At A Glance

24 September 2010 at a glance

Day of the week
24 September 2010 was a Friday.
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 24 September is Libra.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 24 September 2010 fell in the Year of the Tiger.
Birthstone
The birthstone for September is Sapphire.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 24 September 2010 was Waning Gibbous.

On this day: 24 September

  • 2005 Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating portions of southwestern Louisiana and extreme southeastern Texas.
  • 2007 Between 30,000 and 100,000 people take part in anti-government protests in Yangon, Burma, the largest in 20 years.
  • 2008 Thabo Mbeki resigns as president of South Africa.
  • 2009 The G20 summit begins in Pittsburgh with 30 global leaders in attendance.
  • 2014 The Mars Orbiter Mission makes India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt.

Famous people born on 24 September

  • Harriet Walter, English actress (born 1950)
  • Phil Hartman, Canadian-American actor and screenwriter (1948–1998)
  • Linda McCartney, American singer, photographer, and activist (1941–1998)
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer (1896–1940)

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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