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June 4, 2010

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 2, 2010, covering June 4, 2010.

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    Album cover for Glee: The Music; Volume 3: Showstoppers: by Soundtrack

    Glee: The Music; Volume 3: Showstoppers:

    Soundtrack

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    Album cover for Exile On Main St. by The Rolling Stones

    Exile On Main St.

    The Rolling Stones

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    Album cover for Brothers by The Black Keys

    Brothers

    The Black Keys

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    Album cover for My World 2.0 by Justin Bieber

    My World 2.0

    Justin Bieber

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    9
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    Album cover for Distant Relatives by Nas & Damian Marley

    Distant Relatives

    Nas & Damian Marley

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Notable Deaths

John Wooden

2010John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (born 1910)[†]

John Robert Wooden was an American basketball coach and player. Nicknamed "the Wizard of Westwood", he won ten National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) national championships in a 12-year period as head coach for the UCLA Bruins, including a record seven in a row. No other team has won more than four in a row in Division I college men's or women's basketball. Within this period, his teams won an NCAA men's basketball record 88 consecutive games. Wooden won the prestigious Henry Iba Award as national coach of the year a record seven times and won the Associated Press award five times.

Historical Events

Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit

2010Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40.[†]

The Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit was a boilerplate version of the Dragon spacecraft manufactured by SpaceX. After using it for ground tests to rate Dragon's shape and mass in various tests, SpaceX launched it into low Earth orbit on the maiden flight of the Falcon 9 rocket, on June 4, 2010. SpaceX used the launch to evaluate the aerodynamic conditions on the spacecraft and performance of the carrier rocket in a real-world launch scenario, ahead of Dragon flights for NASA under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program. The spacecraft orbited the Earth over 300 times before decaying from orbit and reentering the atmosphere on 27 June.

Historical Context for June 4, 2010

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