5th » Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster known as Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.
6th » Communist Party of India (Maoist) Maoist rebels April 2010 Maoist attack in Dantewada kill 76 Central Reserve Police Force CRPF officers in Dantewada district, India.
10th » Polish Air Force Tu-154M 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash called crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński and dozens of other senior officials
12th » A 2010 Merano train derailment called train derails near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people.
14th » Nearly 2,700 are killed in a 2010 Yushu earthquake or magnitude 6.9 earthquake in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture or Yushu, Qinghai, China.
20th » The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig Deepwater Horizon explosion called explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an Deepwater Horizon oil spill or oil spill that would last six months.
21st » The controversial 2010 Kharkiv Pact e.g Kharkiv Pact (Russian Ukrainian Naval Base for Gas Treaty) is signed in Kharkiv, Ukraine, by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Russian President Dimitry Medvedev; it will be unilaterally terminated by Russia
12th » Michel Chartrand, Canadian union leader (b. 1916)
12th » Werner Schroeter, German director and screenwriter (b. 1945)
14th » Israr Ahmed, Pakistani theologian and scholar (b. 1932)
14th » Alice Miller (psychologist) called Alice Miller, Polish-French psychologist and author (b. 1923)
14th » Peter Steele, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Type O Negative, Carnivore (band) known as Carnivore, and Fallout (band) named Fallout) (b. 1962)
15th » Jack Herer, American author and activist (b. 1939)
15th » Michael Pataki, American actor and director (b. 1938)