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At least 50 people are arrested during pro- democracy protests in Swaziland. (Bloomberg) (BBC) United States Army General David Petraeus, the Commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, condemns plans by a small Florida church to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks as inflammatory.
15: International Day of Democracy. 16: International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer. 16: Malaysia Day (Malaysia) 16: Independence Day (Mexico, Papua New Guinea) 17: Constitution Day (United States) 17: Heroes' Day (Angola) 17: Yom Kippur (begins at sunset, Judaism) September 18 – October 4: Oktoberfest.
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.
Disasters The Niger River bursts its banks forcing 5,000 people to lose their homes and crops. (BBC) A 7.6 magnitude earthquake and small tsunami hits the Pacific Ocean nation of Vanuatu. (AFP via Yahoo News Australia), (INO) Rescuers in China's Gansu province continue to search for 1,100 missing people in a recent landslide, as the death toll rises to 702. (BBC) (China Daily) A de Havilland ...
Current events/2010 July 9. A suicide bomb in Pakistan 's tribal areas near the Afghanistan border kills at least 50. (AP via Google News) (Al Jazeera) Floribert Chebeya 's autopsy returns an "inconclusive" result. (BBC)
Current events/2010 June 30. The United States government is sued by 10 plaintiffs, including an American citizen, challenging the country's no-fly list. (ABC News) (BBC) ( The Wall Street Journal) On the night streets of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, United States, five people are shot in two separate incidents. (ABC)
Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, said in 2010 his plan for Social Security was “very similar" to one that would increase the retirement age.
The February 9–10, 2010 North American blizzard was a winter and severe weather event that afflicted the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and New England regions of the United States between February 9–11, 2010, affecting some of the same regions that had experienced a historic Nor'easter just three days earlier. The storm brought 10 to 20 inches (25 ...