Events

[edit]January Union Home Ministry winds up the Srikrishna committee on Telangana following submission of its [1] report Arabinda Rajkhowa, chairman of ULFA, released on bail from the Guwahati central prison
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India and Pakistan exchange the annual lists of their nuclear installations and facilities under the Agreement on the Prohibition of Attack against Nuclear Installations, which was signed on December [3] 31, 1988 Nagesh Pydah assumes charge as Chairman and Managing Director of Oriental Bank of [4] Commerce Yashwant Sonawane, Additional District Collector of Malegaon burnt alive by oil mafia at Manmad [5] near Nashik (Maharastra). 102 lives lost in stampede at Sabarimala Shrine (Kerala).
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Eminent classical singer Bhimsen Joshi passes away at the age of 88. Karnataka Governor sanctions prosecution of CM B.S.Yeddyurappa.
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Suresh Kalmadi sacked as Chairman of Commonwealth Games Organizing Committee.

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[edit]February Former Telecom Minister A.Raja sent to Tihar Jail in 2G spectrum scam. Bombay High Court upholds death penalty for Ajmal Kasab.
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Ahmedabad court convicts 31, acquits 63 in Godhra train burning case. 34th National Games Held in Ranchi, Jharkhand.
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Kidnapped Malkangiri Collector released by Maoists.

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[edit]March Supreme Court strikes down CVC PJ Thomas' appointment.

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PM Manmohan Singh and PM Gilani of Pakistan engage in cricket diplomacy on the occasion of [16] India-Pakistan semi final match in Cricket World Cup 2011. Supreme Court dismisses Aruna Shanbaug's euthanasia plea. Hasan Ali remanded to Judicial Custody.
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Saina Nehwal clinches Swiss Open Grand Prix. DGCA revokes licenses of 14 fake pilots.
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Census 2011 shows increase of 181 million in total population.

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[edit]April India wins the 2011 Cricket World Cup. Dorjee Khandu, Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh since 2007, dies in a helicopter crash. Anna Hazare undertakes fast for Jan Lokpal Bill at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi. Supreme Court grants bail to civil rights activist Binayak Sen. Visit of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva of Thailand to India.
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Five corporate honchos (Sanjay Chandra of Unitech; Gautam Doshi, Surender Pipara and Hari Nair [25] of Reliance ADAG; Vinod Goenka of Swan Telecom) arrested in 2G spectrum scam.

[edit]May Mamata Banerjee sworn in as the first woman and 11th Chief Minister of West Bengal.
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announces aid of Rs. 22,500 Crores for African countries to develop infrastructure facilities on the eve of IInd Indo-Africa summit. J.Jayalalitha, Oommen Chandy, Tarun Gogoi and N. Rangaswamy takes over as Chief Ministers [27] of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Pondicherry respectively, as a result of assembly elections. Supreme Court quashes Karnataka Speakers decision to disqualify 16 MLA's.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel conferred Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International [29] Understanding for 2009 by President Pratibha Patil. India ratifies UN protocol against human trafficking.
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[edit]June Senior journalist and investigations editor with English newspaper 'MiD DAY', J. Dey, is shot dead [31][32] in Mumbai. Election Commission of India launches the IIDEM (India International Institute of Democracy and [33] Election Management). Famous painter M.F Hussain passes away. India gets first e-waste management rules.
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New Zealand Prime Minister John Key visits India.

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India ranks 123rd on on global environment index.

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Supreme Court appoints committee to examine the secret chambers of Sri Padmanabhaswamy [38] Temple, Kerala.

[edit]July 26 killed in a series of bomb-blasts in Mumbai.

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Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) agreement signed. India-Bangladesh ink border management deal.
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Indias 25th nuclear power plant being built at Rawatbhata, Rajasthan. Newly formed National Green Tribunal (NGT) conducts its first sitting.

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[edit]August Reserve Bank of India issues draft guidelines for new bank licences.
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Nation celebrates Independence Day on august 15th.

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Parliament passes sense of the house resolution on lokpal bill.

Sustainable Competitiveness Report 2011 presented, Delhi is first.

[edit]September 6.8 earthquake in Sikkim, tremors across India on 19th september. PM Manmohan Singh visits Dhaka on a landmark visit.
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Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011 presented in lok sabha.

[edit]October F1 2011 Race comes to India at the Buddh International Circuit, Noida. 7 billionth baby born, Nargis in Uttar Pradesh.
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Saving Bank Interest rate decontrolled by RBI.

National Manufacturing Policy cleared by Cabinet.

Planning Commission releases the second India Human Development Report (HDR) 2011. President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, visits India.
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Chhattisgarh police superintendent Ankit Garg is accused of the torture of schoolteacher and [57] alleged Naxalite Soni Sori.

[edit]November Maoist leader Kishenji killed in encounter in west bengal. Companies bill and Pension bill cleared by Cabinet.
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Indian representative elected to head the Joint Inspection Unit, the UNs only external oversight [60] body. India ranks 134th on UN Human Development Index.
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Longest rail (4286 km) of India, Vivek Express, is flagged off.

