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From top left, clockwise: the magnitude 8.8 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; the 2010 Winter Olympics are held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion and subsequent oil spill becomes the worst marine oil spill in history; the 2010 FIFA World ...
The single "We Are the World 25 for Haiti" was released and debuted on 12 February 2010 during an opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics. February 12 – 28 – The United States compete at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver , British Columbia , and win 9 gold, 15 silver, and 13 bronze medals.
Business and economy China China's Xinhua launches a global 24-hour English TV news channel. (AP via Yahoo!) (Channel News Asia) The Shanghai–Nanjing High-Speed Railway goes into operation; the journey takes 73 minutes with a top-speed of 350km/h (217 mph). (Shanghai Daily) (Xinhua) Disasters and accidents Hurricane Alex, the first hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season, makes ...
Location and augmented-reality apps: Early in 2010, many were expecting big success stories around apps that use geolocation and augmented-reality technology to create mind-blowing new features ...
Presidency of George H. W. Bush. 1990 — Hubble Space Telescope launches during STS-31, a Space Shuttle Discovery mission. 1991 — The Gulf War is waged in the Middle East, by a U.N.-authorized coalition force from thirty-four nations, led by the U.S. and United Kingdom, against Iraq. 1991 — The World Wide Web publicly debuts as an Internet ...
At its core, the technology industry is one of innovation, in which people work to create something new that has a significant impact on the world. Creating something new is the easy part; much ...
The event was the largest air traffic shut-down since World War II. 2010 eruptions of Mount Merapi: Early November 2010 Indonesia: Mount Merapi erupted in Indonesia, killing 353 people and grounding flights across Southeast Asia, becoming the largest eruption from the mountain in a century. 2018 lower Puna eruption: 3 May 2018 United States
January. 4 January – Met Éireann says Ireland is experiencing its most extreme cold spell of weather since 1963. 5 January – a bomb alert on Dorset Street in Dublin is caused when officials at a Slovakian airport plant explosives on an innocent civilian and allow him to leave the country on Danube Wings Flight V5 8230 in a security test gone wrong.