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Subject: 15 Years Ago Thread (2010s edition)
Written By: nally on 12/31/24 at 8:20 pm
Yes folks, as 2025 starts, the phrase "15 years ago" now goes back to 2010!
January 1st 2010:
China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) launch a Free Trade Area.
North Korea calls for the end of hostilities with the United States and a nuclear free Korean Peninsula, to restart talks; in its annual New Year editorial.
Spain takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Sweden.
Subject: Re: 15 Years Ago Thread (2010s edition)
Written By: nally on 01/03/25 at 7:46 pm
January 3rd 2010 - The United States and United Kingdom close their embassies in Yemen, citing threats from Al-Qaeda. :o
Subject: Re: 15 Years Ago Thread (2010s edition)
Written By: nally on 01/04/25 at 9:47 am
January 4th 2010 – The Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest structure, officially opened in Dubai.
Subject: Re: 15 Years Ago Thread (2010s edition)
Written By: nally on 01/09/25 at 11:27 am
January 9th 2010 - A magnitude 6.5 earthquake strikes offshore near Eureka, California, with reports of damage and local power outages.
Subject: Re: 15 Years Ago Thread (2010s edition)
Written By: nally on 01/12/25 at 9:35 am
12 January 2010 – An earthquake in Haiti occurs, killing between 220,000 and 300,000 people and destroying much of the capital Port-au-Prince.
Subject: Re: 15 Years Ago Thread (2010s edition)
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/14/25 at 5:56 am
January 14th 2010 – Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
Subject: Re: 15 Years Ago Thread (2010s edition)
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/14/25 at 1:50 pm
January 14th 2010 - Guitarist Jimmy Page was honoured with the United Nations' first ever Pathways To Peace Award. Pathways To Peace is an international peace building, educational and consulting organization which has consultative status with the United Nations.
Subject: Re: 15 Years Ago Thread (2010s edition)
Written By: nally on 01/26/25 at 4:37 pm
January 26th 2010: "Telephone" - a song by Lady Gaga featuring Beyonce - was released as a single. The song was a track from Lady Gaga’s album The Fame Monster, released a year earlier.
Subject: Re: 15 Years Ago Thread (2010s edition)
Written By: nally on 01/27/25 at 8:21 am
27 January 2010 – Porfirio Lobo Sosa became the new president of Honduras, ending a constitutional crisis that had begun in 2009 when Manuel Zelaya was forcibly removed from office.
Subject: Re: 15 Years Ago Thread (2010s edition)
Written By: nally on 01/27/25 at 8:34 am
Also on this day in 2010, Apple introduced the iPad.
Subject: Re: 15 Years Ago Thread (2010s edition)
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/27/25 at 2:53 pm
January 27th 2010 – The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.
Subject: Re: 15 Years Ago Thread (2010s edition)
Written By: nally on 01/31/25 at 8:21 am
January 31st 2010 – James Cameron's Avatar became the first film to earn over US$2 billion worldwide.
Subject: Re: 15 Years Ago Thread (2010s edition)
Written By: nally on 02/18/25 at 7:28 pm
February 18th 2010 – WikiLeaks publishes the first of hundreds of thousands of classified documents disclosed by the soldier now known as Chelsea Manning.
Subject: Re: 15 Years Ago Thread (2010s edition)
Written By: nally on 03/11/25 at 7:56 pm
The 2010 Pichilemu earthquakes occurred on March 11th of that year. They measured 6.9 and 7.0 Mw; struck Chile's O'Higgins Region about 16 minutes apart.