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* July 1
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* August 1 – The United States Congress votes on a deal to resolve the United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2011, United States debt-ceiling crisis with the House of Representatives passing it. U.S. Rep.
President Obama punts to earlier time against NFL game after caving to GOP of televised jobs speech.
''New York Daily News, 9/1/2011. * September 11 ** The National September 11 Memorial & Museum, 9/11 National Memorial & Museum in New York City opens; the ceremony commemorates the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, 9/11 attacks. ** In tennis, Samantha Stosur of Australia wins the 2011 US Open – Women's Singles, Women's Singles in the 2011 US Open (tennis), 2011 US Open defeating
* October 1 – 700 people are arrested while attempting to cross the Brooklyn Bridge during the Occupy Wall Street movement.
* October 3
** Amanda Knox is released from Italian prison following a successful appeal of her murder conviction.
** The U.S. Supreme Court announces that it won't hear a Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc., much-noted dispute on the width of the "first sale" doctrine in copyright law. The Supreme Court denied Vernor's petition for certiorari – the action affirms the lower court of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit which held that when the transfer of software to the purchaser materially resembled a sale it was, in fact, not a "sale with restrictions on use", giving rise to no right to resell the copy under the first-sale doctrine. As such, Autodesk could pursue an action for copyright infringement against Vernor, who sought to resell used versions of its software on eBay. The Ninth Circuit's decision means that the policy considerations involved in the case might affect motion pictures and libraries as well as sales of used software. The net effect of the Ninth Circuit's ruling (and now the Supreme Court's) is to limit the "You bought it, you own it" principle asserted by such organizations who would like to resell items.
** American cell phone service provider Sprint Nextel reportedly pays $20 billion for rights to Apple Inc., Apple's next iPhone 4S, mobile phone.
* October 4
** In basketball, the North American National Basketball Association cancels the remainder of the preseason due to the 2011 NBA lockout, with cancellation of games in the 2011–12 NBA season, regular season occurring if the lockout continues for another week.
** Voters in the U.S. state of
* November 4 – After announcing his retirement on September 27, Andy Rooney dies at the age of 92.
* November 7 – Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant coach for the Pennsylvania State University, Penn State University football team, is arrested on nearly 40 counts of molesting eight boys over a 15-year period. The charges come following a grand jury investigation, which also alleges attempts to cover up the incidents and failure to report the incidents to law enforcement. In the days following the report, longtime coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier (already heavily criticized for alleged inaction) are fired.
* November 8 – Election Day
** Republican Phil Bryant wins the Mississippi gubernatorial election, 2011, 2011 Mississippi Gubernatorial election.
** Voters in
* December 2 – The U.S. unemployment rate falls to 8.6% – the lowest since early 2009.
* December 7 – Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption and trying to sell
* January 1
** Charles Fambrough, musician and composer (b. 1950 in the United States, 1950)
** Billy Joe Patton, amateur golfer (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
* January 2
** William R. Ratchford, William Richard Ratchford, U.S. Representative from Connecticut from 1979 to 1985 (b. 1934 in the United States, 1934)
** Anne Francis, actress (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
** Peter Hobbs (actor), Peter Hobbs, French-born American actor (b. 1918 in France, 1918)
** Richard Winters, World War II soldier (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
* January 5 – John Ertle Oliver, geophysicist (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
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* February 3 – LeRoy Grannis, surfing photographer (b. 1917 in the United States, 1917)
* February 4 – Tura Satana, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1938 in Japan, 1938)
* February 5 – Peggy Rea, actress (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
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* April 1 – Lou Gorman, baseball manager (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
* April 2
** Larry Finch, college basketball player and coach (b. 1951 in the United States, 1951)
** John C. Haas, chemical engineer (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
** Bill Varney, film sound editor (b. 1934 in the United States, 1934)
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* May 1
** Steven A. Orszag, mathematician (b. 1943 in the United States, 1943)
** William O. Taylor II, journalist (b. 1932 in the United States, 1932)
** J. Ernest Wilkins Jr., nuclear physicist (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
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* July 1 – Bud Grant (broadcaster), Bud Grant, television producer (b. 1934 in the United States, 1934)
* July 4
** Wes Covington, baseball player (b. 1932 in the United States, 1932)
** William G. Thrash, general in the United States Marine Corps (b. 1916 in the United States, 1916)
* July 5 – Armen Gilliam, basketball player (b. 1964 in the United States, 1964)
* July 6 – John Mackey (American football), John Mackey, American football player (b. 1941 in the United States, 1941)
* July 7
** Humberto Leal Garcia Jr., murderer, died in Huntsville, Texas (b. 1973 in Mexico)
** Dick Williams, baseball player and manager (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
* July 8