Sonia Gandhi (11th) and Manmohan Singh (19th) figures among the top 20 most powerful people on [63] earth in the Forbes list.

[edit]December More than 50 killed in fire accident at AMRI hospital, Calcutta. 150 perish in West Bengal hooch tragedy.
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Court directs 21 social networking websites to take off offensive content. Cyclone Thane claims 33 lives in Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry.
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Lok Sabha passes Lokpal Bill, Hazare cancels fast due to lukewarm response at Mumbai.

[edit]Predicted

and scheduled events

201011 I-League 201112 I-League 2011 Durand Cup 2011 Indian Federation Cup 2011 I-League 2nd Division

2011 Santosh Trophy 2011 BC Roy Trophy 2011 Dutta Ray Trophy

[edit]Sports [edit]Athletics January 3 National School Athletics Meet begin at Pune

[edit]Cricket [edit]Domestic Season Ranji Trophy 201011 Duleep Trophy 201011 Deodhar Trophy 201011 Vijay Hazare Trophy 201011 [edit]International Test matches India South Africa 3 Test Series, December 2010 January 2011 (Result Drawn 1-1). India West Indies 3 Test Series, June July 2011 (Result India 1-0). West Indies India 3 Test Series, November 2011 (Result India 2-0).
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2011 Indian Premier League 2011 Irani Trophy 2011 Inter-State T20 Championship 2011 BCCI Corporate Trophy 2011 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy

India England 4 Test Series, July August 2011 (Result England 4-0).
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India Australia 4 Test Series, December 2011 January 2012 (Ongoing).

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One Day matches India South Africa 5 match Series, January 2011 (Result South Africa 3-2). India wins ICC world cup 2011 defeating Sri Lanka in finals.
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India West Indies 5 match Series, June 2011 (Result India 3-2). England India 5 match Series, October 2011 (Result India 5-0).

India England 5 match Series, September 2011 (Result England 3-0).

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West Indies India 5 match Series, November December 2011 (Result India 4-1).

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T-20 matches West Indies v India at Port of Spain June 4, 2011. England v India at Manchester August 31, 2011. India v England at Kolkata October 29, 2011.
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[edit]Football [edit]Senior 201011 I-League

201112 I-League 2011 Indian Shield 2011 Indian Federation Cup 2011 Durand Cup 2011 Santosh Trophy

2011 I-League 2nd Division [edit]Youth 2011 BC Roy Trophy 2011 Dutta Ray Trophy 201011 Mir Iqbal Hussain Trophy 201012 Mir Iqbal Hussain Trophy Subroto Cup Football Tournament

[edit]Regional Agartala Kolkata Mumbai Bangalore Cochin Goa Assam Guwahati Punjab Delhi Trivandum Kolkata Police Friendship Cup Football Tournament Goa Governor Cup Goan Super Cup Mullick Police Cup Sikkim Gold Cup

[edit]International [edit]Hockey [edit]Deaths [edit]January

June
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January 2 Bali Ram Bhagat, 88, former Lok Sabha Speaker January 10 Vivek Shauq, 47, actor, comedian. January 17 Gita Dey, 79, actress. January 21 E. V. V. Satyanarayana, 54, film director. January 24 Bhimsen Joshi, 88, musician. January 28 Sushil Kumar Dhara, 99, revolutionary. February 3 Machan Varghese, 50, Malayalam film actor. February 12 Vipindas, 72, cinematographer and director. February 19 Suresh Babu, 58, athlete.

February 20 Malaysia Vasudevan, 66, actor and playback singer. February 21

Aranmula Ponnamma, 96, Malayalam film actress. Premananda, 59, religious leader.

February 23 Mullapudi Venkata Ramana, 79, screenwriter and film producer. Nirmala Srivastava, 87, religious leader.

February 24 Anant Pai (Uncle Pai), 81, educationalist and comics writer. March 1 Fateh Singh Rathore, 72, wildlife conservationist. March 3 Goga Kapoor, 70, film actor. Venkatraman Radhakrishnan, 81, astrophysicist.

March 4 Arjun Singh, 80, politician. March 10 Baliram Kashyap, 74, politician. March 12 Kumar Indrajitsinhji, 73, cricketer. March 19 Navin Nischol, 65, actor. March 20 Bob Christo, Indian actor of Australian origin. April 1 Varkey Vithayathil, 83, cardinal and religious leader. April 3 Rafique Alam, 81, politician. April 5 Sujatha, 58, actress. April 12 Sachin Bhowmick, 80, screenwriter. April 17 Bhawani Singh, 79, titular Maharaja of Jaipur. April 22 Madhava Gudi, 72, Hindustani classical vocalist. April 24 Sathya Sai Baba, 84, Guru, spiritual leader & educator. April 30 Dorjee Khandu, 56, politician, Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh May 13 Badal Sarkar, 85, dramatist May 15 Mahendra Singh Tikait, 76, leader of farmers, President of the Bharatiya Kisan Union June 3 Bhajan Lal, 80, two-time Chief Minister of Haryana June 7 Nataraja Ramakrishna, 88, dance guru. June 9 M. F. Husain, 95, painter June 11 Jyotirmoy Dey, 55, journalist June 14 Asad Ali Khan, 74, musician June 18 John Perumattam, 89, Catholic hierarch June 21 Kothapalli Jayashankar, 76, educator and politician Suresh Tendulkar, 72, economist

