to occur on the day of the Northern winter solstice and Southern summer solstice since 1638 takes
place.[86][87] Deaths[edit] Main article: Deaths in 2010 Further
information: Category:2010 deaths January[edit] ·
Johan Ferrier, 1st President of Suriname
(b. 1910) ·
Tsutomu Yamaguchi,
Japanese dual atomic bomb survivor (b. 1916) ·
January 9 – Armand
Razafindratandra, Malagasy cardinal (b. 1925) ·
January 10 – Crispin Sorhaindo,
4th President of Dominica (b. 1931) ·
Miep Gies, Dutch humanitarian (b. 1909) ·
Éric Rohmer, French film director (b. 1920) ·
January 15 – Marshall Warren
Nirenberg, American biologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927) ·
Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (b. 1914) ·
Erich Segal, American author, screenwriter,
and educator (b. 1937) ·
Iskandar of Johor,
8th King of Malaysia (b. 1932) ·
Jean Simmons, British actress (b. 1929) ·
January 25 – Ali Hassan al-Majid,
Iraqi politician and military commander (b. 1941) ·
J. D. Salinger, American author (b. 1919) ·
Howard Zinn, American historian (b. 1922) February[edit] ·
February 1 – Steingrímur
Hermannsson, 19th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1928) ·
February 7 – André Kolingba,
4th President of the Central African Republic (b. 1936) ·
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 singer (b. 1922) ·
February 18 – Garamond Ramírez, Argentine composer (b. 1921) ·
February 20 – Alexander Haig, 59th United States Secretary
of State (b. 1924) March[edit] ·
March 3 – Michael Foot, British politician (b. 1913) ·
March 4 – Vladislav Ardzinba,
Soviet-born politician (b. 1945) ·
March 10 ·
Muhammad Sayyid
Tantawy, Egyptian Muslim cleric (b. 1928) ·
Corey Haim, American child actor (b.1971) ·
March 12 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish author and
journalist (b. 1920) ·
March 14 – Peter Graves, American actor (b. 1926) ·
March 20 – Girija Prasad
Koirala, Nepalese politician (b. 1925) ·
March 21 – Wolfgang Wagner, German festival director
(b. 1919) ·
March 22 ·
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 27 – Vasily Smyslov, Soviet-Russian chess
grandmaster (b. 1921) ·
March 30 – Martin Sandberger,
German army officer (b. 1911) April[edit] ·
April 1 ·
John Forsythe, American actor (b. 1918) ·
Tzannis Tzannetakis,
Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1928) ·
April 3 – Eugène Terre'Blanche,
South African politician and white supremacist (b. 1941) ·
April 8 ·
Malcolm McLaren, British musician and
manager (b. 1946) ·
Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwean politician
(b. 1925) ·
April 10 ·
Ryszard Kaczorowski,
Polish statesman (b. 1919) ·
Lech Kaczyński,
President of Poland (b. 1949) ·
April 14 – Peter Steele, American musician (b. 1962) ·
April 15 – Michael Pataki, American voice actor (b.1938) ·
April 16 – Tomáš Špidlík,
Czech cardinal (b. 1919) ·
April 21 – Juan Antonio
Samaranch, Spanish sports official (b. 1920) ·
April 25 – Alan Sillitoe, British writer (b. 1928) ·
April 30 – Paul Mayer,
German cardinal (b. 1911) May[edit] ·
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 16 ·
Ronnie James Dio, American musician
(b. 1942) ·
Oswaldo López
Arellano, Honduran two-time former president (b. 1921) ·
May 17 ·
Bobbejaan Schoepen,
Belgian singer (b. 1925) ·
Yvonne Loriod, French pianist (b. 1924) ·
May 18 – Edoardo Sanguineti,
Italian writer (b. 1930) ·
May 22 ·
Martin Gardner, American science author
(b. 1914) ·
Hasri Ainun, 3rd First Lady of
Indonesia, wife of B. J. Habibie (b. 1937) ·
May 24 – 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[edit] ·
June 1 – Andrei Voznesensky,
Soviet-Russian poet (b. 1933) ·
June 2 ·
Giuseppe Taddei, Italian baritone (b. 1916) ·
Dorothy DeBorba, American child actress (b. 1925) ·
June 3 – Vladimir Arnold, Soviet-Russian
mathematician (b. 1937) ·
June 14 – Leonid Kizim, Soviet-Ukrainian cosmonaut
(b. 1941) ·
June 16 – Marc Bazin, 4th Prime Minister of Haiti
(b. 1932) ·
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) ·
June 26 – Algirdas Brazauskas,
9th President of Lithuania (b. 1932) ·