** Roberts Blossom, actor (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
** William R. Corliss, physicist (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
** Sam Denoff, television writer and producer (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
** Pete Duranko, American football player (b. 1943 in the United States, 1943)
** Betty Ford, wife of Gerald Ford (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
* July 10 – Deacon Turner, American football player (b. 1955 in the United States, 1955)
* July 11
** Tom Gehrels, Dutch-born American astronomer (b. 1925 in the Netherlands)
** Rob Grill, singer-songwriter and bass player (born 1943 in the United States, 1943)
* July 12
** Ame Deal, murder victim (b. 2000 in the United States, 2000)
** Leiby Kletzky, murder victim (b. 2002 in the United States, 2002)
** Sherwood Schwartz, television writer and producer (b. 1916 in the United States, 1916)
* July 13 – Jerry Ragovoy, songwriter and producer (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
* July 14 – Noel Gayler, World War II naval aviator, admiral and bureaucrat (b. 1914 in the United States, 1914)
* July 15
** Cornell MacNeil, operatic baritone (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
** John S. Toll, physicist and college administrator (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
* July 17
** Jim Kincaid, television news correspondent (b. 1934 in the United States, 1934)
** Alex Steinweiss, album cover artist (b. 1917 in the United States, 1917)
* July 18
** Nat Allbright, sports commentator (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
** Rudiger D. Haugwitz, German-born American chemist (b. 1932 in Germany, 1932)
** Edson Stroll, actor (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
* July 21
** Franz Alt (mathematician), Franz Alt, mathematician (b. 1910 in Austria)
** Elliot Handler, businessman (b. 1916 in the United States, 1916)
** Harold J. Kosasky, Canadian-born American physician (b. c. 1928 in Canada, 1928)
** Bruce Sundlun, 71st Governor of Rhode Island from 1991 to 1995 (b. 1920 in the United States, 1920)
* July 22
** Tom Aldredge, actor (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
** Linda Christian, Mexican-born American actress, first Bond girl and wife of Tyrone Power (b. 1923 in Mexico)
** Charles Taylor Manatt, lawyer and political party leader (b. 1936 in the United States, 1936)
* July 23
** Robert Ettinger, academic, writer and father of cryonics (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
** John Shalikashvili, Polish-born American 13th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (b. 1936 in Poland, 1936)
** Elmer B. Staats, 5th Comptroller General of the United States from 1966 to 1981 (b. 1914 in the United States, 1914)
* July 24
** Dan Peek, singer (b. 1950 in the United States, 1950)
** G. D. Spradlin, actor (b. 1920 in the United States, 1920)
** Skip Thomas, American football player (b. 1950 in the United States, 1950)
* July 26 – Elmer Lower, television journalist and executive (b. 1913 in the United States, 1913)
* July 27
** Hideki Irabu, Japanese and American baseball player (b. 1969 in Japan)
** Jerome Liebling, photographer and film producer (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
** Polly Platt, film producer, wife of Peter Bogdanovich (b. 1939 in the United States, 1939)
* July 28 – John Marburger, physicist (b. 1941 in the United States, 1941)
* July 29
** John E. Anderson, John Edward Anderson, businessman (b. 1917 in the United States, 1917)
** Max Harry Weil, physician (b. 1927 in Switzerland)
* July 30 – Daniel D. McCracken, computer scientist (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
* August 2
** Baruj Benacerraf, Nobel immunologist (b. 1920 in Venezuela)
** James Ford Seale, murderer (b. 1935 in the United States, 1935)
* August 3
** Ray Patterson (basketball), Ray Patterson, basketball executive (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
** Bubba Smith, American football player (b. 1945 in the United States, 1945)
* August 4 – Sherman White (basketball), Sherman White, American college basketball player and convicted City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal, game fixer (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
* August 5 – Francesco Quinn, actor, son of Anthony Quinn (b. 1963 in Italy)
* August 6
** Bernadine Healy, physician (b. 1944 in the United States, 1944)
** Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and first woman to attend Harvard Medical School, died in Quezon City, Philippines (b. 1911 in the Philippines, 1911)
** John W. Ryan, college administrator (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
* August 7
** Hugh Carey, 51st Governor of New York from 1975 to 1982 (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
** Charles C. Edwards, physician (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
** Mark Hatfield, 29th governor of Oregon from 1959 to 1967 (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
** Paul Meier (statistician), Paul Meier, mathematician (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
** Charles Wyly, businessman (b. 1933 in the United States, 1933)
* August 8 – Harry Hillel Wellington, lawyer and college administrator (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
* August 11
** Don Chandler, American football player (b. 1934 in the United States, 1934)
** George Devol, first Unimate, industrial robot inventor (b. 1912 in the United States, 1912)
* August 12
** Ernie Johnson (pitcher), Ernie Johnson, baseball player (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
** Charles P. Murray Jr., World War II soldier (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
* August 14 – Fritz Bach, Fritz H. Bach, physician (b. 1934 in Austria)
* August 16 – Pete Pihos, American football player (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
* August 18
** Maurice M. Rapport, neuroscience biochemist (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
** Scotty Robertson, basketball coach (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
** Jerome J. Shestack, lawyer (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
* August 20
** Reza Badiyi, Iranian-born American television director (b. 1930 in Iran, 1930)
** Risk factor#History, William B. Kannel, physician (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
** William I. Wolff, physician and Colonoscopy co-developer (b. 1916 in the United States, 1916)
* August 22
