Monday 26 July 2010
It was Monday, under the sign of Leo (see planets position on July 26, 2010). The US president was Barack Obama (Democratic).
In that special week of July people in US were listening to Love The Way You Lie by Eminem.
The Other Guys, directed by Adam McKay, was one of the most viewed movies released in 2010
while Sliding Into Home by Kendra Wilkinson was one of the best selling books.
On TV people were watching The Great Outdoors.
If you liked videogames you were probably playing Battlefield: Bad Company 2 or Dance Dance Revolution X2.
But much more happened that day: find out below..
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Historical Events
Which were the important events of 26 July 2010 ?
Famous Birthdays:
See famous people born on 26 JulyFamous Deaths:
- Sivakant Tiwari: senior legal officer of the Singapore Legal Service (Born 1945).
Facts:
- The US Mint releases the 2010 Yosemite National Park quarter dollar to circulation.
- The President of France Nicolas Sarkozy confirms that Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb has executed Michel Germaneau, a French hostage taken in Mali. (Al-Jazeera)
- The United States, European Union and United Nations pledge additional resources to the African Union's AMISOM peacekeeping force in Somalia. (Voice of America)
- Two car bombs explode near the southern Iraqi city of Karbala, killing at least twenty people. (BBC)
- At least 26 people die after a bus crashes in the Daman District in the Kandahar Province of Afghanistan. (samaylive)
- An Israeli Air Force helicopter crashes in Romania with six Israeli airmen and a Romanian military observer on board all are feared dead. (Haaretz)
- Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch receives the verdict in his trial in Phnom Penh - the first of five surviving senior figures to do so. He is sentenced to 35 years in prison with 16 years off for time served. (CNN)
- United States investigators associated with INTERPOL track 200 bank accounts associated with alleged North Korean drug smuggling, counterfeiting, money laundering and arms trafficking. (ABC News Australia)
- Release of The War Logs:
- Wikileaks releases over 92,000 documents detailing unreported killings of hundreds of Afghan civilians and other incidents related to the war in Afghanistan to ''The Guardian'', ''The New York Times'' and ''Der Spiegel'', in one of the biggest leaks in U.S. military history. (''The New York Times'')
- The United States government condemns the release of the files, calling it a ampquotriskampquot and a threat to their security. (''The Sydney Morning Herald'')
- Julian Assange defends the release, saying the publication was in the public interest, and saying that Wikileaks had withheld the documents from release until it could redact the names of individuals whose safety might be at risk. US Senator John Kerry says the documents ampquotraise serious questions about the reality of America's policy toward Pakistan and Afghanistanampquot. (ABC)
- Opening of the 15th Congress of the Philippines: Channel NewsAsia
- Juan Ponce Enrile is elected as Senate President
- Feliciano Belmonte is elected Speaker of the House of Representatives.
- President Benigno Aquino III delivers his first State of the Nation Address.
- The ''Plastiki'', a catamaran made out of recycled plastic, arrives in Sydney, Australia, after travelling across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco, United States, to raise awareness of environmental issues. (AP via Yahoo News)
- The opening ceremony of the 2010 European Athletics Championships takes place in Barcelona. Official website
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- Time: A man clings to a downward trending graph
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- EW: Entertainment Weekly: no.1112
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Music Charts
Which were the top hits in that special week of July 2010 ?
Top #10 songs in the USA
Top #10 R&B songs
- Alicia Keys - Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)
- There Goes My Baby - Usher
- Find Your Love - Drake
- OMG - Usher Featuring will.i.am
- Ride - Ciara Featuring Ludacris
- Lose My Mind - Young Jeezy Featuring Plies
- Sex Room - Ludacris Featuring Trey Songz
- Your Love - Nicki Minaj
- Pretty Boy Swag - Soulja Boy Tell'em
- Bittersweet - Fantasia
Top #10 Latin songs
- Cuando Me Enamoro - Enrique Iglesias Featuring Juan Luis Guerra
- Dime Que Me Quieres - Banda El Recodo de Cruz Lizarraga
- No Puedo Volver - Intocable
- Al Menos - La Original Banda el Limon de Salvador Lizarraga
- Nina Bonita - Chino & Nacho
- Waka Waka (This Time For Africa) - Shakira Featuring Freshlyground
- Yerbatero - Juanes
- Bachata En Fukuoka - Juan Luis Guerra 440
- Te Recordare - El Trono de Mexico
- Alejate De Mi - Camila
Top #10 Rock songs
- The Crow & The Butterfly - Shinedown
- Lay Me Down - The Dirty Heads Featuring Rome
- The Good Life - Three Days Grace
- Thirty Seconds To Mars - This Is War
- Another Way To Die - Disturbed
- Cage The Elephant - In One Ear
- Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare
- Phoenix - 1901
- Muse - Uprising
- Savior - Rise Against
Books
Which were the most popular books released in the last weeks ?
Sliding Into Home
The former The Girls Next Door favorite and the current star of the E! hit series Kendra bares all in this funny, fresh, fish-out-of-water memoir that captures the spirit of one
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Sh*T My Dad Says
After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam Halpern, who is "like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair,"
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Private Vegas
Las Vegas is a city of contradictions: seedy and glamorous, secretive and wild, Vegas attracts people of all kinds--especially those with a secret to hide, or a life to leave behind.
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The Girl Who Played With Fire
Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, this second book in the Millennium series is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel.
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Videogames
What videogames would you be playing back in the days ?
Doritos Crash Course
DJMAX Portable 3
Dance Dance Revolution X2
And Yet It Moves
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Financial News
Stock Markets and Exchange Rates
News articles
Accel-KKR said on Monday that it has agreed to sell iTradeNetwork, a software technology focused on the food industry, to Roper Industries for $525 million in cash. [..]
Goldman had contended that credit insurance it bought from financial institutions would have protected it, but documents show otherwise. [..]
Stock Markets
- Gilead Sciences GILD: opens at $33.21
- Union Pacific UNP: opens at $74.56
- United Technologies UTX: opens at $70.62
- HP Inc. HPQ: opens at $46.10
Exchange Rates
- 1 CHF = 6.4635 CNY
- 1 CAD = 6.57 CNY
- 1 CAD = 1.0158 CHF
- 1 AUD = 6.12 CNY
