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Sachin Tendulkar (pictured) of India becomes the first cricketer to score 100 international cricket centuries. Nicolae Timofti is elected President of Moldova. Bo Xilai, Chongqing Committee Secretary of the Communist Party of China, is dismissed from office following the Wang Lijun incident. The International Criminal Court finds Thomas Lubanga Dyilo guilty of the war crime of conscripting children. The Encyclopædia Britannica discontinues its print edition, 244 years after its first publication. The Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), led by Alfredo Cristiani, wins a plurality in the Salvadoran elections.

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