** Nickolas Ashford, singer (b. 1942 in the United States, 1942)
** Jerry Leiber, songwriter (b. 1933 in the United States, 1933)
** Sanford H. Winston, World War II soldier (b. 1920 in the United States, 1920)
* August 24 – Mike Flanagan (baseball), Mike Flanagan, baseball player and manager (b. 1951 in the United States, 1951)
* August 26
** Patrick C. Fischer, computer scientist and Unabomber target (b. 1935 in the United States, 1935)
** Donn A. Starry, soldier (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
* August 27 – Keith Tantlinger, mechanical engineer (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
* August 29
** Pauline Morrow Austin, meteorologist (b. 1916 in the United States, 1916)
** David P. Reynolds, businessman (b. 1915 in the United States, 1915)
* September 3 – Don Fambrough, American college football coach (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
* September 4 – Lee Roy Selmon, American football player (b. 1954 in the United States, 1954)
* September 5 – Charles S. Dubin, television director (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
* September 6
** Bruce B. Dan, physician (b. 1946 in the United States, 1946)
** Michael S. Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg (b. 1947 in the United States, 1947)
** Malcolm Prine, baseball executive (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
* September 10 – Cliff Robertson, film actor (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
* September 13
** John Calley, film studio executive (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
** Sam DeLuca, American football player (b. 1936 in the United States, 1936)
* September 14 – Malcolm Wallop, Senator for Wyoming (b. 1933 in the United States, 1933)
* September 15
** Frances Bay, Canadian film and television actress, died in Tarzana, California (b. 1919 in Canada, 1919)
** Bill Taylor (baseball), Bill Taylor, baseball player (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
* September 16 – Dave Gavitt, basketball coach and administrator (b. 1937 in the United States, 1937)
* September 17
** Julius Blank, mechanical engineer (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
** Charles H. Percy, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1967 to 1985 (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
* September 18
** Bayless Manning, lawyer and college administrator (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
** Suicide of Jamey Rodemeyer, Jamey Rodemeyer, suicide victim (b. 1997 in the United States, 1997)
* September 19
** Thomas Capano, murderer (b. 1949 in the United States, 1949)
** Dolores Hope, singer, wife of Bob Hope (b. 1909 in the United States, 1909)
* September 20 – Oscar Handlin, historian (b. 1915 in the United States, 1915)
* September 21
** Troy Davis, murderer (b. 1968 in the United States, 1968)
** Michael Julian Drake, astronomer (b. 1946 in the United States, 1946)
* September 22 – John H. Dick, basketball player and U.S. Navy admiral (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
* September 23
** Orlando Brown Sr. (American football), Orlando Brown Sr., American football player and successful litigant against the National Football League (b. 1970 in the United States, 1970)
** Danny Litwhiler, baseball player and college coach (b. 1916 in the United States, 1916)
* September 24
** Richard Koch (developmental disability physician), Richard Koch, physician, advocate for phenylketonuria neonate screening (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
** Tony Knap, American football coach (b. 1914 in the United States, 1914)
* September 26
** David Zelag Goodman, film screenwriter (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
** Jerry Haynes, television actor (b. 1927 in the United States, 1927)
* September 27
** Wilson Greatbatch, electrical engineer and the inventor of the implantable cardiac pacemaker (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
** Fritz Manes, film producer (b. 1932 in the United States, 1932)
* September 28 – Claude R. Kirk Jr., 36th governor of Florida from 1967 to 1971 (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
* September 30 –
** Anwar al-Awlaki, terrorist, died in al-Jawf Governorate, Yemen (b. 1971 in the United States, 1971)
** Lee Davenport, physicist (b. 1915 in the United States, 1915)
** Peter Gent, American football player and writer (b. 1942 in the United States, 1942)
** Mike Heimerdinger, American football coach, died in Mexico (b. 1952 in the United States, 1952)
** Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian Nobel immunologist, died in New York City (b. 1943 in Canada)
** Marv Tarplin, guitarist and songwriter (b. 1941 in the United States, 1941)
* October 1 – J. Willis Hurst, physician (b. 1920 in the United States, 1920)
* October 2 – Don Lapre, conartist (b. 1964 in the United States, 1964)
* October 3
** George Harrison (swimmer), George Harrison, swimmer (b. 1939 in the United States, 1939)
** Aden Meinel, astronomer (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
* October 4
** Joseph R. Aceti, television sports director (b. 1935 in the United States, 1935)
** Doris Belack, actress (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
** Kenneth H. Dahlberg, World War II pilot (b. 1917 in the United States, 1917)
* October 5
** Derrick Bell, lawyer and college administrator (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
** Steve Jobs, computer engineer (b. 1955 in the United States, 1955)
** Charles Napier (actor), Charles Napier, actor (b. 1936 in the United States, 1936)
** Fred Shuttlesworth, minister (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
* October 6 – William S. Dietrich II, executive (b. 1938 in the United States, 1938)
* October 7
** Paul Kent (actor), Paul Kent, actor (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
** Andrew Laszlo, film cinematographer (b. 1926 in Hungary)
** Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Colombian businessman, died in New York City (b. 1919 in Columbia)
** Mildred Savage, author (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
* October 8
