Explore 1208 historical events from 2010–2019.
Jarvis Eric Williams, Sr. was an American professional football player who was a defensive back for seven seasons in the National Football League (NFL) during the 1980s and 1990s. …
Jarvis Williams, American football player and coach (born 1965)
Arthur Gordon Linkletter was a Canadian-born American radio and television personality. He was the host of House Party, which ran on CBS radio and television for 25 years, and Peop…
Art Linkletter, Canadian-American radio and television host (born 1912)
Air Chief Marshal Sir Christopher Hugh Moran, was a fast jet pilot and later a senior commander in the Royal Air Force. He was Commander-in-Chief of Air Command at the time of his …
Chris Moran, English air marshal and pilot (born 1956)
Kieran Phelan was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and member of Seanad Éireann on the Industrial and Commercial Panel.
Kieran Phelan, Irish politician (born 1949)
Payut Ngaokrachang was a Thai cartoonist and animator. He created Thai cinema's first cel-animated feature film, The Adventure of Sudsakorn.
Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator and director (born 1929)
Gary Wayne Coleman was an American actor, known as a high-profile child star of the late 1970s and 1980s. Born in Zion, Illinois, Coleman grew up with his adoptive parents. Due to …
Gary Coleman, American actor (born 1968)
Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker, photographer and visual artist. He is considered one of the key figures of the New Hollywood era. He earned prizes from the Cann…
Dennis Hopper, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1936)
Yuri Borisovich Chesnokov was a Russian volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1964 Summer Olympics. He was born in Moscow.
Yuri Chesnokov, Russian volleyball player and coach (born 1933)
Dufferin "Duff" Roblin was a Canadian businessman and politician. He served as the 14th premier of Manitoba from 1958 to 1967. Roblin was appointed to the Senate of Canada on the a…
Dufferin Roblin, Canadian commander and politician, 14th Premier of Manitoba (born 1917)
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and pr…
Louise Bourgeois, French-American sculptor and painter (born 1911)
Brian Duffy was an English photographer and film producer, best remembered for his fashion and portrait photography of the 1960s and 1970s.
Brian Duffy, English photographer and producer (born 1933)
William Ashman Fraker, ASC, BSC was an American cinematographer and director.
William A
Rubén Juárez was an Argentine bandoneonist and singer-songwriter of tango.
Rubén Juárez, Argentinian singer-songwriter and bandoneón player (born 1947)
Merata Mita was a New Zealand filmmaker, producer, and writer, and a key figure in the growth of the Māori screen industry. Mita was the first indigenous woman and the first woma…
Merata Mita, New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1942)
Kazuo Ohno was a Japanese dancer who became a guru and inspirational figure in the dance form known as Butoh. He is the author of several books on Butoh, including The Palace Soar…
Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (born 1906)
Andrei Andreyevich Voznesensky was a Soviet and Russian poet and writer who had been referred to by Robert Lowell as "one of the greatest living poets in any language." He was one …
Andrei Voznesensky, Russian poet (born 1933)
Eddi-Rue McClanahan was an American actress, primarily known for her work in television sitcoms. She portrayed Vivian Harmon on Maude (1972–1978), Aunt Fran Crowley on Mama's Famil…
Rue McClanahan, American actress (born 1934)
John Robert Wooden was an American basketball coach and player. Nicknamed "the Wizard of Westwood", he won ten National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championship…
John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (born 1910)
Sir Stephen Creswell Timms is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Ham, formerly Newham North East, since 1994. A member of the Labour Party, he…
British politician Stephen Timms survived a murder attempt by an Islamic extremist during a constituency surgery
The Royal Thai Armed Forces are the armed forces of Thailand.
In Bangkok, the Thai military (pictured) concluded a week-long crackdown on widespread protests by forcing the surrender
On April 20, 2010, an explosion and fire occurred on the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit, which was owned and operated by Transocean and drilling f…
An explosion on Deepwater Horizon, an offshore rig in the Gulf of Mexico, resulted in the largest marine oil spill in hi
The Agreement between Ukraine and Russia on the Black Sea Fleet in Ukraine, widely referred to as the Kharkiv Pact or Kharkov Accords, was a treaty between Ukraine and Russia where…
Ukraine and Russia signed the Kharkiv Pact, extending the Russian lease on naval facilities in Crimea
Janice Kay Brewer is an American politician who served as the 22nd governor of Arizona from 2009 to 2015, as a member of the Republican Party. Prior to this, Brewer was a member of…
Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed into law the controversial anti–illegal immigration bill SB 1070, much of which was l
Faisal Shahzad is a Pakistani-American man who was arrested for the attempted May 1, 2010, Times Square car bombing. On June 21, 2010, in Federal District Court in Manhattan, he co…
Faisal Shahzad attempted to detonate a car bomb in Times Square, New York City, but it failed to explode