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{{*mp|October 15}} After 14 years of construction, the drilling of the world's [[List of longest tunnels in the world|longest railway tunnel]], the '''[[Gotthard Base Tunnel]]''' across the [[Switzerland|Swiss]] [[Alps]], is completed.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:In_the_news&diff=next&oldid=390789346 Gotthard Base Tunnel] (User:HJ Mitchell)</ref> |
{{*mp|October 15}} After 14 years of construction, the drilling of the world's [[List of longest tunnels in the world|longest railway tunnel]], the '''[[Gotthard Base Tunnel]]''' across the [[Switzerland|Swiss]] [[Alps]], is completed.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:In_the_news&diff=next&oldid=390789346 Gotthard Base Tunnel] (User:HJ Mitchell)</ref> |
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{{*mp|October 16}} [[mathematics|Mathematician]] '''[[Benoît Mandelbrot]]''', known for his work with [[fractal]]s, dies at the age of 85.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:In_the_news&diff=next&oldid=390995388 Benoît Mandelbrot] (User:HJ Mitchell)</ref> |
{{*mp|October 16}} [[mathematics|Mathematician]] '''[[Benoît Mandelbrot]]''', known for his work with [[fractal]]s, dies at the age of 85.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:In_the_news&diff=next&oldid=390995388 Benoît Mandelbrot] (User:HJ Mitchell)</ref> |
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{{*mp|October 17}} Five new [[saint]]s, including '''[[Mary MacKillop]]'''—the first [[Australia]]n saint—are [[canonization|canonised]] by [[Pope Benedict XVI]].<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:In_the_news&diff=next&oldid=391223841 Mary MacKillop] (User:HJ Mitchell)</ref> |
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Revision as of 04:54, 7 November 2010
(Archive begins here and is to be continued from [ here] forward).
- President of Ecuador Rafael Correa declares a state of emergency as protests by the police and members of the armed forces close main airports and disrupt communications.[1]
- A newly discovered planet, Gliese 581 g, is found to be in the habitable zone of its parent star, where liquid water may exist.[2]
- Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador is suspended following detection of clenbuterol in a sample taken during the 2010 Tour de France, which he won.[3]
- David Lloyd Johnston is sworn in as the twenty-eighth Governor General of Canada.[4]
- The People's Republic of China launches its second lunar orbiter, Chang'e 2.[5]
- The United States apologizes for conducting Syphilis experiments in Guatemala without the subjects' informed consent in the 1940s.[6]
- A train collision kills 36 people and injures at least 50 in Indonesia.[7]
- In Australian rules football, Collingwood defeats St Kilda to win the AFL Grand Final.[8]
- The XIX Commonwealth Games begin at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi, India.[9]
- Sébastien Loeb, driving for the Citroën World Rally Team, wins his seventh consecutive World Rally Championship.[10]
- In Australian rules football, Collingwood win the AFL Grand Final, while in rugby league, St George Illawarra win the NRL Grand Final.[11]
- Robert Geoffrey Edwards wins the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his development of in vitro fertilisation.[12]
- The incumbent coalition government of Valdis Dombrovskis wins Latvia's parliamentary election.[13]
- The 39th Chess Olympiad concludes with Ukraine and Russia winning the open and women's section respectively.[14]
- In golf, Europe defeats the United States in the 2010 Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor, South Wales.[15]
- Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov win the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for their experiments on graphene.[16]
- A state of emergency is declared in western Hungary after an accident at an alumina factory floods a large area with "red mud", killing at least three people.[17]
- Former Société Générale trader Jérôme Kerviel is sentenced to three years in jail for his role in the January 2008 Société Générale trading loss incident.[18]
- Faisal Shahzad (pictured) is sentenced to life in prison for an attempted car bombing in Times Square, New York City.[19]
- Comedy actor Norman Wisdom dies aged 95.[20]
- Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki are jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work in organic synthesis.[21]
- Researches announce the discovery of the Koro language spoken by 800 to 1200 people in the Arunachal Pradesh region of India.[22]