June 29 K. D. Sethna, 106, scholar and writer

[edit]July

December

July 2 Chaturanan Mishra, 86, politician and union leader. July 6 Mani Kaul, 66, film director August 14 Shammi Kapoor, 79, actor

August 18 Johnson Master, 58, musician September 22 Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, 70, cricketer October 10 Jagjit Singh, 70, singer November 5 Bhupen Hazarika, 85, singer November 9 Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-born American Nobel biochemist (born 1922) November 27 Ustad Sultan Khan, 71, musician December 4 Dev Anand, 88, actor and director (born 1923) December 25 Satyadev Dubey, 75, actor, playwright and director December 26 S. Bangarappa, 79, former Chief Minister of Karnataka (born 1932)

[edit]Major

Public Holidays

January 26 Republic Day (National holiday) February 20 Maha Shivaratri (Hindu Holiday) March 8 Holi (Hindu Holiday) April 4 Gudi Padwa (Hindu New Year) August 15 Independence Day (National holiday) August 19 Pateti (Parsi New Year) August 21 Krishna Janmashtami (Hindu Holiday) August 31 Eid ul-Fitr (Islam Holiday) September 1 Ganesh Chaturthi (First day of 10 days long Ganesh Festival) September 11 Anant Chaturdashi (Ganesh Visharjan/Last Day of 10 days long Ganesh Festival) October 2 Gandhi Jayanti (National holiday) October 6 Dassera (Hindu Holiday) October 26 Diwali (Hindu Holiday) November 7 Bakrid (Islam Holiday) November 10 Guru Nanak Jayanti (Sikh Holiday) December 25 Christmas (Christian Holiday)

Indian Events 2011

2011 has been quite an eventful year for India which saw a lot of high's and lows. Here is a month wise account of all that kept India in the news in the year that has gone by. April 2011 The year began with India's splendid victory in the Cricket World Cup in a nail biting final match against Sri Lanka on April 2nd in Mumbai. Gandhian crusader Anna Hazare's began a non-violent protest against corruption in the country and the passing of the Lokpal Bill, in the form of an indefinite hunger strike. Hazare started his fast on April 5th in Delhi and continued till April 9th. April 24th saw the death of Satya Sai Baba at Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh. Satya Sai Baba was a guru, spiritual

figure and self proclaimed reincarnation of Sai Baba of Shirdi. May 2011 On April 30th, a chopper carrying Arunchal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu went missing and on May 4th the dead body of Khandu was found near the crashed helicopter in Luguthang, near the China Border. July 2011 On July 2nd gold worth Rs.500 billion was found at the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerala. July 10th saw the unfortunate derailing of the Kalka mail at Fatehpur which left 70 dead and over 300 injured. On July 13th the city of Mumbai saw a series of bomb blasts explode across the city at Opera House, Zaveri Bazaar and Dadar; the explosions left 26 dead and 130 injured. September 2011 On September 19th, Sikkim witnessed a massive earthquake which left over 100 people dead and many injured, including a large scale destruction of property and infrastructure. October 2011 On October 5th in Delhi, Aakash launched a low cost tablet for urban college students as the government felt that students would need a low cost computing device to help them with their studies. On October 20th the city of Bangalore witnessed the launch of Namma Metro (My Metro), the cities own Metro rail service. Noida hosted the grand Formula 1 Race on October 2011, which saw a number of celebrities like Michael Schumacher, Sebastian Vettel (the winner of the Indian Grand Prix), Sachin Tendulkar, Lady Gaga and numerous other known faces. November 2011 On November 20th in Ludhiana India won the Kabbadi world cup and brought glory to the nation in a sport other than cricket. Continuing with sports, cricketer Virender Sehwag went on to score 219 runs against the West Indies on November 29th in Indore. On December 12th India saw the tragic loss of 91 lives in the AMRI Hospital fire in Kolkata which has brought to light severe negligence on the part of hospital authorities.

Other Important Events in 2011

January 2011: India and Pakistan exchange the annual lists of their nuclear installations and facilities under the Agreement on the Prohibition of Attack against Nuclear Installations, which was signed on December 31, 1988. May 2011: Mamata Banerjee was sworn in as the first woman and 11th Chief Minister of West Bengal. June 2011: Senior journalist and investigations editor with English newspaper 'Mid-Day', J Dey, is shot dead in Mumbai. September 2011: Veteran cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi died in Delhi of Acute Lung Infection on September 22nd. He was 70.

November 2011: Renowned Assamese singer Bhupen Hazarika dies on November 5th in Mumbai, of multiple organ failure at the age of 85. December 2011: Legendary Bollywood film actor, producer and director Dev Anand died of a cardiac arrest in London, aged 88.

