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Twin bomb attacks near a mosque in
Mogadishu,
Somalia kill 30 people and injure 70.
[1]
- Riding
Super Saver, jockey
Calvin Borel wins the
2010 Kentucky Derby.
[2]
-
Floyd Mayweather defeats
Shane Mosley in a
non-title superfight in
Las Vegas,
Nevada.
[3]
- Police foil a
car bomb attempt in
New York City's
Times Square.
[4]
-
American pharmaceutical company
Johnson & Johnson announces a
recall of 43
over the counter children's medicines in 12 countries due to manufacturing deficiencies.
[5]
-
United and
Continental Airlines
agree to merge, forming the
world's largest airline.
[6]
- An
Indian court convicts
Ajmal Kasab, a
Pakistani national, of murder in relation to the
2008 Mumbai attacks.
[7]
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Australian
Neil Robertson wins the
World Snooker Championship, becoming the first non-
Briton to do so since 1980.
[8]
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Widespread flooding kills at least 16 people in
Tennessee.
[9]
-
Pablo Picasso's
Nude, Green Leaves and Bust sells for
$106 million, becoming one of the
most expensive paintings ever sold at auction.
[10]
- After
two months of unrest,
Thai
Prime Minister
Abhisit Vejjajiva and
Red Shirt protesters agree to a
general election in November 2010.
[11]
- Three people are killed in
Athens after
widespread protests in response to proposed
austerity measures aimed at ending the
Greek debt crisis.
[12]
-
Nigerian
President
Umaru Yar'Adua (pictured) dies at the age of 58.
[13]
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MV Moscow University is freed by the
Russian Navy after being
hijacked by pirates off the coast of
Somalia.
[14]
- British voters take part in the
2010 United Kingdom general election.
[15]
- The
Mauritian Labour Party wins the
country's general election;
Navin Ramgoolam becomes
prime minister.
[16]
-
Svante Pääbo of the
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology announces genetic
evidence of interbreeding between
Neanderthals and
Homo sapiens.
[17]
-
Egypt,
Saudi Arabia and the
United Arab Emirates become the
first countries to implement
Country code top-level domain names in non-
Latin characters.
[18]
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Harrods department store in
London is sold to Qatar Holdings, owned by the
Qatari royal family, for £1.5 billion.
[19]
- The armed forces of
France,
Poland, the
United Kingdom and the
United States march in the
Moscow Victory Day Parade for the first time in the event's history.
[20]
- Thirty people are dead and more than sixty others are missing following
two explosions at a mine in southwestern
Siberia.
[21]
- The
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development invites
Estonia,
Israel and
Slovenia to become members of the organisation.
[22]
- In English
association football,
Chelsea wins the
2009–10 Premier League.
[23]
- The
European Union and
International Monetary Fund announce a
rescue package worth
€750 billion (
US$975 billion) in order to stabilise the financial markets.
[24]
- Over 100 people are killed and 350 are injured in a
series of bomb and shooting attacks in
Iraq.
[25]
-
Vishwanathan Anand
defeats
Veselin Topalov in a 12 game match to retain his
World Chess Champion title.
[26]
- An
air crash in
Tripoli,
Libya, kills over 100 people.
[27]
- In
association football,
Atlético Madrid
defeat
Fulham F.C. to become the first winners of the
UEFA Europa League.
[28]
-
Space Shuttle Atlantis
successfully launches from
Kennedy Space Center,
Florida on its final mission.
[29]
- At least 17 people are killed and 161 injured as
Thai government forces
clash with
red shirt protesters.
[30]
- In
Formula One,
Mark Webber
wins the
Monaco Grand Prix in a
Red Bull car.
[31]
- In
cricket,
England
defeat
Australia in the
ICC World Twenty20, winning their first ever
ICC trophy.
[32]
- Scientists estimate that the
oil spill in the
Gulf of Mexico, resulting from the
Deepwater Horizon disaster, may be significantly worse than previous estimates.
