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- 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]
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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]
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Naoto Kan is designated
Prime Minister of
Japan by the
Diet, following the resignation of
Yukio Hatoyama.
[6]
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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]
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Sever flooding in
Arkansas,
United States, kills at least 16 people.
[23]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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Yukio Hatoyama (User:HJ Mitchell)
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Naoto Kan (User:Titoxd)
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Zamfara State lead poisoning epidemic (
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John Wooden (User:HJ Mitchell) Later
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Cyclone Phet (User:HJ Mitchell)
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Choe Yong-rim, Chang Sung-taek (User:HJ Mitchell)
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Noynoy Aquino (User:HJ Mitchell)
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 1929 (
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2010 Stanley Cup Finals (
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STSAT-2B (User:HJ Mitchell)
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Dutch general election, 2010 (User:HJ Mitchell)
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2010 FIFA World Cup (User:Tone) Later given a
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Armenian shoe (User:Courcelles)
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2010 Kandahar wedding bombing (User:HJ Mitchell)
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2010 Chihuahua shootings (User:HJ Mitchell)
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June 2010 Arkansas floods (User:HJ Mitchell)
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2010 Kyrgyzstan crisis (
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Slovak parliamentary election, 2010 (User:Chaser)
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Hayabusa (User:Tone)
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Belgian general election, 2010 (User:Chaser)
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Bloody Sunday (1972) (User:HJ Mitchell)
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Soyuz TMA-19 (User:HJ Mitchell)
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2010 Var floods (
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2010 NBA Finals (User:Tone)
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José Saramago (User:Courcelles)
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Wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling (User:Tone)
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2010 South China floods (User:HJ Mitchell)
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Nauruan parliamentary election, June 2010 (User:Tone)
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Graeme McDowell (User:HJ Mitchell)
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Colombian presidential election, 2010 (User:HJ Mitchell)
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Mari Kiviniemi (User:Tone)
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2010 Yanga train derailment (User:HJ Mitchell)
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Stanley A. McChrystal (User:HJ Mitchell)
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Australian Labor Party leadership election, 2010 (
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2010 northeastern Brazil floods (User:Tone)
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Isner–Mahut match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships (User:Courcelles)
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2010 Castelldefels accident (User:Courcelles)
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2010 G-20 Toronto summit (
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Algirdas Brazauskas (User:HJ Mitchell)
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Robert Byrd (User:HJ Mitchell)
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Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (User:HJ Mitchell)
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Rodolfo Torre Cantú (User:HJ Mitchell)
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Pál Schmitt (User:HJ Mitchell)
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Christian Wulff (User:Tone)
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2010 Romanian floods (User:HJ Mitchell)
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