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October 6, 2010

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 6, 2010, covering October 6, 2010.

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    Album cover for You Get What You Give by Zac Brown Band

    You Get What You Give

    Zac Brown Band

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    Album cover for Hands All Over by Maroon 5

    Hands All Over

    Maroon 5

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    Album cover for A Thousand Suns by Linkin Park

    A Thousand Suns

    Linkin Park

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    Album cover for A Year Without Rain by Selena Gomez & The Scene

    A Year Without Rain

    Selena Gomez & The Scene

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    Album cover for Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics Of All Time by Santana

    Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics Of All Time

    Santana

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Notable Deaths

Rhys Isaac

2010Rhys Isaac, South-African-Australian historian and author (born 1937)[†]

Rhys Llywelyn Isaac was a South African-born Australian historian of American history who also worked in the United States.

Antonie Kamerling

2010Antonie Kamerling, Dutch television and film actor, and musician (born 1966)[†]

Anthonie Willem Constantijn Gneomar "Antonie" Kamerling was a Dutch actor and singer. He was member of the original cast of the Dutch soap opera Goede tijden, slechte tijden. He played in the films The Little Blonde Death (1993), All Stars (1997), and I Love You Too (2001). He also had starring roles in Dutch musical productions. He has become the voice of Geoff from Total Drama in the Dutch version of the series. He took his own life in 2010.

Historical Events

Instagram

2010Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, is founded.[†]

Instagram is an American photo and short-form video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters, be organized by hashtags, and be associated with a location via geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers. Users can browse other users' content by tags and locations, view trending content, like photos, and follow other users to add their content to a personal feed. A Meta-operated image-centric social media platform, it is available on iOS, Android, Windows 10, and the web. Users can take photos and edit them using built-in filters and other tools, then share them on other social media platforms like Facebook. It supports 32 languages including English, Hindi, Spanish, French, Korean, and Japanese.

Historical Context for October 6, 2010

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