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| 2010 July 8 |
| | | The Solar Impulse, promoted by Bertrand Piccard and piloted by André Borschberg, becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to fly for more than 24 hours | |
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| 2010 July 15 |
| | | BP announces that a newly fitted cap has finally stopped the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico | |
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| 2010 August 3 |
| | | US Federal estimates are that more than 200 million gallons of oil have spilled into the sea from the Deepwater Horizon disaster (the Exxon Valdez figure was 11 million) | |
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| 2010 October 13 |
| | | Thirty-three miners are brought safely to the surface after being trapped deep underground for 69 days in the San José mine in Chile | |
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| 2011 March 11 |
| | | The Japanese tsunami results in a nuclear crisis and massive evacuation because of meltdowns in three reactors at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant | |
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| 2011 March 11 |
| | | Nearly 20,000 people are killed and more than 125,000 buildings destroyed or severely damaged by the Japanese earthquake and tsunami | |
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