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June 26, 2010

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 23, 2010, covering June 26, 2010.

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    Album cover for Glee: The Music; Journey To Regionals (EP) by Soundtrack

    Glee: The Music; Journey To Regionals (EP)

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    Album cover for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse by Soundtrack

    The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

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    Album cover for Bionic by Christina Aguilera

    Bionic

    Christina Aguilera

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    Album cover for To The Sea by Jack Johnson

    To The Sea

    Jack Johnson

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    Album cover for Goon Affiliated by Plies

    Goon Affiliated

    Plies

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Notable Deaths

Algirdas Brazauskas

2010Algirdas Brazauskas, Lithuanian engineer and politician, 4th President of Lithuania (born 1932)[†]

Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas was a Lithuanian politician who served as the fourth president of Lithuania from 1993 to 1998. He also served as the prime minister of Lithuania from 2001 to 2006. Brazauskas was the first democratically elected president of post-Soviet Lithuania.

2010Harald Keres, Estonian physicist and academic (born 1912)[†]

Harald Keres was an Estonian physicist considered to be the father of the Estonian school of relativistic gravitation theory. In 1961 Keres became a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences in the field of theoretical physics. In 1996 Keres was awarded the Order of the National Coat of Arms, Class III.

Historical Context for June 26, 2010

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