This article is about the year. For other uses, see 2010 (disambiguation). Millennium: 3rd millennium Centuries: 20th century – 21st century – 22nd century Decades: 1980s  1990s  2000s  – 2010s –  2020s  2030s  2040s Years: 2007 2008 2009 – 2010 – 2011 2012 2013 2010 by topic: News by month Jan – Feb – Mar – Apr – May – Jun Jul – Aug – Sep – Oct – Nov – Dec Arts Architecture – Art – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Metal, UK) – Radio – Television Politics Elections – Int'l leaders – Politics – State leaders – Sovereign states Science and technology Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Meteorology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Science – Spaceflight Sports Sport – Athletics (Track and Field) – Australian Football League – Baseball – Football (soccer) – Cricket – Ice Hockey – Motorsport – Tennis – Rugby league By place Algeria – Argentina – Australia – Canada – People's Republic of China – Denmark – El Salvador – Egypt – European Union – France – Germany – India – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Japan – Kenya – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Malaysia – Mexico – New Zealand – Norway – Pakistan – Palestinian territories – Philippines – Singapore – South Africa – South Korea – Spain – Sri Lanka – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States – Zimbabwe Other topics Awards – Games – Law – Religious leaders – Video gaming Birth and death categories Births – Deaths Establishments and disestablishments categories Establishments – Disestablishments Works and introductions categories Works – Introductions v · d · e v · d · e 2010 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 2010 MMX Ab urbe condita 2763 Armenian calendar 1459 ԹՎ ՌՆԾԹ Bahá'í calendar 166 – 167 Bengali calendar 1417 Berber calendar 2960 Buddhist calendar 2554 Burmese calendar 1372 Byzantine calendar 7518 – 7519 Chinese calendar 己丑年十一月十七日 (4646/4706-11-17) — to — 庚寅年十一月廿六日 (4647/4707-11-26) Coptic calendar 1726 – 1727 Ethiopian calendar 2002 – 2003 Hebrew calendar 5770 – 5771 Hindu calendars  - Bikram Samwat 2066 – 2067  - Shaka Samvat 1932 – 1933  - Kali Yuga 5111 – 5112 Holocene calendar 12010 Iranian calendar 1388 – 1389 Islamic calendar 1431 – 1432 Japanese calendar Heisei 22 (平成22年) Korean calendar 4343 Thai solar calendar 2553 Unix time 1262304000 – 1293839999 v · d · e 2010 (MMX) was a common year that started on a Friday in the Gregorian calendar. It was the 2010th year of the Common Era or the Anno Domini designation; the 10th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 1st of the 2010s decade. 2010 was designated the: International Year of Biodiversity International Year of Youth. Pronouncing 2010 and subsequent years Main article: 2010s Among experts and the general public, there is a debate as to how specific years of the 21st century should be pronounced in English. The year 2010 is pronounced either "twenty ten" or "two thousand (and) ten".1 Events Damaged buildings in Jacmel as a result of the Haiti Earthquake. January January 1 – Spain takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Sweden. January 1 – A suicide bombing occurs at a volleyball game in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 95, and injuring over 100.2 January 4 – The tallest man-made structure to date, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is officially opened.345 January 8 – The Togo national football team is involved in an attack in Angola, and as a result withdraws from the Africa Cup of Nations.6 January 12 – A 7.0-magnitude earthquake occurs in Haiti, devastating the nation's capital, Port-au-Prince. With a confirmed death toll over 230,000789 it is one of the deadliest on record. January 15 – The longest annular solar eclipse of the 3rd millennium occurs. January 25 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take-off from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing all 90 people on-board. The clock counting down to the opening of Olympics Games in Downtown Vancouver. February February 3 – The sculpture L'Homme qui marche I by Alberto Giacometti sells in London for £65 million (US$103.7 million), setting a new world record for a work of art sold at auction.101112 February 12–February 28 – The 2010 Winter Olympics are held in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada. February 18 – The President of Niger, Tandja Mamadou, is overthrown after a group of soldiers storms the presidential palace13 and form a ruling junta, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy headed by chef d'escadron Salou Djibo.14 February 27 – An 8.8-magnitude earthquake occurs in