Wikipedia:ITN archives/2010/April
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| ITNs | Days | Continents | Countries |
|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | 30 | 4/7 |
- The British government establishes the UK Space Agency to manage all of the country's civil space activities.[1]
- Children in India are granted a legal right to a free education.[2]
- A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hits Baja California, Mexico.[3]
- 114 miners are rescued from a flooded mine in Shanxi, China, after being trapped for more than a week.[4]
- Space Shuttle Discovery launches on mission STS-131 carrying the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module to the International Space Station.[5]
- Maoist rebels kill at least 72 Indian soldiers in an attack on security convoys in Dantewada district in the central Indian state of Chattisgarh.[6]
- Wikileaks releases a video from 2007 showing the killing of civilians, including two Reuters news staff, by American military forces in Baghdad, Iraq.[7]
- At least 96 people die in floods and mudslides in Rio de Janeiro and surrounding areas of Brazil.[8]
- Police open fire on demonstrators in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, killing at least twelve people.[9]
- The Duke Blue Devils defeat the Butler Bulldogs, 61-59, to win their fourth U.S. men's college basketball title.[10]
- A new species of monitor lizard, growing up to 2 meter, is discovered in Philippines.[11]
- British Airways and Iberia agree to a merger, creating the third largest airline in the world.[12]
- The discovery of a new hominid species Australopithecus sediba, believed to be an ancestor of either Homo habilis or Homo erectus, is announced.[13]
- United States President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign a new arms reduction treaty to limit the number of nuclear warheads and missiles.[14]
- Polish President Lech Kaczyński and wife Maria die in a plane crash in Western Russia.[15]
- Twenty people are killed after violence breaks out between government forces and protesters in Thailand.[16]
- The creation of ununseptium, element with atomic number 117, is announced.[17]
- An explosion in a mine in West Virginia kills 29 miners.[18]
- The 18th Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan is passed, removing the power of the President to dissolve Parliament.[19]
- Phil Mickelson win his third Masters title with a score of 16 under par, besting his nearest competitor by three strokes.[20]
- The center-right party Fidesz led by Viktor Orban wins absolute majority in the parliamentary election in Hungary.[21]
- A landslide causes a train to derail in Merano, Italy, killing several people and injuring dozens.[22]
- At least 300 people are killed in an earthquake in Qinghai province, China.[23]
- Leaders of more than forty countries agree to a plan combating nuclear terrorism at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C.[24]
- A severe storm strikes Bangladesh and eastern India, killing more than 100 people and destroying more than 50,000 homes.[25]
- Ash from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland causes the closure of airspace over the British Isles and Scandinavia.[26]
- The GSAT-4 satellite is lost in the failure of the maiden flight of the GSLV Mk.II, India's first rocket with an indigenous cryogenic upper stage.[27]
- The United Kingdom holds a live, pre-election debate between the leaders of the largest political parties for the first time in the country's history.[28]
- President Kurmanbek Bakiyev officially resigns after he leaves Kyrgyzstan for Kazakhstan.[29]
- A pair of bombings on a center for displaced people near Kohat, Pakistan kill more than 40 people.[30]
- A state funeral is held for Polish President Lech Kaczyński in Krakow, following a week of mourning in the wake of his fatal plane crash.[31]
- Venezuelan boxer Edwin Valero is found dead from an apparent suicide at the age of 28.[32]
- Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot of Kenya wins the 2010 Boston Marathon, setting a new course record.[33]
- The party of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa wins the general elections, securing 144 of the 225 parliamentary seats.[34]
- Juan Antonio Samaranch, the 7th president of the International Olympic Committee, dies at the age of 89.[35]
- Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych agrees to extend Russia's lease on the Black Sea Fleet naval base in Sevastapol for 25 years in exchange for discounted natural gas.[36]
- Eleven people are missing following the explosion of the oil rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico.[37]
