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Years: 20102010 is a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). See also: 2010: Odyssey Two Events January 15 Annular solar eclipse (The longest lasting annular eclipse of the 21st century. February 12 to February 28 2010 Winter Olympics scheduled in Va 20112011 is a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). Predicted events January 4 Partial solar eclipse March NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is scheduled to arrive in orbit around Mercury. April 24 Easter has not been as late as this since 1943. 20122012 is a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). Events March French Presidential election April 15 100th Anniversay of RMS Titanic Sinking May 20 Annular solar eclipse June 6 Second and last solar transit of the planet Venus of this centur 20132013 is a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). Events May 10 Annular solar eclipse November 3 Hybrid solar eclipse The Kyushu Shinkansen high speed rail line in Japan is scheduled to be completed, linking Kagoshima, Nagasaki, and Fukuo 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
This decade will be called "teens", "twenty-teens", "tens", or "twenty-tens".
The baby boomer generation which is designated as "officially" including babies born after the end of World War II in 1945 reaches the age of 65 beginning with this decade. 65 is the standard (though not universally accepted) age of retirement in the United States. A rapid expansion of the number of retired persons due to the aging Baby Boomers is expected to have a drastic effect on the economy of the United States and Europe, especially Social Security and Medicare. This expected surge in the distribution of retirement benefits has been dubbed the pension bomb.