** Al Davis, American football executive (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
** David Hess, actor and songwriter (b. 1936 in the United States, 1936)
** Milan Puskar, pharmaceutical executive (b. 1934 in the United States, 1934)
** Mikey Welsh, bassist (b. 1971 in the United States, 1971)
** Roger Williams (pianist), Roger Williams, pianist (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
* October 10
** Ray Aghayan, costume designer (b. 1928 in Iran)
** Albert Rosellini, 15th governor of Washington from 1957 to 1965 (b. 1910 in the United States, 1910)
* October 11 – Bob Galvin, electronics executive (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
* October 12
** Patricia Breslin, actress, wife of Art Modell (b. 1931 in the United States, 1931)
** Paul Leka, songwriter (b. 1943 in the United States, 1943)
** Dennis Ritchie, computer scientist (b. 1941 in the United States, 1941)
* October 13 – Barbara Kent, actress (b. 1907 in Canada)
* October 14 – Morris Chafetz, psychiatrist (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
* October 16
** Elouise P. Cobell, Native American litigant (b. 1945 in the United States, 1945)
** Pete Rugolo, Italian-born American television composer (b. 1915 in Italy, 1915)
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* November 2
** John F. Burke (physician), John F. Burke, physician (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
** Sid Melton, actor (b. 1917 in the United States, 1917)
* November 3
** Matty Alou, baseball player (b. 1938 in the Dominican Republic)
** Bob Forsch, baseball player (b. 1950 in the United States, 1950)
** Morris Philipson, publisher (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
* November 4
** Andy Rooney, columnist (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
** Theadora Van Runkle, film costume designer (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
* November 6 – Hal Kanter, film and television writer (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
* November 7
** Joe Frazier, boxer (b. 1944 in the United States, 1944)
** Andrea True, actress and singer (b. 1943 in the United States, 1943)
* November 8
** Hal Bruno, magazine and television journalist (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
** Heavy D, Jamaican-born American rapper and actor (b. 1967 in Jamaica)
** Bil Keane, cartoonist (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
** Ed Macauley, basketball player (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
* November 9 – Roger Christian (ice hockey), Roger Christian, ice hockey player (b. 1935 in the United States, 1935)
* November 11 – William Aramony, charity organization fraudster (b. 1927 in the United States, 1927)
* November 15
** Moogy Klingman, keyboardist and songwriter (b. 1950 in the United States, 1950)
** Oba Chandler, murderer (b. 1946; executed)
* November 19 – Ira Michael Heyman, lawyer and college administrator (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
* November 21
** George Gallup Jr., pollster (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
** Anne McCaffrey, American-born Irish writer (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
* November 22
** Svetlana Alliluyeva, writer (b. 1926 in the Soviet Union)
** Lynn Margulis, biologist (b. 1938 in the United States, 1938)
* November 23 – Jim Rathmann, race car driver (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
* November 24 – Jeno Paulucci, businessman (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
* November 25
** Judy Lewis, actress, psychologist and daughter of Clark Gable and Loretta Young (b. 1935 in the United States, 1935)
** Frederik Meijer, businessman (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
** T. Franklin Williams, physician (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
* November 26 – Ron Lyle, boxer (b. 1941 in the United States, 1941)
* November 27 – Judd Woldin, composer (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
* November 28
** Charles T. Kowal, astronomer (b. 1940 in the United States, 1940)
** Lloyd J. Old, physician (b. 1933 in the United States, 1933)
* November 30
** Carl Robie, swimmer (b. 1945 in the United States, 1945)
** Bill Waller, 55th governor of Mississippi from 1972 to 1976 (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
* December 1
** Bill McKinney, actor (b. 1931 in the United States, 1931)
** Alan Sues, screen actor (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
* December 4 – Patricia C. Dunn, businesswoman (b. 1953 in the United States, 1953)
* December 5
** Paul M. Doty, biochemist (b. 1920 in the United States, 1920)
** Joe Lonnett, baseball player and coach (b. 1927 in the United States, 1927)
* December 6 – Dobie Gray, singer (b. 1940 in the United States, 1940)
* December 7
** Harry Morgan, film and television actor (b. 1915 in the United States, 1915)
** Jerry Robinson, comic book artist (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
* December 12
** Bert Schneider, television and film producer (b. 1933 in the United States, 1933)
** Gene Summers (architect), Gene Summers, (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
* December 13 – Russell Hoban, writer (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
* December 14 – Joe Simon, comic book writer, artist, editor and publisher (b. 1913 in the United States, 1913)
* December 15
** Andy Carey, baseball player (b. 1931 in the United States, 1931)
** Christopher Hitchens, English writer, died in Houston,
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, Montana
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, Nebraska
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, New Hampshire
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, Oklahoma
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, Pennsylvania
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, Texas
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and Utah
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) announce plans to curtail application of parts of the 14th Amendment in their respective states.
