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Ten places to drink, party and play in New York City.
With recovery fragile elsewhere, Latin America benefits from strong commodity demand and past economic measures.
The ideal of race-blind meritocracy is being tested by the efforts at the elite universities that produce the nation’s leaders.
The Negro Leagues Grave Marker Project has tracked down the unmarked graves of forgotten players.
Despite high levels of formaldehyde, some government trailers used after Katrina are getting a second life.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 30, 2010, covering July 1, 2010.
Drake
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Sarah McLachlan
Various Artists
Jack Johnson
2010Don Coryell, American football player and coach (born 1924)[†]
Donald David Coryell was an American football coach. He coached in high school, college, and the professional ranks; his most notable NCAA post was with the San Diego State Aztecs, then he moved on to the National Football League (NFL), first with the St. Louis Cardinals from 1973 to 1977 and then the San Diego Chargers from 1978 to 1986. Well known for his innovations in football's passing game, in particular the Air Coryell offense he created with the Chargers, Coryell was the first head coach to win more than 100 games at both the collegiate and professional levels. He was inducted into the Chargers Hall of Fame in 1994, the College Football Hall of Fame in 1999, and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2023.
2010Arnold Friberg, American painter and illustrator (born 1913)[†]
Arnold Friberg was an American illustrator and painter noted for his religious and patriotic works. He is perhaps best known for his 1975 painting The Prayer at Valley Forge, a depiction of George Washington praying at Valley Forge. He is also well known for his 15 "pre-visualization" paintings for the Cecil B. DeMille film The Ten Commandments which were used to promote the film worldwide and for which he received an Academy Award nomination.
2010Ilene Woods, American actress and singer (born 1929)[†]
Jacqueline Ruth Woods, better known as Ilene Woods, was an American actress and singer. Woods was the original voice of the title character of Walt Disney animated film Cinderella, for which she was named a Disney Legend in 2003.
In 2010, the world population was approximately 7,021,732,148 people[†]