Timeline September 2010

Events in September 2010 5

• 1910 – 2010 Gloria Stuart (1910-2010) American actress of 1930s horror films who returned at 87 as the elderly Rose in Titanic.
• 1925 – 2010 Tony Curtis (1925-2010) Died 29 September 2010, aged 85 Curtis was an American film actor who starred in more than 100 films, including Some Like It Hot and Spartacus, becoming one of Hollywood's leading men of the 1950s and 1960s. He was nominated for an Academy Award for The Defiant Ones. He died of cardiac arrest at his home in Nevada.
• 2010 2010 Pakistan floods Monsoon flooding devastates the Indus basin Unusually heavy monsoon rains caused the Indus River to flood large areas of Pakistan, affecting an estimated 20 million people and killing close to 2,000. The disaster submerged roughly a fifth of the country's land area and destroyed crops, homes, and infrastructure on a massive scale. It was one of the worst floods in Pakistan's history.
• 2010 Stephen Elop becomes CEO Stephen Elop — a former Microsoft executive, the first non-Finnish CEO in Nokia's history — takes over as CEO in September 2010. His appointment is controversial from the start; critics later call him a "Trojan horse" for Microsoft. Elop inherits a company losing smartphone market share rapidly to Apple and Android. He commissions an internal review confirming Nokia's software is years behind its competitors.
• 2010 Gloria Stuart dies in Los Angeles Gloria Stuart dies aged 100.