Events
[edit]January January 1 Estonia officially adopts the euro currency and becomes the [2] seventeenth eurozone country. January 4 Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi dies after setting himself on fire a month earlier, sparking anti-government protests in Tunisia and later other Arab nations. These protests [3][4] become known collectively as the Arab Spring. January 915 Southern Sudan holds a referendum on independence. The Sudanese electorate [5][6] votes in favour of independence, paving the way for the creation of the new state in July. January 11 Flooding and mudslides in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro kills 903.
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January 14 Arab Spring: The Tunisian government falls after a month of increasingly violent [8][9] protests; President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali flees to Saudi Arabia after 23 years in power. January 24 37 people are killed and more than 180 others wounded in a bombing at Domodedovo [10][11][12] International Airport in Moscow, Russia.

[edit]February February 11 Arab Spring: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigns after widespread protests calling for his departure, leaving control of Egypt in the hands of the military until a general [13] election can be held. February 22 - March 14 Uncertainty over Libyan oil output causes crude oil prices to rise 20% over [14] a two-week period following the Arab Spring, causing the 2011 energy crisis.

[edit]March March 11 A 9.1-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the east of Japan, killing 15,840 and leaving another 3,926 missing. Tsunami warnings are issued in 50 countries and [16] territories. Emergencies are declared at four nuclear power plants affected by the quake. March 15 Arab Spring: Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain declares a three-month state of [17][18] emergency as troops from the Gulf Co-operation Council are sent to quell the civil unrest. March 17 Arab Spring and the 2011 Libyan civil war: The United Nations Security Council votes 100 to create a no-fly zone over Libya in response to allegations of government aggression against [19] civilians. March 19 Arab Spring and the Libyan civil war: In light of continuing attacks on Libyan rebels by [20] forces in support of leader Muammar Gaddafi, military intervention authorized under UNSCR [21] 1973 begins as French fighter jets make reconnaissance flights over Libya.
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[edit]April

April 11 Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo is arrested in his home in Abidjan by supporters of elected President Alassane Ouattarawith support from French forces thereby ending the 2010 [22] 2011 Ivorian crisis and civil war. April 29 An estimated two billion people watch the wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London.
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[edit]May May 1 U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of [24] the militant group Al-Qaeda, has beenkilled during an American military operation in Pakistan. May 16 The European Union agree to 78 billion rescue deal for Portugal. The bailout loan will be equally split between the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism, the European Financial [25] Stability Facility, and the International Monetary Fund. May 26 Former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladi, wanted for genocide, war crimes [26][27] and crimes against humanity, is arrested inSerbia.

[edit]June June 4 Chile's Puyehue volcano erupts, causing air traffic cancellations across South America, New Zealand, Australia and forcing over 3,000 people to evacuate. June 5 Arab Spring: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh travels to Saudi Arabia for treatment of an injury sustained during an attack on the presidential palace. Protesters celebrate his transfer of [28] power to his Vice-President Abd al-Rab Mansur al-Hadi. June 12 Arab Spring: Thousands of Syrians flee to Turkey as Syrian troops lay siege to Jisr ash[29] Shugur.

[edit]July July 7 The world's first artificial organ transplant is achieved, using an artificial windpipe coated [30] with stem cells. July 9 South Sudan secedes from Sudan, per the result of the independence referendum held in [31] January. July 20 Goran Hadi is detained in Serbia, becoming the last of 161 people indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
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The United Nations declares a famine in southern Somalia, the first in over thirty years.

July 21 Space Shuttle Atlantis lands successfully at Kennedy Space Center after completing STS[34] 135, concluding NASA's space shuttle program. July 22 77 people are killed in twin terrorist attacks in Norway after a bombing in the Regjeringskvartalet government center in Oslo and a shooting at a political youth camp on the [35][36][37][38] island of Utya. July 31 In Thailand over 12.8 million people are affected by severe flooding. The World Bank estimates damages at 1,440 billion baht (US$45 billion).
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Some areas are still six feet under water, and

many factory areas remained closed at the end of the year. 815 the country's 77 provinces affected.
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people are killed, with 58 of

Arab Spring: Because of the uncertaintities associated with a clamp-down of the free press, there are believed to be at least 121 people killed in aSyrian Army tank raid on the town of Hama and over 150 people are reportedly killed across the country.
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The total

dead throughout Syriamay never be known, but an estimate as of September 24 is 3,000. [edit]August August 5 NASA announces that its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured photographic evidence of possible liquid water on Mars during warm seasons. Juno, the first solar-powered spacecraft on a mission to Jupiter, is launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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August 2028 Arab Spring and the Libyan civil war: In the Battle of Tripoli, Libyan rebels take [46][47][48] control of the nation's capital, effectively overthrowing the government of Muammar Gaddafi.

[edit]September September 5 India and Bangladesh sign a pact to end their 40-year border demarcation dispute.
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September 10 Zanzibar ferry sinking: The MV Spice Islander I, carrying at least 800 people, sinks [50] off the coast of Zanzibar, killing 240 people. September 12 Approximately 100 people die after a petrol pipeline explodes in Nairobi.
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September 17 Occupy Wall Street protests begin in the United States. This develops into [52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60] the Occupy movement which spreads to 82 countries by October. September 19 With 434 dead, the United Nations launches a $357 million appeal for victims of [61] the 2011 Sindh floods in Pakistan.

