WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO MAY 2010
Find out what all happened February to May 2010

JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year. (21. May 2010)

A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more. (13. February 2010)

Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński and dozens of other senior officials (10. April 2010)

David Cameron becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following talks between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats to form the UK's first coalition government since World War 2 after elections produced a hung parliament. (11. May 2010)

Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek debt crisis. (5. May 2010)

The Royal Thai Armed Forces concludes its crackdown on protests by forcing the surrender of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship leaders. (19. May 2010)

The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months. (20. April 2010)

In Madeira Island, Portugal, heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, resulting in at least 43 deaths, in the worst disaster in the history of the archipelago. (20. February 2010)

An Air India Express Boeing 737 goes over a cliff and crashes upon landing at Mangalore, India, killing 158 of the 166 people on board. It is the worst crash involving a Boeing 737. (22. May 2010)

Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo. (15. May 2010)

Maoist rebels kill 76 CRPF officers in Dantewada district, India. (6. April 2010)

Nearly 2,700 are killed in a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai, China. (14. April 2010)

A South Korean Navy ship Cheonan sank off the country's west coast near Baengnyeong Island in the Yellow Sea, killing 46 seamen. (26. March 2010)

A train derails near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people. (12. April 2010)

Unknown criminals pour more than 2.5 million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the river Lambro, in Northern Italy, sparking an environmental disaster. (23. February 2010)

Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia. (5. April 2010)

A freak storm in the Hindukush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying over two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 travelers. (8. February 2010)

Economist and businessman Sebastián Piñera is sworn in as President of Chile, while three earthquakes, the strongest measuring magnitude 6.9 and all centered next to Pichilemu, capital of Cardenal Caro Province, hit central Chile during the ceremony. (11. March 2010)

In international waters, armed Shayetet 13 commandos, intending to force the flotilla to anchor at the Ashdod port, boarded ships trying to break the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip, resulting in 9 civilian deaths. (31. May 2010)

Jamaican police begin a manhunt for drug lord Christopher Coke, after the United States requested his extradition, leading to three days of violence during which at least 73 bystanders are killed. (23. May 2010)