Explore 2579 historical events from 2010–2019.
The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition among the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Associatio…
The first African FIFA World Cup kicks off in South Africa
Hayabusa was a robotic spacecraft developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to return a sample of material from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa to…
A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth by l
Bhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia, located in the Eastern Himalayas, bordering China to the north and northwest and India to the south…
Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco
The Wimbledon Championships, commonly called Wimbledon, is a tennis tournament organised by the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in collaboration with the Lawn Tennis Assoc…
At Wimbledon, John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France, in the longest match in professional tenn
Richard Barrett was an American white nationalist, lawyer and self-proclaimed leader in the nationalist Skinheadz movement. Barrett was a speaker and editor of the All The Way mont…
Richard Barrett, American lawyer and activist (born 1943)
Peter Neville Frederick Porter OAM was a British-based Australian poet.
Peter Porter, Australian-born British poet (born 1929)
Alan Sillitoe FRSL was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the 1950s. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied. He…
Alan Sillitoe, English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet (born 1928)
Urs Felber, a pioneer of furniture design, was the CEO of Vitra USA. Felber was also the board director for several companies including Swissflex and was chairman and principal sha…
Urs Felber, Swiss engineer and businessman (born 1942)
Avigdor Arikha was a Romanian-born French–Israeli artist, printmaker and art historian.
Avigdor Arikha, French-Israeli artist, printmaker and art historian (born 1929)
Islamism is a range of religious and political ideological movements that believe that Islam should influence political systems. Its proponents believe Islam is innately political,…
The Islamist militia group Al-Shabaab carries out multiple suicide bombings in Kampala, Uganda, killing 74 people and…
Barack Hussein Obama II is an American former politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first…
U.S. President Barack Obama signs the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
One Direction, often shortened to 1D, were an English–Irish pop boy band formed in London in 2010. The group consisted of Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and…
The English-Irish boy band One Direction were formed while auditioning for the 2010 series of the British singing…
WikiLeaks is a non-profit media organisation and publisher of leaked documents. It is funded by donations and media partnerships. It has published classified documents and other me…
WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military…
Airblue Flight 202 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight departing from Karachi en route to Islamabad. On 28 July 2010, the Airbus A321 jet airliner serving the flight crashed …
Airblue Flight 202 crashes into the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad, Pakistan, killing all 152 people aboard. It is…
Helen Losee Wagner was an American actress.
Helen Wagner, American actress (born 1918)
Lynn Rachel Redgrave was a British and American actress. During a career that spanned five decades, she won two Golden Globe Awards and was nominated for two Academy Awards, four B…
Lynn Redgrave, English-American actress and singer (born 1943)
Joseph Roy Carrier Sr., known professionally as Roy Carrier, was an American Zydeco musician. He was the father of Chubby and Dikki Du Carrier, who followed their father into Zydec…
Roy Carrier, American accordion player (born 1947)
Peter O'Donnell was an English writer of mysteries and of comic strips, best known as the creator of Modesty Blaise, an action heroine/undercover trouble-shooter. He was also a got…
Peter O'Donnell, English soldier and author (born 1920)
Günter F. Wendt was a German-born American mechanical engineer noted for his work in the U.S. human spaceflight program. An employee of McDonnell Aircraft and later North American …
Guenter Wendt, German-American engineer (born 1923)
The 2010 Kasai River ferry capsizing took place on July 29, 2010, when an overloaded passenger ferry capsized on the Kasai River in the Bandundu Province, east of Kinshasa, in the …
An overloaded passenger ferry capsizes on the Kasai River in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo,…
Dorothy Irene Height was an African-American civil rights and women's rights activist. She focused on the issues of Foundational Black American women, including unemployment, illit…
Dorothy Height, American educator and activist (born 1912)
Dorothy Michelle Provine was an American singer, dancer and actress. Born in 1935 in Deadwood, South Dakota, she grew up in Seattle, Washington, and was hired in 1958 by Warner Bro…
Dorothy Provine, American actress and singer (born 1935)
Mariam A. Aleem was an Egyptian artist and art professor specializing in printed design. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts Cairo in 1954 and her Maste…
Mariam A
Giulietta Simionato was an Italian mezzo-soprano. Her career spanned the period from the 1930s until her retirement in 1966.
Giulietta Simionato, Italian soprano (born 1910)