Explore 1542 historical events from 2010–2019.
Andrew Maurice Gold was an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and record producer who influenced much of the Los Angeles-dominated pop/soft rock sound in the 1970s…
Andrew Gold, American singer, songwriter, musician and arranger (born 1951)
Bhajan Lal was a politician and three-time chief minister of the Indian state of Haryana. He became the Chief Minister for the first time in 1979, was re-elected in 1982, and becam…
Bhajan Lal, Indian politician, 6th Chief Minister of Haryana (born 1930)
Juan Francisco Luis was a Puerto Rican-U.S. Virgin Islander politician who served as the third governor of the United States Virgin Islands, and the territory's 23rd governor overa…
Juan Francisco Luis, Virgin Islander sergeant and politician, 23rd Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (born 19
Mahbubul Haque Khan, known professionally as Azam Khan, was a Bangladeshi singer-songwriter, record producer, and the lead singer of the pioneering pop-rock band Uchcharon. Widely …
Azam Khan, Bangladeshi singer-songwriter (born 1950)
Maqbool Fida Husain was an Indian painter and film director who painted narrative paintings in a modified Cubist style. One of the founding members of Bombay Progressive Artists' G…
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Tomoko Kawakami was a Japanese voice actress. She was also known by her pen-name Tomozou (とも蔵), and her Christian name Cecilia . Having graduated from the Toho Gakuen College of D…
Tomoko Kawakami, Japanese voice actress (born 1970)
Michael Anthony Mitchell was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA), over eleven seasons, from 1978 to 1990.
Mike Mitchell, American basketball player (born 1956)
Eliyahu Moshe Goldratt was an Israeli business management guru. He was the originator of the Optimized Production Technique, the Theory of Constraints (TOC), the Thinking Processes…
Eliyahu M
René Audet was a Canadian bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.
René Audet, Canadian bishop (born 1920)
Bill Haast was the owner and operator, from 1947 until 1984, of the Miami Serpentarium, a tourist attraction south of Miami, Florida, where he entertained customers by performing l…
Bill Haast, American herpetologist and academic (born 1910)
Rex Peers "Moose" Mossop was an Australian rugby union and rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s – a dual-code international, and an Australian televisio…
Rex Mossop, Australian rugby player and sportscaster (born 1928)
Brian Joseph Lenihan was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Minister for Finance from 2008 to 2011, Deputy leader of Fianna Fáil from March 2011 to June 2011, Minister f…
Brian Lenihan Jnr, Irish lawyer and politician, 25th Irish Minister for Finance (born 1959)
Östen Mäkitalo was a Swedish electrical engineer. He is considered to be one of the most important developers in modern times together with Laila Ohlgren, both engineers at Telia. …
Östen Mäkitalo, Swedish engineer and academic (born 1938)
Yelena Georgiyevna Bonner was a human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and wife of the physicist, activist and 1975 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov. During her…
Yelena Bonner, Russian activist (born 1923)
Frederick Jacob Titus Chiluba was a Zambian politician who was the second president of Zambia from 1991 to 2002. Chiluba, a trade union leader, won the country's multi-party presid…
Frederick Chiluba, Zambian politician, 2nd President of Zambia (born 1943)
Clarence Anicholas Clemons Jr., also known as The Big Man, was an American saxophonist. From 1972 until his death in 2011, he was the saxophonist for Bruce Springsteen and The E St…
Clarence Clemons, American saxophonist (born 1942)
Ryan Matthew Dunn was an American stunt performer, television personality, and actor. He was one of the stars of the MTV reality stunt show Jackass and its film franchise.
Ryan Dunn, American television personality (born 1977)
The Guantánamo Bay files leak began on 24 April 2011, when WikiLeaks, along with The New York Times, NPR and The Guardian and other independent news organizations, began publishin…
Secret documents relating to detainees at the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camp were released on WikiLeaks an
William, Prince of Wales, is the heir apparent to the British throne. He is the elder son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales.
Watched by a worldwide television audience of tens of millions, Prince William and Catherine Middleton were married at W
The 2011 Super Outbreak was the largest and costliest tornado outbreak ever recorded, taking place in the Southern, Midwestern, and Northeastern United States from April 25 to 28, …
During the most active day of the 2011 Super Outbreak 218 tornadoes killed 317 people across 16 U
The Conservative Party of Canada, sometimes referred to as the Tories, is a federal political party in Canada. The party sits at the centre-right to right of the Canadian political…
The Conservative Party of Canada won enough seats in the federal election to establish their first majority government
On May 2, 2011, the United States conducted Operation Neptune Spear, in which SEAL Team Six shot and killed Osama bin Laden at his "Waziristan Haveli" in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Bin …
Osama bin Laden was killed by U
The 2011 Lorca earthquake was a moderate 5.1 Mw earthquake that occurred 6:47 p.m. CEST on 11 May 2011, near the town of Lorca, causing significant localized damage in the Region o…
An earthquake registering Mw 5
A double bombing occurred on 13 May 2011 in Shabqadar Fort in Charsadda District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. 98 people were killed when two suicide bombs exploded i…
Two bomb explosions in Charsadda District, Pakistan, killed 98 people and wounded 140 others