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The country of Netherlands Antilles is dissolved.
Instagram was launched and gained 25,000 users on its first day.
Actor and actress Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller got engaged.
The American biographical drama movie 'The Social Network' was released at the New York Film Festival.
Oil rig Deepwater Horizon is declared sealed after a 5-month long spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Lady Gaga wore a full outfit made of meat for the MTV Video Music Awards.
The historical drama 'The King's Speech' premiered at Telluride Festival in the United States.
Singapore opened the world's first Summer Youth Olympics Games.
Californian Judge Vaughn Walker overturned the same-sex marriage ban.
Wikileaks published classified information about the war in Afghanistan.
British boyband One Direction was formed during X-Factor UK.
FIFA World Cup Final is held in Johannesburg, South Africa.
'Inception,' starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, premiered in London, England.
The longest tennis match in history took place.
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse premiered in Los Angeles.
Eminem released his 7th studio album 'Recovery.'
The world's first country-wide (Bhutan) total tobacco ban goes into effect.
South Africa played host to the first FIFA World Cup in Africa.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched on its maiden flight.
In the Super Rugby Final at Orlando Stadium, the Bulls defended their title with a 25-17 win over the Stormers in an all-South African final.
The final episode of LOST aired.
The worst air crash involving a Boeing 737 kills 158 in India.
Emmy Award winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus, star of 'Seinfeld,' received the 2,407th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The Deepwater Horizon oil rig explodes.
The President of Poland, Lech Kaczynski, dies in a plane crash.
Chechen women detonate two bombs in the Moscow underground.
Craig David was appointed as Goodwill Ambassador against tuberculosis (TB) by the World Health Organization.
A massive earthquake strikes Chile.
Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first cricket player to score a double-century in the One Day International format.
WikiLeaks published the first US diplomatic cable leak provided by Chelsea Manning.
Casey Neistat uploaded his first-ever YouTube video.
Justin Bieber reached one million followers on Twitter.
Steve Jobs announced the Apple iPad, the company's most advanced piece of technology at the time.
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti claimed 316,000 lives.
Judge Simon Cowell left American Idol but continued working with FOX on X Factor US.
Giant self-rolling snowballs were found in the UK.
The world's largest building at the time opened in Dubai.
A blue moon and a lunar eclipse occurred on the same day.
Scarlett Johansson made her debut on Broadway.
US President Barack Obama received a vaccine jab against the swine flu.
James Cameron's 'Avatar' was released in the US. It became the highest-grossing film of all time at the time.
Boeing 787 Dreamliner completes first flight.
Tiger Woods announced his indefinite leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage.
Treaty of Lisbon comes into force.
A sequel to LittleBigPlanet was released for the PlayStation Portable.
The Twilight Saga: New Moon premiered in Los Angeles.
Major Malik Hasan opened fire at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center in Fort Hood, Texas and killed 13 people, injuring 30.
Microsoft released the Windows 7 operating system.
EA Games' FIFA 10, the highest-rated FIFA game made, was released in Europe.
The American sitcom 'Modern Family' premiered on ABC.
