What happened in 2010

“TiK ToK”

Ke$ha · 9 weeks at #1 in 2010

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1. Jan 2TiK ToKKe$ha9 wks
2. Mar 6Imma BeThe Black Eyed Peas2 wks
3. Mar 20Break Your HeartTaio Cruz Featuring Ludacris1 wk
4. Mar 27Rude BoyRihanna5 wks
5. May 1Nothin' On YouB.o.B Featuring Bruno Mars2 wks
6. May 15OMGUsher Featuring will.i.am4 wks
7. May 22Not AfraidEminem1 wk
8. Jun 19California GurlsKaty Perry Featuring Snoop Dogg6 wks
9. Jul 31Love The Way You LieEminem Featuring Rihanna7 wks
10. Sep 18Teenage DreamKaty Perry2 wks
11. Oct 2Just The Way You AreBruno Mars4 wks
12. Oct 30Like A G6Far*East Movement Featuring Cataracs & Dev3 wks
13. Nov 13We R Who We RKe$ha1 wk
14. Nov 20What's My Name?Rihanna Featuring Drake1 wk
15. Dec 4Only Girl (In The World)Rihanna1 wk
16. Dec 11Raise Your GlassP!nk1 wk
17. Dec 18FireworkKaty Perry2 wks

Dates are the first chart week at #1 in 2010; weeks count only those in 2010.Find the #1 song on your birthday →

1. Jan 4The Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest structure, officially opened in Dubai.
2. Jan 25Avatar, a science-fiction film directed by James Cameron, became the highest-grossing film of all time.
3. Jan 27Apple announces the iPad.
4. Apr 5An explosion at a coal mine in West Virginia killed 29 miners in the United States' worst mining disaster in 40 years.
5. Apr 23Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed into law the controversial anti–illegal immigration bill SB 1070, much of which was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
6. May 1Faisal Shahzad attempted to detonate a car bomb in Times Square, New York City, but it failed to explode.
7. May 22Inter Milan beat Bayern Munich 2–0 in the UEFA Champions League final in Madrid, Spain to become the first, and so far only, Italian team to win the historic treble (Serie A, Coppa Italia, Champions League).
8. Jun 11The first FIFA World Cup held on African soil kicks off in South Africa.
9. Jul 11Spain defeated the Netherlands 1–0 after extra time to win their first FIFA World Cup title.
10. Aug 19Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.
11. Sep 19The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.
12. Oct 6Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, is founded.
13. Nov 14Red Bull Racing's Sebastian Vettel won the Drivers' Championship after winning the final race of the season, becoming the youngest Formula One champion.
14. Dec 22The United States repealed its "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gay, lesbian and bisexual people in the military.

Event summaries from Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Each links to its article.

• U.S. President

  Barack Obama

• UK Prime Minister

  David Cameron

• Prime Minister of Canada

  Stephen Harper

• President of France

  Nicolas Sarkozy

• German Chancellor

  Angela Merkel

• Prime Minister of Japan

  Yukio Hatoyama → Naoto Kan

• President of Russia

  Dmitry Medvedev

Everyone who held the office at some point in 2010, from Wikidata.

A selection of the best-documented titles on Wikidata, by first release year; not a box-office ranking.

• Sophia Reid-GantzertCanadian actress and dancer · Jan 18
• Tanitoluwa AdewumiNigerian-American chess player · Sep 3

From Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0.