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A containment dome had been placed over one of the leaks, but crews discovered that the dome was clogging, forcing them to move it aside and allow oil to keep gushing.
Playing at Fenway Park, the Yankees overcame a rain delay and yet another injury to win their sixth in a row.
European leaders agreed to provide a huge rescue package to regain lost credibility with investors, and early reaction from world markets was positive.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. proposed carving a broad new exception to Miranda rights as he asserted that the Times Square bomb suspect trained in Pakistan.
“Iron Man 2” opened with more than $130 million in ticket sales, leaving Hollywood optimistic about a record-breaking summer movie season.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 5, 2010, covering May 9, 2010.
Soundtrack
Lady Antebellum
Justin Bieber
AC/DC
Usher
2010Lena Horne, American singer, actress, and activist (born 1917)[†]
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was an American singer, actress, dancer and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned more than seventy years and covered film, television and theatre.
2010Otakar Motejl, Czech lawyer and politician (born 1932)[†]
Otakar Motejl was a Czech lawyer and politician. He served as the first ombudsman of the Czech Republic from 2000 until his death in 2010. In 1998–2000 he served as the Minister of Justice.
In 2010, the world population was approximately 7,021,732,148 people[†]