** Wisconsin
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becomes the 22nd state to sue the federal government over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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.
* January 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1066 – Following the death of Edward the Confessor on the previous day, the Witan meets to confirm Harold Godwinson as the new King of England; Harold is crowned the same day, sparking a succession crisis that will ...
– The US Constitution
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is read aloud on the floor of the US House of Representatives
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for the first time in history.
* January 7
Events Pre-1600
* 49 BC – The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army. This prompts the tribunes who support him to flee to Ravenna, where Caesar is waiting.
* 1325 – Alfonso I ...
– Oklahoma
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and Wyoming
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join the other 22 states suing the federal government over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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.
* January 8
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – Jin Huaidi becomes emperor of China in succession to his father, Jin Huidi, despite a challenge from his uncle, Sima Ying.
* 871 – Æthelred I and Alfred the Great lead a West Saxon army to repel an inv ...
– 2011 Tucson shooting
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: In Tucson, Arizona
, "(at the) base of the black ill
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, a gunman opens fire at a constituent meeting led by U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords
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, injuring 14, including Giffords, and killing six, including U.S. Federal Judge John Roll
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. The primary suspect, Jared Lee Loughner, is taken into custody.
* January 10
Events Pre-1600
* 49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.
* 9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the ...
**Former Republican United States House of Representatives
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Majority Leader
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Tom DeLay is sentenced to three years in prison for money laundering
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.
**In college football
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, the #1 Auburn Tigers
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defeat the #2 Oregon Ducks
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to win the 2011 BCS National Championship Game by a score of 22–19.
* January 11
Events Pre-1600
* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.
* 630 – Conquest of Mecca: The prophet Muha ...
– Ohio
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becomes the 25th state to sue the federal government over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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.
* January 12
Events Pre-1600
* 475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire.
* 1528 – Gustav I of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden, having already rei ...
– Kansas
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and Maine
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join the other 25 states suing the federal government over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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.
* January 18
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later.
* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
*1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chin ...
– U.S. President Barack Obama
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begins a four-day meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao
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.
* January 19
Events Pre-1600
* 379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to ''Augustus'', and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.
* 649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender a ...
**Kermit Gosnell
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, his wife and eight staff members at his Philadelphia
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abortion clinic are arrested in connection with murders of babies, manslaughter of a patient and prescription drug charges. Prosecutors alleged that Gosnell and others killed babies at the clinic by severing their spinal cords with scissors.
**The US House votes to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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with a vote of 245–189.
* January 20
Events Pre-1600
* 250 – Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution.
* 649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom.
* 1156 & ...
– In a landmark study that will ultimately see the cure for AIDS
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, a new technique renders T-Cells resistant to HIV.
* January 25
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.
* 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty ...
– U.S. President Barack Obama
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delivers his 2011 State of the Union Address
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.
* January 31
Events Pre-1600
* 314 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades.
*1208 – The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on the ...
– Florida
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federal judge Roger Vinson
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rules that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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is unconstitutional
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because of the individual mandate
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United States Militia act
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it contains.
* January 31
Events Pre-1600
* 314 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades.
*1208 – The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on the ...
–February 2
Events Pre-1600
* 506 – Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths, promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (''Breviarium Alaricianum'' or ''Lex Romana Visigothorum''), a collection of "Roman law".
* 880 – Battle of Lüneburg Heath: ...
– A blizzard dumps as much as of snow across the Midwestern United States
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, causing at least 24 storm-related deaths.Woman killed in Oklahoma City sledding accidentNewsOK.com, February 1, 2011.2 Dead After Vehicle Plunges Into River
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February
* February 2
Events Pre-1600
* 506 – Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths, promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (''Breviarium Alaricianum'' or ''Lex Romana Visigothorum''), a collection of "Roman law".
* 880 – Battle of Lüneburg Heath: ...
– The US Senate
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The composition and po ...
blocks a repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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with a vote of 51–47.
* February 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1579 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop.
1601–1900
* 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death ...
** NASA
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NASA was established in 1958, succeedin ...
's STEREO
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satellites obtain the first simultaneous images of the entire surface of the Sun.
** Super Bowl XLV
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between the Green Bay Packers
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and the Pittsburgh Steelers
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becomes the most watched television program in US history at 111 million viewers. The Packers defeat the Steelers 31–25.
* February 7
Events Pre-1600
* 457 – Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor.
* 987 – Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II.
*1301 &nda ...
– AOL
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purchases online publisher ''The Huffington Post
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'' in a $315 million deal.
* February 14
Events Pre-1600
* 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt.
* 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis t ...
** President Obama proposes a federal budget for fiscal year 2012. Overall the proposal reduces expenses but also increases funding for some programs and still results in an annual deficit of more than $1 trillion.
** The House
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approves the extension of some parts of the controversial Patriot Act
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until December.
** Disney Channel
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's daily morning program block for preschoolers, Playhouse Disney
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, rebrands as Disney Junior
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, part of the network's plan to establish Disney Junior as a stand-alone network in 2012 (replacing SOAPNet).
* February 14
Events Pre-1600
* 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt.
