Space Shuttle Discovery completed its last-ever mission and made its final landing onto Kennedy's runway at 11:57 am EST.
185 people are killed during an earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Green River serial killer pleads guilty to 49th murder.
Myanmar's first elected parliament in half a century convenes.
The Egyptian government shut down 88% of the internet across the country.
The 2011 Egyptian revolution began after years of police brutality and corruption.
Estonia joined the Eurozone and adopted the Euro as its currency.
The 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' policy was repealed.
Street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi self‑immolates in Tunisia, igniting the Arab Spring.
SpaceX became the first private company to launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft.
Sebastian Vettel became the youngest Formula 1 World Champion ever by winning the last race of the season in Abu Dhabi.
All 33 miners trapped after a mining accident in Chile were rescued after being stuck underground for 69 days.
The country of Netherlands Antilles is dissolved.
Oil rig Deepwater Horizon is declared sealed after a 5-month long spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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.
FIFA World Cup Final is held in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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.
Treaty of Lisbon comes into force.
Major Malik Hasan opened fire at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center in Fort Hood, Texas and killed 13 people, injuring 30.
General Abdel Aziz sworn in as President of Mauritania.
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.
