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million plus Sri Lankan voters cast militant group is arrested after au-
INTERNATIONAL ballots in presidential polls. thorities force his plane to land at
Jan. 27: Sri Lankan President the southern port city of Bandar
JANUARY Mahinda Rajapaksa is re-elected for Abbas.
Jan. 1: Ninety-Five people are a second term. Bangladesh executes Feb. 24: Dawn Brancheau, a
killed in a suicide attack during a the five convicted killers of the na- trainer at The Sea World USA Ma-
volleyball match in Shah Hassan tion’s founding President Sheikh rine Park, Orlando is drowned by a
Khel in Lakki Marwat district in Pa- Mujibur Rehman (on August 12,000 pound killer whale Tilikum
kistan’s North West Frontier 15,1975) at Dhaka’s Central Prison. during the Shamu Whale Show.
Province. Jan. 29: China unveils a new Feb. 25: Victor Yanukovych is
Jan. 2: Afghanistan’s Parliament draft law on land acquisitions. sworn in Ukraine’s President.
rejects 17 of President Hamid Kar- Jan. 31: A.R. Rahman wins two Feb. 26: Six Indians and 10 others
zai’s 24 nominees for a new Cabinet. Grammy awards for his song ‘Jai Ho’ are killed in coordinated suicide at-
Nitin Garg, an Indian youth is and outstanding soundtrack for the tacks by the Taliban at two hotels in
stabbed to death in Melbourne, Nitin Garg film Slumdog Millionaire at the 52nd Ali Hasan al-Majid the Afghanistan capital Kabul. Tabla
Australia. annual Grammy Awards in Los player Nawab Khan part of an ICCR
Jan. 4: Burj Dubai, the world’s Martin Scorsese is presented the Angeles. Feb. 14: Viktor Yanukovych is of- troupe and Major Jotin Laishram, a
tallest tower at 818 Metres (2,684 Cecil B.DeMille lifetime achieve- Beyonce wins six trophies, includ- ficially declared winner in the Ukrai- gifted doctor among dead.
feet), is opened by Dubai’s ruler ment award at the Golden Globes. ing best female pop vocal for Halo nian presidential polls. Feb. 27: Seven hundred people
Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid al Billionaire Sebastian Pinera is becoming the most decorated wom- Feb. 19: are killed as an earthquake measur-
Maktoum. elected Chile President after win- an on a Grammy night. Taylor Swift Roman Polanski wins the best di- ing 8.8 on the Richter scale rocks.
Jan. 6: A U.S. Grand Jury indicts ning a run-off vote. bags four awards, including the Al- rector award (Silver Bear) at the Chile setting off a tsunami.
Nigerian youth Umar Farouk Abdul- An Iraqi court sentences to death bum of the year, for her best-selling 60th Berlin Film Festival for his po- Feb. 28: The tsunami triggered
mutallab over a plot to blow up a Ali Hassan al-Majid widely known as Fearless. litical thriller, The Ghost writer. The by the Chile earthquake hits Japan’s
plane with 290 aboard on Christmas ‘ Chemical Ali’ for a 1988 gas attack FEBRUARY
Day as it approached Detroit, that killed 5,000 people. Feb. 1: The U.S. President Barack
Michigan. Jan. 18: Taliban gunmen launch Obama unveils a $ 3.83 trillion
Jan. 11: Editor and veteran Tamil an assault on Afghanistan capital Ka- budget.
journalist J.S.Tissainayagam sen- bul with suicide bombers blowing At least 46 persons one killed and
tenced to 20-years RI by the High themselves up at different locations. over 122 injured as a woman suicide
Court of Colombo is granted bail A fourteen-member Cabinet is bomber detonates an explosives belt
pending appeal by the Appeal sworn in amidst the violence. while walking among a group of pil-
Courts. Mehmet Ali Agca who shot at Pope grims on their way to Karbala in
Iraq.
Feb. 3: Twentythree persons are
killed and 147 injured as a blast rips
through a crowd of Shia pilgrims on
the outskirts of Karbala, Iraq.
Feb. 5: A landmark deal is
clinched by Northern Ireland’s ma-
jor political parties, the Democratic
Unionist Party and Sinn Fein paving
the way for grant of full autonomy to
the province envisaged in the 1998
Good Friday agreement.
Feb. 7: Ukrainians cast ballots in
the bitterly fought presidential run
off.
Laura Chinchilla is elected the
first woman President of Costa Rica
by a landslide.
Feb. 8: Sri Lanka’s former Army
Chief and Opposition presidential
candidate General (Retired) Sarath
Fonseka detained for committing
“militant offences”.
Viktor Yanukovych wins Ukraine
A girl who had sustained injuries after a bombing in Karbala, Iraq. presidential polls narrowly beating
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
Jan. 12: At least 230,000 people John Paul II on May 13, 1981 in Feb. 9: Sri Lankan President Ma-
are killed and 300,000 more injured St.Peter’s Square, Rome is freed af- hinda Rajapaksa dissolves
after a powerful 7.0 magnitude ter spending 29 years behind bars. Parliament.
earthquake devastates the Carib- Jan. 19: British chocolate bar Feb. 11: Flamboyant British fash-
bean nation of Haiti. The capital maker Cadbury is bought by U.S. gi- The Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest building, in Dubai, United Arab
ion designer Alexandar McQueen is
Port-au-Prince bears the brunt. The ant Kraft Foods in a $19 billion deal found dead at his home in Central
Emirates.
