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April 11, 2020 – The U.S. becomes the country with the highest number of reported COVID-19 deaths: over 20,000, overtaking Italy. April 14, 2020 – President Trump announces that he will suspend U.S. funding of the World Health Organization (WHO) pending an investigation into its early response to the outbreak. [21]
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.
2000: Yemen: On October 12, 2000, after USS Cole attack in the port of Aden, Yemen, military personnel were deployed to Aden. [RL30172] 2000 : East Timor: On February 25, 2000, a small number of U.S. military personnel were deployed to support the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET).
A graphical view of the Cosmic Calendar, featuring the months of the year, days of December, and the final minute. The Cosmic Calendar is a method to visualize the chronology of the universe, scaling its current age of 13.8 billion years to a single year in order to help intuit it for pedagogical purposes in science education or popular science.
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]
2010 21 April: Ukraine extends Russia's lease on naval facilities in Sevastopol for an additional twenty-five years beyond the 2017 expiration, until 2042, with further renewal options thereafter. [34] 10 October: The Kingdom of the Netherlands dissolves the Netherlands Antilles. [35] New polities include: The constituent country of Curaçao. [35]
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
A huge jump in broadband internet usage globally – for example, from 6% of U.S. internet users in June 2000 [182] to what one mid-decade study predicted would be 62% by 2010. [183] By February 2007, over 80% of U.S. Internet users were connected via broadband and broadband internet has been almost a required standard for quality internet ...