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{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Events by month|2011|prefix=Portal:Current events/}} {{Year dab}} {{pp-move|small=yes}} {{Multiple images | total_width = 300 | perrow = 3/3/3 | image1 = We Are The 99%.jpg | image2 = Free libya from Gaddafi (5510126745).jpg | image3 = South Sudan Independence Celebration (5963420792).jpg | image4 = SH-60B helicopter flies over Sendai.jpg | image5 = | image6 = Oslo view of city after July 2011 bombing.jpg | image7 = Obama and Biden await updates on bin Laden.jpg | image8 = Tahrir Square on February11.png | footer = '''Clockwise from top to bottom left-right:''' *a protester partaking in [[Occupy Wall Street]] heralds the beginning of the [[Occupy movement]]; *protests against Libyan dictator [[Muammar Gaddafi]], who [[Assassination of Muammar Gaddafi|was killed]] that October; *a young man celebrates the [[2011 South Sudanese independence referendum|independence]] of [[South Sudan]], the world's newest country; *the [[2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami|Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami]] devastates Eastern Japan and kills nearly 20,000 people, becoming the most expensive natural disaster on record; *''[[Minecraft]]'' is released, which would go on to become the [[List of best-selling video games|best-selling video game]] of all time; *the [[2011 Norway attacks|Norway attacks]] mark the rise of [[Right-wing terrorism|white supremacist terrorism]] across the west; *the U.S. national security team gathered in the [[White House Situation Room]] to monitor the progress of [[Operation Neptune Spear]] which resulted in the death of [[Al-Qaeda]] leader [[Osama bin Laden]]; *anti-government protests called the [[Arab Spring]] arose in early 2011, and as a result, many governments were overthrown in the [[Middle East]] and [[Northern Africa]], which lead to the [[Arab Winter]]. }} {{Year nav|2011}} {{Year in various calendars|year=2011}} {{C21 year in topic}} {{Year article header|2011}} The year marked the start of a [[Arab Spring|series of protests and revolutions]] throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen, and in some cases sparking civil wars such as the [[Syrian civil war]] and the [[Libyan civil war (2011)|first Libyan civil war]], the former still ongoing while the latter gave way to the [[Libyan civil war (2014–2020)|second Libyan civil war]]. U.S. Navy SEALs [[Killing of Osama bin Laden|killed]] al-Qaeda leader and terrorist [[Osama bin Laden]] in his [[Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad|compound]] in Pakistan on May 2. The [[Curiosity (rover)|Curiosity]] rover, which was to land on Mars in August of the following year, launched from Cape Canaveral on November 26. In December, North Korean leader [[Kim Jong Il]], who had been the supreme leader of North Korea since the death of his father [[Kim Il Sung]] in 1994, [[Death and state funeral of Kim Jong Il|died]] while traveling by train to a place outside Pyongyang. He was succeeded by his son [[Kim Jong Un]]. 2011 was designated as: *[[International Year of Forests]] *[[International Year of Chemistry]]<ref>{{cite web|title=United Nations Observances|url=https://www.un.org/en/events/observances/|publisher=United Nations|access-date=July 5, 2012|archive-date=April 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404042914/https://www.un.org/en/events/observances|url-status=live}}</ref> *[[International Year for People of African Descent]] In 2011, the nation of [[Samoa]] only had 364 days as it moved across the International Date Line skipping [[December 30]], 2011; it is now 24 hours ahead of American Samoa.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metro.co.uk/news/862729-samoa-to-change-time-zones-and-move-forward-by-a-day|title=Samoa to change time zones and move forward by a day|publisher=Metro |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110906164240/http://www.metro.co.uk/news/862729-samoa-to-change-time-zones-and-move-forward-by-a-day |archive-date=2011-09-06 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/samoa-to-move-the-international-dateline/story-e6frf7jx-1226051660380|title=Samoa to move the International Dateline|publisher=Herald Sun|access-date=December 31, 2020|archive-date=July 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160706170552/http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/samoa-to-move-the-international-dateline/story-e6frf7jx-1226051660380|url-status=dead}}</ref> {{TOC limit|}}
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