2010 was a year of many thing from Apple’s iPad to WikiLeaks. To Commemorate the end of 2010 I thought I’d give you a list of the top stories of 2010.

• Age of the Solar System needs to be recalculated.
• MSNBC purchased BreakingNews.com which has flourished.
• The Google Nexus One was released in January followed by the Nexus S in December.
• Netflix became a huge competitor in the streaming video space.
• The Google Versus China standoff.
• Haiti was hit by a 7.0 Earthquake that devastated the Nation, but donations were plentiful.
• HTML5 became mainstream with YouTube.
• Jammie Thomas’ RIAA Case continued.
• WikiLeaks, WikiLeaks and more WikiLeaks.
• The Apple iPad and the re-invigoration of the Tablet market.
• Facebook has grown and re-designed a couple of times.
• E-Readers, iBooks, and others make a splash with joined the party.
• Three Tesla Engineers died in a plane crash.
• ACTA, the Document that started WikiLeaks, is leaked.
• Microsoft’s Comeback with Windows 7.
• Scientists officially declare that an Asteroid wiped out the Dinosaurs .
• The US Army dropped bayonets from their training.
• The First Poisonous bird was discovered.
• Food Chain Subway begins selling breakfast.
• The Battle for High Fructose Corn Syrup’s acceptance and how it is not the same as regular sugar.
• The Search for the Origins of the Universe finally get underway with the Large Hadron Collider.
• The numerous Mines that had issues, missing persons, explosions across the entire world.
• Spying with Webcams and the lawsuit that followed.
• The ‘I Lost my Phone in a Bar’ debacle.
• HP’s rescue of Palm.
• The Gulf Oil Spill disaster.
• The Revival of Mac Gaming through Steam.
• Social Networking explodes with Twitter, Facebook, and FourSquare.
• Apple’s iPhone and subsequent Antennagate.
• Google unleashes Chrome OS.
• The Proliferation of ’4G’ Wireless.
• Larry King, CNN Commentator, retires after 25 years.
• NSA spying on US Citizens was uncovered.
• The 2010 World Cup and it’s final game.
• The Answer to the ‘Chicken vs. Egg’ debate was solved.
• Driverless Cars were demonstrated to go across a continent.
• The End of a Photography era.
• Country Stars, Brooks & Dunn retired.
• HDCP was cracked permanently.
• 3D Movies began showing in earnest, with at home options.
• The Failing of the Pirate Party to enter Swedish Parliament.
• Microsft’s Windows Phone 7 is released.
• It was found that the Bubonic plague caused the Black Death.
• iOS 4.2′s unification of the iOS devices.
• Postulation arose that all life on Earth was from an Alien Race.
• The Beatles were finally available for download.
• Microsoft’s ‘Project Natal’ renamed Kinect was launched to huge success.
• Hornets were found to be solar powered.
• We found out that e-mail is protected by the Fourth-Amendment of the US Constitution.
• The US has repealed the ‘Don’t ask Don’t Tell’ policy for the Military.

Among the top stories are also some notable deaths, this is not a completely list of course, but it’s just a sampling

Notable Deaths:

• Jan C. Gabriel.
• Miep Gies.
• Donald Goerke.
• Jean Simmons.
• James Mitchell.
• J.D. Salinger.
• Justin Mentell.
• Charlie Wilson.
• Phil Harris.
• Walter Frederick Morrison.
• Dick Francis.
• Kathryn Grayson.
• Alexander Haig.
• David Bankier.
• Winston Chuchill.
• Aaron Cohen.
• Bruce Graham.
• Merlin Olsen.
• Peter Graves .
• Fess Parker.
• Jerry York.
• Stewart Udall.
• Robert Culp.
• June Havoc.
• David Mill.
• John Forsythe.
• Meinhardt Raabe.
• Dixie Carter.
• Whitney Harris.
• Max Palevsky.
• Harry Aleman.
• Dr. Fritz Sennheiser.
• John Shepherd-Barron.
• Art Linkletter.
• Gary Coleman.
• Dennis Hopper.
• Rue McClanahan.
• John Wooden.
• Jimmy Dean.
• Manute Bol.
• Nicolas Hayek.
• Ilene Woods.
• George Steinbrenner.
• David Warren.
• Daniel Schorr.
• Robert F. Boyle.
• Robert Gundlach.
• William Lenoir.
• Mike Edwards.
• Jefferson Thomas.
• Rich Cronin.
• Harold Gould.
• Jimi Heselden.
• Arthur Penn.
• Tony Curtis.
• Stephen J. Cannell.
• Beno%C3%AEt Mandelbrot.
• Barbara Billingsley.
• Tom Bosley.
• Bob Guccione.
• Joseph Stein.
• James MacArthur.
• Dino De Laurentis.
• Margaret Burroughs.
• Leslie Neilsen.
• Irvin Kershner.
• Mario Monicelli.
• Ron Santo.
• Elizabeth Edwards.
• Phil Cavarretta.
• Steve Landesberg.
• Bud Greenspan.
• John Warhola.
• Gary Chapman.
• Agathe Von Trapp.

Look for our regular stories again tomorrow. If an important story has been missed from the year, please leave it in the comments.