* 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis t ...
– 16 – The quiz show ''Jeopardy!
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'' airs the victory of IBM's artificial intelligence
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program Watson
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over two of the show's most successful contestants.
* February 15
Events Pre-1600
* 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus
* 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia.
* 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tib ...
– The Senate
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approves the same extension of some parts of the controversial Patriot Act
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until December.
* February 17
Events Pre-1600
* 1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau.
* 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons ...
– Amidst large demonstrations in Wisconsin over a controversial bill (the bill intends to reduce spending on most government employees and remove their collective bargaining
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rights apart from restricted wage negotiation), 14 Wisconsin Democratic senators flee the state to delay the vote on the bill by preventing a quorum
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in the senate.
* February 18
Events Pre-1600
*1229 – The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.
* 1268 &n ...
– '' Word Worm'' word game
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is released.
* February 20
Events Pre-1600
*1339 – The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clash in the Battle of Parabiago; Visconti is defeated.
* 1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotlan ...
– 2011 Daytona 500
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is won by the Wood Brothers Racing
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team entrant Trevor Bayne
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, who became the youngest winner of the race. Carl Edwards
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was second ahead of David Gilliland.
* February 22
Events Pre-1600
* 1076 – Having received a letter during the Lenten synod of 14–20 February demanding that he abdicate, Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1316 – The Battle of Picotin, between Ferd ...
– Chicago mayoral election, 2011
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: Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel
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wins the race for mayor
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with more than 55% of the vote. He will succeed Mayor Richard M. Daley
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in May.
* February 24
Events Pre-1600
* 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica.
* 1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence.
* ...
– STS-133
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: Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' launches from Kennedy Space Center
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for the final time, carrying the Permanent Multipurpose Module to the International Space Station
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.
* February 27
Events Pre-1600
* 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Nicene Christianity.
* 425 – The University of Constantin ...
** The 83rd Academy Awards
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, hosted by James Franco
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and Anne Hathaway
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, are held at Kodak Theatre
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in Hollywood
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. Tom Hooper
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's ''The King's Speech
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'' wins four awards out of 12 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director. Christopher Nolan
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's ''Inception
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'' also wins four awards. The telecast garners 37.9 million viewers.
** Frank Buckles, America's last surviving World War I veteran and one of only three verified surviving veterans of the war worldwide, dies at the age of 110. Buckles, who lived in West Virginia
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, served in Europe as an ambulance driver for 11 months until the war's end in November 1918.
March
* March 1
Events Pre-1600
* 509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor Dioclet ...
– The U.S. House of Representatives passes a small spending bill that funds the federal government until March 18 and cuts $4 billion in spending, averting a potential government shutdown
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.
* March 3
Events Pre-1600
* 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
*1575 ...
** Serena Williams
Serena Jameka Williams (born September 26, 1981) is an American inactive professional tennis player. Considered among the greatest tennis players of all time, she was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) fo ...
' spokeswoman confirmed that Williams had suffered from a life-threatening pulmonary embolism
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.
** The U.S. Supreme Court makes a controversial 8–1 decision that the controversial protests of the Westboro Baptist Church
The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is a small American, unaffiliated Primitive Baptist church in Topeka, Kansas, founded in 1955 by pastor Fred Phelps. Labeled a hate group, WBC is known for engaging in homophobic and anti-American pickets, ...
at fallen US military members' funerals are a form of protected speech under the First Amendment
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First or 1st may also refer to:
*World record, specifically the first instance of a particular achievement
Arts and media Music
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.
** The U.S. Senate passes the same small spending bill that funds the federal government through March 18 and cuts $4 billion in spending.
* March 9
Events Pre-1600
*141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.
*1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
*1226 &ndas ...
** Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' lands at the Shuttle Landing Facility
The Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) also known as Launch and Landing Facility (LLF) is an airport located on Merritt Island in Brevard County, Florida, United States. It is a part of the Kennedy Space Center and was used by Space Shuttle for ...
in Florida on its final mission, ''STS-133
STS-133 ( ISS assembly flight ULF5) was the 133rd mission in NASA's Space Shuttle program; during the mission, Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' docked with the International Space Station. It was ''Discoverys 39th and final mission. The mission l ...
''. The vehicle clocked 365 days in orbit during its 27-year career, beginning with STS-41-D
STS-41-D (formerly STS-14) was the 12th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the first mission of Space Shuttle ''Discovery''. It was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 30, 1984, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base, ...
in fall 1984
Events
January
* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
* January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...
.
** Governor of Illinois
The governor of Illinois is the head of government of Illinois, and the various agencies and departments over which the officer has jurisdiction, as prescribed in the state constitution. It is a directly elected position, votes being cast by p ...
Pat Quinn signs legislation abolishing the state's death penalty
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that ...
and commutes the death sentences of the fifteen inmates on Illinois' death row
Death row, also known as condemned row, is a place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution after being convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death. The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting execution ...
to life imprisonment
Life imprisonment is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted people are to remain in prison for the rest of their natural lives or indefinitely until pardoned, paroled, or otherwise commuted to a fixed term. Crimes fo ...
without the possibility of parole.
