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- A
new constitution is approved in a referendum in
Kyrgyzstan.
[1]
- A
common market comes into force in the
East African Community.
[2]
- At least 41 people are killed and 175 others injured in a series of
suicide bomb attacks in
Lahore,
Pakistan.
[3]
- A team of
astronomers confirm the
orbital motion of the first
directly imaged
exoplanet near a
sun-like star.
[4]
- The discovery of fossilized remains of
Leviathan melvillei, an
extinct species of
physeteroid
whale, is announced.
[5]
-
Hurricane Alex, the first named storm of the
2010 Atlantic hurricane season, makes its second
landfall in
Tamaulipas,
Mexico, killing at least 24 people, and making it the most
intense June Atlantic hurricane in 53 years.
[6]
- At least 270 people are killed and 190 injured in
an explosion caused by a fuel truck overturning in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo.
[7]
- U.S. General
David Petraeus formally takes command of the
International Security Assistance Force in
Afghanistan.
[8]
-
Pierre Nkurunziza is
re-elected as
President of
Burundi.
[9]
-
Senegal begins eight days of national
mourning upon the death of
Serigne Mouhamadou Lamine Bara Mbacké,
Grand Marabout of the
Mourides.
[10]
-
Islamic scholar
Grand Ayatollah
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah dies at the age of 74.
[11]
- In the
Polish
presidential election, held following the
death of
Lech Kaczyński, Acting President
Bronisław Komorowski defeats
Jarosław Kaczyński to become
president-elect.
[12]
- In
tennis,
Rafael Nadal of
Spain wins the
men's singles title at the
Wimbledon Championships.
[13]
-
Sierra Leonean writer
Olufemi Terry wins the
Caine Prize for his short story "
Stickfighting Days".
[14]
- Former
military dictator of
Panama
Manuel Noriega is sentenced to seven years in jail for
money laundering in
France.
[15]
- The
prototype airplane of the
Solar Impulse project completes the world's first 24-hour
solar flight.
[16]
-
A series of bombings kills at least 70 people and injures 400 more during an annual
Shia pilgrimage to the
Al-Kadhimiya Mosque in
Baghdad,
Iraq.
[17]
- The
United States and
Russia
exchange prisoners accused of spying in one of the largest "spy swaps" since the
Cold War.
[18]
- A
suicide attack in
Mohmand Agency,
Pakistan, kills 56 people and injures more than 100 others.
[19]
- After more than a century in
British collections, the head of
Noongar leader
Yagan is
ceremonially buried on the 177th anniversary of his last full day of freedom.
[20]
-
Spain win the
FIFA World Cup after
defeating
the Netherlands 1–0 in extra time.
[21]
- A series of
bomb attacks in
Kampala,
Uganda kills dozens and injures over 100 others.
[22]
- More than a million people
protest in
Barcelona against restrictions on the
autonomy of
Catalonia within
Spain.
[23]
- A
total solar eclipse occurs over much of the
Pacific Ocean.
[24]
- The
International Criminal Court charges
Sudanese President
Omar al-Bashir with three counts of
genocide for his role in the
Darfur conflict.
[25]
-
Switzerland rejects a request from the
United States to extradite
Franco–
Polish film director
Roman Polanski to face sentencing on charges of
unlawful sex with a minor in 1977.
[26]
-
Argentina
legalises same-sex marriage,
becoming the first
Latin American country to do so.
[27]
-
Australian
classical music
conductor
Charles Mackerras dies in
London at the age of 84.
[28]
- The discovery of
Saadanius hijazensis, a
fossilized
primate species closely related to the
common ancestor of
Old World monkeys and
apes, is announced.
[29]
-
BP announces that it has
temporarily halted the
Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
[30]
-
Typhoon Conson makes landfall near
Hai Phong,
Vietnam after devastating the
Philippines, leaving at least 65 people dead.
[31]
- A
bomb attack in
Zahedan,
Iran kills 27 people, including
Jundallah leader
Abdolmalek Rigi.
[32]
- In
golf,
South African
Louis Oosthuizen
wins
The Open Championship.
[33]
- Divers uncover a store of
champagne, believed to be the
world's oldest, off the coast of the
Åland Islands.
[34]
- Two trains
collide in
West Bengal,
India, killing more than 60 people and injuring over 160 others.
[35]
-
Greek
investigative journalist Sokratis Giolias
is assassinated in
Athens; the first such assassination in Greece for 25 years.
[36]
-
Sri Lankan international
cricketer
Muttiah Muralitharan retires after becoming the first
bowler to achieve 800
test
wickets.
[37]
- In a non-binding, advisory decision, the
International Court of Justice
holds that
Kosovo's unilateral 2008
declaration of independence did not violate
international law.
[38]
- A
Dutch court finds
British commodities trader
Trafigura guilty of
dumping toxic waste off the coast of
Côte d'Ivoire in 2006.
[39]
- At least 17 people are killed and 100 others injured in
a stampede at the
Love Parade music festival in
Duisburg,
Germany.
[40]
-
Venezuela
severs diplomatic relations with
Colombia.
[41]
- In
cycling,
Alberto Contador of
Spain
wins the
Tour de France.
[42]
-
Wikileaks releases nearly
92,000 classified military documents related to the
war in Afghanistan to
The Guardian,
Der Spiegel, and
The New York Times.
[43]
-
Kang Kek Iew is sentenced to 35 years imprisonment by the
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia for his role in the
Khmer Rouge regime in
Democratic Kampuchea from 1975–1979.
[44]
- Astronomers discover that
R136a1 is the most
massive star ever found.
[45]
-
Airblue
Flight 202 crashes outside
Islamabad,
Pakistan, with 152 people aboard.
[46]
- A team of scientists, archaeologists and surveyors discover the wreckage of 19th century
Royal Navy vessel
HMS Investigator in
Mercy Bay,
Canada.
[47]
- A
boat sinks on the
Kasai river in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing as many as 140.
[48]
- The
Parliament of
Catalonia, an autonomous region of
Spain,
votes to
ban
bullfighting.
[49]
- Hundreds of people are killed and thousands more displaced by
severe flooding in northern
Pakistan.
[50]
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