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  • Maidenhead, England
    Thursday May 6, 2010
    Theresa May

    Re-elected MP for Maidenhead

    Maidenhead, England
    Thursday May 6, 2010

    On 6 May 2010, May was re-elected MP for Maidenhead with an increased majority of 16,769 – 60% of the vote. This followed an earlier failed attempt by the Liberal Democrats to unseat her in 2005, as one of that party's leading "decapitation-strategy" targets.




  • England
    Thursday May 6, 2010
    David Cameron

    The 2010 General Election

    England
    Thursday May 6, 2010

    The 2010 general election resulted in the Conservatives, led by Cameron, winning the largest number of seats (306). This was, however, 20 seats short of an overall majority and resulted in the nation's first hung parliament since February 1974.




  • New York City, New York, U.S.
    Thursday May 6, 2010
    New York Stock Exchange

    2010 Flash Crash

    New York City, New York, U.S.
    Thursday May 6, 2010

    On May 6, 2010, the Dow Jones Industrial Average posted its largest intraday percentage drop since the crash on October 19, 1987, with a 998-point loss later being called the 2010 Flash Crash (as the drop occurred in minutes before rebounding).




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