Chile, triggering a tsunami over the Pacific and killing 497.15 The earthquake is one of the largest in recorded history. March March 16 – The Kasubi Tombs, Uganda's only cultural World Heritage Site, are destroyed by fire.16 March 23 – The ROKS Cheonan, a South Korean Navy ship carrying 104 personnel, sinks off the country's west coast, killing 46. In May, an independent investigation blames North Korea, which denies the allegations.1718 Volcano plume from on Eyjafjallajokull 17 April 2010. April April 7 – Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev flees Bishkek amid fierce rioting, sparking a sociopolitical crisis. Former foreign minister Roza Otunbayeva is placed at the head of an interim government as the opposition seizes control.19 April 10 – The President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, is among 96 killed when their airplane crashes in western Russia.2021 April 13 – A 6.9-magnitude earthquake occurs in Qinghai, China, killing at least 2,000 and injuring more than 10,000.22 April 14 – Volcanic ash from one of several eruptions beneath Eyjafjallajökull, an ice cap in Iceland, begins to disrupt air traffic across northern and western Europe.232425 April 20 – The Deepwater Horizon oil platform explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers. The resulting oil spill, one of the largest in history, spreads for several months, damaging the waters and the United States coastline, and prompting international debate and doubt about the practice and procedures of offshore drilling.2627 April 27 – Standard & Poor's downgrades Greece's sovereign credit rating to junk four days after the activation of a €45-billion EU–IMF bailout, triggering the decline of stock markets worldwide and of the Euro's value,282829 and furthering a European sovereign debt crisis. Nude, Green Leaves and Bust by Pablo Picasso. May May 2 – The Eurozone and the International Monetary Fund agree to a €110 billion bailout package for Greece. The package involves sharp Greek austerity measures.30 May 4 – Nude, Green Leaves and Bust by Pablo Picasso sells in New York for US$106.5 million, setting another new world record for a work of art sold at auction.313233 May 7 – Scientists conducting the Neanderthal genome project announce that they have sequenced enough of the Neanderthal genome to suggest that Neanderthals and humans may have interbred.3435 May 12 – Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crashes at runway at Tripoli International Airport in Libya, killing 103 of the 104 people on board.36 May 19 – Protests in Bangkok, Thailand ends with a bloody military crackdown, killing 91 and more than 2,100 injured.3738 May 20 – Scientists announce that they have created a functional synthetic genome.39 May 20 – Five paintings worth €100 million are stolen from the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.4041 May 22 – Air India Express Flight 812 overshoots the runway at Mangalore International Airport in India, killing 158 and leaving 8 survivors.42 May 31 – Nine activists are killed in a clash with soldiers when Israeli Navy forces raid and capture a flotilla of ships attempting to break the Gaza blockade.4344 June June 9 – Ethnic riots in Kyrgyzstan between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks results in the deaths of hundreds.45 June 11–July 11 – The 2010 FIFA World Cup is held in South Africa, and is won by Spain. Satellite images of the upper Indus River valley comparing water-levels on 1 August 2009 (top) and 31 July 2010 (bottom) during the flooding in Pakistan July July 1 – Belgium takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Spain. July 8 – The first 24-hour flight by a solar powered plane is completed by the Solar Impulse.46 July 25 – Wikileaks, an online publisher of anonymous, covert, and classified material, leaks to the public over 90,000 internal reports about the United States-led involvement in the War in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.47 July 29 – Heavy monsoon rains begin to cause widespread flooding (pictured) in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Over 1,600 are killed, and more than one million are displaced by the floods.48 August August 10 – The World Health Organization declares the H1N1 influenza pandemic over, saying worldwide flu activity has returned to typical seasonal patterns.49 Luis Urzúa, the leader of the trapped miners and the last of the 33 to be lifted to freedom, celebrates with President Piñera at San José Mine, during "Operación San Lorenzo". September September 28 – Seven people are reported to have been killed and around 100 are missing after a landslide