Explore 4960 historical events from 2010–2019.
Philippe Croizon is a French athlete and the first quadruple amputee to swim across the English Channel and to run the Rally Dakar.
Philippe Croizon becomes the first quadruple amputee to swim across the English Channel.
A caustic waste reservoir chain collapsed at the Ajkai Timföldgyár alumina plant in Ajka, Veszprém County, in western Hungary in October 2010.
The Ajka plant accident in Hungary releases a million cubic metres of liquid alumina sludge, killing nine, injuring…
Tanitoluwa Emmanuel "Tani" Adewumi is a Nigerian-American chess player who currently holds the title of International Master (IM). A chess prodigy, he won the 2019 K-3 New York Sta…
Tanitoluwa Adewumi, Nigerian-American chess player
Rasim Delić was the chief of staff of the Bosnian Army. He was a career officer in the Yugoslav Army but left it during the breakup of Yugoslavia and was convicted of war crimes by…
Rasim Delić, Bosnian general and convicted war criminal (born 1949)
The Nagahan wedding bombing was a suicide bombing on a wedding party, which occurred on 9 June 2010 at around 21:00 local time in the village of Nagahan in Arghandab District of Ka…
At least 40 people are killed and more than 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a wedding party in Arghandab, Kandahar
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
Daryl Francis Gates was an American police officer who served as chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1978 to 1992. His length of tenure in this position was second only…
Daryl Gates, American police officer, created the D
Gustav Lorentzen, also known by his stage name Ludvigsen, was a Norwegian singer-songwriter, best known from being half of the successful duo Knutsen & Ludvigsen, alongside Øystein…
Gustav Lorentzen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1947)
Juan Antonio Samaranch y Torelló, 1st Marquess of Samaranch was a Spanish sports administrator under the Franco regime (1973–1977) who served as the seventh president of the Intern…
Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish businessman, seventh President of the International Olympic Committee (born 1920)
Kanagaratnam Sriskandan was a Sri Lankan born British engineer and civil servant. He was the former Chief Highway Engineer, of Under Secretary Grade at the British Department for…
Kanagaratnam Sriskandan, Sri Lankan-English engineer and civil servant (born 1930)
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…
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)
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,…
The 2010 Karachi riots started on August 3, 2010, after the assassination of Parliament member Raza Haider, a member of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement political party, on the night o…
Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85…