[edit]October October 4 2011 Mogadishu bombing: 100 the Somali capital Mogadishu.
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people are killed in a car bombing in

[63]

The death toll from the flooding of Cambodia's Mekong River and attendant flash floods reaches 207.
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October 18 Israel and the Palestinian militant organization Hamas begin a major prisoner swap, in which the captured Israeli Army soldier Gilad Shalit is released by Hamas in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian and Israeli-Arab prisoners held in Israel, including 280 prisoners serving life sentences for [66][67][68] planning and perpetrating terror attacks. October 20 Arab Spring and the Libyan civil war: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is killed in Sirte, with National Transitional Council forces taking control of the city, and ending the war.
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Basque separatist militant organisation ETA declares an end to its 43-year campaign of political violence, which has killed over 800 people since 1968.
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October 23 A magnitude 7.2 Mw earthquake jolted eastern Turkey near the city of Van, killing 604 [74] people, and damaging about 2,200 buildings. October 27 After an emergency meeting in Brussels, the European Union announced an agreement to tackle the European sovereign debt crisis which includes a writedown of 50% of Greek bonds, a recapitalisation of European banks and an increase of the bailout fund of the European [75][76] Financial Stability Facility totaling to 1 trillion. October 31 Date selected by the UN as the symbolic date when global population reaches seven billion. UNESCO admitted Palestine as a member, following a vote in which 107 member states supported and 14 opposed.
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[edit]November November 26 The Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity, the most elaborate Martian exploration vehicle to date, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center. It is slated to land on Mars onAugust [79][80][81] 5, 2012.

[edit]December December 15 The United States formally declares an end to the Iraq War.
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December 16 Tropical Storm Washi causes 1,268 flash flood fatalities in the Philippines with 85 [87] people officially listed as missing. December 29 Samoa and Tokelau move from east to west of the International Date Line, thereby [87] skipping December 30, in order to align their time zones better with their main trading partners.

[edit]Deaths Main article: Deaths in 2011 Further information: Category:2011 deaths [edit]January

January 2 Anne Francis, American actress (b. 1930) Pete Postlethwaite, British actor (b. 1946) Richard Winters, American paratrooper (b. 1918)

January 4 Prince Ali-Reza Pahlavi of Iran (b. 1966) Gerry Rafferty, Scottish musician (b. 1947)

January 15 Nat Lofthouse, English footballer (b. 1925)

Susannah York, British actress (b. 1939)

January 18 Sargent Shriver, American politician and diplomat (b. 1915) January 21 Dennis Oppenheim, American artist (b. 1938) January 24 Bernd Eichinger, German film producer and director (b. 1949) January 29 Milton Babbitt, American composer (b. 1916) January 30 John Barry, English composer (b. 1933)

[edit]February

February 3 Maria Schneider, French actress (b. 1952) February 5 Brian Jacques, British author (b. 1939) February 6 Josefa Iloilo, 3rd President of Fiji (b. 1920) Gary Moore, Irish musician (b. 1952)

February 8 Cesare Rubini, Italian basketball player and coach (b. 1923) February 14 George Shearing, British-American jazz pianist (b. 1919) February 27 Necmettin Erbakan, 25th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1926) February 28 Jane Russell, American actress (b. 1921)

[edit]March

March 4 Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, 30th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1924) Simon van der Meer, Dutch Nobel physicist (b. 1925)

March 5 Alberto Granado, Cuban writer and scientist (b. 1922) March 6 Jn Popluhr, Slovak footballer (b. 1935) March 15 Nate Dogg, American rapper (b. 1969) March 17 Michael Gough, British actor (b. 1916) March 18 Warren Christopher, American diplomat (b. 1925) March 21 Nikolai Andrianov, Soviet-Russian gymnast (b. 1952) March 23 Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress (b. 1932) March 26 Paul Baran, Polish-American computer engineer (b. 1926) Geraldine Ferraro, American politician (b. 1935) Diana Wynne Jones, British writer (b. 1934)

March 27 Farley Granger, American actor (b. 1925) March 29 Jos Alencar, Brazilian politician (b. 1931)

[edit]April April 5

Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician (b. 1925) Ange-Flix Patass, 5th President of the Central African Republic (b. 1937)

April 9 Sidney Lumet, American film director (b. 1924) April 14 William Lipscomb, American chemist (b. 1919) April 19 Grete Waitz, Norwegian athlete (b. 1953) April 24 Sathya Sai Baba, Indian spiritual leader (b. 1926) April 30 Ernesto Sabato, Argentine writer (b. 1911)

[edit]May May 2 Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born leader of Al-Qaeda (b. 1957) May 3 Jackie Cooper, American actor (b. 1922) May 7 Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (b. 1957) Willard Boyle, Canadian Nobel physicist (b. 1924)

