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22 December 2010 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 22 December 2010 was a Wednesday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “When We Collide” by Matt Cardle.
- Top Film of 2010
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2010 was Toy Story 3.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 22 December is Capricorn.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 22 December 2010 fell in the Year of the Tiger.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for December is Turquoise.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 22 December 2010 was Waning Gibbous.
On this day: 22 December
- 2008 An ash dike ruptures at a solid waste containment area for a Tennessee Valley Authority coal-fired power plant in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 4.2 million m3 (1.1 billion US gal) of coal fly ash slurry in the largest industrial spill in U.S. history.
- 2010 The repeal of the Don't ask, don't tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama.
- 2016 A study finds the VSV-EBOV vaccine against the Ebola virus between 70 and 100% effective, making it the first proven vaccine against the disease.
- 2017 United Nations Security Council Resolution 2397 against North Korea is unanimously approved.
- 2018 The 2018–2019 United States federal government shutdown, the second-longest shutdown of the U.S. federal government in history, begins.
Famous people born on 22 December
- Ralph Fiennes, English actor (born 1962)
- Ted Cruz, Canadian-American lawyer and politician (born 1970)
- Jean-Michel Basquiat, American painter and poet (1960–1988)
- Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (1887–1920)
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Events of 2010 in the United Kingdom
A selection from Wikipedia's '2010 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.
- 15 April – A cloud of volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland causes the closure of airspace over the United Kingdom and northern and western Europe.
- 7 May – 2010 general election: The Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats begin negotiations to reach either a parliamentary agreement, or to create a coalition government with a House of Commons majority.
- 29 July – Metro Bank opens its first branch, in Holborn, London, the first wholly new high street bank for more than a century.
Life in 2010
Prime Minister
David Cameron
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Pint of Beer
£2.85
Loaf of Bread
£1.25
Average House
£167,469
Weekly Wage
£699.00
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