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President of
Ecuador
Rafael Correa declares a
state of emergency as
protests by the police and members of the armed forces close main airports and disrupt communications.
[1]
- A newly discovered planet,
Gliese 581 g, is found to be in the
habitable zone of
its parent star, where
liquid water may exist.
[2]
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Spanish
cyclist
Alberto Contador is suspended following detection of
clenbuterol in a sample taken during the
2010 Tour de France, which he won.
[3]
-
David Lloyd Johnston is sworn in as the twenty-eighth
Governor General of
Canada.
[4]
- The
People's Republic of China launches its second lunar orbiter,
Chang'e 2.
[5]
- The
United States apologizes for conducting
Syphilis experiments in Guatemala without the subjects'
informed consent in the 1940s.
[6]
- A
train collision kills 36 people and injures at least 50 in
Indonesia.
[7]
- In
Australian rules football,
Collingwood
defeats
St Kilda to win the
AFL
Grand Final.
[8]
- The
XIX Commonwealth Games begin at
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in
Delhi,
India.
[9]
-
Sébastien Loeb, driving for the
Citroën World Rally Team, wins his seventh consecutive
World Rally Championship.
[10]
- In
Australian rules football,
Collingwood
win the
AFL
Grand Final, while in
rugby league,
St George Illawarra win the
NRL
Grand Final.
[11]
-
Robert Geoffrey Edwards wins the 2010
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his development of
in vitro fertilisation.
[12]
- The incumbent coalition government of
Valdis Dombrovskis wins
Latvia's
parliamentary election.
[13]
- The
39th Chess Olympiad concludes with
Ukraine and
Russia winning the open and women's section respectively.
[14]
- In
golf,
Europe defeats the
United States in the
2010 Ryder Cup at
Celtic Manor,
South Wales.
[15]
-
Andre Geim and
Konstantin Novoselov win the 2010
Nobel Prize in Physics for their experiments on
graphene.
[16]
- A
state of emergency is declared in western
Hungary after an
accident at an
alumina factory floods a large area with "
red mud", killing at least three people.
[17]
- Former
Société Générale trader
Jérôme Kerviel is sentenced to three years in jail for his role in the
January 2008 Société Générale trading loss incident.
[18]
-
Faisal Shahzad (pictured) is sentenced to life in prison for
an attempted car bombing in
Times Square,
New York City.
[19]
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Comedy
actor
Norman Wisdom dies aged 95.
[20]
-
Richard F. Heck,
Ei-ichi Negishi and
Akira Suzuki are jointly awarded the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work in
organic synthesis.
[21]
- Researches announce the discovery of the
Koro language spoken by 800 to 1200 people in the
Arunachal Pradesh region of
India.
[22]
-
Mario Vargas Llosa wins the
Nobel Prize in Literature.
[23]
- The
Russian
RSM-56 Bulava
submarine-launched ballistic missile, the proposed future cornerstone of the country's
nuclear triad, undergoes its first successful test since 2008.
[24]
- A
Roman helmet dating from the first to third century
AD sells at auction for £2.3 million ($3.6 million).
[25]
- Chinese
human rights activist
Liu Xiaobo wins the
Nobel Peace Prize.
[26]
-
The maiden flight of the
Soyuz TMA-M, with three astronauts of
Expedition 25 on board, docks at the
International Space Station.
[27]
- The
Netherland Antilles is
dissolved, with
Curaçao and
Sint Maarten becoming
constituent countries of the
Kingdom of the Netherlands, while
Bonaire,
Saba and
Sint Eustatius become
special municipalities of the
Netherlands.
[28]
-
Peter Diamon,
Dale Mortensen and
Christopher Pissarides are awarded the 2010
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
[29]
-
Australian
opera singer
Joan Sutherland dies at her home in
Switzerland aged 83.
[30]
-
Samuel Wanjiru of
Kenya and
Liliya Shobukhova of
Russia
win the men's and women's events respectively at the
Chicago Marathon.
[31]
- British author
Howard Jacobson is awarded the
Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel
The Finkler Question.
[32]
- The first of the 33 miners
trapped for two months in the San José mine in
Copiapó,
Chile, is
rescued.
[33]
- A
U.S.
Federal judge
orders the
Defense Department to stop enforcing the
"don't ask, don't tell" policy prohibiting openly gay people from serving in the military.
[34]
-
Spanish motorcyclist
Jorge Lorenzo becomes
2010 World Grand Prix motorcycle racing champion.
[35]
- The
Ata-Zhurt party wins a plurality in the
Kyrgyzstani
parliamentary election.
[36]
- The
United Nations
Food and Agriculture Organization announces that it believes
rinderpest has been eradicated, making it the second virus in history, after
smallpox, to have been eliminated by humans.
[37]
- After 14 years of construction, the drilling of the world's
longest railway tunnel, the
Gotthard Base Tunnel across the
Swiss
Alps, is completed.
[38]
-
Mathematician
Benoît Mandelbrot, known for his work with
fractals, dies at the age of 85.
[39]
- Five new
saints, including
Mary MacKillop—the first
Australian saint—are
canonised by
Pope Benedict XVI.
[40]
-
Typhoon Megi, a category 5
super typhoon, makes landfall in the
Philippines, becoming one of the strongest recorded storms ever to make landfall.
[41]
-
Strikes continue in
France as millions of people demonstrate against
government attempts to raise the retirement and pension ages.
[42]
- At least six people, including three attackers, are killed and seventeen others injured in
an attack on the
Chechen parliament in
Grozny.
[43]
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A report on the
2008 Mumbai attacks, released by the
Indian government, concludes
Lashkar-e-Taiba was supported by the
Pakastani intelligence service.
[44]
- The
UK coalition government announces
£81 billion of cuts following a
Spending and
Defence Review.
[45]
- The discovery of the
galaxy
UDFy-38135539, the
remotest object ever observed from
Earth, is announced.
[46]
- A collection of
391,832 classified field reports from the
Iraq War are released by
WikiLeaks.
[47]
- The
government of
Burma announces the
adoption of a new flag.
[48]
-
Prime Minister of
Barbados,
David Thompson, dies in office and is succeeded by
Freundel Stuart.
[49]
- In
preparation for a summit, the Ministers of Finance of
G-20 agree to reform
IMF and shift 6% of the
voting shares to
developing nations and countries with
emerging markets.
[50]
- The
World Artistic Gymnastics Championships conclude, with the
People's Republic of China winning the most medals.
[51]
- An
earthquake and consequent tsunami off the coast of
Sumatra,
Indonesia, kills over 100 people and leaves hundreds missing.
[52]
-
Néstor Kirchner,
Secretary General of
UNASUR and former
President of Argentina dies aged 60.
[53]
- Scientists announce the discovery of the
Myanmar snub-nosed monkey.
[54]
- The
Chinese
Tianhe-1A becomes the world's
fastest
supercomputer.
[55]
- Archeologists in
Blombos Cave,
South Africa, discover evidence of early humans using
Pressure flaking to make
Stone tools in 73,000 BCE; 55,000 years earlier than previously thought.
[56]
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