August 2010 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 2010 Afghanistan War
• 02 Aug 2010 A Grad rocket from the Sinai strikes Aqaba, killing a civilian in Jordan and injuring three more. Four more rockets also hit open areas in the Gulf of Aqaba. The attack was condemned by Jordan, Israel and Egypt, as well as the United States.
• 03 Aug 2010 Adaisseh incident
• 04 Aug 2010 In Perry v. Schwarzenegger, Judge Vaughn Walker overturns California's Proposition 8.
• 05 Aug 2010 The US Senate approves Elena Kagan for a position on the US Supreme Court. It votes 63-37.
• 06 Aug 2010 The controversial ContactPoint database of children is being discontinued by the incoming coalition government in the United Kingdom.
• 07 Aug 2010 Bowers and Merena Auctions holds an auction in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 08 Aug 2010 North Korea holds a South Korean fishing vessel with four South Koreans aboard and three Chinese.
• 09 Aug 2010 Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, testifies before Israel’s Turkel Commission. The Turkel Commission is investigating Israel's involvement in May's Gaza flotilla attack. It is headed by Jacob Turkel, an Israeli judge. The testimony will last for five hours and some parts of it will be closed to the public.
• 10 Aug 2010 A 1957 DeHavilland DHC-3T floating plane crashes close to a remote fishing village, Alaska. Ted Stevens, a former senator from the United States of America, was killed along with four others.
• 11 Aug 2010 Dan Rostenkowski (Illinois Democratic Representative, 1958-1994), has died at the age of 82.
• 12 Aug 2010 Afghanistan War:
• 13 Aug 2010 Jeffrey White, a U.S. District Judge, has banned the planting of genetically modified sugarbeets engineered Monsanto. He ruled that the U.S. Department of Agriculture had approved Monsanto’s genetically modified sugarbeets in 2009 without conducting adequate environmental studies.
• 14 Aug 2010 Officially, the 2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games, the first ever Youth Olympics, begin in Singapore.
• 15 Aug 2010 Some countries concerned have requested inspections of Israel's nuclear program in a letter addressed to Britain, France, Russia, China and France.
• 16 Aug 2010 The Philippine security forces announced that they would extend Oplan Bantay Laya, a controversial counter-insurgency tactic, until December 31, 2010. The extension was condemned by Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, a political party.
• 17 Aug 2010 In two explosions that occurred in Pyatigorsk in Russia's North Caucasus, at least one person was killed and 20 were injured.
• 18 Aug 2010 After his kidnapping on Sunday night, the corpse of Edelmiro Cavazos, mayor of Santiago, Nuevo Leon in Mexico, was found blindfolded and handcuffed.
• 19 Aug 2010 The US Mint has released the James Buchanan Presidential Dollar for circulation.
• 20 Aug 2010 Norwegian comedian Hans Morten Hansen finishes a stand-up marathon lasting 38 hours and 14 minutes. This sets a new world record in terms of longest stand-up performance.
• 21 Aug 2010 Gabriela Shalev, Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, writes to Ban Ki-moon declaring that Israel will use force to stop a Bolivian-flagged aid ship carrying all-female assistance and aiming to land close to Gaza.
• 22 Aug 2010 Two officers were killed and six more injured when a soldier from Venezuela opened fire on an army base in Caracas.
• 23 Aug 2010 The Palestinian Authority warned it would withdraw from peace negotiations if Israel continues to build settlements in the occupied West Bank.
• 24 Aug 2010 The US military in Iraq reduces its strength to 50,000 troops
• 25 Aug 2010 Battle of Mogadishu (2010)
• 26 Aug 2010 Nadja Benaissa, a German HIV-positive singer, is found guilty for grievous bodily injury after she transmitted HIV to a man through unprotected sex without her disclosing her condition.
• 27 Aug 2010 Battle of Mogadishu
• 28 Aug 2010 Pakistan
• 29 Aug 2010 After last week's tragic hijacking of a tourist coach in the Philippines, eighty thousand people rallied in Hong Kong.
• 30 Aug 2010 Four Israeli settlers are killed, one of them a pregnant woman. A gunman opened fire on their car, and the shooting ended in four victims. Hamas takes responsibility for the killing.
• 31 Aug 2010 At least 14 people were killed and many more injured in a roadside bombing and mortar attack in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.

Famous Birthday

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Famous Deaths

• Laurent Fignon

  French athlete, a cyclist who twice won the Tour de France (1983 and 1984).

• Patricia Neal

  American actress who was a Broadway success from her stage debut in 1945.

• Raimon Panikkar

  Catalan philosopher (Born 1918).

• Alain Corneau

  French film director and writer, he made his debut into the world of film as an assistant to director Costa-Gavras.

• Scott Davis

  American Announcer of Track and Field (Born1943).

• Satoshi Kon

  Japanese animator and screenwriter (d. 2010).

• Francesco Cossiga

  Italian politician who founded a transitional centrist government which united various parties in 1979.

• Eric Tindill

  New Zealand rugby and cricket international player and referee/umpire (Born 1910).

• Isaac Bonewits

  American singer-songwriter liturgist and author (d. 2010).

• Nancy Dolman

  Canadian actress and comedienne (Born 1950).

• William P Foster

  American band director and educator (Born 1919).

• Luna Vachon

  American-Canadian wrestler and manager (d. 2010).

• Richie Hayward

  American drummer and songwriter (Little Feat and Fraternity of Man) (d. 2010).

• Lance Cade

  American professional wrestler (Born 1981).

• Lolita Lebron

  Puerto Rican nationalist (Born 1919).

• Bobby Thomson

  Scotland born American baseball player (d. 2010).

• Ted Stevens

  American soldier lawyer and politician (d. 2010).

• Stjepan Bobek

  Croatian-Serbian footballer and manager (d. 2010).

• Edwin Newman

  American broadcast journalist (Born 1919).

• Herman Leonard

  American photographer (Born 1923).

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