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This article covers breaking news and events in April 2010.
Daily events
Thursday April 1, 2010
- Berlin / Germany : A reform of the Federal Data Protection Act , it is possible in the future citizens, once a year a free credit report in the protective association for general credit protection and in all other reporting agencies to obtain.
- Swindon / United Kingdom : The UK Space Agency begins work.
Friday April 2, 2010
- Baghdad / Iraq : 25 people are killed in an attack on a Sunni village.
- Baikonur / Kazakhstan : Launch of the Soyuz TMA-18 mission to the International Space Station .
- Char Darah / Afghanistan : Three German soldiers are killed in a Taliban attack, eight others are wounded.
Saturday 3rd April 2010
- Bangkok / Thailand : Three weeks after the start of the mass protests against the government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva , 50,000 people occupy a quarter with numerous posh shops and luxury hotels .
Sunday April 4, 2010
- Baghdad / Iraq : In three bomb attacks at least 21 people are killed and over 40 others are injured.
- Meerbeke / Belgium : The Swiss cyclist Fabian Cancellara wins the Tour of Flanders .
Monday April 5, 2010
- Cape Canaveral / USA : The Space Shuttle mission STS-131 of the Discovery launch in time for the International Space Station .
- Islamabad / Pakistan : A bomb attack in the north-west of the country kills at least 38 people and injures more than 100 others.
- Montcoal / United States : 25 workers die and 20 others are injured in an explosion in a coal mine.
- Xiangning / China : One week after a mine disaster , 114 buried miners are rescued from the mine.
Tuesday April 6, 2010
- Dantewada / India : Maoists kill at least 75 people in Chhattisgarh state and injure more than 20 others.
- Vyborg / Russia : Construction of the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea to Germany begins .
Wednesday April 7, 2010
- Bishkek / Kyrgyzstan : After fighting dozens of dead, the opposition announces the formation of a transitional government headed by former Foreign Minister Rosa Otunbajewa .
- Katyn / Russia : Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk commemorate the massacre 70 years ago for the first time .
- Paris / France : The car manufacturers Daimler AG and Renault-Nissan agree on a far-reaching strategic cooperation.
- Rio de Janeiro / Brazil : 95 people are killed in severe floods; 10,000 houses are at risk of being buried in landslides.
Thursday April 8, 2010
- Johannesburg / South Africa : The ancestral gallery of humans is extended by Australopithecus sediba , a newly discovered fossil prehistoric species.
- London / United Kingdom : British Airways and Spanish airline Iberia seal their merger to become the world's third largest airline by the end of the year.
- Prague / Czech Republic : US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev sign a new start-up treaty on nuclear disarmament.
- Sri Jayewardenepura / Sri Lanka : In the election the ruling party obtained SLFP of Mahinda Rajapaksa 62% of the votes, while the opposition UNP receives 30%.
Friday April 9, 2010
- Parachinar / Pakistan : Dozens of insurgents are killed in air strikes on Taliban refuges.
Saturday April 10, 2010
- Bangkok / Thailand : At least 18 people are killed and over 800 others are injured in clashes between demonstrators and soldiers .
- Smolensk / Russia : When a Tupolev Tu-154 crashes , 96 people are killed, including Poland's President Lech Kaczyński and other high-ranking Polish politicians.
Sunday April 11, 2010
- Budapest / Hungary : The right-wing Hungarian citizenship Fidesz under Viktor Orbán wins the first round of parliamentary elections with 52.8% of the vote .
- Khartoum / Sudan : In the presidential elections , incumbent Umar al-Bashir wins with 68.2 percent of the vote.
Monday April 12, 2010
- Mainz / Germany : The Federal Network Agency begins auctioning the frequencies for the fourth generation of mobile communications under the mobile communications operators T-Mobile , Vodafone , E-Plus and Telefónica Germany (O 2 ).
Tuesday April 13, 2010
- Munich / Germany : Start of the trial against one of the alleged perpetrators in the murder case Dominik Brunner .
Wednesday April 14, 2010
- Dhaka / Bangladesh and Calcutta / India : A hurricane kills at least 85 people and injures over 225 others.
- Qinghai / China : An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 M w in the north-western province of the country kills at least 2,000 people and injures more than 10,000 more.
Thursday April 15, 2010
- Bishkek / Kyrgyzstan : One week after the uprising , the overthrown President Kurmanbek Bakiyev declares his resignation and moves to neighboring Kazakhstan .
- Europe : After a renewed eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland , the airspace has to be largely closed due to the ash cloud. After initially affecting the British Isles and the Scandinavian countries , the disruption subsequently spreads to France , the Benelux countries and Central Europe .
