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Dilma Rousseff of the
Workers' Party is
elected
Brazil 's first female
President .
[1]
At least 32 people are injured in a
suicide bombing in
Istanbul ,
Turkey .
[2]
In
baseball , the
San Francisco Giants defeat the
Texas Rangers to win the
2010 World Series .
[3]
Authorities investigate
a plot to bomb planes with cargo packages intercepted in
England and
Dubai , en route from
Yemen to the
United States .
[4]
Islamic militants
attack a
Catholic
church in
Baghdad , killing 58 people and injuring dozens of others.
[5]
In the
United States midterm elections , the
Democratic Party
retains a majority in the
Senate , while the
Republican Party
wins a majority of seats in the
House of Representatives .
[6]
Viktor Chernomyrdin , the longest-serving
Prime Minister of
Russia and the founder of
Gazprom company, dies at age 72.
[7]
Aero Caribbean
Flight 883 crashes in central
Cuba , killing all 68 on board.
[8]
Hurricane Tomas strikes several
Caribbean nations, killing at least 24 people and causing damage estimated at
US$ 544 million.
[9]
Flights are disrupted by
repeated eruptions of
Mount Merapi in
Central Java ,
Indonesia .
[10]
Over 400 people are killed by
an outbreak of
cholera in the
Saint-Marc region of
Haiti .
[11]
Pope
Benedict XVI
consecrates the
Sagrada Família in
Barcelona , and declares it a
basilica , 128 years after its construction started.
[12]
Gebre Gebremariam and
Edna Kiplagat win the 2010
New York City Marathon , as
world-record holder
Haile Gebrselassie announces his retirement after abandoning the race through injury.
[13]
Michel Houellebecq wins the
Prix Goncourt for his novel
La Carte et le Territoire .
[14]
Cyclone Jal and associated flooding kill at least 117 people in
India ,
Thailand and
Malaysia .
[15]
Opposition parties concede defeat to the military-backed
Union Solidarity and Development Party in
Burma 's first
elections for 20 years, after the
National League for Democracy boycotts the elections.
[16]
The
video game
Call of Duty: Black Ops breaks the 24-hour sales record, selling 5.6 million copies.
[17]
A
truck bomb is detonated outside the headquarters of the
Pakistani Criminal Investigation Department in
Karachi , destroying the building and killing at least 18 people.
[18]
Polish composer
Henryk Górecki dies at the age of 76.
[19]
The
sixteenth Asian Games commence in
Guangzhou ,
People's Republic of China .
[20]
Burmese opposition politician
Aung San Suu Kyi is released from
house arrest .
[21]
In
boxing ,
Manny Pacquiao
defeats
Antonio Margarito to become the sport's first octuple champion.
[22]
Sebastian Vettel becomes the youngest-ever
Formula One world champion, winning the
2010 Formula One season , while
Red Bull Racing wins the Constructors' Championship.
[23]
Russia defeats
Brazil to win the women's
volleyball
world championship .
[24]
A
fire destroys a
high-rise apartment building in
Shanghai ,
China , killing 42 people and injuring over 100.
[25]
Alpha Condé
wins the
Guinean
presidential election, the first held since the
2008 coup d'état .
[26]
Prince William , second in line to the thrones of the 16
Commonwealth realms , and
Kate Middleton announce their engagement to be
married next year.
[27]
Researchers at
CERN announce that they have trapped
antihydrogen atoms for the first time.
[28]
A
series of flash floods kills 136 people and disrupts more than 1.2 million others across
Colombia .
[29]
At a
summit in
Lisbon ,
Portugal , the heads of government of the
NATO member states adopt a new Strategic Concept and agree to develop a mutual
missile defense system.
[30]
Voters in
Madagascar approve a new constitution in a
referendum which also sees
Andry Rajoelina remain as interim president.
[31]
Eurozone countries agree to a
bailout of the
Republic of Ireland from the
European Financial Stability Facility in response to the
global financial crisis .
[32]
A stampede during festival celebrations in
Phnom Penh ,
Cambodia , kills at least 345 people.
[33]
North Korea
shells
Yeonpyeong Island , prompting a military response by
South Korea .
[34]
29 miners are confirmed dead after a
second explosion in the
Pike River Mine ,
New Zealand 's worst mining disaster in 96 years.
[35]
The
Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands wins an
absolute majority in the
Tongan
general election .
[36]
The
Russian
State Duma passes a bill officially condemning the 1940
Katyn massacre .
[37]
Tom DeLay , former
Republican
Majority Leader of the
United States House of Representatives , is convicted of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
[38]
WikiLeaks releases a collection of more than 250,000 classified
American
diplomatic cables .
[39]
Canadian-American actor
Leslie Nielsen dies at the age of 84.
[40]
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