Presidential palace and Parliament ending more than 180 years of London.
building collapse. The head of the history. Golden Bear is bagged by a Turkish main islands and the shores of Rus-
Iran, a “nuclear state”, says the
U.N. peacekeeping mission, Tuni- In a major upset, Republican Scott President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad family drama Bal (Honey) by direc- sia.
sian Hedi Annabi among dead. The Brown wins the Massachusetts Sen- at a mammoth rally in Tehran. tor Semih Kaplanoglu. India and Saudi Arabia sign an Ex-
U.N. headquarters wrecked. ate seat held by Edward Kennedy for Feb. 12: Podila Gopi Kumar an Feb. 20: Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq tradition Treaty and the Agreement
Jan. 14: The Tehreek-e-Taliban nearly half a century defeating the war movie The Hurt Locker sweeps for the Transfer of Sentenced Per-
Indian-American professor and two
Pakistan chief Hakimullah Mehsud state Attorney General Martha the BAFTAs picking up six gongs out sons in Riyadh after talks between
others are killed after Amy Bishop, a
is feared killed in an air strike in Coakley. of eight she was nominated for.
neurobiologist opens fire at a faculty Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
North Waziristan. Top Hamas Commander Mah- Feb. 23: Abdolmalek Rigi, leader and King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz.
meeting at the University of Alaba-
A federal grand jury in Chicago moud al-Mabhouh is assassinated in ma at Huntsville. of Jundallah, a high-profile anti-Iran MARCH
indicts Pakistan-American Jihadist his hotel room in Dubai by an 11- March 1: The Prime Minister
David Coleman Headley and his member hit team. Manmohan Singh addresses the
Canadian accomplice Tahawwur Ra- Jan. 21: The U.S. Supreme Court Shura Council and is conferred an
na for their role in organising recce lifts a 63-year-old ban on corporate honorary doctorate by the King Saud
operations before the November funds for U.S. federal elections. Ban University.
2008 Mumbai attack. on paid “issue ads” too goes. March 3: The Ukrainian Parlia-
Jan. 15: Russia ratifies European Jan. 22: U.S. astronaut Timothy ment passes a no-confidence motion
Human Rights Convention. “TJ” Creamer aboard the Interna- voting out the Yulia Tymoshenko
Jan. 16: The U.S. President Ba- tional Space Station becomes the Cabinet.
rack Obama pitches bank tax. first person to tweet live from space. March 5: The U.S. House of Rep-
Jan. 17: Ukrainians cast ballots in Jan. 25: Ninety people aboard an resentatives passes the Hiring In-
presidential polls. Ethiopian Airlines plane are killed centive to Restore Employment Act,
James Cameron’s science fiction after it catches fire and crashes into a jobs bill of $15 billion.
blockbuster Avatar fetches for him sea shortly after takeoff from Beirut. March 7: Iraq war drama The
Best Drama and Best Director at the Ali Hasan al-Majid widely known Hurt Locker bags the Best Picture
67th annual Golden Globes Awards in as “Chemical Ali” is hanged in Iraq Oscar at the 82nd Academy Awards
Beverly Hills, California. Meryl for the 1988 poison gas attacks which in Los Angeles. Kathryn Bigelow be-
Streep gets Best Actress award for killed more than 5,000 Kurds. Haitians walk past quake damaged buildings in the capital Port- comes the first woman to be awarded
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The U.S. President Barack Obama April 10: Polish President Lech Amendment — seeking to strip the
signs into law the $17.5 billion Hiring Kaczynski and a high level delega- presidency of its powers and restore
Incentive to Restore Employment tion are killed after a plane carrying them to Parliament.
Act (the “HIRE Act”). 97 persons crashes in thick fog near Deposed President of Kyrgyzstan
March 19: Atom Smasher sets re- the Smolensk airport in western Kurmanbek Bakiyev steps down af-
cord as beams of protons circulate at Russia. Poland declares a week’s offi- ter earlier leaving the country for the
3.5 trillion electron volts in both di- cial mourning. neighbouring Kazakhastan.
rections around the 27 km tunnel French doctor and explorer Jean- April 18: Pakistan President Asif
housing the Large Hadron Collider Louis Etienne makes the first Arctic Ali Zardari signs the 18th Amend-
under the Swiss-French border at crossing aboard his balloon the Gen- ment Bill restoring parliamentary
Geneva. erali Arctic Observer after taking off democracy.
March 20: Girija Prasad Koirala from the Norwegian archipelago of Panel orders recount of votes cast
(86), Nepal’s five-time Prime Minis- Spitzbergen on April 5. in Baghdad during the March 7 Iraqi
ter, freedom fighter and political he- April 11: Voting begins in Sudan’s election.
ro dies at his daughter’s house in Girija Prasad Koirala national election. April 20: Shuttle Discovery and
Director Kathryn Bigelow Kathmandu. April 12: British-Indian author its astronauts return to earth wrap-
accepts the Oscar for Best A volcano under a glacier in Ice- a nano-fraction of a second slower Rana Dasgupta wins the Common- ping up their 15-day, 9.7 million km
Director for The Hurt Locker at land erupts after almost 200 years . than the speed of light using the wealth Writers’ Prize for 2010 for his journey to the International Space
the 82nd Academy Awards. Oscar, a Spanish man undergoes Large Hadron Collider. epic tale Solo. Australian Glenda Station.
the world’s first full face transplant March 31: Mauritius Prime Min- Guest’s Siddon Rock adjudged Best The Deepwater Horizon rig oper-
Best Actress Award (The Blind Side) at a Barcelona hospital. ister Navin Ramgoolam dissolves theFirst Book. ated by British Petroleum sinks in
Jeff Bridges strikes gold in the Best March 21: The U.S. House of 70-member National Assembly and April 13: Prime Minister Man- the Gulf of Mexico following an ex-
Actor category. Representatives passes the Senate calls for elections on May 5. mohan Singh announces India’s de- plosion leaving 11 workers dead.
version of the healthcare reform bill
Voters cast ballots in Iraq’s second Belgium votes to ban veils. cision to set up a Global Centre for April 21: Dissanayake Mudiyan-
parliamentary election amid wide- by a narrow but firm margin of 219- APRIL Nuclear Energy partnership at the selage Jayaratne is appointed Sri
spread violence which claims 35 212. April 2: A report of the Commit-Nuclear Security Summit in Wash- Lankan Prime Minister.
lives. March 22: Tejdeep Singh Rattan tee on Constitutional Reforms is ta-
ington. Britain and other European coun-
March 9: The Israeli government becomes the first turbaned Sikh in a bled in Pakistan National Assembly. April 14: At least 600 people are tries lift the ban on flights after six
gives nod for the building of 1,600 generation to join the U.S. Army. April 5: The Discovery space killed and more than 10,000 injured days following the volcanic ash
new settlement homes in occupied March 24: The Abel Prize for shuttle blasts off from NASA’s Ken-as a 7.1 magnitude earthquake crises.
