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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 by topic. 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 ...
Time magazine rated the incident as its second Top Ten Travel Moments of 2010. ABC affiliate television station WFTS-TV put it in the top 10 most captivating stories of 2010. The New York Daily News listed it as no. 8 of the 15 news stories of the year. The New York Times identified it as no 6 of the things New Yorkers talked about 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.
January 11: Camp X-Ray (Guantanamo) January 5 – Charles Bishop, a 15-year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a building in Tampa, Florida, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack. January 6 – The Boston Globe publishes a story detailing the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston sex abuse scandal.
The first half of 2010 showed immense growth and opportunity for almost everyone involved in this brave new world of gaming. There were multiple stories of buyouts and Games.com's Top 10 Facebook ...
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 ...
August. August 21 – The Australian Labor Party led by Prime Minister Julia Gillard defeats the Australian Liberal Party led by Opposition leader Tony Abbott in the 2010 Australian federal election. Prior to the close defeat it was the first hung parliament since the 1940 election. [7] [8] [9]