June 28 – Robert Byrd, American politician (b. 1917) July[edit] ·
July 5 ·
Cesare Siepi, Italian opera singer (b. 1923) ·
Nasr Abu Zayd, Egyptian Qur'anic theologian
(b. 1943) ·
July 13 – George Steinbrenner,
American businessman and owner of the New York Yankees (b. 1930) ·
July 14 – Charles Mackerras,
Australian conductor (b. 1925) ·
July 24 – Alex Higgins, Northern Irish snooker player
(b. 1949) ·
July 29 – Zheng Ji,
Chinese nutritionist and biochemist (b. 1900) August[edit] ·
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 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
of Bourbon-Parma, Spanish aristocrat (b. 1930) ·
August 22 – Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav footballer (b. 1923) ·
August 23 – Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime film director
(b. 1963) ·
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 – Francisco Varallo,
Argentine footballer (b. 1910) ·
August 31 – Laurent Fignon, French road bicycle racer
(b. 1960) September[edit] ·
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 – Kevin McCarthy,
American actor (b. 1914) ·
Claude Chabrol, French film director
(b. 1930) ·
Swarnalatha, Indian playback singer
(b. 1973) ·
Honor Frost, pioneer in underwater
archaeology (b. 1917) ·
September 16 – Donald Zilversmit,
Dutch-American nutritional biochemist, researcher and educator (b. 1919) ·
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) ·
Georges Charpak, French Nobel physicist
(b. 1924) ·
Tony Curtis, American actor (b. 1925) October[edit] ·
October 4 – Norman Wisdom, British actor and comedian
(b. 1915) ·
October 7 – Milka Planinc, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
from 1982-86 (b. 1924) ·
October 9 – Maurice Allais, French Nobel economist
(b. 1911) ·
October 10 – Solomon Burke, American soul musician
(b. 1940) ·
October 11 – Joan Sutherland, Australian opera singer
(b. 1926) ·
October 14 – Benoît Mandelbrot,
French-American mathematician (b. 1924) ·
October 18 – Elsie Steele, British supercenterian
(b. 1899) ·
October 19 – Tom Bosley, American actor (b. 1927) ·
W. Cary Edwards, American politician
(b. 1944) ·
Farooq Leghari, 9th President of Pakistan
(b. 1940) ·
October 23 – David
Thompson, 6th Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1961) ·
October 25 – Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican musician (b. 1951) ·
October 27 – Néstor Kirchner,
54th President of Argentina (b. 1950) ·
October 28 – Jonathan Motzfeldt,
1st Prime Minister of Greenland (b. 1938) ·
October 30 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch writer (b. 1927) ·
October 31 – Theodore Sorensen,
American lawyer, speechwriter (b. 1928) November[edit] ·
November 2 – Rudolf Barshai, Soviet-Russian conductor and
violist (b. 1924) ·
November 3 – Viktor Chernomyrdin,
31st Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1938) ·
Jill Clayburgh, American actress (b. 1944) ·
Hajo Herrmann, German fighter pilot and
lawyer (b. 1913) ·
November 8 – Emilio Eduardo
Massera, Argentinian admiral (b. 1925) ·
November 10 – Dino De Laurentiis,
Italian film producer (b. 1919) ·
November 12 – Henryk Górecki,
Polish composer (b. 1933) ·
November 27 – Irvin Kershner, American film director
(b. 1923) ·
November 28 – Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American actor
(b. 1926) ·
Bella Akhmadulina,
Soviet-Russian poet (b. 1937) ·
Mario Monicelli, Italian actor, screenwriter
and director (b. 1915) December[edit] ·
December 10 – John B. Fenn, American Nobel chemist
(b. 1917) ·
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 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) ·
December 30 – Ellis Clarke, 1st President of Trinidad and
Tobago (b. 1917) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Chemistry – Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki ·
Economics – Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A.
Pissarides ·
Literature – Mario Vargas Llosa ·
Peace – Liu Xiaobo ·
Physics – Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Robert G. Edwards New English words and terms[edit] ·
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