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Official websitebaa. org
Event dateApril 15, 2019
Course Records (Male)Geoffrey Mutai - 2:03:02 (2011)
Course Records (Female)Buzunesh Deba - 2:19:59 (2014)
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City Boston
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About Boston Marathon


The Boston Marathon is an annual marathon race hosted by several cities in greater Boston in eastern Massachusetts, United States. It is always held on Patriots' Day, the third Monday of April. Begun in 1897, the event was inspired by the success of the first marathon competition in the 1896 Summer Olympics.

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January 2010. Barack Obama had not been invented a year of his U.S. presidency, Instagram, and the word Brexit had never spoken.

A decade later, we look back at The Most read stories on the Bbc News website, from year to year.

2010: Chilean miners miner Juan Illanes, rescued, celebrates after Coming Out of The Phoenix capsule trapped underground in the dark, with hardly any food or water, is "The Stuff of nightmares," says the BBC-Latin America -online-in-chief Vanessa Bush Schluter, who reported from the San José mine in Northern Chile, 33 miners were trapped deep under the earth.

the nightmare was-like quality of the miners ' situation, she says, is moving not only Chileans, but People all over The World .

For 17 days, which was not the collapse of a Chilean copper and gold mine widely covered outside of the country. That was until the miners a note to a probe bound to be sent deep below the earth to say that they were still alive.

And thus "the People were thrilled," says Ms Busch Schluter. Rescuers ripped open, as the mine workers " desperate families on the saw and keeps watch of what was known as Camp Hope.

", When the drill finally reached the miners, some fell on their knees and pray," Ms Bush Schluter added.

The 33 miners to The Surface one by one in a specially developed capsule through a tunnel, brought to the shoulders, just wider than The Men . You Winching in safety lasted 22 hours.

the People sang The National anthem and waved Chilean flags as the champagne corks popped. It was The Stuff of movies - and sure enough, their ordeal made it to the big screen in a Hollywood film, with Antonio Banderas .

A story with a Happy Ending ? Not quite. Many of the miners who were trapped underground to cope track for a record 69 days fought with their new-found fame, and some face health problems and financial difficulties in The Years .

2011: riots in England A 150-year-old furniture store in Croydon is sent up In Flames , It was the Worst Case of unrest in the UK for A Generation . The Police shooting of 29-year-old Mark Duggan in Tottenham, North London, prompted a protest, the violent become.

four hot August nights, looters ran free and armed rioters set fire to two police cars, a bus and shops.

in the same way as the flame - First in London, to Hackney, then to Lewisham, Peckham, Woolwich, Ealing and Clapham, before breaking out in other major cities such as Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham, Wolverhampton and Liverpool.

the Met police later said they were and were afraid that the rioters, some of whom were pregnant, machetes. Five People died and More Than 3,000 were arrested.

In the year, followed by 1400 of them were arrested and handed over to much harsher penalties as the investigation judge would give in the rule for such offenses.

the research of sociologists, Juta Kawalerowicz found hardships and tensions between communities and police were the main factors behind the unrest.

the Problem of The Police and search powers used by the enemy of black People gathered in the University of Oxford research. But Ms Kawalerowicz said, they were riots, not a "race", and the rioters are not from one Ethnic Group .

2012: the US re-elects Obama Michelle and Barack Obama embrace in one of The Most re-tweeted posts in Social Media history, The race was expected to be tight. But on Election Night , America's First Black President , stormed to another victory, what a second term.

Barack Obama 's re-election is especially important, says our senior North America -reporter Anthony Zurcher, because it has proved that we the voters "were comfortable enough to want to be with a black man as President, keep him in the White house".

Mr Obama, a Democrat, had a largely solid, professional campaign, in the painting his Republican opponent Mitt Romney as an elite, a corporate executive, was out of touch with the mainstream of American voters, says our reporter.

In his First term, Mr Obama, who took office in the midst of one of the worst recessions in decades, had become obsolete, to be handed over to the US healthcare system and overcoming the strong opposition of the Republicans, a program to stimulate the economy.

