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- The
British government establishes the
UK Space Agency to manage all of the country's civil space activities.
[1]
- Children in
India
are granted a legal right to a free education.
[2]
- A
7.2-magnitude earthquake hits
Baja California,
Mexico.
[3]
- 114 miners are
rescued from a flooded mine in
Shanxi,
China, after being trapped for more than a week.
[4]
-
Space Shuttle Discovery launches on mission
STS-131 carrying the
Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module to the
International Space Station.
[5]
-
Maoist
rebels kill at least 72 Indian soldiers
in an attack on security convoys in
Dantewada district in the central
Indian state of
Chattisgarh.
[6]
-
Wikileaks
releases a video from 2007 showing the killing of civilians, including two
Reuters news staff, by
American military forces in
Baghdad,
Iraq.
[7]
- At least 96 people die in
floods and mudslides in
Rio de Janeiro and surrounding areas of
Brazil.
[8]
- Police open fire on
demonstrators in
Bishkek, the capital of
Kyrgyzstan, killing at least twelve people.
[9]
- The
Duke Blue Devils defeat the
Butler Bulldogs, 61-59, to win their fourth
U.S. men's college basketball title.
[10]
- A
new species of
monitor lizard, growing up to 2 meter, is discovered in
Philippines.
[11]
-
British Airways and
Iberia agree to a
merger, creating the third largest airline in the world.
[12]
- The discovery of a new
hominid species
Australopithecus sediba, believed to be an ancestor of either
Homo habilis or
Homo erectus, is announced.
[13]
-
United States
President
Barack Obama and
Russian
President
Dmitry Medvedev sign a
new arms reduction treaty to limit the number of nuclear warheads and missiles.
[14]
- Polish President
Lech Kaczyński and wife Maria die in a
plane crash in Western Russia.
[15]
- Twenty people are killed after violence breaks out between government forces and
protesters in
Thailand.
[16]
- The creation of
ununseptium, element with
atomic number 117, is announced.
[17]
-
An explosion in a mine in
West Virginia kills 29 miners.
[18]
- The
18th Amendment to the
Constitution of
Pakistan is passed, removing the power of the
President to dissolve
Parliament.
[19]
-
Phil Mickelson win his third
Masters title with a score of 16 under
par, besting his nearest competitor by three strokes.
[20]
- The center-right party
Fidesz led by
Viktor Orban wins
absolute majority in the
parliamentary election in
Hungary.
[21]
- A landslide causes a
train to derail in
Merano,
Italy, killing several people and injuring dozens.
[22]
- At least 300 people are killed in
an earthquake in
Qinghai province,
China.
[23]
- Leaders of more than forty countries agree to a plan combating
nuclear terrorism at the
Nuclear Security Summit in
Washington, D.C.
[24]
- A
severe storm strikes
Bangladesh and eastern
India, killing more than 100 people and destroying more than 50,000 homes.
[25]
-
Ash from the
Eyjafjallajökull
volcano in
Iceland causes the closure of
airspace over the
British Isles and
Scandinavia.
[26]
- The
GSAT-4 satellite is lost in the failure of the maiden flight of the
GSLV Mk.II,
India's first rocket with an indigenous
cryogenic
upper stage.
[27]
- The
United Kingdom holds a live, pre-
election
debate between the leaders of the
largest political parties for the first time in the country's history.
[28]
-
President
Kurmanbek Bakiyev officially resigns after he leaves
Kyrgyzstan for
Kazakhstan.
[29]
- A
pair of bombings on a center for displaced people near
Kohat,
Pakistan kill more than 40 people.
[30]
- A
state funeral is held for
Polish
President
Lech Kaczyński in
Krakow, following a week of mourning in the wake of his fatal
plane crash.
[31]
-
Venezuelan boxer
Edwin Valero is found dead from an apparent suicide at the age of 28.
[32]
-
Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot of
Kenya wins the 2010
Boston Marathon, setting a new course record.
[33]
- The party of
Sri Lankan President
Mahinda Rajapaksa wins the
general elections, securing 144 of the 225 parliamentary seats.
[34]
-
Juan Antonio Samaranch, the 7th president of the
International Olympic Committee, dies at the age of 89.
[35]
-
Ukrainian President
Viktor Yanukovych
agrees to extend
Russia's lease on the
Black Sea Fleet
naval base in
Sevastapol for 25 years in exchange for discounted
natural gas.
[36]
- Eleven people are missing following the
explosion of the
oil rig
Deepwater Horizon in the
Gulf of Mexico.
[37]
- A
series of explosions in
Bangkok kills at least one person and injures 86 others during a peak in
tension between anti- and pro-government protesters in
Thailand.
[38]
- An
Atlas V rocket launches a experimental military
spaceplane, the
X-37B, on its
maiden flight.
[39]
- Prime Minister of
Pakistan
Yousaf Raza Gillani announces a
new energy policy which extends the official
weekend and bans
neon signs to combat an
energy crisis.
[40]
- A
clash in
South Darfur kills 58 and raises tensions along the internal border.
[41]
- At least 85 people are killed in more than a dozen
bombings over two days in
Baghdad.
[42]
- Eighty people over three weeks die from
multiple organ failure after drinking
waragi in
Kabale,
Uganda.
[43]
-
Heinz Fischer is
reelected
President of
Austria.
[44]
-
Tsegaye Kebede
wins the men's race of the
2010 London Marathon and
Liliya Shobukhova wins the women's event.
[45]
-
Standard & Poor's
downgrades
Greece's debt to
junk status, four days after the country's government requested the activation of a
€45-billion
EU–
IMF
bailout.
[46]
- Former
military dictator of
Panama
Manuel Noriega is
extradited from the
United States to
France.
[47]
-
Belgium's
King Albert accepts the resignation of Prime Minister
Yves Leterme, ending
Leterme's government, and leading to
early elections.
[48]
-
Omar al-Bashir is
re-elected
President of
Sudan, after an election criticised by foreign observers and opposition leaders.
[49]
- The
U.S. Coast Guard initiates a
controlled burn of the 4,700-mi2 (12,000-km2)
oil spill resulting from the
explosion of the
Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
[50]
-
Expo 2010, the largest
world's fair in history, opens in
Shanghai,
China.
[51]
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