in Oaxaca, Mexico.50 Leaders of the G-20 countries present at the Seoul Summit. October October 10 – The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved, with the islands being split up and given a new constitutional status.51 October 13 – Thirty-three miners near Copiapó, Chile, trapped 700 metres underground in a mining accident in San José Mine, are brought back to the surface after surviving for a record 69 days.52 October 22 – The International Space Station surpasses the record for the longest continuous human occupation of space, having been continuously inhabited since November 2, 2000 (3641 days).5354 October 23 – In preparation for the Seoul summit, finance ministers of the G-20 agree to reform the International Monetary Fund and shift 6% of the voting shares to developing nations and countries with emerging markets.55 October 25 – An earthquake and consequent tsunami off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, kills over 400 people and leave hundreds missing.56 October 26–ongoing – Repeated eruptions of Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia, have killed at least 240 people and forced hundreds of thousands of residents to evacuate.575859 November November 4 – Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board.60 November 11–12 – The G-20 summit is held in Seoul, South Korea. Korea becomes the first non-G8 nation to host a G-20 leaders summit.61 November 13 – Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from her house arrest.62 November 17 – Researchers at CERN trap 38 antihydrogen atoms for a sixth of a second, marking the first time in history that humans have trapped antimatter.63 November 20 – Participants of the 2010 NATO Lisbon summit issued the Lisbon Summit Declaration. November 21 – Eurozone countries agree to a rescue package for the Republic of Ireland from the European Financial Stability Facility in response to the country's financial crisis.646566 November 22 – A stampede during Bon Om Thook (Khmer Water Festival) celebrations in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, kills 347.67 November 23 – North Korea shells Yeonpyeong Island, prompting a military response by South Korea. The incident caused an escalation of tension on the Korean Peninsula and prompted widespread international condemnation. The United Nations declared it to be one of the most serious incidents since the end of the Korean War.686970 November 28 – WikiLeaks releases a collection of more than 250,000 American diplomatic cables, including 100,000 marked "secret" or "confidential".7172 November 29 – The European Union agree to an €85 billion rescue deal for Ireland from the European Financial Stability Facility, the International Monetary Fund and bilateral loans from the United Kingdom, Denmark and Sweden.73 November 29–December 10 – The 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Cancún, Mexico. Also referred to as the 16th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 16), it served too as the 6th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 6).7475 December December 2 – NASA announces the discovery of the bacteria GFAJ-1 which may be able to partially replace phosphorous with arsenic in some of its biomolecules.76 December 21 – The first total lunar eclipse to occur on the day of the northern winter solstice/southern summer solstice since 1638, takes place.7778 Deaths Main article: Deaths in 2010 Further information: Category:2010 deaths January Jean Simmons J. D. Salinger January 4 – Johan Ferrier, 1st President of Suriname (born 1910) January 4 – Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese dual atomic bomb survivor (born 1916) January 9 – Armand Razafindratandra, Malagasy cardinal (born 1925) January 11 – Miep Gies, Dutch humanitarian (born 1909) January 11 – Éric Rohmer, French film director (born 1920) January 12 – Zilda Arns, Brazilian pediatrician and aid worker (born 1934) January 13 – Teddy Pendergrass, American R&B and soul singer (born 1950) January 15 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biologist and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927) January 17 – Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (born 1914) January 17 – Erich Segal, American author, screenwriter, and educator (born 1937) January 18 – Kate McGarrigle, Canadian folk singer (born 1946) January 19 – Panajot Pano, Albanian footballer (born 1939) January 22 – Iskandar of Johor, 8th King of Malaysia (born 1932) January 22 – Jean Simmons, British actress (born 1929) January 25 – Ali Hassan al-Majid, Iraqi politician and military commander (born 1941) January 27 – Zelda Rubinstein, American