2010 in Iceland
The following lists events that happened in 2010 in Iceland.
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Incumbents
- President – Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
- Prime Minister – Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
Events
January
- January 2 - A quarter of voters in Iceland sign a petition asking President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson to veto a bill on repaying US$5 billion to foreign savers who lost their money when Icelandic banks collapsed.[1]
- January 5 - President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson announces a referendum during a live televised speech.[2]
March
- March 6 - Iceland holds a referendum about compensating the United Kingdom and the Netherlands after the collapse of the Icesave bank, with a 95% "no" vote recorded.[3]
- March 20 - The volcano, Eyjafjallajökull, erupts starting mass destruction in Europe.[4]
April
- April 13 - An American Boeing 767 passenger jet makes an emergency landing in Iceland after reports of chemical fumes in the cabin. A spokesman for Keflavik airport outside Reykjavík says several crew members on the American Airlines flight had complained of dizziness.[5]
- April 14 - Air traffic is closed over Northern Norway as ash cloud from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano drifts towards Europe.[6]
gollark: Anyway, I find those "various people die of easily preventable deaths → capitalism bad" things unreasonable. I suspect most people don't actually *care* about random people somewhere dying, given the fact that you can quite easily donate to very effective charities for e.g. helping fix malaria under the existing system, and yet nobody does this.
gollark: There are MANY messages here. Yay for having vast amounts of free time now so I can read them all?
gollark: There is that weird thing in road networks where in certain cases adding additional roads can *worsen* traffic.
gollark: Maybe throw in a free reusable water bottle too, people like those.
gollark: There's no reason you couldn't do both.
References
- "Icesave Pressure Increasing on Iceland's President". 2 January 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
- "Iceland leader vetoes bank repayments bill". 5 January 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
- "Iceland holds referendum on Icesave repayment plan". 6 March 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
- "Volcano erupts in south Iceland". 21 March 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
- "US plane makes emergency landing in Iceland". 13 April 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
- "Iceland Eruption Affects Air Traffic in Norway". 14 April 2010. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
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