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October 10, 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 10, 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

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Notable Deaths

Solomon Burke

2010Solomon Burke, American singer-songwriter and preacher (born 1940)[†]

Solomon Vincent McDonald Burke was an American singer who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues as one of the founding fathers of soul music in the 1960s. He has been called "a key transitional figure bridging R&B and soul", and was known for his "prodigious output".

Joan Sutherland

2010Joan Sutherland, Australian-Swiss soprano and actress (born 1926)[†]

Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano known for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s to the 1980s.

Historical Events

Netherlands Antilles

2010The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.[†]

The Netherlands Antilles, also known as the Dutch Antilles, was a constituent Caribbean country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands consisting of the islands of Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten in the Lesser Antilles, and Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire in the Leeward Antilles. The country came into being in 1954 as the autonomous successor of the Dutch colony of Curaçao and Dependencies, and it was dissolved in 2010, when like Aruba in 1986, Sint Maarten and Curaçao gained status of constituent countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Bonaire gained status of special municipality of the Netherlands as the Caribbean Netherlands. The neighboring Dutch colony of Surinam in continental South America, did not become part of the Netherlands Antilles but became a separate autonomous country in 1954. All the territories that belonged to the Netherlands Antilles remain part of the kingdom today, although the legal status of each differs. As a group they are still commonly called the Dutch Caribbean, regardless of their legal status. People from this former territory continue to be called Antilleans in the Netherlands.

Historical Context for October 10, 2010

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