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On May 1, 2010, a terrorist attack was attempted in Times Square in Manhattan, New York, United States. Two street vendors alerted NYPD after they spotted smoke coming from a vehicle, and a car bomb was discovered. [1] [2] The bomb had been ignited, but failed to explode, and was disarmed before it caused any casualties.
Taiwan employs capital punishment for the first time since 2005, executing four men for "grave offences such as fatal kidnappings and murders". Two retired generals tell The Washington Post that, with more than 25 per cent of young Americans being "too fat to fight", obesity is threatening the future of the United States military.
Maria Vittoria Longhitano , Italy's first woman priest, belonging to a breakaway Catholic order, is ordained. (The Sydney Morning Herald) The Catholic Church requests the public to donate at least £1 million to church collections today to fund three big open air masses at which Pope Benedict XVI will present while in the UK. The rest of the ...
The May 2010 Mogadishu bombings were an attack at a mosque near the Bakaara market in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, on 1 May 2010. The bombs killed at least 39 [ 1 ] people and injured around 70 others.
On May 11, HBO officially released that the fight generated $78.3 million in revenue. [11] According to initial inside sources the PPV buyrate was expected to be around 1.1 to 1.5 million. buys. [15] With Richard Schaefer, the CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, who sponsored the fight saying he first thought that the buyrate would be around 3.5 to 4 ...
The 2010 Tennessee floods were floods in Middle Tennessee, West Tennessee, south-central and western Kentucky and northern Mississippi areas of the United States of America as the result of torrential rains on May 1 and 2, 2010. Floods from these rains affected the area for several days afterwards, resulting in a number of deaths and widespread ...
May 1 is the 121st day of the year (122nd in leap years) ... American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2010) 1981 – Alexander Hleb, Belarusian footballer;
May 1 – 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt: Car bomb fails to go off in Times Square, New York City. May 6 – The "flash crash" occurs at the New York Stock Exchange, temporarily depleting 1,000 points off of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It is the largest intra-day fall ever.