2011 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2011?
- January 1, 2011 – Estonia officially adopts the Euro currency and becomes the seventeenth eurozone country.
- January 14, 2011 – Ben Ali, former Tunisian president, fled the country to Saudi Arabia after popular protests (dubbed as Jasmine Revolution) requesting his departure.
- 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.
- 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 11, 2011 – 2011 Minsk Metro bombing
- May 1, 2011 – Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.
- May 2, 2011 – The 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak.
- May 13, 2011 – the 2011 Charsadda bombing in the Charsadda District of Pakistan two bombs exploded killing 98 and wounding 140.
- May 22, 2011 – An EF5 Tornado strikes the US city of Joplin, Missouri killing up to 161 people. It is the single deadliest US tornado since modern record keeping began in 1950.
- May 25, 2011 – Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty five year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
- 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 21, 2011 – NASA’s Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135.
- August 26, 2011 – The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing’s all-new composite airliner, receives certification from the EASA and the FAA
- 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
- November 6, 2011 – Pedro Gonçalves survives an acute type A aortic dissection
- November 26, 2011 – 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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