2011 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2011?
- January 8, 2011 – An attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store kills 6 people and wounds 13, including Giffords.
- January 14, 2011 – Stampede near Sabarimala – 104 devotees killed and several others injured in a stampede at Uppupara in Idukki district.
- February 3, 2011 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- February 17, 2011 – Libyan protests begin
- 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 19, 2011 – Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba’s central committee after 45 years of holding the title.
- April 25, 2011 – At least 300 people killed in deadliest tornado outbreak in the Southern United States since the 1974 Super Outbreak.
- April 27, 2011 – The deadliest day of the 2011 Super outbreak of tornadoes, the largest tornado outbreak, in United States history.
- May 1, 2011 – Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.
- August 6, 2011 – A helicopter containing members of Navy SEAL 6 is shot down in Afghanistan killing 38.
- August 8, 2011 – London Riot 2011. This took place between 6th August 2011 and 10th August 2011. between the 6th and 7th a peaceful march in Tottenham, London was followed by rioting and looting, first in Tottenham.
- September 20, 2011 – The United States ends its “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.
- September 22, 2011 – CERN scientists announce their discovery of neutrinos breaking the speed of light
- October 20, 2011 – The former leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, and his son Moatassem Gaddafi are killed shortly after the battle of Sirte (2011) while in the custody of NTC fighters.
- October 27, 2011 – The Royal Australian Navy announces that they discovered the wreck of a World War II submarine in Simpson Harbour, Papua New Guinea during Operation RENDER SAFE - it is likely to be Japanese.
- October 29, 2011 – Record-breaking snowstorm in the northeastern United States leaves nearly 2 million residents without power for more than 36 hours.
- November 25, 2011 – Sudden violent storms strike southern Sri Lanka, killing 27 people and drowning many fishermen caught by surprise. Thousands of homes lose their roofs and several more sustain damage. Landslides along with flooding was reported on the mainland.
- December 15, 2011 – American forces withdraw from Iraq after a 9-year long campaign.
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