On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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In merging with United, Continental gains a bigger flight network that would leave its rivals in New York — Delta Air Lines and American Airlines — struggling to catch up.
Search-and-rescue officials are facing a growing number of people with Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia who wander from home.
Leaders of the Senate Banking Committee said that they agreed to limit the likelihood of a taxpayer bailout of big banks, but liberal Democrats said they would push for reducing the size of the nation’s biggest banks.
Many of the practices that enabled investment banks to mask deteriorating finances are still being employed.
It took investigators barely two days after the failed bomb attack to arrest a suspect in the case.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 5, 2010, covering May 5, 2010.
Soundtrack
Lady Antebellum
Justin Bieber
AC/DC
Usher
2010Giulietta Simionato, Italian soprano (born 1910)[†]
Giulietta Simionato was an Italian mezzo-soprano. Her career spanned the period from the 1930s until her retirement in 1966.
2010Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Nigerian academic and politician, 13th President of Nigeria (born 1951)[†]
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua ; 16 August 1951 – 5 May 2010) was a Nigerian politician who served as the president of Nigeria from 2007 until his death in May 2010. He won the Nigerian presidential election held on 21 April 2007, and was sworn in on 29 May 2007.
2010Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek government-debt crisis.[†]
The anti-austerity movement in Greece involved a series of demonstrations and general strikes that took place across the country. The events, which began on 5 May 2010, were provoked by plans to cut public spending and raise taxes as austerity measures in exchange for a €110 billion bail-out, aimed at solving the Greek government-debt crisis. Three people were killed on 5 May in one of the largest demonstrations in Greece since 1973.
In 2010, the world population was approximately 7,021,732,148 people[†]