Explore 1541 historical events from 2010–2019.
Jimmy Ray Dean was an American country music singer, television host, actor and businessman. He was the creator of the Jimmy Dean sausage brand as well as the spokesman for its TV …
Jimmy Dean, American singer and businessman, founded Jimmy Dean Foods (born 1928)
Marc Louis Bazin was a World Bank official, former United Nations functionary, and Haitian Minister of Finance and Economy under the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier. He was th…
Marc Bazin, Haitian lawyer and politician, 49th President of Haiti (born 1932)
Maureen Kathleen Stewart Forrester, was a Canadian operatic contralto.
Maureen Forrester, Canadian singer and academic (born 1930)
Ronald Neame CBE, BSC was an English filmmaker and cinematographer. Beginning his career as a cinematographer, for his work on the British war film One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (…
Ronald Neame, English director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter (born 1911)
Michael Verdi, best known by his ring name Trent Acid, was an American professional wrestler.
Trent Acid, American wrestler (born 1980)
José de Sousa Saramago was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with wh…
José Saramago, Portuguese novelist Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922)
Okan Demiriş was a Turkish composer. He was married to the soprano Leyla Demiris.
Okan Demiriş, Turkish composer (born 1942)
Manute Bol was a Dinka Sudanese-American professional basketball player and political activist. Listed at 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) or 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m) tall, Bol was one of the two tall…
Manute Bol, Sudanese-American basketball player and activist (born 1962)
Anthony Meredith Quinton, Baron Quinton was an English political and moral philosopher, metaphysician, and materialist philosopher of mind. He served as President of Trinity Colleg…
Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton, English philosopher and academic (born 1925)
Carlos Monsiváis Aceves was a Mexican philosopher, writer, critic, political activist, and journalist. He also wrote political opinion columns in leading newspapers within the coun…
Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican writer, journalist and political activist (born 1938)
Roberto Rosato was an Italian footballer, who played as a defender.
Roberto Rosato, Italian footballer (born 1943)
Harry Blackmore Whittington FRS was a British palaeontologist who made a major contribution to the study of fossils of the Burgess Shale and other Cambrian fauna. His works are lar…
Harry B
Sir Stephen Creswell Timms is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Ham, formerly Newham North East, since 1994. A member of the Labour Party, he…
British politician Stephen Timms survived a murder attempt by an Islamic extremist during a constituency surgery
The Royal Thai Armed Forces are the armed forces of Thailand.
In Bangkok, the Thai military (pictured) concluded a week-long crackdown on widespread protests by forcing the surrender
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…
A child suicide bomber attacked a wedding in Nadahan, Afghanistan, killing at least 40 people and injuring at least 70 o
On April 20, 2010, an explosion and fire occurred on the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit, which was owned and operated by Transocean and drilling f…
An explosion on Deepwater Horizon, an offshore rig in the Gulf of Mexico, resulted in the largest marine oil spill in hi
The Agreement between Ukraine and Russia on the Black Sea Fleet in Ukraine, widely referred to as the Kharkiv Pact or Kharkov Accords, was a treaty between Ukraine and Russia where…
Ukraine and Russia signed the Kharkiv Pact, extending the Russian lease on naval facilities in Crimea
Janice Kay Brewer is an American politician who served as the 22nd governor of Arizona from 2009 to 2015, as a member of the Republican Party. Prior to this, Brewer was a member of…
Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed into law the controversial anti–illegal immigration bill SB 1070, much of which was l
Faisal Shahzad is a Pakistani-American man who was arrested for the attempted May 1, 2010, Times Square car bombing. On June 21, 2010, in Federal District Court in Manhattan, he co…
Faisal Shahzad attempted to detonate a car bomb in Times Square, New York City, but it failed to explode
Neanderthals are an extinct group of archaic humans who inhabited Europe and Western and Central Asia during the Middle to Late Pleistocene. Neanderthal extinction occurred roughly…
A draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome was published, demonstrating that today's humans have Neanderthal ancestors
David William Donald Cameron, Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton, is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. Until 2015, he led the…
David Cameron took office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats formed the
Abigail Jillian Sunderland is an American sailor who, in 2010, attempted to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world.
Sixteen-year-old Abby Sunderland was rescued after her boat was dismasted in the Indian Ocean while trying to become the
James Gordon Brown is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2010. Previously, he was Chancellor of the…
Gordon Brown resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party after failing to strike a c
Tripoli International Airport is a closed international airport built to serve Tripoli, the capital city of Libya. The airport is located in the area of Qasr bin Ghashir, 24 kilome…
On arrival at Tripoli International Airport, Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crashed into the ground at a speed of 262 kn (