- The Russian RSM-56 Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile, the proposed future cornerstone of the country's nuclear triad, undergoes its first successful test since 2008.[24]
- A Roman helmet dating from the first to third century AD sells at auction for £2.3 million ($3.6 million).[25]
- Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo wins the Nobel Peace Prize.[26]
- The maiden flight of the Soyuz TMA-M, with three astronauts of Expedition 25 on board, docks at the International Space Station.[27]
- The Netherland Antilles is dissolved, with Curaçao and Sint Maarten becoming constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, while Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius become special municipalities of the Netherlands.[28]
- Peter Diamon, Dale Mortensen and Christopher Pissarides are awarded the 2010 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.[29]
- Australian opera singer Joan Sutherland dies at her home in Switzerland aged 83.[30]
- Samuel Wanjiru of Kenya and Liliya Shobukhova of Russia win the men's and women's events respectively at the Chicago Marathon.[31]
- British author Howard Jacobson is awarded the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel The Finkler Question.[32]
- The first of the 33 miners trapped for two months in the San José mine in Copiapó, Chile, is rescued.[33]
- A U.S. Federal judge orders the Defense Department to stop enforcing the "don't ask, don't tell" policy prohibiting openly gay people from serving in the military.[34]
- Spanish motorcyclist Jorge Lorenzo becomes 2010 World Grand Prix motorcycle racing champion.[35]
- The Ata-Zhurt party wins a plurality in the Kyrgyzstani parliamentary election.[36]
- The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization announces that it believes rinderpest has been eradicated, making it the second virus in history, after smallpox, to have been eliminated by humans.[37]
- After 14 years of construction, the drilling of the world's longest railway tunnel, the Gotthard Base Tunnel across the Swiss Alps, is completed.[38]
- Mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot, known for his work with fractals, dies at the age of 85.[39]
- Five new saints, including Mary MacKillop—the first Australian saint—are canonised by Pope Benedict XVI.[40]
References
- ^ 2010 Ecuador crisis (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Gliese 581 g (User:The ed17)
- ^ Alberto Contador (User:The ed17)
- ^ David Lloyd Johnston (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Chang'e 2 (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Syphilis experiments in Guatemala (User:Chaser)
- ^ 2010 Petarukan train collision (User:Chaser)
- ^ 2010 AFL Grand Final (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ 2010 Commonwealth Games (User:Tinucherian)
- ^ Sébastien Loeb (User:Mkativerata)
- ^ 2010 NRL Grand Final (User:Mkativerata)
- ^ Robert Geoffrey Edwards (User:Tone)
- ^ Latvian parliamentary election, 2010 (User:Tone)
- ^ 39th Chess Olympiad (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ 2010 Ryder Cup (User:Stephen)
- ^ Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov (User:Tone)
- ^ Ajka alumina plant accident (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Jérôme Kerviel (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Faisal Shahzad (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Norman Wisdom (User:Stephen)
- ^ Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki (User:Stephen)
- ^ Koro language (User:Tone)
- ^ Mario Vargas Llosa (User:DragonflySixtyseven)
- ^ RSM-56 Bulava (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Crosby Garrett Helmet (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Liu Xiaobo (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Soyuz TMA-01M (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles (User:Mkativerata)
- ^ Peter Diamon, Dale Mortensen and Christopher Pissarides (User:TFOWR)
- ^ Joan Sutherland (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ 2010 Chicago Marathon (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Howard Jacobson (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ 2010 Copiapó mining accident#Rescue (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ Log Cabin Republicans v. United States of America (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ Jorge Lorenzo (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Kyrgyzstani parliamentary election, 2010 (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ rinderpest (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Gotthard Base Tunnel (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Benoît Mandelbrot (User:HJ Mitchell)
- ^ Mary MacKillop (User:HJ Mitchell)