East Jerusalem. Mathematics for 2010 is awarded to nedy Space Centre in Florida with strikes a remote border area in Chi- China declares a day of national
March 10: An American woman American Mathematician John Tor- seven astronauts, including three na’s Qinghai province. Yushu county mourning in remembrance of the
Colleen R. LaRose a.k.a. “Jihad rence Tate for his work in “Algebraic women mission specialists on a 13- in a Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 2064 lives lost in the Qinghai quake.
Jane” is indicted for her bid to “wage
Number Theory.” day mission aboard the Internation-bordering Siachen is the epicentre. More than 12,135 left injured.
a violent jihad” in South Asia and March 25: The former premier al Space Station. A 5,466-foot volcano under the April 22: The Brazilian govern-
Europe. Iyad Allawi’s secular Iraqiya bloc April 6: British Prime Minister Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland ment headed by Premier Yves Le-
March 11: Myanmar promulgates wins Iraq polls. Gordon Brown announces general erupts spewing smoke and steam in- terme quits following a linguistic
new poll laws targeting democracy March 26: Fortysix South Ko- elections for May 6. to the air. spat between the coalition partners
campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi. rean sailors aboard warship Cheo- April 7: Kyrgyzstan President April 15: The U.S. and Russia an- over a bilingual voting district.
March 12: Sebastian Pinera is nan are killed in a torpedo attack by Kurmanbek Bakiyev flees the nation nounce a plutonium elimination Chamal Rajapaksa is elected Sri
sworn in Chile President. North Korea in the Yellow Sea after two days of violent mass pro-deal. Russia shuts down its last Lanka Parliament Speaker.
March 14: Katie Spotz (22) be- waters. tests leaves 75 killed and 400 in- weapons-grade plutonium reactor April 23: G.L. Peris is designated
comes the youngest person to row March 29: Forty persons are jured. Prime Minister Daniyar near the Siberian town of Sri Lanka Foreign Minister and Basil
solo across the Atlantic Ocean and killed and 70 injured as women sui- Usenov quits. A “Cabinet of people’s
Zheleznogorsk. Rajapaksa is assigned the newly cre-
the first American to row a boat cide bombers blow themselves up at trust” headed by Opposition leader The volcanic eruption in Iceland ated Economic Development Minis-
without help from mainland to two Metro stations — Lubyanka and Roza Otunbayeva in place. creates massive ash cloud disrupting try as a 76-member Cabinet takes
mainland. She left on January 3 from Park Kultury in the Russian capital India and China sign an agree- flight services in Europe. office.
Dakar, Senegal. Moscow. ment to set up a hotline between Pakistan Senate passes the 18th April 24: The Hubble Space Tele-
March 15: Indian born British March 30: Scientists at the Eu- Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh
Labour MP Ashok Kumar (53) is ropean Centre for Nuclear Research and Wen Jiabao, after talks in
found dead at his home in Middles- near Geneva smash proton beams Beijing.
brough, north east England. into each other with record energy at Thailand Prime Minister Abhisit
March 16: Courtmartial pro- Vejjajiva promulgates emergency
ceedings against the former Sri Lan- following a brief gate crash by pro-
ka Army Chief General (Retd.) testers at the Parliament premises.
Sarath Fonseka for alleged role in April 8: Low turnout in Sri Lank-
politics while in uniform begins in an parliamentary polls.
Colombo. Presidents Barack Obama and
Double Falsehood, a play of dis- Dmitry Medvedev sign a Strategic
puted authorship is found actually to Arms Reduction Treaty at a meeting
be a version of Shakespeare’s long- in Prague.
lost play Cardenio. Pakistan National Assembly pas-
March 18: Pakistan-American ses the 18th Amendment Bill that
LeT operative David Coleman Head- seeks to bring back the 1973
ley accused of plotting the Mumbai Constitution.
terror attacks pleads guilty on all 12 April 9: President Rajapaksa-led
counts before a U.S. court in ruling alliance in Sri Lanka records A fresh cloud of ash rises from the volcano under the
Chicago. Lech Kaczynski an emphatic win in polls. Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland.

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A massive peace assembly is held May 28: Ninety-five people are

in Nepal capital Kathmandu. killed and 70 injured in terrorist at-
Maoists withdraw indefinite general tacks on two mosques in Lahore,
strike. Pakistan.
May 9: The European Union an- Nepal parties agree to extend the
nounces a €750 billion special Eu- term of the Constituent Assembly by
ropean fund to bailout failing euro a year. Prime Minister Madhav Ku-
zone economies. mar Nepal to step down.
May 10: At least 66 people are Ready for a “new starting point”,
killed and 146 wounded as terrorists top Chinese leaders tell President
unleash a wave of violence in Iraq. Pratibha Patil. An Indian-style tem-
Filipinos cast votes in general ple is dedicated to the people of Chi-
elections. Everest conqueror, Arjun na in Luoyang Henan province.
May 11: British Prime Minister Vajpai May 30: David Laws, Britain’s
Gordon Brown resigns. Chief Secretary to the Treasury re-
May 12: Conservative leader Da- draft law to ban burqa from public signs over charges of abuse of parlia-
British Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime vid Cameron assumes office as Bri- spaces. mentary expenses rules.
Minister Nick Clegg (Left). tain’s Prime Minister and Liberal Anglo-Irish writer J. G. Farrell is Colombians cast ballots in presi-
Democrat Nick Clegg takes over as posthumously awarded a special dential polls.
scope celebrates the 20th anniver- government led by them. Deputy Prime Minister. William one-off “lost” Booker Prize for his May 31: Nine persons are killed
sary of its launch on April 24, 1990. May 3: Sri Lankan journalist J. S. Hague is the new Foreign Secretary novel Troubles published in 1970. after Israeli commandos attack a
April 25: The Austrian President, Tissainayagam is pardoned by the and George Osborne the Chancellor May 22: Arjun Vajpai (16), a high-profile Gaza-bound six-ship aid
Heinz Fischer, wins a second six- President Mahinda Rajapaksa. of the Exchequer. schoolboy from New Delhi becomes flotilla, trying to break the naval
year term. Court martial hearing against for- At least 103 people among them 70 the youngest Indian to successfully blockade of the Gaza Strip by Tel
April 26: Sudan’s President mer General Sarath Fonseka is Dutch nationals are killed as a Li- climb Mount Everest. Apa Sherpa Aviv since June 2007.
