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Clockwise from top-left: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrates the independence of South Sudan, the world's newest country; the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami devastates Eastern Japan and ...
January 8: 2011 Tucson shooting – US Rep. Gabby Giffords is among 14 injured; 6 others are killed. January 31 – February 2: Groundhog Day blizzard – Satellite image of the storm on the evening of February 1 over the American Midwest. January 3.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Films of the United States, 2011. American films of 2011 at IMDb. List of 2011 box office number-one films in the United States. Categories: 2011 in American cinema. Lists of 2011 films by country. Lists of American films by year.
The United Nations designated 2011 the International Year of Forests and International Year of Chemistry. The 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, which struck Japan in March, triggered numerous tsunami warnings, killed over 15,000 people and caused massive damage in Japan.
U.S. Navy SEALs killed Al-Qaeda leader and terrorist Osama bin Laden in his compound in Pakistan on May 2. The Curiosity rover, which was to land on Mars in August of the following year, launched from Cape Canaveral on November 26.
The following is an overview of the events of 2011 in film, including the highest-grossing films, film festivals, award ceremonies and a list of films released and notable deaths. More film sequels were released in 2011 than any other year before it, with 27 sequels released.
Wikipedia:2011. This page is a chronology of events in year 2011 directly related to Wikipedia and Wikipedians, both within Wikipedia and in the whole wide world. Wikipedia events and events in sister projects ( Wiktionary, Wikibooks, etc.) are listed as long as they are related to Wikipedia.
