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Business and economy Economists Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work in labor market analysis. (Nobel Prize), (AP via Fox News) Microsoft launches Windows Phone devices. (C-Net) Disasters 18 people are killed when a bus falls into a river in Bulandshahr district, Uttar Pradesh, India. (Deccan ...
Portal:Current events/October 2010. Portal. : Current events/October 2010. October 2010 was the tenth month of that common year. The month, which began on a Friday, ended on a Sunday after 31 days.
October 11 is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years) ... (d. 2010) 1916 – Ahmad Abd al-Ghafur Attar, Saudi Arabian writer and journalist (d. 1991) [11]
The October 2010 North American storm complex is the name given to a historic extratropical cyclone that impacted North America.The massive storm complex caused a wide range of weather events including a major serial derecho stretching from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes, a widespread tornado outbreak across the Southeast United States and Midwest and a blizzard across portions of the ...
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 Haiti earthquake ...
On October 11, 2010, newly appointed news director Bill Carey instituted controversial format changes for the newscasts in an attempt to boost the station's ratings. Carey made the newscasts flashier than they had previously been; Kaity Tong and Jim Watkins were replaced as anchors of the weeknight 10 p.m. broadcasts by Jodi Applegate , and ...
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.
The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2010 . Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists informitive in which we can use in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known ...