May 9 Lidia Gueiler Tejada, 67th President of Bolivia (b. 1921) May 16 Samuel Wanjiru, Kenyan athlete (b. 1986) May 19 Garret FitzGerald, 7th Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1926) May 20 Randy Savage, American professional wrestler (b. 1952) May 27 Jeff Conaway, American actor (b. 1950) Gil Scott-Heron, American poet and musician (b. 1949)

May 29 Sergei Bagapsh, Georgian-born politician (b. 1949) Ferenc Mdl, 2nd President of Hungary (b. 1931)

May 30 Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist (b. 1921) May 31 Pauline Betz, American tennis player (b. 1919)

[edit]June

June 3 Jack Kevorkian, American euthanasia advocate (b. 1928) June 4 Lawrence Eagleburger, American diplomat (b. 1930) June 7 Jorge Semprn, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1923) June 9 M.F. Hussain, Indian painter (b. 1915) June 10 Patrick Leigh Fermor, British travel writer, scholar and soldier (b. 1915) June 18 Frederick Chiluba, 2nd President of Zambia (b. 1943) Clarence Clemons, American musician and actor (b. 1942)

June 23 Peter Falk, American actor (b. 1927)

[edit]July

July 2 Itamar Franco, 37th President of Brazil (b. 1930) July 4 Archduke Otto of Austria (b. 1912) July 5 Cy Twombly, American painter (b. 1928) July 8 Betty Ford, American feminist, activist, and philanthropist (b. 1918) July 10 Roland Petit, French choreographer and dancer (b. 1924) July 12 Tom Gehrels, American astronomer (b. 1925) July 17 Juan Maria Bordaberry, 36th President of Uruguay (b. 1928) July 20 Lucian Freud, German-born British painter (b. 1922) July 23 Robert Ettinger, American academic (b. 1918) Nguyen Cao Ky, 8th Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam (b. 1930) Amy Winehouse, British singer (b. 1983)

July 25 Mihalis Kakogiannis, Cypriot filmmaker (b. 1922) July 28 Abdul Fatah Younis, Libyan army commander (b. 1944) July 30 Mario Echandi Jimnez, 47th President of Costa Rica (b. 1915)

[edit]August

August 2 Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born American Nobel immunologist (b. 1920) August 3 Bubba Smith, American football player and actor (b. 1945) August 7 Harri Holkeri, 57th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1937) Nancy Wake, New Zealand-born French Resistance fighter (b. 1912)

August 14 Shammi Kapoor, Indian film actor and director (b. 1931) August 16 Andrej Bajuk, 3rd Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia (b. 1943) August 19 Ral Ruiz, Chilean film director (b. 1941) August 22 Jack Layton, Canadian politician (b. 1950) August 31 Valery Rozhdestvensky, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut (b. 1939)

[edit]September September 7 Pavol Demitra, Slovakian hockey player (b. 1974) Stefan Liv, Polish-born Swedish hockey player (b. 1980) Ruslan Salei, Belarusian hockey player (b. 1974) Krlis Skrasti, Latvian hockey player (b. 1974)

September 10 Cliff Robertson, American actor (b. 1923) September 11 Andy Whitfield, Welsh actor and model (b. 1972)

September 13 Richard Hamilton, British painter and collage artist (b. 1922) September 14 Rudolf Mssbauer, German Nobel physicist (b. 1929) September 19 George Cadle Price, 1st Prime Minister of Belize (b. 1919) September 20 Burhanuddin Rabbani, President of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996 (b. 1940) September 22 Aristides Pereira, 1st President of Cape Verde (b. 1923) September 25 Wangari Maathai, Kenyan veterinary anatomist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1940) September 27 Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (b. 1935) September 30 Anwar al-Awlaki, American-born terrorist and Islamist militant (b. 1971) Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian Nobel immunologist and cell biologist (b. 1943)

[edit]October

Steve Jobs

Muammar Gaddafi

October 1 Sven Tumba, Swedish hockey player (b. 1931) October 5 Steve Jobs, American computer entrepreneur (b. 1955) Charles Napier, American actor (b. 1936)

October 6 Diane Cilento, Australian actress (b. 1933) October 7 Ramiz Alia, 1st President of Albania (b. 1925) October 12 Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (b. 1941) October 16 Dan Wheldon, English racing car driver (b. 1978) October 20 Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan leader (b. 1942)

October 22 Sultan, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (b. 1930) October 23 Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician and Nobel laureate in chemistry (b. 1917) Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle road racer (b. 1987)

October 24 John McCarthy, American computer scientist (b. 1927) October 31 Flrin Albert, Hungarian footballer (b. 1941)

[edit]November November 4 Alfonso Cano, Colombian militant leader (b. 1948) November 5 Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., American Nobel physicist (b. 1915) November 7 Joe Frazier, American boxer (b. 1944) November 9 Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-born American Nobel biochemist (b. 1922) November 21 Anne McCaffrey, American writer (b. 1926) November 22 Paul Motian, American jazz drummer (b. 1931) November 25 Vasily Alekseyev, Soviet-Russian weightlifter (b. 1942) November 27 Ken Russell, British film director (b. 1927) Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and coach (b. 1969) Ante Markovi, 9th Prime Minister of SFR Yugoslavia (b. 1924) Charles Thomas Kowal, American astronomer (b. 1940)

