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August 16, 2010

Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

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Headlines from August 16, 2010

Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 11, 2010, covering August 16, 2010.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Nightmare by Avenged Sevenfold

    Nightmare

    Avenged Sevenfold

    Last week
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    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    1
  2. 2
    Album cover for Recovery by Eminem

    Recovery

    Eminem

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    6
  3. 3
    Album cover for Teflon Don by Rick Ross

    Teflon Don

    Rick Ross

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    2
  4. 4
    Album cover for My World 2.0 by Justin Bieber

    My World 2.0

    Justin Bieber

    Last week
    6
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    19
  5. 5
    Album cover for Thank Me Later by Drake

    Thank Me Later

    Drake

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    7

Notable Deaths

Dimitrios Ioannidis

2010Dimitrios Ioannidis, Greek general (born 1923)[†]

Dimitrios Ioannidis, also known as Dimitris Ioannidis and as The Invisible Dictator, was a Greek military officer and one of the leading figures in the junta that ruled the country from 1967 to 1974. Ioannidis was considered a "purist and a moralist, a type of Greek Gaddafi".

Historical Events

AIRES Flight 8250

2010AIRES Flight 8250 crashes at Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport in San AndrĂ©s, San AndrĂ©s y Providencia, Colombia, killing two people.[†]

AIRES Flight 8250 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight that on 16 August 2010 crashed on landing at night in poor weather on the Colombian island of San Andrés, killing two of the 131 people on board. The aircraft, an AIRES-operated Boeing 737-700, was arriving from the Colombian capital Bogotå when it heavily touched down short of the runway, breaking up in three sections.

Historical Context for August 16, 2010

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