actress and human rights activist (born 1933) January 27 – J. D. Salinger, American author (born 1919) January 27 – Howard Zinn, American historian (born 1922) February Alexander Haig February 1 – Steingrímur Hermannsson, 19th Prime Minister of Iceland (born 1928) February 6 – John Dankworth, British jazz musician and composer (born 1927) February 7 – André Kolingba, 4th President of the Central African Republic (born 1936) February 10 – Charlie Wilson, American politician (born 1933) February 11 – Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer (born 1969) February 14 – Dick Francis, British author and jockey (born 1920) February 17 – Kathryn Grayson, American singer (born 1922) February 18 – Ariel Ramírez, Argentine composer (born 1921) February 20 – Alexander Haig, 59th United States Secretary of State (born 1924) March Robert Culp March 3 – Michael Foot, British politician (born 1913) March 4 – Vladislav Ardzinba, Soviet-born politician (born 1945) March 10 – Corey Haim, Canadian actor (born 1971) March 10 – Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Egyptian Muslim cleric (born 1928) March 12 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish author and journalist (born 1920) March 14 – Peter Graves, American actor (born 1926) March 20 – Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepalese politician (born 1925) March 21 – Wolfgang Wagner, German festival director (born 1919) March 22 – James Black, British pharmacologist and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1924) March 22 – Valentina Tolkunova, Soviet and Russian singer (born 1946) March 24 – Robert Culp, American actor, screenwriter and director (born 1930) March 27 – Vasily Smyslov, Soviet-Russian chess grandmaster (born 1921) March 28 – Herb Ellis, American jazz guitarist (born 1921) March 28 – June Havoc, Canadian-born American actress (born 1912) March 30 – Martin Sandberger, German army officer (born 1911) April Lech Kaczyński Juan Antonio Samaranch Lena Horne Dennis Hopper April 1 – John Forsythe, American actor (born 1918) April 3 – Eugene Terre'Blanche, South African politician and white supremacist (born 1941) April 5 – Vitali Sevastyanov, Soviet cosmonaut (born 1935) April 6 – Corin Redgrave, British actor and political activist (born 1939) April 8 – Malcolm McLaren, British musician and manager (born 1946) April 8 – Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwean politician (born 1925) April 10 – Ryszard Kaczorowski, Polish statesman (born 1919) April 10 – Lech Kaczyński, President of Poland (born 1949) April 14 – Peter Steele, American musician (born 1962) April 16 – Tomáš Špidlík, Czech cardinal (born 1919) April 19 – Guru, American rapper (born 1966) April 21 – Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish sports official (born 1920) April 25 – Alan Sillitoe, British writer (born 1928) April 30 – Paul Mayer, German cardinal (born 1911) May May 2 – Lynn Redgrave, British actress (born 1943) May 4 – Luigi Poggi, Italian cardinal (born 1917) May 5 – Giulietta Simionato, Italian opera singer (born 1910) May 5 – Umaru Yar'Adua, President of Nigeria (born 1951) May 8 – Andor Lilienthal, Hungarian chess grandmaster (born 1911) May 9 – Lena Horne, American singer and actress (born 1917) May 10 – Frank Frazetta, American artist (born 1928) May 16 – Ronnie James Dio, American musician (born 1942) May 16 – Oswaldo López Arellano, Honduran two-time former president (born 1921) May 16 – Hank Jones, American pianist (born 1918) May 17 – Bobbejaan Schoepen, Belgian singer (born 1925) May 17 – Khattiya Sawasdipol, Thai army general (born 1951) May 17 – Yvonne Loriod, French pianist (born 1924) May 18 – Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian writer (born 1930) May 22 – Martin Gardner, American science author (born 1914) May 24 – Paul Gray, American musician (born 1972) May 28 – Gary Coleman, American actor (born 1968) May 29 – Dennis Hopper, American actor and film director (born 1936) May 31 – Louise Bourgeois, French-born American sculptor (born 1911) June Andrey Voznesensky June 1 – Andrey Voznesensky, Soviet-Russian poet (born 1933) June 2 – Giuseppe Taddei, Italian baritone (born 1916) June 3 – Vladimir Arnold, Soviet-Russian mathematician (born 1937) June 3 – Rue McClanahan, American actress (born 1934) June 9 – Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina (born 1908) June 10 – Sigmar Polke, German painter and photographer (born 1941) June 14 – Leonid Kizim, Soviet-Ukrainian cosmonaut (born 1941) June 16 – Ronald Neame, British cinematographer, producer and director (born 1911) June 18 – Marcel Bigeard, French military officer (born 1916) June 