Omar Hassan El-Bashire registers a suspended. byan Airbus jet crashes while trying climbs peak for a record 20th time. The German President Horst
decisive election win. Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistan-born to land at Tripoli Airport. Jordan Romero (13), from Big Koehler resigns following criticism
April 27: The Russian and the U.S. citizen is arrested in connection The Thailand Prime Minister Ab- Bear, California becomes the young- of his comments about the nation’s
Ukrainian Parliaments ratify a land- with Times Square Car bomb inci- hisit Vejjajiva cancels a proposed est person in the world to conquer mission in Afghanistan.
mark agreement to extend the lease dent, after authorities recall a flight November 14 election and calls off Mt. Everest. JUNE
of a key Black Sea naval base in Se- soon after takeoff from New York’s talks with anti-government May 23: Thai director Apichat- June 2: Japan’s Prime Minister
vastopol to Moscow by 25 years. John F. Kennedy International protesters. pong Weerasethakul wins the Palme Yukio Hatoyama resigns over the is-
Oh Eun-sun, a South Korean Airport. d’Or at the Cannes film festival for a sue of letting a U.S. base remain in
mountaineer becomes the first May 5: Mauritians cast ballots in surreal reincarnation tale Uncle Okinawa prefecture.
woman to scale the world’s 14 high- general elections. Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Afghanistan President Hamid
est mountains. Nigerian President Umaru Yar’ Lives. Javier Bardem and Elio Ger- Karzai escapes bid on life after a
The U.S. extradites the former Adua passes away after a long illness. mano share best actor award. three-member Taliban suicide
Panamanian dictator Manuel Norie- May 6: Britons cast ballots in a France’s Juliette Binoche is named squad targets a peace meet in Kabul.
ga to France. closely contested general election in best actress. June 3: To test endurance during
April 28: The 16th SAARC sum- a generation. British screenwriter Simon Mon- a simulated 520-day return flight to
mit opens in the Bhutan capital Goodluck Jonathan is sworn in jack, husband of late actor Brittany Mars, six researchers are locked up
Thimphu. Nigerian President. Murphy is found dead at his Holly- inside a mock spacecraft built near
April 29: India and Pakistan The three-party alliance of Prime wood Hills home in Los Angeles. Moscow where they will spend the
agree to resume high-level dialogue Minister Navin Ramgoolam wins 41 May 24: South Korea announces next 18 months.
disrupted since the November 28 of the 60 seats in the Mauritius Na- “far-reaching trade restrictions” Sir Paul McCartney is awarded the
Mumbai terror attacks following tional Parliament. against North Korea. Gershwin Prize, the highest Amer-
talks between Prime Ministers Man- Researchers announce sequenc- May 25: Argentina turns 200. ican award for popular song.
mohan Singh and Yusuf Raza Gilani ing of the genetic blueprint of Nean- The Pakistan Supreme Court up- June 4: Naoto Kan is elected Ja-
at Thimphu on the sidelines of the derthals from bones found in Thai director Apichatpong holds Lahore High Court’s decision panese Prime Minister.
SAARC summit. Vindija, Croatia. Weerasethakul poses with the to free Jama’at-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Indian-American Anamika Veera-
Belgium’s Lower House of Parlia- May 7: The British election Palme d’Or. Saeed from house arrest. mani wins the Scripps National
ment votes to ban wearing burqa in throws up a hung parliament and the May 26: Shuttle Atlantis wraps Spelling Bee contest.
public, becoming the first state in Labour Party handed down defeat May 13: Social activist Ela Bhatt up a 25-year career, including 32 June 5: Israeli troops take con-
Europe to do so. after 13 years in Power. Shahabana receives the Niwano Peace Prize for missions covering 120 million miles trol of MV Rachel Corrie, an Irish
MAY Mahmood and Yasmin Qureshi be- 2010 for her contribution to the up- and lands at NASA’s Kennedy Space flagged aid ship bound for Gaza.
May 1: A major bomb scare rattles come Britain’s first women Muslim lift of poor women in India. Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida. June 6: The 160-metre Capital
New York’s Times Square. MPs. May 15: Australian schoolgirl May 27: President Pratibha Patil Gate tower in Abu Dhabi is recog-
May 2: The European Union and Myanmar’s National League for sailor Jessica Watson sails into his- seeks China’s backing for a perma- nised as the “furthest leaning man-
the IMF approve a $146 billion pack- Democracy led by Aung San Suu Kyi tory becoming the youngest person nent UNSC seat for India during the made tower in the world by Guin-
age to rescue debt-ridden Greece. ceases to exist. to circumnavigate the globe solo, summit meeting with President Hu ness World Records.”
The Maoists launch an indefinite World Wide Web launches Arabic non-stop and without help. Jintao. June 8: India and the Czech Re-
general strike in Nepal seeking URLs, Egypt begins registering May 16: A number of major air- North Korea scraps pact with public sign three agreements. A
the formation of a national names under the .misr domain ports across the U.K. are closed due South Korea on the prevention of Joint Commission on Economic
to renewed threat from Icelandic naval clashes between them. Cooperation is set up.
volcanic ash. Reducing Emissions for Defores- June 9: The Dutch cast ballots in
Rima Fakih, a Lebanese immi- tation and Degradation (REDD+), an parliamentary polls.
grant is crowned Miss USA in Los international programme to protect The U.N. imposes fresh sanctions
Vegas making her the first ever Arab- forests, gets nod at a meeting in Oslo. against Iran.
American to win the title.
May 17: Iran signs nuclear fuel
swap deal with Brazil and Turkey
after 18 hours of negotiations in
Tehran.
The U.S. President Barack Obama
signs the Daniel Pearl Freedom of
Press Act into law.
May 18: The Obama administra-
tion announces deal with major
powers to impose new sanctions on
Iran.
May 19: U.S. geneticist Craig
Venter creates synthetic life by
building the genome of a bacterium
from scratch and incorporating it in-
to a cell.
Thailand’s security forces crush a
two-month protest by Red Shirts af-
ter storming a barricaded campsite
in Ratchaprasong in Bangkok’s com-
mercial district. At least six persons,
President Pratibha Patil presenting a souvenir to the authority of including a foreign journalist are
killed.
