
2010Jean Cione, American baseball player (born 1928)[†]
Jean S. Cione [″Cy″] was a pitcher who played from 1945 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 8", 143 lb., She batted and threw left-handed.
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In 2010, the world population was approximately 7,021,732,148 people[†]

2010Jean Cione, American baseball player (born 1928)[†]
Jean S. Cione [″Cy″] was a pitcher who played from 1945 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 8", 143 lb., She batted and threw left-handed.

2010Frank Fenner, Australian virologist and microbiologist (born 1914)[†]
Frank John Fenner was an Australian scientist with a distinguished career in the field of virology. His two greatest achievements are cited as overseeing the eradication of smallpox, and the attempted control of Australia's rabbit plague through the introduction of Myxoma virus.
2010During the Cambodian water festival, a stampede in Koh Pich, Phnom Penh, kills 347 people.[†]
Bon Om Touk, also known as the Cambodian Water Festival, is celebrated in late October or early November, often corresponding with the lunar Mid-Autumn Festival. It marks the end of the monsoon season. The festivities are accompanied by dragon boat races, similar to those seen in the Lao Boun Suang Huea festival.
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After watching a 23-7 lead turn into a 24-23 deficit, the Jets closed it out on Santonio Holmes’s scoring reception.
As developed countries limit the construction of coal-fired power plants, coal has found a rapidly growing market in China.
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This Thanksgiving Day, retailers are driving customers to the Web with more specials than ever.
Terry Collins, who managed the Astros and the Angels in the 1990s, will be named the Mets’ 20th manager.
The Knicks’ 3-1 trip revives their season, and the tweaked rotation helps them settle into an identity as a fast-paced, scoring team.
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Fitfully funny, thanks primarily to the energetic efforts of Denis O’Hare, the new Broadway comedy “Elling” is mostly just a puzzling fizzle.
Facing criticism for new airport screenings, the Obama administration said that the program is “evolving” but that the measures in place are justified by the risk.
Life on the front lines has two sides: the adrenaline-fueled moments of fighting, and the unglamorous everything else.
Rupert Murdoch is building The Daily, a newspaper for iPads that, unlike most news sites and apps, will be published each morning in one great heave, like a newspaper.
Programmers, roboticists and tinkerers are getting Microsoft’s new Kinect gaming device to do things it was not meant to do.