Friday April 16, 2010
Saturday 17th April 2010
- Islamabad / Pakistan : At least 41 people die and 64 others are injured in an attack on a refugee camp in the north-west of the country.
- Tikrit / Iraq : In a joint military operation by the United States Army and the Iraqi secret service against the terror network al-Qaeda , its leader in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri , is killed.
- Vienna / Austria : At the Romy Awards 2010 , Bibiana Zeller and Christoph Waltz are honored as the most popular actors and the best film is The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story by Michael Haneke .
Sunday April 18, 2010
- Lefkoşa / Northern Cyprus : In the presidential elections in the not by the United Nations recognized the TRNC , the national conservative Prime Minister sets Derviş Eroğlu of the National Unity Party with 50.4% of the vote against the Social Democratic incumbent Mehmet Ali Talât of the Turkish Republican Party by which obtained 42.9%.
Monday April 19, 2010
- Peshawar / Pakistan : At least 23 people are killed and more than 30 others are injured in two bomb attacks in the north-west of the country.
Tuesday April 20, 2010
- Buenos Aires / Argentina : The last head of the military junta , General Reynaldo Bignone , is sentenced by the federal court to 25 years imprisonment in 56 cases for human rights crimes.
- Gulf of Mexico : The Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion near the coast of Louisiana , United States , allegedly kills eleven people. As a result, an oil slick spreads . The user of the system was the oil company BP .
Wednesday April 21, 2010
- Kharkiv / Ukraine : President Viktor Yanukovych and his Russian counterpart Dmitri Medvedev agree to extend the right to use the Russian Black Sea fleet in Sevastopol beyond 2017 and to supply Russian natural gas on more favorable terms.
- Langen / Germany : After days of obstruction due to the ash cloud ejected from the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull , the German air traffic control clears the airspace again.
Thursday April 22, 2010
- Augsburg / Germany : In the wake of the scandal surrounding the sexual abuse of children and young people in the Roman Catholic Church, Bishop Walter Mixa submits his resignation to the Pope .
- Brussels / Belgium : After breaking the ruling coalition due to the dispute over the Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde announces Prime Minister Yves Leterme to resign.
- Tallinn / Estonia : The NATO foreign ministers decide to include Bosnia and Herzegovina in the action plan for candidate countries and recommend further reforms.
Friday April 23, 2010
- Athens / Greece : The country, which is on the brink of national bankruptcy due to the financial crisis in 2007 , is asking the European Union and the International Monetary Fund for a total of 45 billion euros in financial aid.
- Baghdad / Iraq : At least 25 people die and over 100 others are injured in several bomb attacks.
- Berlin / Germany : Michael Haneke's feature film The White Ribbon was awarded the German Film Prize in ten categories, including the Gold Film Prize for best film.
- Khartoum / Sudan : At least 55 people are killed and 85 others are injured in fighting between the army and Arab nomads in South Sudan .
- Sofia / Bulgaria : Beginning of the 2010 World Chess Championship between defending champion Viswanathan Anand and challenger Wesselin Topalow .
Saturday April 24, 2010
- Bern / Switzerland : SC Bern wins the decisive seventh game of the final series of the National League A against HC Servette Genève with 4: 1 and becomes Swiss ice hockey champions for the twelfth time .
- Hamburg / Germany : More than 120,000 opponents of nuclear power form a 120-kilometer human chain between the Krümmel and Brunsbüttel nuclear power plants against the federal government's energy policy .
Sunday April 25, 2010
- Budapest / Hungary : The right-wing conservative Hungarian Civic Association Fidesz under Viktor Orbán obtained a two-thirds majority in the second round of parliamentary elections with 263 seats.
- Hannover / Germany : In the third game of the final series of the German Ice Hockey League , the defeat Hannover Scorpions the Augsburger Panther 4: 2 in order to win the series with 3: 0 games and for the first time German ice hockey champions .
- Jackson / United States : A tornado in the state of Mississippi kills at least ten people and injures more than twelve others.
- Catalonia / Spain : Referendums on the independence of Catalonia are held in 211 other municipalities . With a very low turnout of 17.4%, 92.5% of the voters are in favor of independence.
- Washington, DC / United States : At the World Bank summit , the 186 member states decide to redistribute voting rights and give emerging and developing countries a greater say in relation to the industrialized nations.
- Vienna / Austria : In the federal presidential election , incumbent Heinz Fischer will be re-elected with around 79% of the votes with only around 50% voter turnout.
Monday April 26, 2010
- Panama City / Panama : Former ruler Manuel Noriega is extradited to France , where he was sentenced to ten years in prison in absentia for money laundering .
