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- The
world's longest borehole, at 12,345 meters (40,502 ft) long, is drilled off the coast of the
Russian island
Sakhalin.
[1]
-
Hashim Thaçi remains Prime Minister of
Kosovo after the
Democratic Party wins
an election in the
disputed territory.
[2]
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Marouf Bakhit is appointed the new
Prime Minister of
Jordan in a cabinet reshuffle by
Abdullah II of Jordan, following
mass protests.
[3]
-
President of Egypt
Hosni Mubarak (pictured) announces he will not run for re-election after
political unrest in the country.
[4]
- British composer
John Barry, known for writing the music to 11 films in the
James Bond series dies at the age of 77.
[5]
-
Cyclone Yasi, the strongest cyclone to hit Australia in generations, makes landfall near
Innisfail,
Queensland.
[6]
-
IANA allocates the
last free blocks of
IPv4 internet addresses to the
regional Internet registries. Transition to the next generation internet protocol
IPv6 is in progress.
[7]
- Thousands
protest in
Sana'a, the capital of
Yemen, after
Ali Abdullah Saleh (pictured) announces he will step down in 2013.
[8]
- NASA's
Kepler mission releases preliminary results that indicate over 1,200 candidate
extrasolar planets, 54 of which are located in the
habitable zone.
[9]
- The
Prime Minister of
Burma,
Thein Sein is named the new
President of the country, following the
2010 general election.
[10]
- After seven months of political gridlock,
Jhala Nath Khanal is elected
Prime Minister of
Nepal by the country's
Parliament.
[11]
- The
International Cricket Council
bans
Pakistani cricketers
Salman Butt,
Mohammad Asif, and
Mohammad Amir for five years for
spot-fixing.
[12]
- Explosion of the
Arab Gas Pipeline in
Egypt's
North Sinai Governorate suspends
natural gas supplies to
Israel and
Jordan.
[13]
- The
Japan Sumo Association cancels a
Grand Tournament for the first time in 65 years after a
match-fixing controversy.
[14]
- In
American football, the
Green Bay Packers defeat the
Pittsburgh Steelers to win
Super Bowl XLV.
[15]
- A new
round of clashes erupts between
Cambodian and
Thai soldiers over the area surrounding
Preah Vihear Temple.
[16]
-
NASA's
STEREO probes produce the first ever
3D images of the entire surface of the
Sun.
[17]
- After two weeks of protests across
Egypt, the largest crowd
gathers in
Tahrir Square amid renewed calls for
President
Hosni Mubarak's resignation.
[18]
- After more than two weeks of
protests across
Egypt (protesters pictured),
President
Hosni Mubarak resigns.
[19]
-
Anti-government protests are held across
Algeria.
[20]
- Anti-government protests are held in
Algeria (pictured) and
Yemen amid
similar protests across the
Arab world.
[21]
- The discovery of a
3.2 million years-old bone of the species
Australopithecus afarensis that indicates the human walk upward is announced.
[22]
-
The King's Speech wins seven awards, including
best film, at the
64th British Academy Film Awards.
[23]
-
Lady Antebellum wins five
Grammy Awards including
Record of the Year, while
Arcade Fire wins
Album of the Year in the
53rd Grammy Awards.
[24]
- Anti-government protests are held in
Algeria,
Bahrain and
Yemen amid
similar protests across the
Arab world.
[25]
-
Italian
Prime Minister
Silvio Berlusconi is
indicted for
allegedly hiring an under-age prostitute.
[26]
-
Chevron is
fined $8.6 billion for
Texaco's pollution of the
Amazon region of
Ecuador over a twenty-year period.
[27]
- Chinese
Railways Minister
Liu Zhijun undergoes investigation for corruption after being sacked as ministry party chief.
[28]
- Anti-government protests are held in
Algeria,
Bahrain,
Iran and
Yemen.
[29]
- The
People's Republic of China
overtakes
Japan as the world's
second-largest economy by nominal
GDP.
[30]
-
NASA probe
Stardust flies by the
comet
Tempel 1, capturing images of the crater formed by the
Deep Impact mission.
[31]
- Anti-government protests are held in
Algeria,
Bahrain,
Iran,
Libya and
Yemen.
[32]
-
IBM's
artificial intelligence program
Watson wins on the American quiz show
Jeopardy! against two of the show's most prolific contestants.
[33]
- In
Operation Power Outage, conducted by the U.S. Eurasian Organized Crime Task Force, 74 members of the criminal organization
Armenian Power are arrested in
Southern California.
[34]
-
Belgium
breaks the record for the longest time any country has been without a government.
[35]
- Authorities open fire on demonstrators in
Libya and
Bahrain amid
continuing protests across the
Arab world.
[36]
- The Iranian film
Nader and Simin, A Separation, directed by
Asghar Farhadi (pictured), wins the
Golden Bear at the
61st Berlin International Film Festival.
[37]
- In
stock car racing,
Trevor Bayne
becomes the youngest person to ever win the
Daytona 500.
[38]
- The
Libyan protests spread to the capital
Tripoli as hundreds of protesters are reported dead.
[39]
- A 6.3 magnitude
earthquake hits the
Canterbury region of New Zealand and the city of
Christchurch in particular, causing major damage and at least 65 deaths.
[40]
-
Behgjet Pacolli is elected
President of the
Republic of Kosovo.
[41]
- An Indian court convicts thirty-one people of perpetrating the 2002
Godhra train burning, which led to
rioting in
Gujarat.
[42]
-
STS-133, the final flight of
Space Shuttle Discovery, launches from
Kennedy Space Center.
[43]
-
Algeria
lifts its 19-year-old
state of emergency amid widespread
protests in the country.
[44]
-
Russia launches the first
GLONASS-K satellite, intended as part of the
GLONASS
global navigation satellite system.
[45]
- The
U.N. Security Council refers
Libya to the
International Criminal Court and imposes
sanctions amid
crackdowns on anti-government protesters.
[46]
- Protests are held after
Friday prayers in
Iraq,
Yemen,
Tunisia,
Egypt,
Jordan and
Bahrain amid continuing
turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa.
[47]
-
Fine Gael win a
plurality in the
Irish
general election.
[48]
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The King's Speech wins four
Academy Awards, including
Best Picture.
[49]
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Beji Caid el Sebsi becomes
Prime Minister of Tunisia after
Mohamed Ghannouchi resigned amid
ongoing protests.
[50]
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