** The Wisconsin Senate
The Wisconsin Senate is the upper house of the Wisconsin State Legislature. Together with the larger Wisconsin State Assembly they constitute the legislative branch of the state of Wisconsin. The powers of the Wisconsin Senate are modeled after t ...
approves a bill that ends most collective bargaining
Collective bargaining is a process of negotiation between employers and a group of employees aimed at agreements to regulate working salaries, working conditions, benefits, and other aspects of workers' compensation and rights for workers. The ...
rights for nearly all unions; it was able to pass the legislation without a quorum
A quorum is the minimum number of members of a deliberative assembly (a body that uses parliamentary procedure, such as a legislature) necessary to conduct the business of that group. According to '' Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised'', the ...
by removing the budget oriented parts of it (a quorum would have necessitated the presence of at least one of the absent Democratic members).
** The world's largest bond fund, Pimco
PIMCO (Pacific Investment Management Company, LLC) is an American investment management firm focusing on active fixed income management worldwide. PIMCO manages investments in many asset classes such as fixed income, equities, commodities, a ...
, announces it is dumping all of its U.S. government-related securities, including U.S. Treasurys and agency debt.
* March 10
Events Pre-1600
* 241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.
* 298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa and makes a ...
– The Wisconsin State Assembly
The Wisconsin State Assembly is the lower house of the Wisconsin Legislature. Together with the smaller Wisconsin Senate, the two constitute the legislative branch of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.
Representatives are elected for two-year terms, e ...
passes the law that restricts bargaining rights for unions in a 53–42 vote.
* March 11
Events Pre-1600
* 222 – Roman emperor Elagabalus is murdered alongside his mother, Julia Soaemias. He is replaced by his 14-year old cousin, Severus Alexander.
* 843 – Triumph of Orthodoxy: Empress Theodora II restores the ven ...
– Following the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) is one of two tsunami warning centers that are operated by NOAA in the United States. Headquartered on Ford Island, HI, the PTWC is part of an international tsunami warning system (TWS) program and s ...
issues a tsunami warning to parts of the U.S. West Coast
The West Coast of the United States, also known as the Pacific Coast, Pacific states, and the western seaboard, is the coastline along which the Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean. The term typically refers to the contiguous U.S ...
along the affected coastal areas in Alaska
Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U ...
, Hawaii
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and the U.S. Territories in the Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the conti ...
.
* March 15
Events Pre-1600
* 474 BC – Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce.
* 44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar takes place.
* 493 &ndash ...
– The U.S. House of Representatives passes another small spending bill, avoiding the U.S. government shutdown until April 8.
* March 16
Events Pre-1600
* 934 – Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang.
*1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.
* 1244 – Over 200 Cathars who refuse ...
– Wholesale food prices rose by the largest monthly increase in February since November 1974, with an increase of 3.9%. Some economists claim that it will only get worse.
* March 17
Events Pre-1600
* 45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
* 180 – Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age of eigh ...
** The House cuts all federal funding for NPR
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.
** The US Senate
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The composition and po ...
passes a small spending bill, avoiding a government shutdown until April 8.
* March 18
Events Pre-1600
* 37 – Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ''(aka Caligula = Little Boots)'' emperor.Tacitus, ''Annals'' V.10.
* 1068 – An earthquake in the Levant and the Ara ...
– NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
NASA was established in 1958, succeedin ...
's ''MESSENGER
''MESSENGER'' was a NASA robotic space probe that orbited the planet Mercury between 2011 and 2015, studying Mercury's chemical composition, geology, and magnetic field. The name is a backronym for "Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geoche ...
'' spacecraft becomes the first man-made technology to establish an orbit around Mercury
Mercury commonly refers to:
* Mercury (planet), the nearest planet to the Sun
* Mercury (element), a metallic chemical element with the symbol Hg
* Mercury (mythology), a Roman god
Mercury or The Mercury may also refer to:
Companies
* Merc ...
.
* March 19
Events Pre-1600
* 1277 – The Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1277 is concluded, stipulating a two-year truce and renewing Venetian commercial privileges in the Byzantine Empire.
*1279 – A Mongol victory at the Battle of Yamen ends ...
– In light of the continuing attacks on Libyan rebels by Gaddafi forces, military intervention authorized under UNSCR 1973 began as French fighter jets
Fighter aircraft are fixed-wing military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat. In military conflict, the role of fighter aircraft is to establish air superiority of the battlespace. Domination of the airspace above a battlefield ...
flew reconnaissance flights over Libya. United States Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ...
ships were said to be preparing for bombardment of Libyan air defenses.
* March 21
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the ''Vivarium'', by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas an ...
** AT&T
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas. It is the world's largest telecommunications company by revenue and the third largest provider of mobile tel ...
announces plans to buy T-Mobile
T-Mobile is the brand name used by some of the mobile communications subsidiaries of the German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom AG in the Czech Republic (T-Mobile Czech Republic), Poland (T-Mobile Polska), the United States (T-Mobile ...
for $39 billion. If allowed by the Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdiction ...