[33]
- A fire at
Instituto Butantan
destroys one of the world's largest collections of preserved snake, spider, and scorpion
specimens.
[34]
- A
bomb attack in the
Afghan capital
Kabul kills 18 people, including 6
ISAF soldiers.
[35]
-
Portugal
becomes the eighth country in the world to legalize
same-sex marriages nationwide.
[36]
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Brazil,
Iran and
Turkey have reached a deal on procedures for a
nuclear fuel swap aimed at easing concerns over Iran's nuclear programme.
[37]
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2010 Thai political protests: The
Thai
army
assaults and defeats the
Red Shirts' encampment in
Bangkok. The
stock exchange, several banks, and other buildings are set on fire.
[38]
-
Troubles, by
James Gordon Farrell, wins
Lost Man Booker Prize for
novels published in 1970.
[39]
- An independent investigation concludes that a
North Korean
torpedo caused the
sinking of the
South Korean
corvette
ROKS Cheonan.
[40]
- Five paintings worth
$618 million are
stolen from the
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
[41]
- Researchers at the
J. Craig Venter Institute announce the successful transplant of a
synthesized minimized
genome into an existing cell, creating the new species
Mycoplasma laboratorium.
[42]
- The wreckage of
Pamir Airways Flight 112, which crashed in
Afghanistan on May 17, is found; all 43 aboard are believed to have died.
[43]
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Severe flooding in
Central Europe kills at least 9 people, including 4
Polish
firefighters.
[44]
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Air India Express
Flight 812 from
Dubai to
Mangalore,
India, crashes with more than 160 abroad while attempting to land.
[45]
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Cyclone Laila strikes the coasts of
India and
Sri Lanka, killing at least 56 people and displacing thousands more.
[46]
-
Inter Milan defeat
Bayern Munich in the
Champions League Final to
win an
association football
treble.
[47]
- A passenger train travelling from
Shanghai to
Guilin
derails in a mountainous area near
Fuzhou,
Jiangxi.
[48]
-
Thai film
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, directed by
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
wins the
Palme d'Or at the
Cannes Film Festival.
[49]
- In a general election, the
Dominican Liberation Party
increases its majority in the
Senate and
Chamber of Deputies of the
Dominican Republic.
[50]
- In
ice hockey, the
Czech Republic win the gold medal in the
IIHF World Championship,
defeating defending champions
Russia in the final.
Dennis Endras of
Germany is named MVP.
[51]
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South Korea suspends nearly all trade with
North Korea in response to the
sinking of the
ROKS Cheonan.
[52]
- The
People's Partnership wins the
general election in
Trinidad and Tobago, positioning
Kamla Persad-Bissessar to become the country's first female
Prime Minister.
[53]
-
Alaotra Grebe is declared extinct, 25 years after the last confirmed sighting.
[54]
- At least 44 civilians are killed and 37 others wounded during
unrest in
Kingston,
Jamaica.
[55]
- A train
derails in
West Bengal,
India, killing more than 65 people, after passing over tracks sabotaged by
Naxalite rebels.
[56]
- At least 80 people are killed and dozens injured in a
double bomb attack in the
Pakistani city of
Lahore.
[57]
-
Germany wins the
Eurovision Song Contest 2010, for the first time since 1982.
[58]
- The
Social Democratic Party wins a plurality in a
legislative election in the
Czech Republic but its leader
Jiri Paroubek resigns citing a poorer than expected result.
[59]
-
Dario Franchitti
wins the
Indianapolis 500.
[60]
- Scientists at
Boston University announce a
potential cure for the disease
Ebola.
[61]
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Tropical Storm Agatha causes widespread flooding across
Central America, killing at least 83 people.
[62]
-
Israeli Defense Forces
clash with protesters aboard a flotilla of ships heading for the
Gaza Strip, killing at least ten people.
[63]
-
Horst Köhler, the
German President, resigns.
[64]
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