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| 2010 January 4 |
| | | The Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai is inaugurated, entering the record books as the world tallest building at 828 m (2717 ft) | |
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| 2010 January 12 |
| | | Haiti is devastated by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake, causing more than 230,000 deaths | |
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| 2010 February 3 |
| | | A sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, L'Homme qui marche, sets a new auction record for a work of art at £65 million (US$103.7 million) | |
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| 2010 March 21 |
| | | President Obama's radical bill of health care reform is passed by a margin of seven votes in the House of Representatives and is signed into law two days later | |
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| 2010 April 7 |
| | | Violent riots break out in Kyrgyzstan, causing the president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, to flee from the capital, Bishek | |
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| 2010 April 10 |
| | | A plane carrying the president of Poland, Lech Kaczynski, and other high Polish officials crashes on the way to a commemoration of the Katyn massacre, killing all 96 people on board | |
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| 2010 April 14 |
| | | Volcanic ash from Eyjafjallajökull, a volcano beneath a glacier in Iceland,disrupts northern Europe air traffic for several days | |
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| 2010 April 15 |
| | | President Bakyev of Kyrgyzstan resigns and escapes into exile in Belarus | |
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| 2010 April 20 |
| | | An explosion destroys BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig, killing eleven people and starting a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico | |
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| 2010 April 23 |
| | | Greece is promised an EU and IMF bail-out package of 45 billion euros to cope with its high level of national debt | |
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