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2010 
 January 4 – The tallest-ever man-made structure, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is officially opened.
2010 
 January 12 – A 7.0-magnitude earthquake occurs in Haiti, devastating the nation's capital, Port-au-Prince.
2010 
 January 25 – An Ethiopian airplane crashes into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after taking off from Beirut Rafik Hariri International Airport, killing all of the 90 people on board.
2010 
 February 3 – The sculpture L'homme qui marche by Alberto Giacometti is sold for £65.7 million ($103 million), setting a new record for a work of art sold at auction.
2010 
 February 18 – A military junta, called the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy, headed by Salou Djibo, takes power in Niger, replacing President Mamadou Tandja.
2010 
 It has killed around 500 people, and is thought to have had an impact on the Earth's axis, slightly shortening its days.
2010 
 February 28 – With 14 gold medals, Canada becomes the most successful host nation of the Winter Olympics.
2010 
 March 23 – The ROKS Cheonan, a South Korean navy ship carrying 104 personnel, sinks off the country's west coast near Baengnyong Island in the Yellow Sea, killing 46 people.
2010 
 March 24 – South Talpatti Island, a disputed territory between India and Bangladesh disappears under the Bay of Bengal, due to rising sea levels.
2010 
 March 29 – Two female suicide bombers blow themselves up on the Moscow Metro, killing around 40 people.
2010 
 April 3 – South African far-right leader Eugene Terre'Blanche is beaten to death at his farm near Ventersdorp, South Africa.
2010 
 April 3 – The African Renaissance Monument opens in Dakar, to mark 50 years of Senegal's independence.
2010 
 April 7 – Amidst fierce rioting in Kyrgyzstan, President Kurmanbek Bakiyev flees the capital city, Bishkek by plane to the southern city of Osh; the opposition seizes control of the government, and places former foreign minister Roza Otunbayeva as head of an interim government.
2010 
 April 10 – Poland's President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria are among 96 people killed when their plane crashes in thick fog near Smolensk in western Russia.
2010 
 April 14 – A 6.9 magnitude Earthquake strikes Qinghai province in China, killing more than 1000 people.
2010 
 April 14 – A volcanic eruption occurs near a glacier (Eyjafjallajokull) in southern Iceland, leading to flooding in the nearby area.
2010 
 The cloud of volcanic ash from the eruption causes air traffic all over Northern and Western Europe to be shut down.
2010 
 April 20 – General Reynaldo Bignone, former military ruler of Argentina is sentenced to 25 years in prison, for ordering torture during the military dictatorship.
2010 
 April 20 – Deepwater Horizon oil spill: An explosion occurs on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Platform in the Gulf of Mexico, near Louisiana.
2010 
 April 27 – Panama's former military leader Manuel Noriega is handed over to France by the United States.
2010 
 April 27 – Greece's sovereign credit rating is downgraded to junk, four days after its government asked for help in resolving its financial crisis.
2010 
 May 2 – The Eurozone and Inernational Monetary Fund agree to a 110 billion Euro Bailout for Greece, which also involves sharp austerity measures (large reduction of government budget deficits).
2010 
 May 4 – Nude, Green Leaves and Bust by Pablo Picasso sets a new record for a work of art sold at auction, selling for $106.5 million in New York.
2010 
 May 7 – Scientists conducting the Neanderthal Genome Project announce that humans and neanderthals, who later died out, could have interbred.
2010 
 May 11 – David Cameron becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, forming a coalition government of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.
2010 
 May 19 – Violent clashes begin as government forces crush demonstrations by anti-government Red Shirt protestors in Thailand's capital city Bangkok.
2010 
 May 20 – Five artworks with a worth of 100 million Euros are stolen from the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris, France.
2010 
 May 22 – An Air India Express Flight 812 airplane overshoots the runway and bursts into flames in Mangalore, southern India, killing 158 people.
2010 
 June 2 – A gunman goes on a shooting rampage in Cumbria, North West England, killing 12 people and injuring 11, before killing himself.
2010 
 June 9 – Ethnic violence erupts in Kyrgyzstan, and thousands of people try to flee into neighbouring Uzbekistan, as hundreds are killed.
2010 
 June 19 – Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden marries Daniel Westling, who receives a new royal title.
