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April 10, 2010

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 7, 2010, covering April 10, 2010.

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    Album cover for My World 2.0 by Justin Bieber

    My World 2.0

    Justin Bieber

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    Album cover for Still Standing by Monica

    Still Standing

    Monica

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    Album cover for NOW 33 by Various Artists

    NOW 33

    Various Artists

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    Album cover for Need You Now by Lady Antebellum

    Need You Now

    Lady Antebellum

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    Album cover for My World (EP) by Justin Bieber

    My World (EP)

    Justin Bieber

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Notable Deaths

Ryszard Kaczorowski

2010Casualties in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash included:[†]

Ryszard Kaczorowski, GCMG was a Polish statesman. From 1989 to 1990, he served as the last President of Poland-in-exile. He succeeded Kazimierz Sabbat, and resigned his post following Poland's regaining independence from the Soviet sphere of influence and the election of Lech WaƂęsa as the first democratically elected President of Poland since before the Second World War. He died on 10 April 2010 in the plane crash near Smolensk, Russia, along with the President of Poland Lech KaczyƄski and other senior government officials.

Maria KaczyƄska

2010Casualties in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash included:[†]

Maria Helena KaczyƄska was the First Lady of Poland from 2005 to 2010 as the wife of President Lech KaczyƄski. She and her husband died in a plane crash in the Russian city of Smolensk.

Lech KaczyƄski

2010Casualties in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash included:[†]

Lech Aleksander KaczyƄski was a Polish politician who served as the city mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 2005, and as President of Poland from 2005 until his death in 2010 in an air crash. The aircraft carrying him and senior Polish officials had crashed while they were travelling to attend ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre. Prior to his tenure as president, KaczyƄski served as President of the Supreme Audit Office from 1992 to 1995 and later Minister of Justice and Public Prosecutor General in Jerzy Buzek's cabinet from 2000 until his dismissal in July 2001.

Anna Walentynowicz

2010Casualties in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash included:[†]

Anna Walentynowicz was a Polish trade unionist and co-founder of Solidarity, the first recognised independent trade union in the Eastern Bloc. Her firing from her job at the Lenin Shipyard in GdaƄsk in August 1980 was the event that ignited the strike at the shipyard, set off a wave of strikes across Poland, and quickly paralyzed the Baltic coast. The Interfactory Strike Committee (MKS) based in the GdaƄsk shipyard eventually transformed itself into Solidarity; by September, more than one million workers were on strike in support of the 21 demands of MKS, making it the largest strike ever.

Dixie Carter

2010Dixie Carter, American actress and singer (born 1939)[†]

Dixie Virginia Carter was an American actress. She starred as Julia Sugarbaker on the sitcom Designing Women (1986–1993) and as Randi King on the drama series Family Law (1999–2002). She was nominated for the 2007 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Gloria Hodge on Desperate Housewives (2006–2007).

Historical Events

Polish Air Force

2010Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech KaczyƄski, his wife, and dozens of other senior officials and dignitaries.[†]

The Polish Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of the Polish Armed Forces. Until July 2004 it was officially known as Wojska Lotnicze i Obrony Powietrznej. In 2014 it consisted of roughly 26,000 military personnel and about 475 aircraft, distributed among ten bases throughout Poland.

Historical Context for April 10, 2010

In 2010, the world population was approximately 7,021,732,148 people[†]