Tuesday April 27, 2010
- Borkum / Germany : Alpha ventus is the first offshore wind farm off the German North Sea coast to officially go into operation.
- Kathmandu / Nepal : Upon arriving at the summit of the 8.091 m high Annapurna , the South Korean Oh Eun-sun is the first woman to climb all 14 eight-thousanders .
- Oslo / Norway : Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and Russia's President Dmitri Anatoljewitsch Medvedev put an end to the 40-year-old dispute over the common border in the Barents Sea and the Arctic .
Wednesday April 28, 2010
- Münster / Germany : Researchers at the Westphalian Wilhelms University discover evidence of water deposits on the surface of Mars in images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter .
Thursday April 29, 2010
- Ansbach / Germany : The gunman on September 17, 2009 at the Carolinum grammar school was found guilty in 47 cases after a week's trial of attempted murder and sentenced to nine years in juvenile detention.
- Brussels / Belgium : The Chamber of Deputies adopts a nationwide ban on burqas and niqabs .
- Kiel / Germany : The state government of Schleswig-Holstein decides to ban local associations of the motorcycle and rocker clubs Hells Angels and Bandidos .
Friday April 30, 2010
See also
- Nekrolog April 2010 for deaths this month
- List of annually recurring days of remembrance and action in April
- Category for commemorative days, public holidays or days of action in April
Web links
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Individual evidence
- ↑ The Schufa must provide information free of charge in the future. In: wp.de . March 25, 2010. Retrieved September 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Spiegel.de: UK Space Agency - British found their own space agency (accessed April 2, 2010).
- ↑ Spiegel.de: Iraq - 25 dead in attack on Sunni village (accessed on April 3, 2010).
- ↑ rian.ru: Soyuz TMA-18 launched for ISS from Baikonur (accessed April 3, 2010).
- ↑ derstandard.at: Opposition supporters want to vacate Bangkok's business center (accessed April 4, 2010).
- ↑ https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2010-04/irak-bagdad-anschlag
- ↑ sf.tv: Cancellara triumphs in the Tour of Flanders (accessed on April 5, 2010).
- ^ Tagesschau.de: Space shuttle “Discovery” started on time for the ISS ( Memento from April 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 5, 2010).
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20100407084603/http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/pakistan-attacks-kill-46-target-us-consulate-20100405-rmv8 .html
- ↑ 25 dead in explosion in US colliery. In: rtl.de . April 6, 2010, accessed September 29, 2018 .
- ^ Spiegel.de: Rescue after a mine accident - The miracle of Xiangning (accessed on April 5, 2010).
- ↑ dw-world.de: Maoists set bloodbath (accessed on 6 April 2010).
- ↑ zeit.de: Gazprom: Construction of the Baltic Sea Pipeline begins ( Memento from April 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 6, 2010).
- ↑ Spiegel.de: Revolution in Russia's backyard - opposition announces takeover of power in Kyrgyzstan (accessed April 8, 2010).
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: 70 years of the Katyn massacre - Stalin's murders, Putin's gesture ( memento of April 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 7, 2010).
- ↑ Tagesschau.de: Daimler and Renault-Nissan seal alliance ( Memento from April 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 7, 2010).
- ↑ rp-online.de : 95 dead in flood in Rio ( Memento from January 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Tagesspiegel.de: New prehistoric man - Ecce Homo? (Accessed April 9, 2010).
- ↑ finanznachrichten.de: ROUNDUP: British Airways and Iberia seal merger (accessed on May 5, 2010).
- ↑ n24.de: Russians and Americans disarm - a little ( Memento from February 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 8, 2010).
- ^ Diepresse.com: Sri Lanka: ruling party wins parliamentary election (accessed April 9, 2010).
- ↑ Spiegel.de: Pakistan - Dozens of dead in air strikes (accessed April 9, 2010).
- ^ Zeit.de: Conflicts - Red Shirts continue to demonstrate (accessed April 11, 2010).
- ^ Spiegel.de: Accident in Smolensk - Poland's President Kaczynski dies in an airplane accident (accessed on April 10, 2010).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Orbán's triumph in Hungary - Revolution from the right (accessed on April 12, 2010).
- ^ N-tv.de: Election farce in Sudan - Al-Bashir remains president (accessed on April 26, 2010).
- ↑ n-tv.de: Germany is auctioning frequencies - cell phone operators are pushing ahead (accessed April 12, 2010)
- ↑ Focus.de: First trial of the Brunner murder case began (accessed April 13, 2010).
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20100419222842/http://www.alertnet.org/db/an_art/55867/2010/03/16-153544-1.htm .
