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Business and economy Austerity measures of pay cuts and pension freeze supported by the European Union and International Monetary Fund (IMF) cause civil servants to stage a 24-hour strike in Greece. (Al Jazeera) The United States dollar reaches a 15-year low against the Japanese yen and depreciates against a range of other currencies due to concerns about further quantitative easing by the ...
October 2010 crimes in the United States (2 P) Pages in category "October 2010 in the United States" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
2010 – Milka Planinc, Croatian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1924) 2011 – Ramiz Alia, Albanian politician, 1st President of Albania (b. 1925) 2011 – Andrew Laszlo, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1926) 2012 – Mervyn M. Dymally, Trinidadian-American politician, 41st Lieutenant Governor of California ...
Climate change in California has lengthened the fire season and made it more extreme from the middle of the 20th century. [4] [5]Since the early 2010s, wildfires in California have grown more dangerous because of the accumulation of wood fuel in forests, higher population, and aging and often poorly maintained electricity transmission and distribution lines, particularly in areas serviced by ...
The single "We Are the World 25 for Haiti" was released and debuted on 12 February 2010 during an opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics. February 12 – 28 – The United States compete at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver , British Columbia , and win 9 gold, 15 silver, and 13 bronze medals.
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck Los Mochis in the Gulf of California, Mexico, on October 21. [182] A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck the Molucca Sea on October 25. [183] A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Sumatra, Indonesia on October 25, killing 408 and leaving 303 people missing. [6] [184] A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck Sumatra, Indonesia ...
In 1976, gunmen stormed a school bus carrying 26 children – ages 5 to 14 – and their bus driver in Chowchilla, California. As part of a ransom plot, they drove the hostages into a rock quarry ...
October 3, 2023 – McCarthy becomes the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives to be removed from office. [42] October 25, 2023 – Mike Johnson elected Speaker. [43] October 2023–present – Over 115 attacks occur on U.S. military bases in Iraq and Syria. [44]