On this day
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Betaworks has fostered some big hits, like TweetDeck and Bit.ly, but it is trying to grow carefully, with a symbiotic group of companies.
In recent months, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao each staked a claim to being boxing’s best. But their dream bout remains uncertain, unlikely even.
Apple is exhibiting a spectacular amount of tone-deafness in its handling of the case of the lost iPhone prototype.
After a wide recall of children’s drugs, many parents are questioning the value, and sense of security, when buying a name brand over cheaper generic medicines.
Since 9/11, as car bombs have wreaked varying degrees of havoc overseas, New York has been free of that particular menace. Eerily so, for many.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 28, 2010, covering May 3, 2010.
Justin Bieber
MGMT
Lady Antebellum
Usher
Coheed and Cambria
2010Roy Carrier, American accordion player (born 1947)[†]
Joseph Roy Carrier Sr., known professionally as Roy Carrier, was an American Zydeco musician. He was the father of Chubby and Dikki Du Carrier, who followed their father into Zydeco music and the brother of Zydeco T Carrier
2010Peter O'Donnell, English soldier and author (born 1920)[†]
Peter O'Donnell was an English writer of mysteries and of comic strips, best known as the creator of Modesty Blaise, an action heroine/undercover trouble-shooter. He was also an award-winning gothic historical romance novelist who wrote under the female pseudonym Madeleine Brent, in 1978, his novel Merlin's Keep won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
2010Guenter Wendt, German-American engineer (born 1923)[†]
Günter F. Wendt was a German-born American mechanical engineer noted for his work in the U.S. human spaceflight program. An employee of McDonnell Aircraft and later North American Aviation, he was in charge of the spacecraft close-out crews at the launch pads for the entire Mercury and Gemini programs (1961–1966) and the crewed phases of the Apollo, Skylab, and Apollo–Soyuz programs (1968–1975) at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). His official title was Pad Leader.
In 2010, the world population was approximately 7,021,732,148 people[†]