2010 
 June 24 – Julia Gillard becomes the first female Prime Minister of Australia, as Kevin Rudd announces his resignation, after a leadership contest is called within the Australian Labor Party.
2010 
 June 24 – The longest match in professional tennis history comes to an end at Wimbledon, as John Isner beats Nicolas Mahut 70-68 in the deciding set.
2010 
 June 25 – June 27 – The 36th G8 Summit and the 4th G20 Summit are held in Huntsville, Ontario, Canada.
2010 
 July 2 – More than 270 people are killed when a ffuel tanker overturns and explodes in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2010 
 July 11 – The Spain national football team wins the FIFA World Cup, after a 1-0 win over the Netherlands national football team.
2010 
 July 11 – Bomb attacks by Somali Islamist group al-Shabaab kill 74 people in Uganda's capital city Kampala.
2010 
 July 22 – The International Court of Justice rules that Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008 was not illegal.
2010 
 July 25 – Wikileaks, an organisation based in Sweden, leaks over 90,000 reports on the US military involvement in the war in Afghanistan, as public information.
2010 
 July 28 – An Airbus airplane carrying 152 people, travelling from Karachi, crashes in the Margalla Hills near Islamabad, Pakistan, killing all of the people on board.
2010 
 late July/early August – Widespread flooding, caused by heavy monsoon rains in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa region of Pakistan, and spreading south to the Punjab and Sindh, kills at least 1,600 people, and makes more than a million people homeless.
2010 
 August 6 – In an official capacity, US officials attend the commemoration of the Hiroshima atomic bomb for the first time.
2010 
 August 14 – August 26 – The first ever Summer Youth Olympic Games are held in Singapore, with 3,531 participating athletes aged 14 to 18 from 204 National Olympic Committees.
2010 
 August 19 – The United States ends combat operations in Iraq, as its last combat brigade departs for Kuwait.
2010 
 Additional support troops are required to leave Iraq by 31 December 2011 under an agreement between the US and Iraqi governments.
2010 
 August 23 – Nine people, including the hostage taker are killed in a hostage crisis on board a bus in Manila, Philippines.
2010 
 September 4 – 2010 Canterbury earthquake: A magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes the South Island of New Zealand, including the city of Christchurch, causing widespread damage and power outages.
2010 
 September 28 – Kim Jong-un, son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is named Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission and the Central Commission of the Workers' Party, a possible step towards becoming his father's successor.
2010 
 October 5 – Former Société Générale employee Jerome Kerviel is sentenced by a court in France to a five-year suspended sentence for losses of up to 4.9 million Euros, one of the largest-ever frauds.
2010 
 Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius become special municipalities of the Netherlands, while Curaçao and Sint Maarten become constituent countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
2010 
 October 13 – Thirty-three miners are rescued from the San Jose mine near Copiapo in Chile, after surviving 700 metres underground for a record 69 days, after a mining accident.
2010 
 October 23 – The International Space Station takes the record for the longest continuous occupation in space from Mir.
2010 
 October 23 – In preparation for the Seoul summit, G-20 finance ministers agree to reform the IMF and shift 6 per cent of the voting shares to developing nations and countries with emerging markets.
2010 
 October 25 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake off the west coast of Sumatra, and the resulting tsunamis kill over 400 people, and leave hundreds missing.
2010 
 October 26 – Start of continuous eruptions of the volcano Mount Merapi on Java, killing hundreds of people, and leading to thousands being evacuated.
2010 
 November 17 – Researchers at CERN trap 38 antihydrogen atoms for a sixth of a second, marking the first time in history that humans have trapped antimatter.
2010 
 November 19 – An explosion traps 29 miners at the Pike River Mine near Greymouth on New Zealand's South Island.
2010 
 November 21 – Eurozone countries agree to an economic rescue package for the Republic of Ireland from European Financial Stability Facility in response to its financial crisis.
2010 
 November 22 – A stampede at the Bon om Thook water festival in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, kills 347 people.
2010 
 November 23 – In one of the most serious clashes since the Korean War, North Korea shells Yeonpyeong Island, prompting a military response from South Korea.
2010 
 November 28 – WikiLeaks releases a collection of more than 250,000 American diplomatic cables, including 100,000 that were marked as secret or confidential.