- ↑ China: The number of earthquake deaths rises to over 1,300 (accessed on April 15, 2010).
- ↑ Welt.de: Central Asia - Kyrgyz President Bakiyev officially resigns (accessed April 16, 2010).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Eruption on Iceland - volcanic ash slows air traffic in Northwest Europe (accessed on April 15, 2010).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Gigantic ash cloud - Germany threatens to be banned from flying for days (accessed on April 16, 2010).
- ↑ news.bbc.co.uk: Pakistan suicide attack kills 10 at Quetta hospital (accessed April 23, 2010).
- ↑ Tagesschau.de: After Pakistan's offensive against the Taliban - 41 dead in attacks on refugee camps ( memento from April 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 18, 2010).
- ↑ focus.de: Conflicts - Two Al-Qaeda leaders killed in Iraq (accessed April 19, 2010).
- ↑ kurier.at: That was ROMY 2010 ( Memento from April 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Spiegel.de: North Cyprus - Nationalist Eroglu wins presidential elections (accessed April 19, 2010).
- ↑ NZZ.ch: 23 dead in attacks in Peshawar (accessed on April 20, 2010).
- ↑ Welt.de: 25 years imprisonment - last Argentine dictator has to go to prison (accessed on April 21, 2010).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Gulf of Mexico - Experts use robots against oil spills (accessed April 28, 2010).
- ↑ NZZ.ch: Sevastopol remains a Russian base - contract for Russian Black Sea Fleet extended (accessed on April 21, 2010).
- ↑ n24.de: Green light for flights in German airspace ( memento from April 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 21, 2010).
- ^ Spiegel.de: Resignation petition to the Pope - beating affair costs Bishop Mixa the office (accessed on April 22, 2010).
- ↑ Tagesschau.de: After the departure of the Flemish Liberals - Belgium's Prime Minister Leterme files his resignation ( Memento from April 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 22, 2010).
- ↑ https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_62811.htm
- ↑ Sueddeutsche.de: Aid requested - Greece asks for 45 billion euros (accessed April 24, 2010).
- ↑ Welt.de: Iraq - At least 25 dead in bomb attacks (accessed April 24, 2010).
- ↑ Golden Lola for Haneke's drama "The White Ribbon". In: Abendblatt.de . April 23, 2010, accessed August 10, 2017 .
- ↑ 55 dead in fighting in South Sudan (accessed April 25, 2010).
- ↑ https://www.bernerzeitung.ch/sport/hockey/sc-bern-ist-schweizer-meister-200910/story/19605674
- ↑ Spiegel.de: Human chain against nuclear power - 120 kilometers of resistance (accessed on April 24, 2010).
- ↑ Focus.de: Hungary - two-thirds majority for the right (accessed on April 25, 2010).
- ↑ kicker.de: DEL: 4-2 victory over the Augsburg Panthers - Hanover is champion! (Accessed April 25, 2010).
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Ten dead from tornado in USA (accessed on April 26, 2010).
- ↑ Welt.de: Summit in Washington - China in the World Bank more powerful than Germany (accessed on April 26, 2010).
- ↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior: Austria, preliminary final result (without voting cards) ( Memento from October 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 25, 2010).
- ↑ Stern.de: Panama's ex-dictator Noriega in Paris in custody. Archived from the original on April 29, 2010 ; Retrieved April 27, 2010 .
- ↑ Stern.de: USA deliver Manuel Noriega to France. April 27, 2010, accessed September 27, 2010 .
- ↑ weser-kurier.de: Alpha Ventus - now the North Sea current is flowing (accessed on April 27, 2010).
- ↑ Tagesschau.de: Arrival at the summit of Annapurna - South Korean is the first woman to climb all eight-thousanders ( memento from April 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 27, 2010).
- ↑ Tagesschau.de: Russia and Norway settle 40-year border dispute - agreement on the division of the Arctic ( memento of April 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 27, 2010).
- ↑ astronews.com: MARS - Liquid water on the surface? (Accessed April 29, 2010).
- ↑ Zeit.de: Schulamokläufer confesses without any pity ( memento from April 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 22, 2010).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Judgment of the regional court - nine years of juvenile imprisonment for Ansbach gunmen (accessed on April 30, 2010).
- ↑ Spiegel.de: Ban by law - Belgian parliament votes for radical burqa ban (accessed April 30, 2010).
- ↑ Spiegel.de: Hells Angels and Bandidos - Police close rocker clubs in the north (accessed April 30, 2010).
- ↑ NZZ.ch: China demonstrates strength with a superlative Expo - 70 million visitors expected at the world exhibition in Shanghai (accessed on May 1, 2010).