WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO NOVEMBER 2010
Find out what all happened April to November 2010

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

WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history. (25. July 2010)

A Chinese fishing trawler collided with two Japanese Coast Guard patrol boats in disputed waters near the Senkaku Islands. The collisions occurred around 10am, after the Japanese Coast Guard ordered the trawler to leave the area. After the collisions, Japanese sailors boarded the Chinese vessel and arrested the captain, Zhan Qixiong. (7. September 2010)

2010 Copiapó mining accident occurs, trapping 33 Chilean miners approximately 2,300 ft (700 m) below the ground. (5. August 2010)

Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40. (4. June 2010)

Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people. (6. August 2010)

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

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

The South Kivu tank truck explosion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills at least 230 people. (2. July 2010)

Canterbury earthquake: a 7.1 magnitude earthquake which struck the South Island of New Zealand at 4:35 am causing widespread damage and several power outages. (4. September 2010)

A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth. (13. June 2010)

An overloaded passenger ferry capsizes on the Kasai River in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulting in at least 80 deaths. (29. July 2010)

In West Bengal, India, a train derailment and subsequent collision kills 141 passengers. (28. May 2010)

The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country. (10. October 2010)

Ten members of International Assistance Mission Nuristan Eye Camp team are killed by persons unknown in Kuran wa Munjan District of Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan. (5. August 2010)

The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand; 29 people are killed in the nation's worst mining disaster since 1914. (19. November 2010)

The Cumbria Shootings - In West Cumbria, a 52-year old man went on a four hour killing spree, shooting dead 13 (inc. himself) and injuring 11 others. The massacre was branded "one of the worst criminal acts involving firearms in British history" by Prime Minister David Cameron who paid tribute to the victims along with The Queen, Home Secretary Theresa May and the Prince of Wales. (2. June 2010)

China Overtakes Japan as world's second-largest economy (16. August 2010)

In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 72 illegal immigrants are killed by Los Zetas and eventually found dead by Mexican authorities. (24. August 2010)