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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.
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 ...
Uruguay striker and 2010 FIFA World Cup player of the tournament Diego Forlán is a popular attraction among the inhabitants of Kolkata as he participates in a talent search. (BBC News) In United States baseball, a group led by Nolan Ryan buys the Texas Rangers at a bankruptcy auction. (MSNBC) August 6, 2010.
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)
October 3, 2023 – McCarthy becomes the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives to be removed from office. October 25, 2023 – Mike Johnson elected Speaker. October 2023–January 2024 – Over 115 attacks occur on U.S. military bases in Iraq and Syria.
Current events/2010 May 10. Iraqi insurgents kill 102 and injure over 200 people, mostly Iraqi civilians, in a series of suicide bombings from Mosul to Basra in Iraq, the highest number in one day this year, and jeopardizing a planned US withdrawal. ( The Times)
From top left, clockwise: Anti-government protests called the Arab Spring arose in 2010–2011, and as a result, many governments were overthrown, including when Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was killed; Crimea is annexed by Russia in 2014; ISIS/ISIL perpetrates terrorist attacks and captures territory in Syria and Iraq; climate change awareness and the Paris Agreement; the Event Horizon ...
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)