18 – José Saramago, Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922) June 19 – Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (born 1962) June 23 – Mohammed Mzali, former Prime Minister of Tunisia (born 1925) June 26 – Algirdas Brazauskas, 9th President of Lithuania (born 1932) June 28 – Robert Byrd, American politician (born 1917) July Harvey Pekar July 2 – Beryl Bainbridge, British novelist (born 1934) July 3 – Abu Daoud, Palestinian militia commander (born 1937) July 4 – Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanese spiritual leader (born 1935) July 5 – Cesare Siepi, Italian opera singer (born 1923) July 5 – Nasr Abu Zayd, Egyptian Qur'anic theologian (born 1943) July 12 – Harvey Pekar, American comic book writer (born 1939) July 14 – Charles Mackerras, Australian conductor (born 1925) July 17 – Bernard Giraudeau, French actor and film director (born 1947) July 21 – Luis Corvalán, Chilean politician (born 1916) July 24 – Alex Higgins, Northern Irish snooker player (born 1949) August Patricia Neal Francisco Varallo August 5 – Godfrey Binaisa, 5th President of Uganda (born 1920) August 6 – Tony Judt, British historian (born 1948) August 7 – Bruno Cremer, French actor (born 1929) August 8 – Patricia Neal, American actress (born 1926) August 9 – Ted Stevens, American politician (born 1923) August 10 – Antonio Pettigrew, American athlete (born 1967) August 12 – Guido de Marco, 6th President of Malta (born 1931) August 16 – Nicola Cabibbo, Italian physicist (born 1935) August 17 – Francesco Cossiga, 63rd Prime Minister and 8th President of Italy (born 1928) August 18 – Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Spanish aristrocrat (born 1930) August 22 – Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav footballer (born 1923) August 23 – Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime film director (born 1963) August 26 – Raimon Panikkar, Spanish theologian (born 1918) August 27 – Anton Geesink, Dutch judoka (born 1934) August 28 – Sinan Hasani, 10th President of Yugoslavia (born 1922) August 30 – Alain Corneau, French filmmaker (born 1943) August 30 – Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer (born 1910) August 31 – Laurent Fignon, French road bicycle racer (born 1960) September Tony Curtis September 9 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess grandmaster (born 1935) September 11 – Kevin McCarthy, American actor (born 1914) September 12 – Claude Chabrol, French film director (born 1930) September 22 – Eddie Fisher, American entertainer and singer (born 1928) September 24 – Gennady Yanayev, Soviet politician (born 1937) September 26 – Gloria Stuart, American actress (born 1910) September 28 – Arthur Penn, American film director (born 1922) September 29 – Georges Charpak, French physicist (born 1924) September 29 – Tony Curtis, American actor (born 1925) September 30 – Stephen J. Cannell, American writer and television producer (born 1941) October Benoît Mandelbrot Nestor Kirchner October 4 – Norman Wisdom, British actor and comedian (born 1915) October 7 – Milka Planinc, former Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (born 1924) October 9 – Maurice Allais, French economist (born 1911) October 10 – Solomon Burke, American soul musician (born 1940) October 10 – Hwang Jang-yop, North Korean politician and defector (born 1923) October 11 – Joan Sutherland, Australian opera singer (born 1926) October 14 – Benoît Mandelbrot, French-American mathematician (born 1924) October 19 – Tom Bosley, American actor (born 1927) October 20 – Farooq Leghari, 9th President of Pakistan (born 1940) October 23 – David Thompson, 6th Prime Minister of Barbados (born 1961) October 25 – Gregory Issacs, Jamaican musician (born 1951) October 27 – Néstor Kirchner, 54th President of Argentina (born 1950) October 28 – Jonathan Motzfeldt, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (born 1938) October 30 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch writer (born 1927) November Leslie Nielsen November 2 – Rudolf Barshai, Soviet-Russian conductor and violist (born 1924) November 3 – Viktor Chernomyrdin, 31st Prime Minister of Russia (born 1938) November 5 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress (born 1944) November 5 – Hajo Herrmann, German fighter pilot and lawyer (born 1913) November 11 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (born 1919) November 12 – Henryk Górecki, Polish composer (born 1933) November 13 – Luis García Berlanga, Spanish film director (born 1921) November 28 – Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American actor (born 1926) November 29 – Bella Akhmadulina, Soviet-Russian