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The Food and Drug Administration said in a statement that it planned to rescind Avastin’s accelerated approval for the treatment of breast tumors.
Samuel L. Clemens’s autobiography, embargoed at his request for 100 years and now a best seller, is a powerful argument for writers’ burning their papers.
The military campaign is proceeding at a slower pace than the political calendar, as the report shows real, but fragile gains on the ground in Afghanistan.
The midnight vote sealed the first major deal between President Obama and Congressional Republicans as Democrats bowed to the realignment of power.
Three Republican senators have joined Democrats in the effort to let gays and lesbians serve openly in the military.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 15, 2010, covering December 17, 2010.
Susan Boyle
Taylor Swift
Jackie Evancho
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2010Captain Beefheart, American singer-songwriter (born 1941)[†]
Don Van Vliet was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. Conducting a rotating ensemble known as the Magic Band, he recorded 13 studio albums between 1967 and 1982. His music blended elements of blues, free jazz, rock, and avant-garde composition with idiosyncratic rhythms, absurdist wordplay, and Vliet’s gravelly singing voice with a wide vocal range.
2010Walt Dropo, American basketball and baseball player (born 1923)[†]
Walter Dropo, nicknamed "Moose", was an American college basketball standout and a professional baseball first baseman. During a 13-year career in Major League Baseball, he played for the Boston Red Sox (1949–1952), Detroit Tigers (1952–1954), Chicago White Sox (1955–1958), Cincinnati Redlegs (1958–1959) and Baltimore Orioles (1959–1961).
2010Ralph Coates, English footballer (born 1946)[†]
Ralph Coates was an English professional footballer who played as a winger. Coates played for Burnley, Tottenham Hotspur and Orient, making 480 appearances in the Football League. From 1970 to 1971, he played for the England national team, earning four caps.
2010Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself on fire. This act became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring.[†]
Tarek El-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi was a Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire on 17 December 2010 in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, an act which became a catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring against autocratic regimes. His self-immolation was in response to the confiscation of his wares and the harassment and humiliation inflicted on him by a municipal official and their aides.
In 2010, the world population was approximately 7,021,732,148 people[†]