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December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 14 days remain until the end of the year.
Disasters The death toll from the Christmas Island wreck rises to 30 with many still missing. (AP via Yahoo! News) Further disruption is caused by blizzards and widespread ice in many parts of the United Kingdom, with more wintry weather forecast for the weekend. (BBC) Cuba is hit by a cold wave, and some locations register 50-year record low temperatures. (Cuban News Agency) [permanent dead ...
December 17 – President Obama signs the tax compromise bill, known as the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010. December 18. The US Senate rejects discussion of the controversial DREAM Act from reaching the Senate floor with a vote of 55–45. [116]
On 17 December 2010, a female officer confiscated his cart and produce. Bouazizi, who had such an event happen to him before, tried to pay the 10-dinars fine (a day's wages, equivalent to US$3). It was initially reported that in response the policewoman insulted his deceased father and slapped him.
2010 ( MMX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2010th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 10th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2010s decade. The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake ...
16: Independence Day (Kazakhstan); National Day (Bahrain) 21: Winter solstice. 24: Christmas Eve. 25: Christmas Day. 26: St Stephen's Day (Europe), Boxing Day ( Commonwealth countries) 26 – 1 January: Kwanzaa (United States) 31: New Year's Eve. edit this archived sidebar. Wikimedia Commons has media related to December 2010.
The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 111–312 (text), H.R. 4853, 124 Stat. 3296, enacted December 17, 2010), also known as the 2010 Tax Relief Act, was passed by the United States Congress on December 16, 2010, and signed into law by President Barack Obama on December 17, 2010.
The following is a timeline of the presidency of Barack Obama, from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010.For his time as president-elect, see the presidential transition of Barack Obama; for a detailed account of his first months in office, see first 100 days of Barack Obama's presidency; for a complete itinerary of his travels, see list of presidential trips made by Barack Obama.