SpaceX became the first private company to launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft.
All 33 miners trapped after a mining accident in Chile were rescued after being stuck underground for 69 days.
The historical drama 'The King's Speech' premiered at Telluride Festival in the United States.
Californian Judge Vaughn Walker overturned the same-sex marriage ban.
Wikileaks published classified information about the war in Afghanistan.
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.
The worst air crash involving a Boeing 737 kills 158 in India.
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.
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.
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti claimed 316,000 lives.
Giant self-rolling snowballs were found in the UK.
The world's largest building at the time opened in Dubai.
US President Barack Obama received a vaccine jab against the swine flu.
Greenland assumes self-rule.
NASA launched the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the first American lunar mission in ten years.
Two American journalists were sentenced to 12 years of penal labor after illegally entering North Korea.
Air France flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic.
The Sri Lankan Civil War ends.
NASA's Atlantis Space Shuttle launched on the final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
Same-sex marriage was legalized in Sweden.
The Zimbabwean dollar was suspended indefinitely.
Texas movie fans were surprised with a special premiere viewing of that year's Star Trek movie.
North Korea performed a controversial intercontinental ballistic missile test.
North Korea launched the infamous Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 satellite.
The strain of swine flu known as H1N1 had its first case in the US.
NASA's Discovery Space Shuttle launched from the Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-119.
Queen Elizabeth II knighted English fantasy author Terry Pratchett.
At exactly 23:31:30 (UTC), Unix time passed 1,234,567,890.
Two satellites collide in space.
173 people died in Victoria, Australia, during the Black Saturday bushfires.
The USA's first African-American President, Barack Obama, conducted his first address.
US Airways Flight 1549 landed on the Hudson River, NYC.
NASA declared the conclusion of the Phoenix mission after contact was lost with the Phoenix lander.
Barack Obama became the first African American to win a United States Presidential Election.
NASA launched its IBEX satellite from the Stargazer mother ship launch pad above the Marshall Islands.
Iran attempted to create the world's largest sandwich at 1,500 meters long but failed due to a crowd eating it before it was measured.
Zhai Zhigang became the first person from China to perform a spacewalk while on the Shenzhou 7 mission.
Batman's 'The Dark Knight' premiered in London.
The state of California began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
The Discovery Space Shuttle was launched from the Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-124.
The California Supreme Court ruled that the state ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional.
More than 69,000 people lost their lives to a magnitude 8.0 earthquake in Sichuan, China.
139,000 people lost their lives when Cyclone Nargis made landfall in Myanmar.
Construction of the Bahrain World Trade Center was officially completed.
The Gordon Ramsay Plane Food restaurant opened within terminal 5 at London Heathrow Airport.
