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This article covers breaking news and events in August 2010.
Daily events
Sunday 1st August 2010
- Barcelona / Spain : End of the European Athletics Championships .
- Bielefeld / Germany : In the final of the U-20 Women's World Cup , Germany defeated Nigeria 2-0.
- Brussels / Belgium : The Swift Agreement comes into force. For the United States , it is an important tool for exposing terrorist financing . For citizens of the European Union , it means that terror investigators can see their bank account if there is a suspicion of terrorist financing.
- Butiaba / Uganda : At least 33 people are killed in a ship accident on Lake Albert .
- Islamabad / Pakistan : The persistent heavy flooding in the north-west of the country increases the death toll to at least 1,100.
- Kabul / Afghanistan : The Dutch armed forces are the first western army to begin withdrawing their 1,950 ISAF soldiers.
- Munich / Germany : The nationwide strictest smoking ban comes into force in Bavaria .
- New York / United States : The law banning cluster munitions , ratified by 108 states of the United Nations , comes into force.
Monday 2nd August 2010
- Igarka / Russia : In a plane crash in Siberia , eleven people are killed and four more survive.
- Moscow / Russia . Due to ongoing forest fires , President Dmitry Medvedev has declared an emergency in seven regions.
Tuesday 3rd August 2010
- Karachi / Pakistan : At least 46 people are killed and at least 90 others injured in riots following the murder of the politician Raza Haider from the Muttahida Qaumi movement .
- Karlsruhe / Germany : The Federal Constitutional Court ruled that unmarried mothers should take precedence over fathers in cases of custody to be unconstitutional.
- Kut / Iraq : At least 30 people are killed and 80 others are injured in a double attack with car bombs.
Wednesday 4th August 2010
- Hamadan / Iran : President Mahmud Ahmadinejad survives an attack unharmed.
- Honiara / Solomon Islands : Steve Abana's Democratic Party wins a majority of the votes in the parliamentary elections .
- Kirkland / United States : 40 billionaires agree to donate at least 50% of their wealth to The Giving Pledge campaign .
- Nairobi / Kenya : In a referendum , the majority of voters vote in favor of a new constitution.
Thursday 5th August 2010
- Kabul / Afghanistan : At least twelve people are killed in two Taliban attacks in the east of the country.
Friday August 6, 2010
- Badachschan / Afghanistan : Ten employees of the International Assistance Mission , including eight foreigners, are found murdered.
- Bern / Switzerland : Hans-Rudolf Merz , head of the Federal Department of Finance since 2003 , announced his resignation from the Federal Council in October 2010 .
- Warsaw / Poland : Bronislaw Komorowski is one month after the presidential election before the Parliament as President sworn in.
Saturday 7th August 2010
- Basra / Iraq : Two explosions kill at least 45 people and injure more than 180 others.
- Bogotá / Colombia : At least 14 people are killed in an attack.
- Bogotá / Colombia : Juan Manuel Santos is sworn in as president in front of parliament .
- Beijing / China : At least 96 people are killed in mudslides as a result of heavy rainfall in the north-west of the country.
Sunday 8th August 2010
- Görlitz / Germany : Severe flooding occurs along the catchment areas of the Lusatian Neisse in Saxony , Poland and the Czech Republic . At least nine people are killed and thousands are evacuated.
- Leh / India : In the north of the country, at least 110 people are killed and more than 375 others are injured in mudslides as a result of heavy rains.
- Nuremberg / Germany : Arjen Robben from FC Bayern Munich and Inka Grings from FCR 2001 Duisburg win the election of the footballer of the year carried out by the kicker sports magazine and the Association of German Sports Journalists .
Monday August 9, 2010
- Hamburg / Germany : Police includes also the assassins of September 11, visited Al-Quds mosque .
- Kigali / Rwanda : In the presidential election , Paul Kagame was confirmed in office with more than 93% of the votes, while the opposition described the election as unfree.
Tuesday August 10, 2010
- Geneva / Switzerland : The World Health Organization (WHO) officially declares the swine flu pandemic over.
- Mountain View / United States : Despite ongoing criticism, the Internet company Google announces that it intends to launch its street photo service Street View in Germany by the end of the year.
- Santa Marta / Colombia : President Juan Manuel Santos and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chávez agree to resume diplomatic relations between the two countries that had broken off three weeks ago.
- Tokyo / Japan : Prime Minister Naoto Kan apologizes for his country's colonial rule over Korea between 1910 and 1945.
Wednesday August 11, 2010
- London / United Kingdom : An international team of researchers reports in the journal Nature that traces of cuts on fossil animal bones from Dikika in the Ethiopian Afar Triangle show that Australopithecus afarensis was using stone tools 3.4 million years ago, much earlier than previously thought .
