Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Gintama: Shiroyasha Koutan, a short OVA first shown at Jump Super Anime Tour 2008, releases on DVD, presenting a brief trailer-style glimpse of an imagined Gintama movie centered on Gintoki's past as the 'White Demon.'

Fairy Tail begins broadcast, an adaptation of Hiro Mashima's manga about the wizards of the guild Fairy Tail - fire mage Natsu Dragneel, celestial spirit mage Lucy Heartfilia, and their rowdy guildmates - taking on magical jobs across the kingdom of Fiore.

A bonus OVA continuing Shaft's Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei comedy, following pessimistic teacher Nozomu Itoshiki through fresh absurdist despairs, including a zombie-movie parody.

At over 360 meters long and 225,282 gross tons, Oasis of the Seas was the largest passenger ship ever built when she left Port Everglades on December 5, 2009. Built by STX Europe in Turku, Finland, for Royal Caribbean International, she introduced the industry's first open-air "neighborhood" ship design.

N787BA lifted off from Paine Field at 10:27 am PST and landed three hours later at Boeing Field, reaching 180 knots and 13,200 feet. The first airliner with a primarily composite airframe flew more than two years later than Boeing first promised.

Jungsik Yim opened Jungsik in Seoul in 2009 with an argument to make: that Korean cooking belonged in fine dining on its own terms rather than as a set of borrowed French techniques. The restaurant went on to hold two Michelin stars in Seoul and opened a New York sibling that earned three, making it one of the few Korean names to carry that weight abroad.

Emaar Properties officially opened the 828-meter Burj Khalifa in Dubai, timed to the fifth anniversary of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum's accession to power. The tower took the world's-tallest-building title from Taipei 101 by a record margin.

Durarara!! premieres, a Brain's Base-animated adaptation of Ryohgo Narita's light novels following newcomer Mikado Ryuugamine into Ikebukuro's tangle of gangs, information brokers, and the legendary headless "Black Rider."

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck near Leogane, 25 km west of Port-au-Prince, at 16:53 local time. Haiti's capital, its National Palace and much of its public administration were destroyed.

A bonus K-ON!! OVA has the Sakuragaoka light music club performing at a live house on New Year's Eve, sharing the bill with other young bands at the invitation of one of Ritsu's middle-school friends.

Bones releases Darker than Black: Origins, a four-part special bridging the original Darker than Black series and its second season by filling in what happened to Yin and Hei in between.

Kyoto Animation's The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya opens in Japanese theaters, finding Kyon alone remembering the SOS Brigade after Haruhi, Mikuru, and Itsuki vanish from an altered world where none of them ever existed.

The seven-part original video series Mobile Suit Gundam UC begins release, a Sunrise-animated adaptation of Harutoshi Fukui’s light novels set decades after the original Mobile Suit Gundam.

Sunrise's Gintama: Dai Hanseikai airs as a comedic anniversary special tied to a Gintama live stage event, with the cast bickering over screen time while looking back on four years of the anime.

How to Train Your Dragon is a 2010 American animated fantasy film directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois and written by Sanders, DeBlois, and Will Davies, based on the 2003 novel by British author Cressida Cowell. Produced by DreamWorks Animation, the film stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Kristen Wiig, and T.J.

P.A. Works' Angel Beats! begins broadcast, following Otonashi, who wakes with no memories in the afterlife and joins a rebellious student militia fighting the mysterious 'Angel' in a school suspended between life and death.

A DVD-only special episode of Nodame Cantabile: Finale airs, set before the main season begins and centered on pianist Miki Kiyora's run at a competition in Paris.

The volcano's second eruptive phase threw ash into the jet stream and about 20 countries shut their airspace to commercial jets. Roughly 10 million travellers were stranded in the worst air-travel disruption since the Second World War.

One Piece Film: Strong World Episode 0 premieres, a prequel OVA bundled with the Strong World movie's Blu-ray release that flashes back more than twenty years to the clash between Shiki the Golden Lion and Gol D. Roger.

A TV special adaptation of Gosho Aoyama's Magic Kaito begins airing, following phantom thief Kaito Kuroba as he hunts a legendary gem while evading police and a shadowy organization.

The Tatami Galaxy begins its TV run, a fast-talking college comedy in which an unnamed sophomore replays his stalled campus life over and over, chasing the 'rose-colored campus life' he never found.

Production I.G's xxxHOLiC Rou begins release, an OVA continuation of CLAMP's xxxHOLiC in which Kimihiro Watanuki, now running Yuuko's wish-granting shop a decade later, is drawn into investigating the dreams of his old rival Shizuka Doumeki.

Sunrise's Gintama: Shinyaku Benizakura-hen opens in Japanese theaters, a feature retelling of the manga's Benizakura arc that finds Gintoki, Shinpachi, and Kagura investigating a corrupted replica of a legendary sword.

UPS finished a second, roughly $1 billion expansion of its Worldport air-freight hub in Louisville, Kentucky, adding 1.2 million square feet and lifting the total footprint to 5.2 million square feet. The upgrade raised the hub's sorting capacity by 37%, to 416,000 packages an hour.

Lufthansa received its first Airbus A380 at Hamburg on 19 May 2010, putting the double-decker superjumbo into European airline service weeks later.