- A series of explosions in Bangkok kills at least one person and injures 86 others during a peak in tension between anti- and pro-government protesters in Thailand.[38]
- An Atlas V rocket launches a experimental military spaceplane, the X-37B, on its maiden flight.[39]
- Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousaf Raza Gillani announces a new energy policy which extends the official weekend and bans neon signs to combat an energy crisis.[40]
- A clash in South Darfur kills 58 and raises tensions along the internal border.[41]
- At least 85 people are killed in more than a dozen bombings over two days in Baghdad.[42]
- Eighty people over three weeks die from multiple organ failure after drinking waragi in Kabale, Uganda.[43]
- Heinz Fischer is reelected President of Austria.[44]
- Tsegaye Kebede wins the men's race of the 2010 London Marathon and Liliya Shobukhova wins the women's event.[45]
- Standard & Poor's downgrades Greece's debt to junk status, four days after the country's government requested the activation of a €45-billion EU–IMF bailout.[46]
- Former military dictator of Panama Manuel Noriega is extradited from the United States to France.[47]
- Belgium's King Albert accepts the resignation of Prime Minister Yves Leterme, ending Leterme's government, and leading to early elections.[48]
- Omar al-Bashir is re-elected President of Sudan, after an election criticised by foreign observers and opposition leaders.[49]
- The U.S. Coast Guard initiates a controlled burn of the 4,700-mi2 (12,000-km2) oil spill resulting from the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.[50]
- Expo 2010, the largest world's fair in history, opens in Shanghai, China.[51]
References
[edit]- ^ UK Space Agency (User:Dumelow)
- ^ The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (User:Chaser)
- ^ 2010 Baja California earthquake (User:Tone)
- ^ 2010 Wangjialing coal mine flood (User:Tone)
- ^ STS-131 (User:Tone)
- ^ 2010 Maoist attack in Dantewada (User:Tinucherian)
- ^ July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike controversy (User:NuclearWarfare)
- ^ April 2010 Rio de Janeiro floods and mudslides (User:BanyanTree)
- ^ 2010 Kyrgyzstan riots (User:Tone)
- ^ 2010 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament (User:AuburnPilot)
- ^ Varanus bitatawa (User:Tone)
- ^ History of British Airways (User:Chaser)
- ^ Australopithecus sediba (User:Tone)
- ^ START treaty (2010) (User:Tone)
- ^ 2010 Polish Air Force TU-154 crash (User:Killiondude)
- ^ 2010 Thai political protests (User:Tone)
- ^ ununseptium (User:Tone)
- ^ Upper Big Branch Mine disaster (User:ThaddeusB)
- ^ Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ 2010 Masters (User:ThaddeusB)
- ^ Hungarian parliamentary election, 2010 (User:Tone)
- ^ 2010 Merano train derailment (User:ThaddeusB)
- ^ 2010 Qinghai earthquake (User:Tone)
- ^ Nuclear Security Summit (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ 2010 eastern Indian nor'wester (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ Eyjafjallajökull (User:Tone)
- ^ GSAT-4 (User:Fox)
- ^ United Kingdom general election debates, 2010 (User:ThaddeusB)
- ^ Kurmanbek Bakiyev (User:Tone)
- ^ April 2010 Kohat bombings (User:ThaddeusB)
- ^ Death and state funeral of Lech Kaczyński (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ Edwin Valero (User:Tariqabjotu) Later removed by User:Smashville as "this one needs more discussion".
- ^ Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 2010 (User:YellowMonkey)
- ^ Juan Antonio Samaranch (User:Tone)
- ^ Russia–Ukraine gas disputes#2010 gas agreement (User:Dumelow)
- ^ 2010 Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ 2010 Thai political protests#Explosions in Bangkok (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ X-37B OTV-1 (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ Pakistan national energy policy (User:Dumelow)
- ^ 2010 South Darfur attack (User:Chaser)
- ^ April 2010 Baghdad bombings (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ waragi (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ Austrian presidential election, 2010 (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ 2010 London Marathon (User:Dumelow)
- ^ Economy of Greece#2010 debt crisis (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ Manuel Noriega#Extradition (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Leterme II Government (User:ThaddeusB)
- ^ Sudanese general election, 2010 (User:Dumelow)
- ^ Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ Expo 2010 (User:Cenarium)