November 28

[edit]December December 1 Christa Wolf, German writer (b. 1929) December 4 Scrates, Brazilian footballer (b. 1954) December 5 Violetta Villas, Polish singer (b. 1938) December 7 Harry Morgan, American actor (b. 1915) December 8 Sir Zelman Cowan, 19th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1919) December 14 Joe Simon, American comic book writer and artist (b. 1913) December 15 Christopher Hitchens, British-American writer (b. 1949) December 17 Cesria vora, Cape Verdean singer (b. 1941) Kim Jong-il, Supreme Leader of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (b. 1941)

December 18 Vclav Havel, Czech playwright, 10th President of Czechoslovakia and 1st President of the Czech Republic (b. 1936) December 24 Johannes Heesters, Dutch actor and singer (b. 1903) December 27 Clifford Darling, 4th Governor-General of the Bahamas (b. 1922) Helen Frankenthaler, American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1928)

[edit]Nobel

Prizes

Chemistry Dan Shechtman

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Economics Christopher A. Sims and Thomas J. Sargent Literature Tomas Transtrmer

[90]

Peace Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakel Karman Physics Saul Perlmutter, Adam G. Riess, and Brian P. Schmidt
[92]

[91]

Physiology or Medicine Bruce A. Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann, and Ralph M. Steinman

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religious holidays

January 7 (6 in Armenia) Orthodox Christmas February 1 Imbolc, a Cross-quarter day March 8 Shrove Tuesday / Mardi Gras, end of Mardi Gras / Carnival season March 9 Ash Wednesday (first day of Lent) March 20 Holi March 21 (Northern hemisphere) Vernal equinox, also known as Ostara & Persian New Year April 18 Passover begins at sundown April 24 Easter (Western and Orthodox) May 1 Beltane, a Cross-quarter day June 7 Shavuot begins August 1 Ramadan begins (Islam) Lammas, a Cross-quarter day

August 31 Eid al-Fitr September 1 Ganesh Chaturthi September 11 Anant Chaturdashi September 23 (Northern hemisphere) Autumnal equinox, also known as Mabon September 28 Rosh Hashana begins at sundown October 2 to October 6 Durga Puja October 7 Yom Kippur begins at sundown October 26 Diwali, a religious holiday in Hinduism November 6 Eid al-Adha November 26 Islamic New Year

December 20 Hanukkah begins at sundown December 25 Christmas

Key world events in 2011

PARIS: Turmoil in the Arab world, deepening crisis on financial markets, disaster in Japan and the end of the line for Osama bin Laden: here is a panorama of world events in 2011. - January 14: Confronted with a massive popular movement which unleashes unrest across the Arab world, Tunisia's authoritarian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali flees the country, after 23 years in power. The UN says some 300 have been killed in the unrest. In his absence he will be sentenced to 66 years in prison at three separate trials. - February 11: In Egypt, with massive crowds filling the central Tahrir Square in Cairo, leaderHosni Mubarak becomes the next Arab leader to step down, and hands over power to the military. Nearly 850 civilians are killed in the revolt. Mubarak, who had been in power since 1981, goes on trial in August. - February 14: In the latest country to join what is dubbed the Arab Spring, Bahrain sees protests calling for political reforms. Saudi Arabia sends troops, and the protests are crushed by mid-March. Around 30 people die during the repression. - February 15-16: A rebellion erupts in Benghazi, Libya's second-biggest city against the 42year-old regime of Moamer Kadhafi. On March 19, French, US and British forces launch UN-mandated air strikes, before handing over command to NATO on March 31. The opposition creates the National Transitional Council, which is recognised by the UN and over 60 countries. - February 22: In New Zealand's city of Christchurch a devastating 6.3 temblor kills just over 200 people. - February 26: Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen becomes the first political victim of the financial crisis rattling the eurozone after his ruling Fianna Fail party is crushed by voters angry over the economy and an EU-IMF bailout. He is followed out of office in March by Portuguesepremier Jose Socrates. - March 11: A massive earthquake and tsunami devastates northeastern Japan, leaving 20,000 people dead or missing and unleashing a nuclear crisis at the Fukushima plant, the