2010 
 November 29 – The Eropean Union agrees to an 85 billion Euro rescue deal for the Republic of Ireland from the European Financial Stability Facility, the IMF, and bilateral loans from the United Kingdom, Denmark and Sweden.
2010 
 November 29 – December 10 – 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Mexico, also referred to as the 16th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 16) takes place; it serves too as the 6th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 6)
2010 
 December 2 – FIFA decides that Russia will host the 2018 FIFA World Cup and Qatar will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
2010 
 The international community recognises Alassane Ouattara as the winner of the election, but President Laurent Gbagbo refuses to step down.
2010 
 December 15 – A boat carrying asylum seekers crashes into cliffs on Christmas Island, killing at least 40 people.
2010 
 December 15 – The discovery of the head of King Henry IV of France, which was lost after the desecration of his grave in 1793, is announced.
2010 
 This leads to the overthrow of President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali and to uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East.
2010 
 December 21 – For the first time since 1638, a lunar eclipse occurs on the day of the December solstice.
2010 
 The Pearl Jam song "Do the Evolution" references the world in 2010: "I crawled the earth, but now I'm higher.
2010 
 The Mint Chicks song "2010" is the b-side to the vinyl single "Walking Off a Cliff Again" and also appears on their album Screens.
2010 
 I: Great Disasters, in SimCity 2000, there is a nuclear meltdown in Boston and Silicon Valley which is set in 2010.
2010 
 Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight is a futuristic spinoff of the original Street Fighter released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990
Eris (dwarf planet) 
 It is also called a plutoid because the IAU decided to rename all trans-Neptunian dwarf planets as plutoids.
Eris (dwarf planet) 
 It has an elliptical orbit, inclined at an angle of 44° between the plane of the orbit of the planet and the ecliptic, the plane containing Earth's orbital path.
Eris (dwarf planet) 
 Eris was discovered by Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo and David Rabinowitz on January 5, 2005, when they were having a close look at some images of the outer Solar System taken in 2003.
Eris (dwarf planet) 
 Eris was originally called Xena, after the main character of the television series Xena: Warrior Princess.
Eris (dwarf planet) 
 Dysnomia was originally nicknamed Gabrielle, after a character from the television series Xena: Warrior Princess, like Eris.
Eris (dwarf planet) 
 Media reports have argued that Eris is the tenth planet, along with astronomers and NASA scientists.
Eris (dwarf planet) 
 Scientists continue to find out more about Eris and its moon, and look for more moons and possible rings.
Operation Overlord 
 The most critical part was the Normandy landings, which were to get the Allied armies onto the continent of Europe.
Operation Overlord 
 Nine other nations also sent units, the rest being Australia, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Poland.
Operation Overlord 
 Almost three million troops crossing the English Channel from England to Normandy in then German-occupied France.
Operation Overlord 
 The planners knew heavy tanks and transport could not travel on the beaches, which had soft peat underneath them.
Operation Overlord 
 The goal for the first 40 days was to capture Caen and Cherbourg (especially Cherbourg, for its deep-water port).
Operation Overlord 
 The Allies would then control the land between the rivers Loire in the south and Seine in the northeast.
Operation Overlord 
 Meanwhile, the Allies made great efforts to make the Germans think the invasion would happen elsewhere.
Operation Overlord 
 The "mulberry", a mobile concrete harbor, allowed the Allies to supply their soldiers on the beach without capturing one of the heavily defended Channel ports.
Operation Overlord 
 Once Normandy had been chosen as the site of the invasion, it was decided to attempt to trick the Germans into thinking it was a fake invasion and that the true invasion was to be elsewhere.
Operation Overlord 
 In the weeks leading up to the invasion, the Allies tried to make the Germans think that the main invasion would take place at the Pas de Calais and in Norway.
Operation Overlord 
 It included dummy messages, dummy tanks in places near Dover and the south coast of England, using double agents to spread false information, dummy radio messages, and so on.
Operation Overlord 
 It led Hitler to delay sending reinforcements from the Pas de Calais region for nearly seven weeks (the original plan had specified 14 days).
Operation Overlord 
 On 28 April 1944, in south Devon on the British coast, 946 American soldiers and sailors were killed when German torpedo boats attacked one of these landing exercises, Exercise Tiger.
Operation Overlord 
 Travel to and from the Republic of Ireland was banned and movements near the coasts was not allowed.
