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2010 Record Breakers

From the hottest day and the youngest Grammy winner to the most expensive car and the biggest meatball, The Daily Beast chronicles a year for the record books.

Published Dec. 15 2010 4:09PM EST

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galleries/2010/12/15/2010-record-breakers/record-breakers---heatwave_oeovcm — Date: September 27
Record: 113 degrees
Where: Los Angeles, California
How hot was it? So hot the official thermometer broke. “It just kind of quit functioning, but the temperature had already peaked,” said Stuart Seto, forecaster for the National Weather Service.