- UK politics sees a Conservative-led coalition with the Liberal Democrats
- Designer Alexander McQueen was found dead at his London home
- 2010 Winter Olympics held in Vancouver, Canada
- Dennis Hopper died from prostate cancer
- Air traffic throughout Northern and Western Europe was seriously disrupted when a volcano beneath Eyjafjallajökull, an ice cap in Iceland, began erupting
- Thirty-three miners working in the San Jose copper-gold mine near Copiapo, Chile became trapped 2,000 feet underground after a cave-in and mining accident
- Wikileaks
- Haiti Earthquake
- Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win best director, for The Hurt Locker, which took six prizes including best film
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