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| ITNs | Days | Continents | Countries |
|---|---|---|---|
| 52 | 30 | 6/7 |
- The Philippine general election results in the Liberal Party gaining a plurality of seats in the Senate, while Lakas Kampi CMD wins the majority of seats in the House of Representatives.[1]
- Yukio Hatoyama resigns as prime minister of Japan, the fourth person to leave the office in as many years.[2]
- At least five people are confirmed dead in a shooting spree in Cumbria, England.[3]
- The Soviet and Russian poet and writer Andrey Voznesensky dies at home at the age of 77.[4]
- A large fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 87 people.[5]
- Naoto Kan is designated Prime Minister of Japan by the Diet, following the resignation of Yukio Hatoyama.[6]
- Nigerian health authorities announce that a series of lead poisonings in Zamfara State have killed at least 163 people since March.[7]
- SpaceX successfully launches the first Falcon 9 rocket, carrying a test version of the Dragon spacecraft.[8]
- American basketball coach John Wooden dies at the age of 99.[9]
- Francesca Schiavone wins 2010 French Open in women's singles, becoming the first Italian to win the tournament.[10]
- Dozens of people in India, Oman and Pakistan are killed by Cyclone Phet, the second strongest Arabian Sea cyclone ever recorded.[11]
- An Indian court convicts seven men of criminal negligence in relation to their roles in the 1984 Bhopal Disaster.[12]
- In a session of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea, Choe Yong-rim is appointed Premier, replacing Kim Yong-il; Chang Sung-taek is appointed Vice Chairman of the National Defence Commission.[13]
- Noynoy Aquino becomes president-elect of the Philippines, having been confirmed as the winner of the presidential election.[14]
- The United Nations Security Council imposes a fourth round of sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.[15]
- In ice hockey, the Chicago Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup by defeating the Philadelphia Flyers in six games in the 2010 Finals.[16]
- South Korea's Naro-1 rocket, carrying the STSAT-2B satellite, explodes in midair in its second launch failure in a month.[17]
- The Dutch VVD wins a plurality of seats in the country's general election.[18]
- 2010 FIFA World Cup begins in South Africa.[19]
- The world's oldest leather shoe, made approximately 5,500 years ago, is discovered in Armenia.[20]
- A suicide bomb attack at a wedding in Arghandab District, Afghanistan, kills 40 people and wounds 77 others.[21]
- At least 39 people are killed in a shooting in Chihuahua, northern Mexico.[22]
- Sever flooding in Arkansas, United States, kills at least 16 people.[23]
- Ethnic clashes in Osh, Kyrgyzstan kill more than 50 people.[24]
- Prime Minister Robert Fico's Smer-SD party (Fico pictured) wins a plurality in the Slovakian general election but his coalition loses its majority in the National Council.[25]
- The Japanese space agency probe Hayabusa returns to Earth having completed a seven year mission to sample the asteroid Itokawa.[26]
- In Belgium, the separatist New Flemish Alliance gains a plurality in the parliamentary election, with the francophone Socialist Party coming in a close second.[27]
- The Saville Inquiry into Bloody Sunday finds the British Army guilty of shooting 27 civilians who were later discovered to be innocent.[28]
- Soyuz TMA-19, carrying three members of the Expedition 24 crew, launches on the one-hundredth flight to the International Space Station.[29]
- Heavy rainfall in Var kills at least 25 people during the region's worst floods since 1827.[30]
- In basketball, the Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Boston Celtics in seven games to win the NBA Championship.[31]
- Nobel-laureate José Saramago of Portugal dies at the age 87.[32]
- The wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling takes place in Stockholm.[33]
- Widespread flooding in southern China kills at least 132 people, leaving at least 80 missing and thousands displaced.[34]
- A parliamentary election in Nauru results in a hung parliament.[35]
- In golf, Graeme McDowell, of Northern Ireland, wins the US Open, the first European to win the tournament since 1970.[36]
- Juan Manuel Santos from the Party of the U is elected President of Colombia.[37]
- Mari Kiviniemi of Centre Party is elected as the new Prime Minister of Finland.[38]
- At least 60 people are killed after a train derails in the Republic of the Congo.[39]