White Horse Temple after dedicating an Indian style Buddhist The French Cabinet approves a Anamika Veeramani of Cleveland, Ohio, displays her trophy after
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government’s decision to revise the galise same-sex marriage following a

retirement age from 60 to 62. landmark Senate vote after a 15-hour
India, Pakistan resume Compos- debate.
ite Dialogue process, on hold since The U.S. Senate passes an unprec-
the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. edented and game-changing Wall
June 26: The G8 summit in Can- Street reform bill.
ada renews its ban on the sale of July 16: Germany and China ink a
enrichment and reprocessing tech- series of deals reportedly worth sev-
nology to India. eral billion dollars.
June 27: The Prime Minister July 17: Australian Prime Minis-
Manmohan Singh warns against a ter Julia Gillard calls for general
double dip recession at the G20 election set for August 21.
Summit in Toronto, Canada. NASA’s wide-field Infrared Survey
Guineans cast ballots in the West Explorer or WISE completes its first
Australian Prime Minister African nation’s first democratic survey of the entire sky.
Julia Gillard. election since independence in 1958. Rescue workers looking for survivors in the wreckage of a plane July 18: The world celebrates
Kyrgyzstan voters approve a new that crashed in Islamabad, Pakistan. “Nelson Mandela International
American novelist Barbara King- Constitution in a referendum back- Day” as the anti-apartheid icon
solver’s The Lacuna wins the year’s ing radical changes from a presiden- capital Bishkek and becomes the tion Service, a 97,000–strong turns 92.
£30,000 Orange Prize for fiction, tial to a parliamentary form of first woman head of state in Central diplomatic corps. Syria bans niqab the full Islamic
Britain’s highly-regarded literary government. Asia. Ten persons suspected of spying veil at universities.
honour for women writers. India and Canada sign a civil nu- July 4: Bronislaw Kamorowski for Russia in the U.S. are swapped for July 21: The U.S. President Ba-
June 13: The first results from clear cooperation agreement in wins Poland’s run off presidential four Russians accused of being U.S. rack Obama signs into law the Dodd-
Belgium’s general election confirm a Toronto. elections. double agents in Vienna, Austria. Frank Wall Street Reform and Con-
breakthrough for Flemish G-20 leaders agree on a timetable U.S. Army General David Petraeus July 10: The European spacecraft sumer Protection Act.
separatists. for cutting deficits. Joint declaration assumes command of the 130,000- Rosetta performs a flyby of Lutetia, a July 22: Kosovo’s declaration of
Iran, Pakistan finalise gas pipeline welcomes resumption of India-Pa- strong international force in massive potato-shaped asteroid. independence from Serbia in Febru-
deal. kistan talks. Afghanistan. July 12: The Swiss government ary 2008 legal, says the Internation-
June 14: U.S. geologists discover June 28: India and Japan begin July 5: Russia, Belarus and Ka- declares French-Polish film director al Court of Justice in a ground
$ 1 trillion worth of untapped miner- talks on civil nuclear cooperation in zakhstan launch a customs union. Roman Polanski under house arrest breaking ruling.
al deposits in Afghanistan. Tokyo. Iceland authorities exhume the at his chalet in Gstaad a freeman. Balochistan province in Pakistan
June 15: The toll in Kyrgyzstan June 29: China and Taiwan sign a body of chess legend Bobby Fischer The International Criminal Court is smothered by floods.
ethnic strife touches 170. historic pact – the Economic Coop- to carry out a paternity test to settle at The Hague charges Sudanese July 26: In one of the biggest
Swiss MPs approve tax deal with eration Framework Agreement in a dispute over his estate. President Omar al-Bashir with geno- leaks in U.S. military history, online
with the U.S. the southwest Chinese city of July 7: A Solar Impulse airplane cide in Darfur. whistleblower WikiLeaks brings to
June 16: British Petroleum Chongqing. takes off on a pioneering round-the- July 13: France’s Lower House of light a huge cache of secret U.S. files
agrees to pay $ 20 billion into an oil The Maldives Cabinet resigns af- clock flight attempt at Payerne air- Parliament votes to ban the exposing truth of the failing war of
spill fund. ter a standoff with the Opposition. port in Switzerland. wearing of the burqa and the niqab Afghanistan.
June 17: An Australian teenager The U.S. arrests a couple and nine July 8: Solar Impulse, a giant or full face Muslim veil in public. A Spanish man Oscar, who under-
is arrested in a Melbourne suburb other members of an alleged Russian glider-like aircraft completes the Arun Kumar Narote, an Indian went the world’s first full face trans-
for the January 2 murder of Indian spy ring in the last three days. first night flight propelled by solar student hailing from Hyderabad is plant on March 20 at a Barcelona
student Nitin Garg. June 30: Nepal’s Prime Minister energy. shot dead at a provision store in hospital, appears on television.
The European Union approves Madhav Kumar Nepal resigns after The European Parliament gives Bridgeport city in the U.S. July 28: All 152 people, including
sanctions that target Iran’s key ener- being at the helm for 13 months. nod for a legal blue-print for the for- July 15: Argentina becomes the six Youth Parliament members, on
gy sector. The U.S. House of Representatives mation of the European External Ac- first country in Latin America to le- board a Pakistan aircraft are killed as
June 18: Pakistani-American ter- passes bill to revamp the financial it crashes into the Margalla Hills
ror suspect Faisal Shahzad is indict- regulatory system. skirting the capital Islamabad.
ed by a grand jury in the U.S. District Benigno Aquino III is sworn in the The Bangladesh Supreme Court
Court of Manhattan in the botched Philippines President. nullifies the controversial 5th
Times Square car bombing. JULY Amendment to the Constitution
June 20: Poles cast ballots in July 1: Christian Wulff (51) be- made in 1977 that gave legitimacy to
snap presidential polls. comes Germany’s youngest-ever military-led governments.
Iran hangs Abdolmalek Rigi, lead- President. July 30: Nepal’s Supreme Court
er of the Pakistan-based Jundallah Jayant Patel Indian-born U.S. citi- upholds life term for Charles Sob-
group for violent incidents in the zen dubbed “Dr. Death” in Australia hraj for a crime he committed in
country. gets a seven-year jail term for a 1975.
