Timeline August 2010

Events in August 2010 9

• 1926 – 2010 Patricia Neal (1926-2010) American actress, Oscar winner for Hud and wife of Roald Dahl.
• 1960 – 2010 Laurent Fignon The Professor Won the Tour twice; famously lost the 1989 Tour by 8 seconds. Winner: 2x Tour de France.
• 2010 Russian heat wave and wildfires Record temperatures spark deadly smog crisis An extreme summer heat wave brought record temperatures to western Russia, sparking widespread peat and forest wildfires. Smog blanketed Moscow for weeks, and the combined heat and pollution were linked to tens of thousands of excess deaths. The heat wave also devastated grain harvests, prompting Russia to ban wheat exports.
• 2010 Divorces Elin Nordegren; ranking slides Aftermath of scandal reshapes his career Woods's marriage to Elin Nordegren ended in divorce in August 2010 following the fallout from the previous year's scandal. His competitive results declined sharply in the years that followed, and he fell out of the world's top 50 for the first time since turning professional.
• 2010 Intel acquires McAfee for $7.7 billion Intel acquires security software company McAfee for $7.7 billion in August 2010 — one of the most puzzling acquisitions in technology history. Intel's stated rationale is that security needs to be built into hardware rather than applied in software. The acquisition makes no strategic sense to most analysts; security software has nothing to do with chip manufacturing. McAfee's performance under Intel is poor; Intel eventually spins it out as an independent company (rebranded as Trellix) in 2022 after writing off most of the acquisition value.
• 2010 US Open 2010 Men: Rafael Nadal · Women: Kim Clijsters
• 2010 Copiapó mining accident and rescue 33 miners trapped and rescued in Chile A collapse at the San José copper-gold mine near Copiapó trapped 33 miners underground for 69 days. A rescue capsule brought them to the surface one by one on 13 October, an operation watched live by roughly a billion people worldwide. The rescue was hailed as a triumph of engineering and international cooperation.
• 2010 Patricia Neal dies in Edgartown Patricia Neal dies aged 84.
• 2010 US combat operations in Iraq declared over Operation Iraqi Freedom gives way to Operation New Dawn President Barack Obama announced the end of US combat operations in Iraq, marking the transition to Operation New Dawn and a reduced advisory role for remaining American troops. Roughly 50,000 US soldiers stayed to train Iraqi forces after more than seven years of war. Withdrawal of all US troops was completed the following year.