List of events
Events in the year 2010 in Spain .
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Events
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(October 2010 )
World cup champions celebrate as they pass in front of the Air Force Headquarters in Madrid, July 12 January 1 – Spain takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Sweden.[ 2]
March 7 – Tens of thousands demonstrate against an abortion bill in several Spanish cities.[ 3]
April 12 – A 6.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Spain, one of the first large earthquakes to strike the Iberian region in half a century.
May
July 10 – Between 1.1 and 1.5 million people, according to organisers, and 56000 demonstrators, according to Spanish protesters-counting specialized company Lynce , demonstrate in central Barcelona demanding greater autonomy for Catalonia within Spain.[ 4]
July 12 – Spain 's victorious 2010 FIFA World Cup "campeones" return to Madrid where they are met by millions of people in the streets, the royal family and politicians.[ 5]
July 20 – Spain rejects a proposal to ban the burqa in public places; 183 to 162, with two abstaining.[ 6]
July 28 – The Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia bans bullfighting , the first region on the mainland to do so.[ 7]
August 19 – Forty people are injured after a bull leaps into a crowd in Tafalla , Spain; the bull is killed.[ 8]
September 27 – 95 people, including two former mayors and planning chief of Marbella , appear in court in Málaga in one of Spain's biggest corruption trials.[ 9]
Popular culture
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(September 2010 )
Sport
Spain wins the 2010 FIFA World Cup
Film
Television
Literature
Notable deaths
José Antonio Labordeta January 14 – Antonio Fontán , 86, Spanish politician and journalist.[ 14]
February 4 – Manuel Esteba , 68, Spanish film director.
February 12 – Luis Molowny , 84, Spanish footballer , heart attack .[ 15]
March 12 – Miguel Delibes , Spanish author and journalist (born 1920)
April 6 – Guillermo Luca de Tena , 82, Spanish journalist.[ 16]
April 21 – Juan Antonio Samaranch , Spanish sports official (born 1920)
April 26 – Alberto Vitoria , 54, Spanish footballer , heart attack .[ 17]
April 30 – Jordi Estadella , 61, Spanish voice actor, radio and television personality (Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez [ 18]
May 4 – Ángel Cristo , 65, Spanish animal tamer and circus promoter, cardiac arrest .[ 19]
May 12 – Antonio Ozores , 81, Spanish actor, cancer .[ 20]
May 15 – Juan José Carbó , 83, Spanish cartoonist .[ 21]
June 7 – José Albi , 88, Spanish poet.[ 22]
July 2 – Félix Pons , 68, Spanish politician, President of the Congress of Deputies (1986–1996), cancer .[ 23]
July 6 – José Rico Pérez , 92, Spanish businessman, President of Hércules CF .[ 24]
July 10 – Aldo Sambrell , 79, Spanish actor, stroke .[ 25]
July 14 – Eduardo Sánchez Junco , 67, Spanish businessman, founder and owner of Hello! [ 26]
August 9 – Juan Marichal , 88, Spanish historian.[ 27]
August 9 – Fernando Fernández , 70, Spanish illustrator and comic artist, after long illness.[ 28]
August 17 – Alejandro Maclean , 41, Spanish television, film producer and aerobatics pilot, plane crash .[ 29]
August 18 – Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma , Spanish aristocrat (born 1930)
August 23 – Carlos Mendo , 77, Spanish journalist, founder of El País [ 30]
August 26 – Raimon Panikkar , Spanish theologian (born 1918)
September 7 – Wilebaldo Solano , 94, Spanish communist activist during the Spanish Civil War .[ 31]
September 7 – Joaquín Soler Serrano , 91, Spanish journalist, Alzheimer's disease.[ 32]
September 15 – Raúl Trapero , 47, Spanish Olympic boxer, traffic accident.[ 33]
September 19 – José Antonio Labordeta , 75, Spanish songwriter, professor, writer, presenter and politician.[ 34]
October 4 – Gregorio Ros , 58, Spanish make-up artist, complications from a degenerative disease .[ 35]
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