poet (born 1937) December Richard Holbrooke December 12 – Tom Walkinshaw, British racing car driver and team owner (born 1946) December 13 – Richard Holbrooke, American diplomat (born 1941) December 15 – Blake Edwards, American film director (born 1922) December 17 – Captain Beefheart, American musician (born 1941) December 21 – Enzo Bearzot, Italian footballer and coach (born 1927) December 25 – Carlos Andrés Pérez, 55th President of Venezuela (born 1922) December 26 – Salvador Jorge Blanco, 48th President of the Dominican Republic (born 1926) December 26 – Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter (born 1956) Awards Nobel Prizes Chemistry – Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki Economics – Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides Literature – Mario Vargas Llosa Peace – Liu Xiaobo Physics – Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov Physiology or Medicine – Robert G. Edwards Major holidays January 1 – New Year's Day. January 7 (January 6 in Armenia) – Orthodox Christmas. February 1 – Imbolc, a Cross-quarter day (Celebrated on February 2 in some places). February 2 – Candlemas commemorating the Purification of the Virgin. It marks the liturgical end of the Christmas season. February 14 – Chinese New Year. February 16 – Shrove Tuesday / Mardi Gras, end of Mardi Gras / Carnival season. February 17 – Ash Wednesday (first day of Lent). March 1 – Holi. March 20 (March 21 in the Far East) – Vernal Equinox, also known as Nowruz. March 24 – Rama Navami. March 29 (evening) – Passover. March 30 – Hanuman Jayanti. April 4 – Easter (Western and Orthodox). May 1 – Beltane, a Cross-quarter day. May 18–May 19 – Shavuot. August 1 – Lammas, a Cross-quarter day. August 11 – Ramadan begins. August 24 – Raksha Bandhan. September 2 – Krishna Janmashtami. September 8–September 10 – Rosh Hashanah. September 10 – Eid ul-Fitr. September 17–September 18 – Yom Kippur. September 22–September 29/September 30 – Sukkot. September 23 – Autumnal Equinox, also known as Mabon. November 5 – Diwali. November 16–November 19 – Eid al-Adha. December 25 – Western Christmas. Fiction set in or referencing 2010 Film 2010 (1984) Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space (2002) Absolon (2003) Zebraman (2004) District 13 (2004) District 9 (2009) Literature Stand on Zanzibar (1968) by John Brunner 2010: Odyssey Two (1982) by Arthur C. Clarke. Tracy Hickman, The Immortals (1996) "Manifold: Time" (1999) by Stephen Baxter - party of the storyline starts in September 2010 The Mayflower Project (2001) by K.A. Applegate. In the Presence of Mine Enemies (2003) by Harry Turtledove. Music The Pearl Jam song "Do the Evolution" references the world in 2010: "I crawled the earth, but now I'm higher. 2010, watch it go to fire." The Bad Religion song "Ten in 2010" appears on their album The Gray Race. The 2008 Enya song "My! My! Time Flies!" concludes with the lyrics, "Could be we step out again/Could be tomorrow but then/Could be two thousand and ten." Television April 29 – Date of visons of Global Blackout from TV series FlashForward Knight Rider 2010 (1994 TV movie) Maico 2010 (1998) The Simpsons episode "Lisa's Wedding", from the 6th season, takes place in 2010. A Stargate SG-1 episode called "2010" took place in that year. (2001) Code Geass Britannia's invasion of Japan takes place on 10 August 2010. Eden of the East The missile attacks on Japan take place on 22 November 2010. Doctor Who - Series 5 (2010) episodes The Eleventh Hour, Amy's Choice, the end of Vincent and the Doctor, The Lodger and The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang are set mainly in this year. Video games In the SimCity franchise the Scenarios Vol. I: Great Disasters, in SimCity 2000, there is a nuclear meltdown in Boston and Silicon Valley which is set in 2010. Dino Crisis 2, the sequel to the 1999 game, released in 2000. Uplink (video game) (2001) References ^ Siegel, Robert (2009-11-16). "How Do You Say 2010?". All Things Considered (National Public Radio). http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120470656. Retrieved 2009-11-16.  ^ Marwat, Ghulam Mursalin (2 January 2010). "Bomber rams car into volleyball venue". The Nation. http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/02-Jan-2010/Bomber-rams-car-into-volleyball-venue. Retrieved 2 January 2010.  ^ "Dubai opens world's tallest building". USA Today (Dubai). January 2, 2010. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/01/dubai-opens-world-tallest-building/1. Retrieved 4 January 2010.  ^ "Official Opening of Iconic Burj Dubai Announced". 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