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Mayotte officially became
France's 101st department, as approved by 95% of the population in a
2009 referendum.
[1]
- At least eleven people are killed in
an attack by demonstrators on a
UN compound in
Mazar-i-Sharif,
Afghanistan.
[2]
-
Arturo Chávez resigns as
Mexico's
Attorney General amid the ongoing
Drug War.
[3]
-
India defeat
Sri Lanka by 6 wickets in the
Cricket World Cup
final.
[4]
- Japan's
Monkashō announces that it had found evidence of match
fixing in the
Japanese Sumo Association.
[5]
- A series of
floods that began in
Southern Thailand kill at least 120 people and affect nearly two million.
[6]
- Double
suicide bombings at a
Sufi shrine in
Dera Ghazi Khan,
Pakistan leave 50 people dead and 120 wounded.
[7]
- The wreckage of
Air France Flight 447 which disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean in 2009 is found.
[8]
- In
college basketball, The
University of Connecticut Huskies defeats
Butler University to win the
NCAA Championship.
[9]
- A
United Nations aircraft
crashes in
Kinshasa,
Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 32 of the 33 people onboard.
[10]
- Bones of a
new dinosaur almost as big as a
Tyrannosaurus are found in eastern
China.
[11]
- The
Democrats for Andorra win an absolute majority in a
parliamentary election.
[12]
- The
Ozone layer experienced the highest level of depletion on record as result of cold temperatures in the
Northern Hemisphere last winter.
[13]
- At least 20 people are dead and over 100 missing after a
boat sinks off
Lampedusa,
Italy.
[14]
-
Baruch Samuel Blumberg, the 1976
Nobel Prize for Medicine winner and discoverer of the first vaccine for
Hepatitis B, dies at the age of 85.
[15]
- At least 11 people are killed and 20 more injured in
a shooting at a school in
Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil.
[16]
- The
Chinese government announces that artist and dissident
Ai Weiwei has been arrested.
[17]
-
Indian social activist
Anna Hazare fasts until the Indian government passes stronger
anti-corruption laws.
[18]
- At least 27 people are killed in the
anti-governmental protests in the
Syrian city of
Deraa.
[19]
- A gunman
opens fire in a shopping centre in
Alphen aan den Rijn,
Netherlands, killing himself and 7 others.
[20]
- American film director
Sydney Lumet dies at the age of 86.
[21]
- In
golf, South African
Charl Schwartzel wins
The Masters.
[22]
-
Laurent Gbagbo is arrested by
Ouattara forces, concluding months of
standoff.
[23]
- Iceland
rejects a plan to repay the British and Dutch governments over
guarantee savings over
Icesave's
failure.
[24]
- The
Japan Atomic Energy Agency raises the severity of the
Fukushima I nuclear accidents to level 7, the highest on the
International Nuclear Event Scale and equivalent to the
Chernobyl disaster.
[25]
- At least 12 people are killed in a
bombing at a metro station in
Minsk.
[26]
- The
French ban on face covering is implemented, making
France the first European country with such a ban.
[27]
-
BRICS states meet in
Sanya,
China for an annual
summit that features
South Africa for the first time.
[28]
- Former
Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak and his sons
Alaa and
Gamal are
detained for 15 days following the
revolution.
[29]
-
APNIC becomes the first
regional Internet registry to
run out of IPv4 addresses.
[30]
-
States of emergency are declared in several areas across the
Southern United States after at least 26 people are killed in a large
tornado outbreak.
[31]
- Former Croatian general
Ante Gotovina is sentenced to 24 years prison after being found guilty of war crimes during
Operation Storm.
[32]
- An
Egyptian court orders the dissolution of the former ruling
National Democratic Party of
Hosni Mubarak (pictured) as part of
overall political reform.
[33]
- The
National Coalition Party, led by
Jyrki Katainen, win a plurality in the
Finnish
parliamentary election, while the nationalist
True Finns increase their vote nearly five-fold to become the third largest party in parliament.
[34]
-
Fidel Castro resigns from the
Communist Party of Cuba's central committee.
[35]
-
President
Goodluck Jonathan pictured, of
Nigeria is
reelected with a majority of more than ten million.
[36]
-
Jennifer Egan's novel
A Visit From the Goon Squad wins the 2011
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
[37]
-
Syria
lifts its 48-year-old state of emergency in response to
anti-government protests.
[38]
- The
Sukhoi Superjet 100 regional airliner performs its first commercial flight.
[39]
- Photographers
Tim Hetherington and
Chris Hondros are killed in the
Battle of Misrata in
Libya.
[40]
- At least 50 people are reported killed in the biggest day of
protests in
Syria this year.
[41]
-
Indian
guru and spiritual figure
Sathya Sai Baba dies at the age of 84.
[42]
- After four months of
anti-government protests,
Yemeni President
Ali Abdullah Saleh
agrees to step down within thirty days.
[43]
- In
association football, the
Copa del Rey ends with
Real Madrid defeating
Barcelona in
the final.
[44]
-
WikiLeaks and several news organizations begin publishing
779 secret documents related to detainees at
Guantanamo Bay.
[45]
-
Violence continues along the
Cambodian–
Thai border with shelling and gunfire outside the Ta Moan temple complex.
[46]
- Former
South Vietnamese First Lady
Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu dies at the age of 87.
[47]
-
Sony announces that a
breach of its
PlayStation Network may have resulted in a compromise of users' personal data.
[48]
- Rival
Palestinian factions
Hamas and
Fatah
sign a deal to form a unity government ahead of
elections.
[49]
- More than 200 people are killed in the
Southern United States in the
deadliest tornado outbreak since 1974.
[50]
-
The wedding of
Prince William of Wales and
Kate Middleton takes place in
London.
[51]
-
Canadian
figure skater
Patrick Chan wins the
2011 World Figure Skating Men's event in
Moscow, setting record scores for long and short program.
[52]
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