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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.
January 16, 2020 – The first impeachment trial of President Donald Trump begins in the U.S. Senate. January 21, 2020 – The first patient in the United States is diagnosed with coronavirus. January 26, 2020 – Kobe Bryant, along with his daughter, Gianna, and 7 others, perish in a helicopter crash.
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)
1970 – Singer Janis Joplin dies of a drug overdose at the age of 27. 1970 – The Environmental Protection Agency is created. 1970 – The Occupational Safety and Health Act, or OSHA, is signed into law. 1971 – Singer Jim Morrison dies of a drug overdose at the age of 27. 1971 – President Richard Nixon ends the United States Gold standard ...
January 20, 1993 — Clinton becomes the 42nd president; Gore becomes the 45th vice president. 1993 — A truck bomb explodes in the parking garage under the World Trade Center in New York City, killing six people and injuring over a thousand. 1993 — Branch Davidians standoff and fire near Waco, Texas, resulting in the deaths of 81 people ...
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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. (New York Times) 2010 Australian federal election. Independent members of parliament Tony ...