2011 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2011?
- January 24, 2011 – At least 35 died and 180 injured in a bombing at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport.
- January 28, 2011 – Hundreds of thousands of protesters filled up the Egyptian’s streets in demonstrations referred to as “Friday of Anger” against the Mubarak regime.
- February 3, 2011 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- February 11, 2011 – Egyptian Revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests.
- February 13, 2011 – For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, were able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.
- February 14, 2011 – 2011 Bahraini uprising The 2011 Bahraini uprising, sometimes called the February 14 Revolution is a series of demonstrations, amounting to a sustained campaign of civil resistance, in the Persian Gulf country of Bahrain
- February 24, 2011 – Final Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103).
- February 25, 2011 – In the Irish general election, the Fianna Fáil-led government suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government since the formation of the Irish state in 1921.
- March 11, 2011 – An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
- March 12, 2011 – A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan’s earthquake.
- April 9, 2011 – A gunman murdered five people, injured eleven, and committed suicide in a mall in the Netherlands.
- April 19, 2011 – Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba’s central committee after 45 years of holding the title.
- May 2, 2011 – Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI’s most wanted man is killed by the United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
- May 13, 2011 – the 2011 Charsadda bombing in the Charsadda District of Pakistan two bombs exploded killing 98 and wounding 140.
- May 25, 2011 – Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty five year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
- July 11, 2011 – Neptune completes its first orbit since its discovery on September 23, 1846.
- August 6, 2011 – A helicopter containing members of Navy SEAL 6 is shot down in Afghanistan killing 38.
- August 13, 2011 – The main stage collapses at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis during a hurricane-force wind gust ahead of an approaching severe thunderstorm, killing 7 and injuring 45.
- October 15, 2011 – Global protests break out in 951 cities in 82 countries.
- November 23, 2011 – Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, The Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh Signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.
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