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4 January 2010 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 4 January 2010 was a Monday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “Bad Romance” by Lady Gaga.
- Top Film of 2010
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2010 was Toy Story 3.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 4 January is Capricorn.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 4 January 2010 fell in the Year of the Ox.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for January is Garnet.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 4 January 2010 was Waning Gibbous.
On this day: 4 January
- 2004 Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
- 2004 Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia following the November 2003 Rose Revolution.
- 2006 Ehud Olmert becomes acting Prime Minister of Israel after the incumbent, Ariel Sharon, suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke.
- 2007 The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
- 2010 The Burj Khalifa, the current tallest building in the world, officially opens in Dubai.
Famous people born on 4 January
- Derrick Henry, American football player (born 1994)
- Charles Melton, American actor (born 1991)
- Victor Wembanyama, French basketball player (born 2004)
- Dafne Keen, British-Spanish actress (born 2005)
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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
Gordon Brown
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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