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May. May 1 – 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt: Car bomb fails to go off in Times Square, New York City. May 6 – The "flash crash" occurs at the New York Stock Exchange, temporarily depleting 1,000 points off of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It is the largest intra-day fall ever.
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was a major ecological disaster from April through September 2010. [44] A renegotiated free trade agreement with South Korea went into effect on December 3, 2010. [45] The 2010 United States elections resulted in major victories for the Republican Party.
(AFP via ABC News) 2010 Qur'an-burning controversy: Thousands of Afghans protest in Badakhshan province over U.S. plans to hold an "International Burn-a-Koran Day", despite its cancellation. Hundreds of Americans engage in heated competing demonstrations in New York City, blocking streets and being overseen by mounted police and dog units.
2010 (MMX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2010th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 10th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2010s decade. The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake ...
May 2, 2010 (Sunday) edit. history. watch. The death toll from the Mogadishu bombings on May 1 rising to at least 45; authorities say al Qaeda is likely to blame for the attack. (CNN) (VOA) The Pakistani military kills approximately 40 Taliban militants in a helicopter attack. (UPI)
As the year-end approaches, investors are in for a surprise about which stocks among those in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index spearheaded the unexpectedly robust stock market upswing in 2010.
The 2010 general election takes place, resulting in a hung parliament. The Conservative Party win 306 of the 649 seats contested, placing them 20 seats short of an overall majority in the House of Commons. The Labour Party win 258 seats, the Liberal Democrats win 57, and other parties win 28.
Portal:Current events. This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from February 2010. US President Barack Obama will propose a $ 3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2011 that foresees the deficit hitting a record $ 1.6 trillion in the current fiscal year but falling to about $700 billion by 2013.