June 21: Pakistan-born Ameri- string of botched operations. At least 800 people are killed after
can Faisal Shahzad pleads guilty to Russia’s math whiz Grigori Perel- three days of rainfall causes wide-
the Times Square car bomb bid 100 man turns down a $ 1 million prize spread flooding in Pakistan.
times. awarded to him for proving the 106- India and the U.S. sign an
June 23: The U.S. President Ba- year-old Poincare Conjecture. agreement for reprocessing spent
rack Obama removes General Stan- July 2: The United Nations Gen- nuclear fuel in Washington.
ley McChrystal as the top NATO eral Assembly votes to create “U.N. July 31: Chelsea Clinton marries
commander in Afghanistan. Women” (UNW) for accelerating investment banker Marc Mezvinsky
June 24: Julia Gillard is sworn in gender equality and women’s at Astor Court in Rhinebeck, New
Australia’s first woman Prime Min- empowerment. York.
ister. France is paralysed by a gener- July 3: Rosa Otunbayeva is sworn The Mars500 isolation facility is seen before the arrival of the crew AUGUST
al strike in protest against the in Kyrgyzstasn’s President in the members. Aug. 1: The Convention on Clus-

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Vladimir Putin opens oil pipeline to Sept. 18: Afghanistan holds cru-
China. cial parliamentary polls despite a
The Sinabung volcano on the In- string of rocket attacks.
donesian island of Sumatra erupts Philippe Croizon, a Frenchman
for the first time in 400 years. and quadruple amputee swims
“Modern Family”, “Mad Men” across the English Channel using leg
sweep the 62nd Primetime Emmy prostheses that have flippers
Awards announced in Los Angeles. attached.
Aug. 30: The Sri Lankan Cabinet Sept. 19: China suspends con-
approves changes to the 1978 Consti- tacts with Japan.
tution and lifts ban on a third term in Hung House in Sweden after par-
office for President Mahinda liamentary polls.
Rajapaksa. Sept. 20: European leaders offer
Aug. 31: The President Barack $ 1.3 billion on the first day of a
Obama announces the end of the three-day summit on the Millenni-
U.S. combat mission in Iraq. um Development Goals at the Unit-
Miss Mexico Jimena Navarrete SEPTEMBER ed Nations, New York.
celebrates after being crowned Sept. 2: The Israelis and the Pal- Fredrik Reinfeldt is re-elected
Miss Universe. estinians begin direct peace talks in Swedish Prime Minister.
Washington. Sir Mota Singh, the United King-
ter Munitions, a landmark interna- Sept. 3: India and South Korea dom’s first Sikh and Asian Judge re-
tional treaty to ban cluster bombs sign landmark memoranda of under- ceives the Pride of India Award 2009
takes effect. standing on defence, in Seoul. instituted by the India International
Aug. 4: Kenyan voters over- Sept. 4: A 7 magnitude earth- Foundation, in London.
whelmingly approve a new Constitu- quake devastates New Zealand. Sept. 23: The 2010 World States-
tion in a referendum. Sept. 5: Basque separatist group man Award is presented in absentia
Aug. 6: Pakistan says recent mon- ETA declares a ceasefire in its bloody to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
soon floods biggest-ever disaster in 42-year campaign for a homeland in- in New York. Technicians assembling Chang’e II, China’s second unmanned
the nation’s history, with 1,32,000 dependent of Spain. Sept. 24: A U.S. court sentences lunar probe.
sq.km. affected in Khyber Puk- Sept. 6: Rwanda’s President Paul Pakistani neuro-scientist Aafia Sid-
htoonkhwa (formerly NWFP) and Kagame is sworn in for a second diqui to 86 years in prison for shoot- the Economics Nobel for their work Andersen Literature Prize.
Punjab provinces alone. term at the capital Kigali. ing at American soldiers in on explaining demand–supply gap in Oct. 21: Three senior peers, in-
Aug. 7: India and Bangladesh sign Sept. 7: Australian Prime Minis- Afghanistan. the labour market and elsewhere. cluding Labour’s Lord Swraj Paul,
an agreement on a $ 1-billion line of ter Julia Gillard wins a 17-day politi- Sept. 25: Chocolate maker Ge- Oct. 12: India is elected a non- are suspended from the British
credit extended to Dhaka by New cal marathon to lead a minority orges Larnicol sails his 3.5 metre- permanent member of the United House of Lords over their expenses
Delhi. government in a hung Parliament. long 1.2-tonne boat made of choco- Nations Security Council. claims.
Aug. 8: At least 127 people are A general strike against pension late in Concarneau Port, Western British writer and journalist Ho- Oct. 22: The French Upper
killed and nearly 1,300 go missing reforms throws life out of gear in France. ward Jacobson’s novel The Finkler House passes the law raising the re-
after mudslides sweep away homes France. Balaji Sadasivan (55), Singapore’s Question bags the Man Booker Prize tirement age from 60 to 62 amid
in Gansu provine, Northwestern Officials hoist a 70 foot steel co- Senior Minister of State for Foreign 2010. nationwide strikes and protests.
China. lumn salvaged from the rubble after Affairs dies of cancer. “In the largest classified military
Aug. 9: Rwanda’s President Paul the September 11 2001 attack on the Sept. 28: About 1,000 people are leak in history” , WikiLeaks releases
Kagame wins a second term gaining World Trade Center at ground zero feared killed after a hillside collapses 400,000 secret American docu-
a landslide victory. in New York. in southern Mexico, burying up to ments on the Iraq war.
Aug. 11: British researchers an- Sept. 8: The Sri Lankan Parlia- 300 homes. Oct. 23: Legendary Everest clim-
nounce the emergence of a new class ment approves amendments to the Sept. 29: Sri Lankan President ber Chhewang Nima Sherpa (43), is
of antibiotic-resistant superbug – 1978 Constitution, including lifting Mahinda Rajapaksa approves a 30- feared killed after being swept away
NDM-1 (New Delhi metallo- the two-terms limit on the post of month rigorous jail term for the for- by an avalanche while fixing ropes
betalactamase-1) President. mer Army chief Sarath Fonseka. for a climbing group on the 7,129-
Aug. 16: A Boeing 737 jetliner Hyundai Motor unveils BlueOn, OCTOBER metre Mt. Baruntse.
with 131 passengers aboard crashes South Korea’s first full-speed elec- Oct. 1: China’s lunar probe Oct. 25: At least 413 people are
and breaks into three pieces on land- tric car in the capital Seoul. Chang’e–2 is successfully launched killed in a tsunami triggered by a 7.7
ing on San Andres island in Sept. 10: India commits wide- from the Xichang Satellite Launch magnitude temblor in Indonesia.