- Nuremberg / Germany : The regional court rejects the trademark lawsuit of the fashion label Thor Steinar against the satirical project Storch Heinar .
- Schwalmtal / Germany : The Italian company Barilla sells the Kamps bakery chain to the financial investor ECM Equity Capital .
Thursday August 12, 2010
- Paramaribo / Suriname : Desi Bouterse is sworn in as President of the Republic before the National Assembly .
Friday August 13, 2010
- Klagenfurt / Austria : In the course of the investigation into Hypo-Alpe-Adria-Bank , the former CEO Wolfgang Kulterer is arrested.
Saturday August 14, 2010
- Peshawar / Pakistan : At least 13 people are killed and five others are injured in an attack by a US drone in the northwest of the country.
- Santa Clara / United States : Information about plans to discontinue the OpenSolaris open operating system reaches the public.
- Singapore / Singapore : The first Summer Youth Olympic Games open.
Sunday 15th August 2010
- Kohler / United States : The German golfer Martin Kaymer wins the PGA Championship with 72-68-67-70 = 277 (−11).
Monday August 16, 2010
- Beijing / China : The country ousts Japan from second place of the economically strongest nations in the world.
Tuesday 17th August 2010
- Baghdad / Iraq : An attack on a military installation kills at least 56 people and injures more than 129 others.
Wednesday August 18, 2010
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority imposed a sale and payment ban on noa bank due to the threat of over-indebtedness and closes it for customer transactions .
- Vienna / Austria : An amendment to the law enables former community service providers to complete training as an executive officer .
Thursday August 19, 2010
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- Baghdad / Iraq : The occupation of Iraq ends with the withdrawal of the last US combat troops from the country.
- Hyderabad / India : Elon Lindenstrauss ( Israel ), Ngô Bao Châu ( Vietnam ), Stanislaw Smirnow ( Russia ) and Cédric Villani ( France ) are awarded the Fields Medal for their work in mathematics .
- Paris / France : The authorities begin to deport a total of 700 Romanian and Bulgarian Roma .
Friday August 20, 2010
- Yerevan / Armenia : President Serzh Sargsyan agrees with his Russian counterpart Dmitri Medvedev to extend the right to use the military base on the border with Turkey until 2044.
Saturday August 21, 2010
- Bushehr / Iran : Despite international criticism , the country's first nuclear power plant is opened.
- Canberra / Australia : Neither the ruling Labor Party under Prime Minister Julia Gillard nor the opposition alliance of liberals and conservatives can achieve a majority in the parliamentary elections .
- Frauenfeld / Switzerland : The Federal Wrestling and Alpine Festival begins.
- Kabul / Afghanistan : At least 75 people are killed in a Taliban attack on construction workers and subsequent fighting.
Sunday 22nd August 2010
- Berlin / Germany : The Kenyan middle-distance runner David Lekuta Rudisha improves Wilson Kipketer's 13-year-old world record by two hundredths of a second at the International Stadium Festival with a time of 1: 41.09 min over 800 meters .
Monday 23 August 2010
- Berlin / Germany : Federal Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg announces the suspension of conscription and a downsizing of the Bundeswehr .
- Islamabad / Pakistan : At least 24 people are killed and more than 30 others are injured in two bomb attacks in the north of the country.
Tuesday August 24, 2010
- Garching / Germany : The European Southern Observatory announces the discovery of the largest distant star system with up to seven planets .
- Kathmandu / Nepal : All 14 occupants are killed in a plane crash south of the capital.
- Mogadishu / Somalia : In the attack on the Hotel Mona , at least 32 civilians, including several government politicians, are shot dead by members of the al-Shabaab militia .
- Tamaulipas / Mexico : The bodies of 72 migrants from Brazil , Ecuador , Honduras and El Salvador are discovered on a hacienda .
- Yichun / China : At least 43 of the 96 people on board are killed in a plane crash.
Wednesday August 25, 2010
- Baghdad / Iraq : At least 48 people are killed and more than 250 others are injured in bomb attacks in ten cities in the country.
- Hamburg / Germany : Christoph Ahlhaus ( CDU ) is elected as the successor to the resigned Ole von Beust as the first mayor of the city-state .
- Honiara / Solomon Islands : Danny Philip is from the Parliament elected prime minister of the country.
Thursday August 26, 2010
- Gündogdu / Turkey : At least twelve people are killed and more than seven others are injured in a landslide in the northeast of the country.
- Singapore / Singapore: End of the first Summer Youth Olympic Games .
Friday August 27, 2010
Saturday August 28, 2010
- Jalalabad / Afghanistan : At least 13 people are killed in two attacks by the Taliban on bases of the NATO protection force ISAF in the east of the country.
