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Events on the year of 2011 in history

Events
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01 Jan 2011 Estonia becomes the 17th member of the Eurozone.
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01 Jan 2011 The Kallikratis plan becomes the new administrative system of Greece.
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01 Jan 2011 A bomb explodes as Coptic Christians in Alexandria, Egypt, leave a new year service, killing 23 people.
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02 Jan 2011 January 2011 Baghdad shootings take place.
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08 Jan 2011 The attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store, for which Jared Lee Loughner is subsequently arrested, kills six people and wounds 13, including Giffords.
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09 Jan 2011 Iran Air Flight 277 crashes near Orumiyeh in the northeast of the country, killing 77 people.
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10 Jan 2011 2010–11 Queensland floods: Torrential rain in the Lockyer Valley region of South East Queensland, Australia, causes severe flash flooding, killing 9 people.
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14 Jan 2011 Former president of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali flees his country to Saudi Arabia after a series of street demonstrations against his regime and corrupt policies, asking for freedom, rights and democracy, considered as the anniversary of the Tunisian Revolution and the birth of the Arab Spring.
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24 Jan 2011 At least 35 die and 180 are injured in a bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport.
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27 Jan 2011 Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sana'a.
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31 Jan 2011 A winter storm hits North America for the second time in the same month, causing $1.8 billion in damage across the United States and Canada and killing 24 people.
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11 Feb 2011 The first wave of the Egyptian revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests.
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13 Feb 2011 For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.
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14 Feb 2011 As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising, a series of demonstrations, amounting to a sustained campaign of civil resistance, in the Persian Gulf country of Bahrain begins with a 'Day of Rage'.
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17 Feb 2011 Libyan protests begin. In Bahrain, security forces launched a deadly pre-dawn raid on protesters in Pearl Roundabout in Manama, the day is locally known as Bloody Thursday.
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19 Feb 2011 The debut exhibition of the Belitung shipwreck, containing the largest collection of Tang dynasty artefacts found in one location, begins in Singapore.
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22 Feb 2011 Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people march in protest against the deaths of seven victims killed by police and army forces during previous protests.
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22 Feb 2011 New Zealand's second deadliest earthquake strikes Christchurch, killing 185 people.
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24 Feb 2011 Final Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103).
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09 Mar 2011 Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.
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11 Mar 2011 An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) 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.
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12 Mar 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.
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15 Mar 2011 Beginning of the Syrian Civil War.
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19 Mar 2011 Libyan Civil War: After the failure of Muammar Gaddafi's forces to take Benghazi, French Air Force launches Opération Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya.
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01 Apr 2011 After protests against the burning of the Quran turn violent, a mob attacks a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.
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06 Apr 2011 In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 bodies were exhumed from several mass graves made by Los Zetas.
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11 Apr 2011 An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others.
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19 Apr 2011 Fidel Castro resigns from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba after 45 years of holding the title.
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27 Apr 2011 The April 25–28 tornado outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. Two hundred five tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone, killing more than 300 and injuring hundreds more.
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29 Apr 2011 The Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton takes place at Westminster Abbey in London.
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01 May 2011 Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks has been killed by United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Due to the time difference between the United States and Pakistan, bin Laden was actually killed on May 2.
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01 May 2011 Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.
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02 May 2011 An E. coli outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak.
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02 May 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.
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13 May 2011 Two bombs explode in the Charsadda District of Pakistan killing 98 people and wounding 140 others.
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16 May 2011 STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour.
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18 May 2011 Twenty-two people are killed when Sol Líneas Aéreas Flight 5428 crashes in southern Argentina.
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21 May 2011 Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the world would end on this date.
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22 May 2011 An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 162 people and wreaking $2.8 billion worth in damage—the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history.
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25 May 2011 Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty-five-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
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28 May 2011 Malta votes on the introduction of divorce.
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01 Jun 2011 A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.
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08 Jul 2011 Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
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09 Jul 2011 South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan.
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21 Jul 2011 NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135.
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22 Jul 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.
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06 Aug 2011 A march in protest of the death of Mark Duggan in Tottenham, London, ends in a riot, sparking off a wave of rioting throughout the country over the following four nights.
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07 Sep 2011 A plane crash in Russia kills 43 people, including nearly the entire roster of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Kontinental Hockey League team.
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12 Sep 2011 The 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City opens to the public.
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17 Sep 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti Park, New York City.
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18 Sep 2011 2011 Sikkim earthquake was felt across northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet.
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19 Sep 2011 Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees surpasses Trevor Hoffman to become Major League Baseball's all time saves leader with 602.
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20 Sep 2011 The United States military ends its "don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.
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05 Oct 2011 In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered in the lawless Golden Triangle region of Southeast Asia.
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15 Oct 2011 Global protests break out in 120 cities in 48 countries.
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20 Oct 2011 Libyan Civil War: National Transitional Council rebel forces capture ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte and kill him shortly thereafter.
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23 Oct 2011 A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands.
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23 Oct 2011 The Libyan National Transition Council deems the Libyan Civil War over.
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31 Oct 2011 The global population of humans reaches seven billion. This day is now recognized by the United Nations as Seven Billion Day.
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26 Nov 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan: NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani checkpost in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others.
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26 Nov 2011 The Mars Science Laboratory launches to Mars with the Curiosity Rover.
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13 Dec 2011 A murder–suicide in Liège, Belgium, kills six and wounds 125 people at a Christmas market.
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28 Dec 2011 Roboski airstrike: Turkish warplanes bomb 34 Kurds of Turkish nationality in the district of Uludere.
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30 Dec 2011 Owing to a change of time zone the day is skipped in Samoa and Tokelau.
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