worst since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. - March 15: Syria becomes the next Arab country to face popular protests, which are heavily put down by the security forces. More than 4,000 people die in months of unrest, according to the UN. The regime of President Bashar al-Assad faces international pressure over the repression and Syria is later suspended from the Arab League. - April 11: Troops loyal to Ivory Coast leader Alassane Ouattara capture his besieged rival Laurent Gbagbo in Abidjan after a disputed election. In November Gbagbo is transferred to theInternational Criminal Court. - April 29: Britain's Prince William and his bride Kate Middleton marry with huge crowds and a global TV audience watching Britain's biggest royal celebration for three decades. They become the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. - May 1: The Vatican confers "blessed" status -- one step from full sainthood -- on the late popeJohn Paul II at a solemn ceremony. - May 2: Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, believed responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, is shot dead by US commandos in Pakistan after a 10-year manhunt. - May 14: IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a high-profile figure in French politics and global economics, resigns and faces trial after being accused of a sexual assault on a maid in his hotel suite in New York. The charges are later dismissed, but his presidential ambitions are ruined. - May 17: The start of anti-capitalism demonstrations in Spain. They spread to Britain and theUnited States via Chile, with tens of thousands demonstrating around the world on October 15. - May 26: Serbia arrests Europe's most wanted man Bosnian Serb wartime army commander Ratko Mladic. He is transferred to the UN's warcrimes court in the Hague. - June 22: US President Barack Obama decides to bring 33,000 US surge troops home from Afghanistan by mid-2012. On July 17 Afghanistan begins handing responsibility for security from NATO soldiers to its own troops. - July 9: South Sudan proclaims independence after a January referendum in which almost 99 percent voted in favour of secession. The new country becomes the UN's 193rd member state. - July 21: The US space shuttle Atlantis cruises home for a final time closing a 30-year

chapter in American space exploration, in which two shuttles -- Challenger and Columbia -were lost in accidents with the death of 14 astronauts. - July 21: Eurozone leaders agree on a second bailout for Greece worth 159 billion euros ($215 billion) in a bid to prevent the country from going bankrupt and contagion setting in in the EUcurrency zone. - July 22: 77 poeple are killed in massive twin bombing and shooting spree by a right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik in Norway. He is later judged insane. - August 2: After a weeks-long battle, the US Congress agrees on a massive austerity plan and raising the US debt ceiling. On August 6 Standard and Poor's cuts the US credit rating from its top-flight triple-A for the first time in history, amid concerns over the country's deficit and debt. - August 4: The police shooting of a 29-year-old black man in Tottenham, north London, provokes rioting in the capital and beyond. Across England, five people are killed and hundreds of shops looted, with some set alight. - September 20: Burhanuddin Rabbani, Afghanistan's former president tasked with finding a peace deal with the Taliban, is assassinated in a turban suicide attack. - September 23: Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas unsuccessfully asks the United Nations to admit the state of Palestine. On October 31, however, Palestinians win entry to UNESCO, prompting the US to cut the organisation's funding. - October 7: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian "peace warrior" Leymah Gbowee, and Yemen's Arab Spring activist Tawakkul Karman win the Nobel Peace Prize. - October 20: Toppled Libyan leader Kadhafi is killed after forces from the country's new rulers seize his hometown of Sirte after a seven-month-long campaign. On October 23, the new rulers declare that Libya has been liberated. - October 21: US President Barack Obama announces that US forces, numbering around 39,000, will be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of the year after a nearly nine-year campaign and 4,400 casualties. - October 23: More than 600 die in a devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake in eastern Turkey. - October 23: The moderate Islamists of the Ennahda party win 89 of the 217 seats in Tunisia's new constituent assembly.

- October 27: European Union leaders reach a ground-breaking deal to save the bloc's single currency, including a new rescue of Greece, a trillion-euro bailout fund, and cut a deal squeezing banks to share the burden of the two-year debt crisis. - October 31: The world's population passes the seven billion mark. - November 6: Greek Socialist Prime Minister George Papandreou agrees to stand down amid a crippling debt crisis. He is succeeded by vice-president of the European Central Bank Lucas Papademos. - November 7: Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray is found guilty of involuntary manslaughter over the King of Pop's 2009 death. He is later sentenced to a maximum four years behind bars. - November 8: The UN atomic watchdog says in a report it has "serious concerns" about Iran's nuclear activities, and has "credible" information Tehran may have worked on developing atomic weapons, prompting the West to reinforce sanctions against the Islamic republic. - November 12: Silvio Berlusconi becomes the latest leader to lose his job over the eurozone financial crisis, resigning amid Italy's 1,900-billion-euro debt burden. He is replaced by technocrat Mario Monti, who vows to balance the Italian budget by 2013. - November: The death toll from Thailand's worst floods in decades jumps to at least 666. The floods damage millions of homes and livelihoods. - November 19: Start of a week of clashes in Egypt between police and demonstrators opposed to the military regime that will leave 42 dead. As during the revolution that ousted Mubarak, the unrest centres on Tahrir Square. - November 23: In another development in the Arab Spring, after months of deadly clashes Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to hand over his powers after 33 years in office. - November 26: The US space agency's Curiosity rover blasts off on a nearly nine-month journey to Mars where it will search for signs that life once existed on the Red Planet. - November 29: Britain's embassy in Tehran is attacked by protesters angry at fresh sanctions against Tehran's nuclear programme. Britain expels Iranian diplomats and shuts its embassy in response. - November 30: Political parties in Belgium, which has been without a government for 535 days, agree on the blueprint of a ruling coalition to be headed by French-speaking Socialist

Elio Di Rupo. - December 4: Islamists trounce their liberal rivals in the opening phase of Egypt's first election since the fall of Mubarak, with one in four voters choosing hardline Salafists. - December 5: France and Germany call for a rewrite of the EU treaty to set uniform tough budget standards across the eurozone, as S&P threatens sweeping ratings downgrades if they fail to act to end the eurozone debt crisis.