Sunday 29th August 2010
- Los Angeles / United States : At the 62nd Emmy Awards , Mad Men , Modern Family and The Pacific are recognized as best TV series.
- Moscow / Russia : At least 40 people are killed in several skirmishes between security forces and rebels in the North Caucasus .
- Quito / Ecuador : At least 38 people are killed in a bus accident and more than twelve others are injured.
Monday August 30, 2010
- Berlin / Germany : The CDU parliamentary group in the House of Representatives excludes the Islam critic René Stadtkewitz from the parliamentary group.
- Copiapó / Chile : 25 days after the mining accident in the San José mine , the rescue drilling to salvage the 33 buried miners begins.
- Schleswig / Germany : The State Constitutional Court orders new elections by autumn 2012 at the latest.
Tuesday August 31, 2010
- Peshawar / Pakistan : At least 55 people are killed in air strikes by the army on the Taliban in the north of the country.
- Wiesbaden / Germany : Following the resignation of Roland Koch ( CDU ), the Landtag elects Koch's party colleague Volker Bouffier as the new Prime Minister of the State of Hesse .
See also
- Nekrolog August 2010 for deaths this month
- List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in August
- Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in August
Web links
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Leichtathletik.de: With 1,626 more EM participants than expected (accessed on June 27, 2010).
- ↑ kicker.de: U-20 Women's World Cup: 2-0 final victory against Nigeria - Meinert-Elf makes their summer fairy tale come true (accessed on August 1, 2010).
- ^ Diepresse.com: Controversial Swift Agreement entered into force (accessed on August 1, 2010).
- ↑ stern.de: 33 dead when a ship sank on Lake Albert in Uganda ( memento from April 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 2, 2010).
- ↑ focus.de: Floods in Pakistan: More than 1,100 dead - fear of epidemics is growing (accessed on August 1, 2010).
- ↑ derwesten.de: NATO: Dutch people withdraw from Afghanistan (accessed on August 1, 2010).
- ↑ zeit.de: Health: Bavaria has nationwide strictest smoking ban (accessed on August 1, 2010).
- ↑ derstandard.at: International Convention on the Ban on Cluster Bombs in force (accessed on August 1, 2010).
- ↑ kleinezeitung.at: Eleven dead in plane crash in Siberia ( Memento from August 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 2, 2010).
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Medwedjew imposes a state of emergency due to fires ( Memento from August 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 2, 2010).
- ↑ Bloody riots in Karachi, Pakistan after the murder of politicians. In: swissinfo.ch . August 3, 2010, accessed October 20, 2019 .
- ↑ spiegel.de: Basic judgment - Constitutional Court strengthens custody of unmarried fathers (accessed on August 3, 2010).
- ↑ focus.de: Double attack: At least 30 dead and 80 injured in Iraq (accessed on August 3, 2010).
- ↑ welt.de: Ahmadinejad survives attack unharmed (accessed on August 4, 2010).
- ↑ theaustralian.com.au: Half of Solomons' MPs lose their seats (accessed August 14, 2010).
- ↑ spiegel.de: 40 super-rich donate half of their wealth (accessed on August 5, 2010).
- ↑ faz.net: Referendum - majority for the new constitution in Kenya (accessed on August 5, 2010).
- ↑ derstandard.at: Civilians killed again - ISAF expresses regret (accessed on August 11, 2010).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Assault in Northern Province: German doctor murdered in Afghanistan (accessed on August 8, 2010).
- ^ Admin.ch: Resignation of Federal Councilor Hans-Rudolf Merz on October (accessed on August 7, 2010).
- ↑ stern.de: Poland: Komorowski sworn in as the new president (accessed on August 7, 2010).
- ↑ tagesschau.sf.tv: 45 dead in explosions in Basra (accessed on August 8, 2010).
- ^ A b fr-online.de: Change of Power - Colombia's new president (accessed on August 7, 2010).
- ↑ asiancorrespondent.com: 96 dead, thousands missing in China landslides (accessed August 8, 2010).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Floods in East Germany - measuring level in front of Bad Muskau failed (accessed on August 9, 2010).
- ↑ tagesschau.sf.tv: Numerous dead after storms in India (accessed on August 8, 2010).
- ↑ kicker.de: Van Gaal with the coaches in front, Grings wins with the women - Arjen Robben is footballer of the year (accessed on August 8, 2010).
- ↑ n-tv.de: Hamburg closes the mosque (accessed on August 9, 2010).
- ↑ derstandard.at: incumbent Kagame celebrates landslide victory (accessed on November 6, 2016).
- ↑ welt.de: All-clear - WHO declares the end of the swine flu pandemic (accessed on August 11, 2010).
- ↑ stern.de: Google Street View: How do I disagree? (Accessed August 11, 2010).
