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One day after John Maine was removed from his start against Washington, the Mets placed him on the 15-day disabled list with what they called “right shoulder weakness.”
When the Dish Network threatened to drop the Weather Channel this week, it cited too much “weather-tainment.” An even bigger reason appears to be cost.
While his colleagues raced in Stage 6 of the Tour of California on Friday, Lance Armstrong was forced to play defense. On the Internet, though, not on his bike.
On the QM22, a Queens-to-Midtown bus, the passengers are “like family.” Because of budget cuts, the bus will soon make its final run.
President Mary McAleese of Ireland is coming to Temple Shearith Israel to express gratitude for donations by New York Jews during the Irish famine.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 19, 2010, covering May 22, 2010.
Godsmack
Lady Antebellum
MercyMe
Carole King & James Taylor
Justin Bieber
2010Martin Gardner, American mathematician, cryptographer, and author (born 1914)[†]
Martin Gardner was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer with interests also encompassing magic, scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature – especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton. He was a leading authority on Lewis Carroll; The Annotated Alice, which incorporated the text of Carroll's two Alice books, was his most successful work and sold over a million copies. He had a lifelong interest in magic and illusion and in 1999, MAGIC magazine named him as one of the "100 Most Influential Magicians of the Twentieth Century". He was considered the doyen of American puzzlers. He was a prolific and versatile author, publishing more than 100 books.
2010Air India Express Flight 812, a Boeing 737 crashes over a cliff upon landing at Mangalore, India, killing 158 of 166 people on board, becoming the deadliest crash involving a Boeing 737 until the crash of Lion Air Flight 610.[†]
Air India Express Flight 812 was a scheduled international flight from Dubai International Airport, Dubai to Mangalore International Airport, Mangalore. On 22 May 2010, the Boeing 737-800 passenger jet operating the flight crashed on landing at Mangalore. The captain had continued an unstabilised approach, despite three calls from the first officer to initiate a "go-around", resulting in the aircraft overshooting the runway, falling down a hillside, and bursting into flames. Of the 166 passengers and crew on board, 158 were killed ; only eight survived. This was the first fatal accident involving Air India Express.
2010Inter 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).[†]
Football Club Internazionale Milano, commonly referred to as Internazionale or simply Inter, and colloquially known as Inter Milan in English-speaking countries, is an Italian professional football club based in Milan, Lombardy. Since 1947, Inter has shared the San Siro stadium with AC Milan—the club from which it originally split. The San Siro is the largest stadium in Italy, with a capacity of 75,817. The long-standing rivalry between the two clubs, known as the Derby della Madonnina, is one of the most widely followed derbies in world football.
In 2010, the world population was approximately 7,021,732,148 people[†]