At A Glance
20 November 2010 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 20 November 2010 was a Saturday.
- Irish Chart Song in 2010
- The Irish chart song for 2010 was “Love the Way You Lie” by Eminem ft. Rihanna.
- Top Film of 2010
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2010 was Toy Story 3.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 20 November is Scorpio.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 20 November 2010 fell in the Year of the Tiger.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for November is Topaz.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 20 November 2010 was Waxing Gibbous.
On this day: 20 November
- 1993 Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
- 1994 The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war. (Localized fighting resumes the next year.)
- 1998 The first space station module component, Zarya, for the International Space Station is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
- 2016 Jimmie Johnson wins his seventh NASCAR Cup Series championship to tie Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt for the most all-time.
- 2022 The 2022 FIFA World Cup begins in Qatar. This is the first time the tournament was held in the Middle East.
Famous people born on 20 November
- Joe Biden, American politician, 46th President of the United States (born 1942)
- Robert F. Kennedy, US Navy officer, lawyer, and politician, 64th United States Attorney General (1925–1968)
- Joe Walsh, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (born 1947)
- Ming-Na Wen, Chinese-American actress (born 1963)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2010 in Ireland
A selection from Wikipedia's '2010 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.
- 4 January – Met Éireann said Ireland was experiencing its most extreme cold spell of weather since 1963.
- 3 February – a fireball was seen across Ireland when a meteoroid explodes at an altitude of 100 miles, and fragments entered the atmosphere. Public excitement caused Astronomy Ireland's website to crash.
- 15 April – Volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupted air traffic across northern and western Europe, including Ireland.
Life in Ireland in 2010
Taoiseach
Brian Cowen
Petrol (per litre)
€1.22/L
Loaf of Bread
€1.38
Average House
€195,000
Weekly Wage
€415
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