Columbia. ranging aid to Laos after talks be- Centre in Sichuan province. Oct. 26: China unveils the world’s
Aug. 19: Last U.S. combat brigade tween Presidents Pratibha Patil and Oct. 3: Brazilians cast ballots in fastest bullet train linking Shanghai
leaves Iraq seven years after leading Choumally Sayasone in Vientiane. presidential polls. Nepalese mountaineer and Hangzhou, which will run at 350
the invasion of the nation. Sept. 11: The former Australian Oct. 4: Dr. Robert G. Edwards, Chhewang Nima Sherpa km per hour.
Aug. 21: Australians cast ballots Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is allo- British scientist and IVF pioneer, The Iraq High Tribunal sentences
in snap national elections. cated Foreign Ministry. Wayne who created Louise Brown the Oct. 13: Thirtythree miners to death former Deputy Prime Min-
Dutch solo sailor Laura Dekker Swan is Deputy Prime Minister and world’s first test tube baby in 1978 is trapped since August 5 in the col- ister Tariq Aziz.
(14) begins her round-the-world re- Stephen Smith gets Defence. awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for lapsed San Jose mine in Chile’s Ata- Paul, the octopus, who fascinated
cord bid from the Portuguese port of Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere bags Medicine. cama desert are pulled out safely football fans with its predictions
Portimao. the Golden Lion Prize at the 67th Oct. 5: Andre Geim of the Nether- using the “Phoenix” rescue capsule. during this year’s World Cup dies in
Aug. 23: After a ten-hour hostage Venice Film Festival. The Silver lands and Russian–British national Oct. 15: Israel’s government ends an aquarium in the German city of
crisis, six passengers of a tourist bus Lion for best director goes to Konstantin Novoselov are jointly an unofficial freeze on new building Oberhausen.
are killed in the Philippines capital Alex de la Iglesia for Balada triste de awarded the Nobel Physics Prize for in east Jerusalem. At least 30 people are killed after
Manila by a sacked police officer who Trompeta (A Sad Trumpet Ballad). their works on graphene, the world’s Oct. 19: Author J.K. Rowling is Indonesia’s most volatile volcano
is later shot dead by security forces. Sept. 15: Russia and Norway sign thinnest and strongest presented the first Hans Christian Mount Merapi erupts.
Miss Mexico Jimena Navarrete is The Treaty on Maritime Delimita- nanomaterial.
crowned Miss Universe 2010 at the tion and Cooperation in the Barents Life term for Faisal Shahzad, the
59th annual pageant held in Las Sea and the Arctic Ocean, in the Rus- Pakistan-born U.S. citizen, charged
Vegas. sian seaport of Murmansk. with the May 1 Times Square bomb
A Federal Court in Washington Sept. 17: A court marshal recom- plot.
blocks most government financing mends a three-year jail term for for- Oct. 6: Richard F. Heck of the U.S.
for embryonic stem cell research. mer Sri Lankan Army Chief Sarath and Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki
Aug. 24: Six MPs among 30 killed Fonseka. of Japan are chosen for the Nobel
in a rampage at a hotel in the Somalia Prize for Chemistry for the devel-
capital Mogadishu. opment of “palladium–catalysed
Fortytwo persons are killed when cross-coupling”.
a passenger jet overshoots a runway Oct. 7: Mario Vargas Llosa, cele-
in northeast China. brated Peruvian–Spanish author is
Aug. 26: The High Court of Ban- chosen for the Nobel Prize for
gladesh declares illegal the Seventh Literature.
Amendment to the Constitution that Oct. 8: Jailed Chinese political
legalised the autocratic rule of Gen- activist, Liu Xiaobo is awarded the
eral Hussein Muhammad Ershad. Nobel Peace Prize.
Aug. 27: Kenya’s President Mwai Oct. 10: Kyrgyzstan voters cast
Kibaki signs a new Constitution into ballots in landmark parliamentary
law. polls.
Aug. 28: China passes a first-of- Parade in Hanoi to mark millenni-
its-kind law to set up “mediation um of the Vietnamese capital.
British physiologist Robert G. Edwards, left, attends the 30th
committees” to handle conflicts at Oct. 11: Peter Diamond and Dale anniversary of the world’s first ‘‘test tube’’ baby Louise Joy Brown,
the grassroots level. Peruvian-Spanish author Mario Mortensen of the U.S. and British- right, holding her son Cameron. At centre left is her mother, Lesley
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village in Sancti Spiritus province. Prize in absentia at an Oslo
Nov. 5: Nearly 70 worshippers ceremony.
are killed in the suicide bombing at a India and the European Union
mosque in Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa, agree on a new initiative to improve
Pakistan. cultural ties, among other things, at
One hundred and ninety one peo- the EU-India Summit in Brussels.
ple are killed as Indonesia’s Mount Dec. 11: Car bomb blasts rock the
Merapi unleashes its most powerful Swedish capital Stockholm.
eruption in a century. Dec. 12: Kosovo votes in its first
Nov. 7: Low turnout marks elections since declaring independ-
Myanmar polls being held after two ence from Serbia in 2008.
decades. Dec. 13: Iran’s President Mah-
Nov. 8: Exodus following deadly moud Ahmadinejad dismisses For-
clashes between Myanmar troops eign Minister Manoucher Mottaki.
and Karen rebels in Myawaddy Brazil’s President Dilma Richard Holbrooke (69), the U.S.
town. Rousseff. President Barack Obama’s Special Richard Holbrooke
Aasia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian is Representative for Afghanistan and
handed down death penalty for DECEMBER Pakistan passes away at the George William and Kate Middleton is re-
blasphemy. Dec. 4: India’s Nicole Faria is Washington University Hospital in leased in London.