- ↑ focus.de: Colombia and Venezuela - Chávez and Santos dare a new beginning of the relationship (accessed on August 11, 2010).
- ↑ tagesschau.de: "Deep remorse" for annexation - Japan's Prime Minister Kan apologizes to South Koreans ( Memento from August 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 11, 2010).
- ↑ stern.de: 3.4 million year old finds: Lucy's contemporaries used tools (accessed on August 12, 2010).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Thor Steinar "-Prozess - Sieg für den Satire-Storch (accessed on August 12, 2010).
- ↑ reuters.com: Barilla sells Kamps bakery chain to financial investor (accessed on August 11, 2010).
- ↑ ad-hoc-news.de: Dési Bouterse is back at the helm in Suriname (accessed on August 15, 2010).
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Suspicion of infidelity - ex-boss of the Carinthian scandal bank HGAA arrested (accessed on August 14, 2010).
- ↑ stern.de: 13 rebels killed in attack by US drones in Pakistan ( memento from April 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 19, 2010).
- ↑ derstandard.at: Oracle says goodbye to the OpenSolaris community (accessed on August 14, 2010).
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Golf pro Martin Kaymer - In the green sky (accessed on August 19, 2010).
- ↑ stern.de: In the fast lane - China is now the second largest economic power behind the USA (accessed on August 17, 2010).
- ↑ dpa: At least 56 dead in attack on recruits in Baghdad. In: Abendblatt.de. August 18, 2010, accessed April 11, 2019 .
- ↑ spiegel.de: Dangerous over-indebtedness - alternative Noa Bank at the end (accessed on August 18, 2010.)
- ↑ derstandard.at: The gun ban will be relaxed: Civil servants may become police officers (accessed on August 19, 2010.)
- ↑ spiegel.de: US withdrawal from Iraq - "The gates to hell are wide open" (accessed on August 19, 2010).
- ^ AFP: Two French winners of the "Fields" award in math (accessed August 22, 2010).
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Controversial action by the authorities - France sends Roma back ( Memento from August 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 19, 2010).
- ↑ focus.de: Russia - military base in Armenia will remain until 2044 (accessed on August 21, 2010).
- ↑ welt.de: Controversial reactor - Iran solemnly opens its first nuclear power plant (accessed on August 21, 2010).
- ^ Spiegel.de: Stalemate in Australia - Social Democrats and Conservatives vying for partners (accessed on August 123, 2010).
- ↑ derstandard.at: 75 dead after Taliban attack on road construction team (accessed on August 22, 2010).
- ↑ fr-online.de: Athletics - The perfect sky (accessed on August 24, 2010).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Bundeswehr - Guttenberg wants to suspend military service (accessed on August 23, 2010).
- ↑ kleinezeitung.at: 24 dead in bomb attacks in Pakistan (accessed on 23 August 2010).
- ↑ focus.de: Astronomy - Largest family of planets discovered to date (accessed on August 26, 2010).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Nepal - 14 people die in plane crash (accessed on August 24, 2010)
- ^ Spiegel.de: Attack on hotel in Mogadishu: assassins kill more than 30 people (accessed on August 25, 2010)
- ^ Faz.net: Horror at the massacre in Mexico (accessed on August 27, 2010).
- ↑ Tspiegel.de: China - Dozens of people die in plane crashes (accessed on August 24, 2010).
- ↑ Insurgents demonstrate their power with a series of attacks in Iraq. In: badenertagblatt.ch . August 25, 2010, accessed September 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Hamburg's parliament elects Ahlhaus as the new mayor. In: Spiegel Online . August 25, 2010. Retrieved October 20, 2017 .
- ↑ solomontimes.com: Danny Philip is Prime Minister (accessed August 26, 2010).
- ↑ dw-world.de: Twelve dead in landslide in Turkey ( Memento from August 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 28, 2010).
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Dead in a ship accident in the polar sea - rescuers without rescue (accessed on August 29, 2010).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Afghanistan - ISAF troops repel severe Taliban attack (accessed on August 28, 2010).
- ↑ dwdl.de : "30 Rock" fails, "Modern Family" surprises ( Memento from September 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ tagesschau.de : New wave of violence in the North Caucasus ( Memento from September 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ https://latina-press.com/news/43119-busunfall-in-ecuador-mindest-38-tote/
- ↑ tagesspiegel.de: CDU excludes Stadtkewitz (accessed on October 7, 2011).
- ↑ zeit.de: Rescue drilling in Chile: Hope for those buried (accessed on August 31, 2010).
- ↑ ndr.de: Court orders new elections ( Memento from August 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 30, 2010).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Pakistan - More than 50 dead in air strike on Taliban (accessed September 1, 2010).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Hessen - Landtag elects Bouffier as Prime Minister (accessed on August 31, 2010).