Operation Overlord 
 An embassy spy in Istanbul gave the Germans documents containing references to Overlord, but these documents lacked detail.
Operation Overlord 
 The Germans did not believe de Gaulle and waited too long to move in extra troops against the Allies.
Operation Overlord 
 The British goal was to capture the Orne River bridges to prevent German armor from using them and to prevent retreating Germans from blowing them up.
Operation Overlord 
 The United States had an airborne division and land units, which were to take Omaha Beach, the Pointe du Hoc and Utah Beach.
Operation Overlord 
 The Invasion Fleet was made upfrom eight navies made up of warships and submarines, split into the Western Naval Task Force (Rear-Admiral Alan G Kirk) and the Eastern Naval Task Force (Rear-Admiral Sir Philip Vian).
Operation Overlord 
 Operation Overlord also began on D-Day, and continued until Allied forces crossed the river Seine on 19 August 1944.
Operation Overlord 
 Through most of 1942 and 1943, the Germans thought successful Allied invasion in the west would not happen.
Operation Overlord 
 The number of military forces in Nazi Germany reached its peak during 1944 with 59 divisions in France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Operation Overlord 
 Steel obstacles were put on beaches, concrete bunkers and pillboxes constructed, and low-lying areas were flooded.
Operation Overlord 
 Pointed stakes were set up on likely landing grounds to make it hard for the Allies to do airborne landings.
Operation Overlord 
 The Germans fortified the foreshore area as part of their Atlantic Wall defences (including tank turrets and barbed wire).
Operation Overlord 
 Allied bombing of the French railway system made it hard to move materials, and the Germans were convinced by the Allied tricks that the landings would take place in the Pas de Calais.
Operation Overlord 
 The sector which was attacked was guarded by four divisions, of which the 352nd and 91st were of high quality.
Operation Overlord 
 The other defending troops included Germans who were not fit for active duty on the Eastern Front, conscripted Poles and former Soviet prisoners-of-war who had agreed to fight for the Germans.
Operation Overlord 
 Von Geyr said they should instead be put around Paris and used in a big group when the Germans knew which beach was being invaded.
Operation Overlord 
 Rommel was given only three tank divisions, one of which was close enough to the Normandy beaches to fight on the first day.
Operation Overlord 
 The other mechanized divisions were put under the control of the German Armed Forces HQ (OKW) and were placed across France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Operation Overlord 
 The opportunity for launching an invasion was limited to only a few days in each month, because a full moon was needed.
Operation Overlord 
 To make it hard for the Germans to launch attacks during the sea attack phase, airborne operations were used to capture bridges and road crossings.
Operation Overlord 
 The airborne landings behind the beaches were also designed to help the soldiers landing on beaches and destroy German coastal defense artillery.
Operation Overlord 
 Caen was still held by Germans by the end of D-Day and would remain so until Operation Charnwood on 9 July.
Operation Overlord 
 German concrete fortifications and a sea wall twice as high as at Omaha Beach made it very difficult to attack.
Operation Overlord 
 They were the only units to reach their D-Day goals, although most units fell back a few kilometres to make stronger defensive positions.
Operation Overlord 
 At Gold Beach, there were many dead and wounded because the Germans had strongly fortified a village on the beach.
Operation Overlord 
 When commando units captured the Port-en-Bessin, the Allies could use their PLUTO pipeline to bring in fuel.
Operation Overlord 
 The Americans who landed on Omaha Beach faced the veteran German 352nd Infantry Division, one of the best trained groups on the beaches.
Operation Overlord 
 Commanders considered abandoning the beach but small units of infantry got past the coastal defences.
Operation Overlord 
 The control over the beach expanded over the following days and the D-Day goals  were accomplished by D+3.
Operation Overlord 
 The beach fortifications were important targets since a single artillery observer could have directed fire on the U.S. beaches.
Operation Overlord 
 The number of dead and wounded on Utah Beach, the westernmost landing zone, were the lightest of any beach.
Operation Overlord 
 The 4th Infantry Division troops that landed on the beach was able to move  inland by early afternoon, linking up with the 101st Airborne Division.
Operation Overlord 
 Severe storms on 19 June caused problems with the landing of supplies and destroyed the Omaha harbour.
