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2010 Calendar

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•  January 25, 2010 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take-off from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing all 90 people on-board.
•  February 14, 2010 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Tiger in Chinese astrology.
•  February 20, 2010 – In Madeira Island, Portugal, heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, resulting in at least 43 deaths, in the worst disaster in the history of the archipelago.
•  March 9, 2010 – The first same-sex marriages in Washington, D.C., take place.
•  May 15, 2010 – Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.
•  May 19, 2010 – The Royal Thai Armed Forces concludes its crackdown on protests by forcing the surrender of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship leaders.
•  June 24, 2010 – John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in professional tennis history.
•  August 8, 2010 – 2010 China floods: A mudslide in Zhugqu County, Gansu, China, kills more than 1,400 people.
•  November 19, 2010 – The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand; 29 people are killed in the nation’s worst mining disaster since 1914.
•  December 18, 2010 – Governmental protests begin in Tunisia, beginning the 2010-2011 Middle East and North Africa protests

•  May 28, 2010 – Prince Louis of Bourbon, elder son of Prince Louis, Duke of Anjou