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April 2019 – The first image of a black hole is taken. [17] April 2019 – James Earl Carter Jr. becomes the longest ever living U.S. president at 94 years old, following the death of George H. W. Bush in December 2018. April 27, 2019 – A gunman kills one and injures three in a California Synagogue. The suspect is white supremacist John ...
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was a major ecological disaster from April through September 2010. [48] A renegotiated free trade agreement with South Korea went into effect on December 3, 2010. [49] The 2010 United States elections resulted in major victories for the Republican Party. [50]
March 29: 2010 Moscow Metro bombings. April 10: The President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, is among 96 killed when their airplane crashes in Smolensk, Russia. April 20: The largest oil spill in US history occurs in the Gulf of Mexico. May 31: Gaza flotilla raid. July 22 – August 10: 2010 Colombia–Venezuela diplomatic crisis.
Major natural disasters included the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the Nepal earthquake of 2015, the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, the devastating tropical cyclones Bopha (Pablo), Haiyan (Yolanda), and Maria, as well as the 2019 European heat waves.
2000s energy crisis (2003–2009) oil price bubble; Subprime mortgage crisis (US) (2007–2010) 2000s United States housing bubble and 2000s United States housing market correction (2003–2011) 2008–2010 automotive industry crisis (US) 2008–2011 Icelandic financial crisis; Post-2008 Irish banking crisis; Great Recession in Russia
September 30, 2019 – Large swells and rip currents generated by Hurricane Lorenzo killed a man in Vero Beach. [175] [176] October 18, 2019 – Former Tropical Storm Nestor transitioned into an extratropical cyclone and struck the Florida panhandle, causing storm surge flooding along the coast. Rainfall in the state reached 7.77 in (197 mm) in ...
In 2007, while US unemployment dropped to its lowest level since the year 2000, the housing bubble reached its peak and economic growth slowed down, and by December 2007, the United States entered the severe long-lasting Great Recession. By mid-2008, property values and the values of other assets plummeted, and the stock market crashed in ...
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