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Presidency of Barack Obama. 2010 – The Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico explodes, spilling millions of gallons of oil into the sea. The spill becomes the worst oil spill in American history. 2010 – In the 2010 Midterm elections, the Republicans retake the House of Representatives as the Democrats lose 63 seats.
A huge jump in broadband internet usage globally – for example, from 6% of U.S. internet users in June 2000 [179] to what one mid-decade study predicted would be 62% by 2010. [180] 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 ...
2010s in United States history. Appearance. hide. See also: 2020s in United States history. President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump in 2017. 2010s in United States history is the compiled history of major historical events and issues in the United States from January 1, 2010, through December 31, 2019.
Agencies were enforced. 2001 — American Airlines Flight 587 crashes in Queens, New York, killing 265. 2002 — The Department of Homeland Security is created in the wake of the September 11 attacks. 2002 — The United States withdraws from Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
2010–present: al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen: The U.S. has been launching a series of drone strikes on suspected al-Qaeda, al-Shabaab, and ISIS positions in Yemen. 2010–2011 : Operation New Dawn , on February 17, 2010, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced that as of September 1, 2010, the name "Operation Iraqi Freedom" would be ...
April – The employment-population ratio reaches an all-time high of 64.8%. April 1. The 2000 United States Census determines the resident population of the United States to be 281,421,906. Boomerang, a secondary digital Cartoon Network channel, debuts.
The first five versions of Windows– Windows 1.0, Windows 2.0, Windows 2.1, Windows 3.0, and Windows 3.1 –were all based on MS-DOS, and were aimed at both consumers and businesses. However, Windows 3.1 had two separate successors, splitting the Windows line in two: the consumer-focused "Windows 9x" line, consisting of Windows 95, Windows 98 ...
U. Timeline of United States history (1990–2009) Timeline of women in warfare and the military in the United States, 2000–2010. Categories: 21st-century timelines. 2000s. Timelines by decade. Hidden category: Category series navigation decade and century.