And in his First speech after re-election, Mr Obama said America: "The Best is yet to Come . To negotiate, "he would go to strike a climate agreement In Paris , in the nuclear potential and the restoration of diplomatic relations with Cuba, a deal to curb Iran's.

But it was also underlined by frustration, especially problems with its health system and its error by pressing weapons possession legislation.

"of course, four years later, Democrat Hillary Clinton to re-create Obama's winning coalition of young, minority and working-class Americans," says Lord was not in the location of Zurich.

2013: Boston bombingsA jubilant scene at the Finish Line of the 2013 Boston Marathon , turned into a terrible, if two Packed Pressure Cooker bombs with nails, ball bearings and other shrapnel exploded.

Three spectators, including an eight-year-old boy - were killed, while 260 other injuries to lose a lot of suffered by the legs.

The United States has its share of terrorist attacks, but this "transcends tragedy to an ongoing national drama," says Mr. Zürcher.

The Search for the culprit down to Boston to for days. "It was a chase played on both traditional news outlets and Social Media , as Americans across the country, saw every twist and turn with fear and Fascination - the number of False Alarms , dead-end leads, and dramatic confrontations," he says.

Three Days after the bombing, the FBI released CCTV images of The Suspects , brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev . Then a Police Officer to reports of a disturbance in the vicinity of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus was responding was found with fatal gunshot wounds.

The Brothers hijacked a vehicle At Gunpoint , and were chased by police, threw explosives at them, before her car crashed.

older brother, Tamerlan, was killed in a shootout that followed, but Dzhokhar escaped on foot. The injured 19-year-old was found hours later hiding in a boat in a local resident's backyard.

In a trial, his defence team argued that his older brother was the Driving Force , but prosecutors said that Dzhokhar was an equal partner. He was found guilty of 30 charges and sentenced to death.

Earlier this month, lawyers for Dzhokhar - who is currently in a high-security Prison - appeal against his Death Sentence because the jury was prejudiced in his trial.

2014: The death of Peaches Geldof Peaches Geldof had started heroin again before her death, an inquest heard Peaches Geldof 's death from a heroin overdose shocked in just 25 all of us," says BBC senior entertainment reporter Mark Savage .

"Initial reports from the ambulance to The Tragedy , "unexplained and Sudden cried,' instantly, and it's scary-they remind us of the shocking death of Peaches' mother, Paula Yates ends," he adds. Geldof was just 11 when her mother to a heroin overdose and died in the year 2000, at the age of 41.

The model and TV presenter - the second daughter of musician Bob Geldof - was a favorite of the paparazzi photographer from a young age, often leaving London parties have shown in the Early Hours of the morning.

moved But also later in life, you are in the countryside with her second husband, musician Tom Cohen , and their two small sons, posting frequently about your family, in the Social Media . She told mother and baby magazine a month before her death, that "the mother was to be, as always, me".

After Geldof died, messages of condolences poured in to the BBC from readers. A heard she was addicted to was heroin and took The Substitute drug methadone for two-and-a-half years.

her husband told the inquiry, Geldof had started heroin again before her death. Detectives investigated, who Geldof had heroin, but castle answers the case a year later with no.

2015: Paris attacks Gunmen, the Bataclan concert hall stormed, the fire on the crowds of People inside Paris correspondent Lucy Williamson still remembers the sound of bullets Bouncing off of the old facades of the buildings in The City 's 11th arrondissement, on The Night attackers killed, and injured hundreds more.

Almost at the same time, gunmen and Suicide Bombers Bataclan concert hall, The Stade de France , stadium attacked, as well as the Parisian restaurants and bars.

It was in The Middle of a series of attacks in France - 10 months after the attacks, and Nine Months .

The alleged leader of the Paris murders, Abdel Hamid Abaaoud, a Belgian, was killed in a RAID by The Police in the North of Paris, Five Days later.

After months on the run, the only surviving attacker, Salah Abdeslam , was shot and injured in a dramatic arrest in Brussels. He was later sentenced to 20 years in Prison .

"for almost two years, it felt As If France is beaten, it was, again and again," says Ms Williamson.

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