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October 12, 2010

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 6, 2010, covering October 12, 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

Austin Ardill

2010Austin Ardill, Northern Irish soldier and politician (born 1917)[†]

Captain Robert Austin Ardill MC was a Northern Irish unionist politician.

2010Woody Peoples, American football player (born 1943)[†]

Woodrow Peoples Jr. was an American professional football player who was an offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL). Undrafted after playing college football for the Grambling Tigers, he was a two-time Pro Bowler with the San Francisco 49ers, and a member of the 1980 National Football Conference (NFC) champion Philadelphia Eagles during his 13-year NFL career.

2010Belva Plain, American author (born 1919)[†]

Belva Plain, née Offenberg, was a best-selling American author of mainstream fiction.

Historical Events

Yle TV2

2010The Finnish Yle TV2 channel's Ajankohtainen kakkonen current affairs program airs controversial Homoilta episode (literally "gay night"), which leads to the resignation of almost 50,000 Finns from the Evangelical Lutheran Church.[†]

Yle TV2 is a Finnish television channel owned and operated by Yle. TV2 was launched in 1965 as the successor to the former television channels TES-TV (Tesvisio) and Tamvisio and broadcasts public service programming, sports, drama, children's, youth, and music programmes. With Yle TV1, it is one of the three main television channels of Yle.

Historical Context for October 12, 2010

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