Nov. 9: Rolls-Royce signs a record crowned Miss Earth Talent 2010 in Washington of complications from Dec. 24: The Russian Parliament
Relatives of a miner react while $1.2-billion deal to sell jet engines to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. 21 hours of surgery to repair rup- gives preliminary approval for New
China Eastern Airlines. An explosion derails the Thar Ex- tured aorta. START treaty.
watching on a TV screen the Nov. 12: G20 summit in Seoul press near Dhabaji, in the Sindh Dec. 15: At last 48 refugees one Dec. 25: At least 49 persons are
rescue operation at the camp agrees to curb “persistently large im- province of Pakistan. killed after their wooden boat shat- killed and over 100 injured after a
outside the San Jose mine near balances” in saving and spending. At last 41 people are killed in a ters after crashing into rocks at woman suicide bomber targets peo-
Copiapo, Chile. The 16th Asian Games gets off to a four-day inferno triggered by a for- Christmas Island, Australia. ple at a World Food Programme cen-
colourful start in Guangzhou, China. est fire in Israel. Thirtynine persons are killed in a tre in Bajaur tribal agency in
Oct. 27: France’s Parliament Nov. 13: Aung Suu Kyi, Myan- Dec. 6: Forty persons are killed suicide attack in the south-eastern Pakistan. An earthquake causes a
grants final approval to a bill raising mar’s celebrated pro-democracy and 60 injured as two suicide bom- Iranian city of Chabahar. minor tsunami in the South Pacific.
the retirement age from 60 to 62. leader is freed from house arrest in bers in police uniform target a tribal The Facebook founder Mark Jayachandra Elaprolu, a student
The former Argentine President Yangon. area in Pakistan. Zuckerberg is named Time maga- from Andhra Pradesh, is shot dead in
Nestor Kirchner (60), dies in Buenos Nov. 19: Sri Lankan President Dec. 7: WikiLeaks founder Julian zine’s 2010 Person of the Year. a robbery at a gas station in Pasadena
Aires after suffering from severe Mahinda Rajapaksa is sworn in for a Assange is arrested by the British The U.N. Security Council eases city of Texas state.
heart trouble. second term in Colombo. police following surrender at a Cen- sanctions on Iraq. Curtains on oil Dec. 27: The jailed former Rus-
India signs the convention on Nov. 22: At least 350 people are tral London police station. for-food programme. sian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkov-
Supplementary Compensation for killed and 750 injured in a stampede Iran should fulfil its obligations to Dec. 16: WikiLeaks founder Ju- sky is found guilty of stealing oil
Nuclear Damage at the IAEA head- on an overcrowded bridge at a Cam- the IAEA, says the Gulf Cooperation lian Assange is freed. from his firm Yukos in his second
quarters in Vienna. bodian water festival. Council summit in Abu Dhabi. Dec. 17: U.S. missile attacks leave trial.
Oct. 30: Alexandria Mills from Sri Lankan President Mahinda Dec. 8: At least 83 inmates of a 54 killed in Pakistan’s Khyber tribal Dec. 30: The former Israeli Presi-
the U.S. is crowned Miss World 2010 Rajapaksa unveils a 90-member Chilean prison are killed in a fire set region. dent, Moshe Katsav, is held guilty of
at a glittering ceremony in Sanya, Cabinet. off by rioting fellow prisoners. Venezuelan lawmakers vote to let rape by a Tel Aviv court.
China. Nov. 23: Two south Korean ma- Space X, a private U.S. firm con- President Hugo Chavez bypass Par- A Moscow judge hands down a
Oct. 31: Brazilians vote in presi- rines and two civilians are killed and ducts a perfect launch into orbit and liament and rule by decree for 18 13.5-year jail term to former oil ty-
dential run-off. 16 others injured as North Korea back of the Dragon Capsule. months. coon Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
NOVEMBER shells Yeonpyeong island in the dis- Dec. 9: A teenager is sentenced by Dec. 18: The U.S. Senate votes to Dec. 31: Australia’s northeast is
Nov. 1: Dilma Rousseff becomes puted waters of the Yellow sea. the Supreme Court for the January 2 repeal the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell law battered by floods. Forced evacua-
Brazil’s first-ever woman President. Nov. 24: The world’s first tiger murder of an Indian youth Nitin that will allow the military to permit tion in Rockhampton town.
Nov. 2: Britain and France sign an summit wraps up in Russia, with Garg in Cruickshank Park in Mel- gays to serve openly.
unprecedented 50-year nuclear deal. leaders giving nod to a Global Tiger bourne, Australia. Dec. 19: Belarus President Alex-
The Republican Party sweeps to Recovery Programme. Dec. 10: Chinese dissident Liu ander Lukashenko wins a fourth
power in the election to the 112th Nov. 27: The fuelling of Iran’s straight term in office.
United States Congress. Democrats’ first nuclear plant in Bushehr is Dec. 21: Iraq’s Parliament con-
strength in Senate slashed. Nimrata completed. firms Nouri al-Maliki as Prime Min-
Nikki Randhawa Haley is elected The 15-day 16th Asian Games in ister for a second term.
South Carolina Governor. Guangzhou, China concludes. Dec. 22: The U.S. Senate passes
British Labour peer Swraj Paul re- Nov. 28: WikiLeaks, the Whis- the New START treaty with Russia.
signs as Deputy Speaker of the tleblowers’ website, leaks to media Australia apologises and makes a
House of Lords. outlets of more than 250,000 classi- payout to Indian doctor Mohamed
Nov. 3: Indonesia’s Mount Mera- fied cables sent from U.S. embassies. Haneef for wrongly detaining and
pi erupts with its biggest blast yet Alassane Ouattara wins the sec- charging him with involvement in a
shooting searing ash kilometres into ond round of Ivory Coast presiden- terrorism plot in Britain in 2007.
the air. tial polls. Incumbent Laurent Dec. 23: The International Con-
Indian-American Kamala Harris Gbagbo refuses to accept verdict. vention for the Protection of all Per-
wins election for Attorney-General Nov. 29: The 10-day 16th United sons From Enforced Disappearance
of California. Nations Framework Convention on enters into force. Mark Zuckerberg, chief
Nov. 4: All 68 people on board a Climate Change opens in Cancun, A commemorative coin marking executive officer of Facebook
Cuban plane are killed after it crash- Mexico. Liu Xiaobo the engagement of Britain’s Prince Inc.

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