2010 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2010?
- January 4, 2010 – The Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building is officially opened.
- January 25, 2010 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take-off from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing all 90 people on-board.
- February 4, 2010 – The Federal Court of Australia’s ruling in Roadshow Films v iiNet sets a precedent that Internet service providers (ISPs) are not responsible for what their users do with the services the ISPs provide them.
- February 14, 2010 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- April 10, 2010 – Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board including President Lech Kaczyński.
- April 14, 2010 – Nearly 2,700 are killed in a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai, China.
- May 5, 2010 – Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek debt crisis.
- May 19, 2010 – The Royal Thai Armed Forces concludes its crackdown on protests by forcing the surrender of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship leaders.
- May 22, 2010 – Air India Express Flight 812 overshoots the runway and crashes. 158 people are killed.
- May 28, 2010 – In West Bengal, India, a train derailment and subsequent collision kills 141 passengers.
- May 31, 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 9 civilian deaths when teams of IHH activists on the MV Mavi Marmara attacked them with knives and metal rods and abducted one of the soldiers.
- July 25, 2010 – Wikileaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
- August 8, 2010 – 2010 China floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people.
- August 14, 2010 – The first-ever Youth Olympic Games are held in Singapore.
- August 31, 2010 – The last episode of The Bill, the longest-running police procedural television series in the United Kingdom, is aired on ITV1.
- September 4, 2010 – Canterbury earthquake: a 7.1 magnitude earthquake which struck the South Island of New Zealand at 4:35 am causing widespread damage and several power outages.
- September 19, 2010 – The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.
- October 13, 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.
- December 18, 2010 – Governmental protests begin in Tunisia, beginning the 2010-2011 Middle East and North Africa protests
- December 22, 2010 – The repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning on homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama.
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