Operation Overlord 
 The Arromanches harbour was able to supply around 9,000 tons  daily until the end of August 1944, by which time the port of Cherbourg had been captured by the Allies.
Operation Overlord 
 The German 21st Panzer division attacked between Sword and Juno beaches and nearly reached the Channel.
Operation Overlord 
 The Allied invasion plans had called for the capture of Carentan, St. Lô, Caen and Bayeux on the first day.
Operation Overlord 
 The plan was to link all the beaches  except Utah and Sword (the last linked with paratroopers) and a front line  from the beaches.
Operation Overlord 
 The number of dead and wounded had not been as heavy as some had feared (around 10,000 compared to the 20,000 Churchill had estimated) and the bridges had survived the German attacks.
Operation Overlord 
 In the western part of the invasion area, US troops were to occupy the Cotentin Peninsula, especially Cherbourg.
Operation Overlord 
 The land behind Utah and Omaha was banks and hedgerows that tanks, gunfire and vision could not get through.
Operation Overlord 
 Before surrendering he had most of the facilities destroyed, making the harbour inoperable until the middle of August, by which time the combat front had moved so far east that it was less helpful.
Operation Overlord 
 The first was Operation Perch, which moved south from Bayeux to Villers-Bocage where the armour could capture Caen.
Operation Overlord 
 Caen was bombed and then occupied north of the River Orne in Operation Charnwood from 7 July until 9 July.
Operation Overlord 
 An attack in the Caen area followed with all three British armoured divisions, codenamed Operation Goodwood from 18 July until 21 July.
Operation Overlord 
 A further operation, Operation Spring, from 25 July until 28 July, by the Canadians secured limited land south of the city, but with many dead and wounded.
Operation Overlord 
 Montgomery's plan included keeping the Germans in the eastern part of the invasion area, while protecting Cobra's position.
Operation Overlord 
 By the end of Goodwood, the Germans had used the last of their reserve divisions; there were six and a half Panzer divisions against the British and Canadian forces compared to one and a half facing the United States armies.
Operation Overlord 
 The VIII Corps entered Coutances at the western end of the Cotentin Peninsula on 28 July, after breaking through the German lines.
Operation Overlord 
 On 4 August, Montgomery changed the invasion plan by sending a corps to occupy Brittany and push the German troops around the ports, while the rest of the Third Army continued east.
Operation Overlord 
 Because of the large number of German forces south of Caen, Montgomery moved the British armor west and launched Operation Bluecoat from 30 July until 7 August to add to the attacks from the United States armies.
Operation Overlord 
 This pushed the German forces to the west, allowing the launch of Operation Totalize south from Caen on 7 August.
Operation Overlord 
 The German forces were being encircled and the German High Command wanted these reserves to help with a retreat to the Seine.
Operation Overlord 
 Bradley realized that many of the German forces in Normandy were not able to move by this stage and he got Montgomery's approval by telephone on 8 August for to encircle German forces.
Operation Overlord 
 Strong German defense and the sending of some American troops for an attack by Patton towards the Seine at Mantes prevented the Germans from being trapped until 21 August.
Operation Overlord 
 The French 2nd Armoured Division under General Philippe Leclerc, along with the U.S. 4th Infantry Division accepted the surrender of the German forces there and liberated Paris on 25 August.
Operation Overlord 
 On 25 August, the 2nd U.S. Armored Division fought its way into Elbeuf, making contact with both British and Canadian armoured divisions there.
Operation Overlord 
 The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division advanced into the Forêt de la Londe, on the morning of 27 August.
Operation Overlord 
 The area was strongly held and the 4th and 6th Canadian brigades had large numbers of dead and wounded over three days as the Germans defended their position.
Operation Overlord 
 On the 30th the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division crossed the Seine near Elbeuf and entered Rouen to a happy welcome.
Operation Overlord 
 Sword Beach was the easternmost beach on D-Day, and was attacked by the British 3rd Infantry Division, supported by units of the 79th Armoured Division.
Operation Overlord 
 The bombardment before the assault was successful on every beach except Omaha, so German bunkers and artillery still remained.
Operation Overlord 
 The campaign in Normandy is considered by historians to end either at midnight on 24 July 1944 (the start of Operation Cobra on the American front), 25 August 1944 (the liberation of Paris), or 30 August 1944, the date the last German unit retreated across the River Seine.