- General Stanley A. McChrystal is dismissed as Commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan; British Lieutenant General Nick Parker assumes temporary command.[40]
- Julia Gillard becomes the first female Prime Minister of Australia after defeating incumbent Kevin Rudd in an election for the leadership of the ruling Australian Labor Party.[41]
- Floods cause the deaths of at least 44 people and the disappearance of hundreds more in northeastern Brazil.[42]
- Wimbledon: John Isner defeats Nicolas Mahut 4-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-7, 70-68 in the longest match in tennis history.[43]
- Thirteen people are killed crossing railroad tracks at a station near Barcelona, Spain.[44]
- The G-20 Summit begins in Toronto.[45]
- Lithuania's first directly-elected President and former Prime Minister, Algirdas Brazauskas, dies at the age of 77.[46]
- Robert Byrd (pictured), the United States' longest serving senator, dies at the age of 92.[47]
- The People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan) sign the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement, intended to boost trade across the Taiwan Strait.[48]
- Mexican politician and state gubernatorial candidate Rodolfo Torre Cantú is assassinated in the country's ongoing drugs war.[49]
- Former Olympic champion Pál Schmitt is elected president of Hungary.[50]
- Christian Wulff is elected President of Germany.[51]
- At least 21 people are killed in severe flooding in Romania.[52]
References
edit- ^ Philippine Senate election, 2010 (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Yukio Hatoyama (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ 2010 Cumbria shootings (User:Tone)
- ^ Andrey Voznesensky (User:Titoxd)
- ^ 2010 Dhaka fire (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Naoto Kan (User:Titoxd)
- ^ Zamfara State lead poisoning epidemic (User:Dumelow)
- ^ Falcon 9 Flight 1 (User:Dumelow)
- ^ John Wooden (User:HJ Mitchell) Later removed "per consensus".
- ^ Francesca Schiavone (User:Tone) Nadal later added.
- ^ Cyclone Phet (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Bhopal Disaster#Long-term fallout (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Choe Yong-rim, Chang Sung-taek (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Noynoy Aquino (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ United Nations Security Council Resolution 1929 (User:Courcelles)
- ^ 2010 Stanley Cup Finals (User:Bongwarrior)
- ^ STSAT-2B (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Dutch general election, 2010 (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ 2010 FIFA World Cup (User:Tone) Later given a sticky.
- ^ Armenian shoe (User:Courcelles)
- ^ 2010 Kandahar wedding bombing (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ 2010 Chihuahua shootings (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ June 2010 Arkansas floods (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ 2010 Kyrgyzstan crisis (User:Chaser)
- ^ Slovak parliamentary election, 2010 (User:Chaser)
- ^ Hayabusa (User:Tone)
- ^ Belgian general election, 2010 (User:Chaser)
- ^ Bloody Sunday (1972) (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Soyuz TMA-19 (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ 2010 Var floods (User:Xeno)
- ^ 2010 NBA Finals (User:Tone)
- ^ José Saramago (User:Courcelles)
- ^ Wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling (User:Tone)
- ^ 2010 South China floods (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Nauruan parliamentary election, June 2010 (User:Tone)
- ^ Graeme McDowell (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Colombian presidential election, 2010 (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Mari Kiviniemi (User:Tone)
- ^ 2010 Yanga train derailment (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Stanley A. McChrystal (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Australian Labor Party leadership election, 2010 (User:YellowMonkey)
- ^ 2010 northeastern Brazil floods (User:Tone)
- ^ Isner–Mahut match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships (User:Courcelles)
- ^ 2010 Castelldefels accident (User:Courcelles)
- ^ 2010 G-20 Toronto summit (User:DragonflySixtyseven)
- ^ Algirdas Brazauskas (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Robert Byrd (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Rodolfo Torre Cantú (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Pál Schmitt (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Christian Wulff (User:Tone)
- ^ 2010 Romanian floods (User:HJ Mitchell)