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- The
2010 Winter Olympics
conclude in
Vancouver, after victory in
men's ice hockey gives host nation
Canada a Winter Olympic record 14 gold medals.
[1]
- A
cyclonic storm brings flooding and winds up to 230 km/h (140 mph) across
Western Europe, killing more than 50 people.
[2]
- Heavy rains result in a
landslide on
Mount Elgon in eastern
Uganda, destroying 85 homes and killing an estimated 100 people.
[3]
- A
series of suicide bombings in
Baqubah,
Iraq kills 33 people and injures at least 55 more.
[4]
- More than sixty people are killed during a
stampede at a temple in
Kunda,
Uttar Pradesh,
India.
[5]
-
Vladislav Ardzinba, the first President of the
Republic of Abkhazia, dies in
Moscow at the age of 64.
[6]
- A panel of 41 scientists at the
Lunar and Planetary Science Conference confirms that the
K–T extinction event, which killed off the
dinosaurs, was caused by an
asteroid impact.
[7]
-
Icelanders reject a
referendum to pay the
United Kingdom and the
Netherlands
€3.8 billion as compensation for the
collapse of Icesave bank.
[8]
- Hundreds of townspeople are killed in
inter-religious attacks just outside
Jos,
Nigeria.
[9]
-
The Hurt Locker
wins six
Academy Awards including
Best Picture and the first female
Best Director,
Kathryn Bigelow.
[10]
- An
earthquake in
Turkey's
Elâzığ Province kills more than 50 people and injures at least 50.
[11]
- A
series of storms passes through
Victoria,
Australia, leading to
flash flooding and 5-cm (2-in)
hail in Greater
Melbourne.
[12]
-
Egypt's foremost
Islamic cleric
Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy dies at the age of 81 during a visit to
Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia.
[13]
-
Mykola Azarov is appointed
Prime Minister of Ukraine, formally replacing
Yulia Tymoshenko.
[14]
-
Carlos Slim (pictured) becomes the first
Mexican to top the
Forbes rich list of billionaires.
[15]
- The
Opening Ceremony of the
2010 Winter Paralympics is held in
Vancouver,
Canada. A selection of 506 top athletes from 44 nations will compete in 5 sports.
[16]
-
A series of bomb attacks in
Lahore,
Pakistan kill at least 72 people.
[17]
- At least 35 people are killed and over 1000 evacuated after a
dam bursts in
Kazakhstan.
[18]
- As much as ninety percent of
Chile's population loses
power in a
massive blackout.
[19]
-
Kasubi Tombs, the tombs of of
Uganda's
Bugandan
kings and a
World Heritage Site, are destroyed in a fire.
[20]
- The first
Millennium Prize is awarded to
Russian
mathematician
Grigori Perelman for his proof of the
Poincaré conjecture.
[21]
- The estate of
Michael Jackson and
Sony Music sign the biggest recording deal in history, which includes future album deals of his
unreleased material.
[22]
- Former
Nepali
Prime Minister
Girija Prasad Koirala dies at the age of 85.
[23]
-
Pope Benedict XVI issues a
pastoral letter to
Catholics in Ireland apologizing for
sexual abuse of children by clergy.
[24]
- In
rugby union,
France win the
2010 Six Nations Championship with a
Grand Slam.
[25]
- The
United States House of Representatives approves both the
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the
Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010, the main
health care reform measures.
[26]
-
Google
redirects its
.cn domain to
Hong Kong servers and stops censoring its search results within the
People's Republic of China.
[27]
- American
mathematician
John Tate wins the
Abel prize for his work on the
theory of numbers.
[28]
- Scientists identify a previously unknown
type of ancient human through analysis of
DNA from a finger bone unearthed in a
Siberian cave.
[29]
-
Sir James W. Black, British
pharmacologist and
Nobel laureate, dies at the age of 85.
[30]
- The
South Korean Navy
corvette
ROKS Cheonan sinks after an explosion, leaving 46 crew members missing.
[31]
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Two suicide bombings at
Moscow Metro stations
Lubyanka and
Park Kultury kill at least 36.
[32]
-
New Moore/South Talpatti, an uninhabited island disputed between
Bangladesh and
India, is found to have disappeared beneath the
Bay of Bengal due to the
sea level rise.
[33]
- The
Ford Motor Company (
CEO
Alan Mulally pictured) agrees to sell
Volvo Cars to China-based
Geely Automobile for $1.8 billion.
[34]
- Collisions between two 3.5
TeV proton beams in the
Large Hadron Collider in
CERN,
Geneva sets the world record for the highest energy
man-made particle collisions.
[35]
- In
architecture,
Kazuyo Sejima and
Ryue Nishizawa, cofounders of the firm
SANAA, win the 2010
Pritzker Prize.
[36]
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Human Rights Watch says it has discovered the
killings of at least 321 people by the
Lord's Resistance Army in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo.
[37]
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