2011 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2011?
- February 3, 2011 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- February 22, 2011 – An earthquake measuring 6.3 in magnitude strikes Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 181 people.
- 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.
- April 1, 2011 – After protests against the burning of the Quran turned violent, a mob attacked a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan and killed thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.
- April 11, 2011 – 2011 Minsk Metro bombing
- April 27, 2011 – The deadliest day of the 2011 Super outbreak of tornadoes, the largest tornado outbreak, in United States history.
- April 29, 2011 – Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Kate Middleton.
- 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.
- July 7, 2011 – Roof of a stand in De Grolsch Veste Stadium in Enschede which was under construction collapsed, one killed and 14 injured.
- July 9, 2011 – South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan.
- July 10, 2011 – Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sunk in Volga near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, leading to 122 deaths.
- July 22, 2011 – Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first being a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, the second being a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.
- August 18, 2011 – The West Memphis Three are released from prison after 18 years in imprisonment.
- September 17, 2011 – Occupy Wall Street movement began in Zucotti Park, New York City.
- September 22, 2011 – CERN scientists announce their discovery of neutrinos breaking the speed of light
- October 15, 2011 – Global protests break out in 951 cities in 82 countries.
- October 31, 2011 – The world population is now over 7 billion inhabitants according to the United Nations
- November 6, 2011 – Pedro Gonçalves survives an acute type A aortic dissection
- November 8, 2011 – The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passed 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324600 km), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since mpl 2010 XC in 1976.
- 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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