Explore 1542 historical events from 2010–2019.
The Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit was a boilerplate version of the Dragon spacecraft manufactured by SpaceX. After using it for ground tests to rate Dragon's shape and mass …
Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Stati
Juan Antonio Samaranch y Torelló, 1st Marquess of Samaranch was a Spanish sports administrator under the Franco regime (1973–1977) who served as the seventh president of the Intern…
Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish businessman, seventh President of the International Olympic Committee (born 1920)
Kanagaratnam Sriskandan was a Sri Lankan born British engineer and civil servant. He was the former Chief Highway Engineer, of Under Secretary Grade at the British Department for…
Kanagaratnam Sriskandan, Sri Lankan-English engineer and civil servant (born 1930)
Richard Barrett was an American white nationalist, lawyer and self-proclaimed leader in the nationalist Skinheadz movement. Barrett was a speaker and editor of the All The Way mont…
Richard Barrett, American lawyer and activist (born 1943)
Peter Neville Frederick Porter OAM was a British-based Australian poet.
Peter Porter, Australian-born British poet (born 1929)
Alan Sillitoe FRSL was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the 1950s. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied. He…
Alan Sillitoe, English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet (born 1928)
The Nagahan wedding bombing was a suicide bombing on a wedding party, which occurred on 9 June 2010 at around 21:00 local time in the village of Nagahan in Arghandab District of Ka…
At least 40 people are killed and more than 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a wedding party in Arghandab, Kandahar
The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition among the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Associatio…
The first African FIFA World Cup kicks off in South Africa
Hayabusa was a robotic spacecraft developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to return a sample of material from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa to…
A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth by l
Bhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia, located in the Eastern Himalayas, bordering China to the north and northwest and India to the south…
Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco
Dorothy Irene Height was an African-American civil rights and women's rights activist. She focused on the issues of Foundational Black American women, including unemployment, illit…
Dorothy Height, American educator and activist (born 1912)
Urs Felber, a pioneer of furniture design, was the CEO of Vitra USA. Felber was also the board director for several companies including Swissflex and was chairman and principal sha…
Urs Felber, Swiss engineer and businessman (born 1942)
Avigdor Arikha was a Romanian-born French–Israeli artist, printmaker and art historian.
Avigdor Arikha, French-Israeli artist, printmaker and art historian (born 1929)
Helen Losee Wagner was an American actress.
Helen Wagner, American actress (born 1918)
Lynn Rachel Redgrave was a British and American actress. During a career that spanned five decades, she won two Golden Globe Awards and was nominated for two Academy Awards, four B…
Lynn Redgrave, English-American actress and singer (born 1943)
Joseph Roy Carrier Sr., known professionally as Roy Carrier, was an American Zydeco musician. He was the father of Chubby and Dikki Du Carrier, who followed their father into Zydec…
Roy Carrier, American accordion player (born 1947)
Dorothy Michelle Provine was an American singer, dancer and actress. Born in 1935 in Deadwood, South Dakota, she grew up in Seattle, Washington, and was hired in 1958 by Warner Bro…
Dorothy Provine, American actress and singer (born 1935)
Mariam A. Aleem was an Egyptian artist and art professor specializing in printed design. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts Cairo in 1954 and her Maste…
Mariam A
Peter O'Donnell was an English writer of mysteries and of comic strips, best known as the creator of Modesty Blaise, an action heroine/undercover trouble-shooter. He was also a got…
Peter O'Donnell, English soldier and author (born 1920)
Günter F. Wendt was a German-born American mechanical engineer noted for his work in the U.S. human spaceflight program. An employee of McDonnell Aircraft and later North American …
Guenter Wendt, German-American engineer (born 1923)
Giulietta Simionato was an Italian mezzo-soprano. Her career spanned the period from the 1930s until her retirement in 1966.
Giulietta Simionato, Italian soprano (born 1910)
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was a Nigerian politician who served as the president of Nigeria from 2007 until his death in May 2010. He won the Nigerian presidential election held on 21 A…
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Nigerian academic and politician, 13th President of Nigeria (born 1951)
Robin Evan Roberts was an American Major League Baseball starting pitcher who pitched primarily for the Philadelphia Phillies (1948–1961). He spent the latter part of his career wi…
Robin Roberts, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (born 1926)
Adele Mara was an American actress, singer, and dancer, who appeared in films during the 1940s and 1950s and on television in the 1950s and 1960s.
Adele Mara, American actress, singer and dancer (born 1923)