, AT&T would become the largest US phone carrier, surpassing Verizon Wireless
Verizon is an American wireless network operator that previously operated as a separate division of Verizon Communications under the name Verizon Wireless. In a 2019 reorganization, Verizon moved the wireless products and services into the divi ...
. If allowed, the number of major US phone carriers would decrease from 4 to 3, leaving AT&T, Verizon and Sprint.
* March 24
Events Pre-1600
* 1199 – King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6.
*1387 – English victory over a Franco- Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate off ...
– According to a landmark study in ''The New England Journal of Medicine
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His ...
'', an orally administered Takeda Pharmaceutical
The is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceutical company, with partial American and British roots. It is the largest pharmaceutical company in Asia and one of the top 20 List of largest pharmac ...
called pioglitazone
Pioglitazone, sold under the brand name Actos among others, is an anti-diabetic medication used to treat type 2 diabetes. It may be used with metformin, a sulfonylurea, or insulin. Use is recommended together with exercise and diet. It is not re ...
, marketed as ''Actos
Pioglitazone, sold under the brand name Actos among others, is an anti-diabetic medication used to treat type 2 diabetes. It may be used with metformin, a sulfonylurea, or insulin. Use is recommended together with exercise and diet. It is not r ...
'', shows 72 percent effectiveness at the prevention of the development of type 2 diabetes in pre-diabetic subject participants. Ralph DeFronzo, M.D., study leader and professor in the School of Medicine and chief of the diabetes division at The University of Texas
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...
Health Science Center in San Antonio, stated that "It's a blockbuster study. The 72 reduction is the largest decrease in the conversion rate of pre-diabetes to diabetes that has ever been demonstrated by any intervention, be it diet, exercise or medication.
* March 25
Events Pre-1600
* 421 – Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto.
* 708 – Pope Constantine becomes the 88th pope. He would be the last pope to vi ...
– Archaeologists
Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...
report that they have found new artifacts in an archaeological site in Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...
which indicates of human existence in America 15,500 years ago – around 2,000 years earlier than the alleged Clovis culture
The Clovis culture is a prehistoric Paleoamerican culture, named for distinct stone and bone tools found in close association with Pleistocene fauna, particularly two mammoths, at Blackwater Locality No. 1 near Clovis, New Mexico, in 1936 ...
took place, which until recently was considered the first human culture in North America.
* March 29
Events Pre-1600
* 845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
* 1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of ...
– More than 1.5 million web sites
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around the world had been infected by the LizaMoon LizaMoon is a piece of malware that infected thousands of websites beginning in September, 2010. It is an SQL injection attack that spreads scareware encouraging users to install needless and rogue "anti-virus software". Although it does not use ne ...
SQL injection
In computing, SQL injection is a code injection technique used to attack data-driven applications, in which malicious SQL statements are inserted into an entry field for execution (e.g. to dump the database contents to the attacker). SQL inj ...
attack spread by scareware
Scareware is a form of malware which uses social engineering to cause shock, anxiety, or the perception of a threat in order to manipulate users into buying unwanted software. Scareware is part of a class of malicious software that includes r ...
since Tuesday. Novice computer users should be warned that when a pop up window opens the best way to insure you are not infected is to close the window from the task manager.
* March 31
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine the Great, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian.
*1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at V ...
** Because of U.S. federal budget woes and a general migration of information from printed to digital format, the Social Security Administration
The United States Social Security Administration (SSA) is an Independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the Federal government of the United States, U.S. federal government that administers Social Security (United ...
announces that starting in April 2011, most U.S. workers will no longer receive their annual Social Security benefit estimates in the mail. Citizens are able to look at their social security account retirement benefit estimator online instead of waiting each year for a paper statement.
** A data breach at one of the world's largest providers of marketing-email services, Dallas-based Epsilon
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, a subsidiary of Alliance Data
Bread Financial Holdings, Inc. is an American publicly traded provider of loyalty and marketing services, such as private label credit cards, coalition loyalty programs, and direct marketing, derived from the capture and analysis of transaction- ...
Systems Corporation, may have enabled unauthorized people to access the names and email addresses for customers of major financial-services, retailing and other companies, (Citigroup Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Barclays PLC, U.S. Bancorp, Capital One Financial Corp., Walgreen Co., New York & Co., Kroger Co., Brookstone, McKinsey & Co., Marriott International Inc., Ritz-Carlton and TiVo Inc.).
April
* April 3
Events Pre-1600
* 686 – Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.
* 1043 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
* 1077 – The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created ...
– Crystal Mangum
Crystal Gail Mangum (born July 18, 1978) is a former exotic dancer and convicted murderer from Durham, North Carolina, who is best known for having made false allegations of rape against lacrosse players in the 2006 Duke lacrosse case. The fact ...
, the false accuser in the Duke lacrosse case
The Duke lacrosse case was a widely reported 2006 criminal case in Durham, North Carolina, United States in which three members of the Duke University men's lacrosse team were falsely accused of rape. The three students were David Evans, Collin ...
, is arrested after repeatedly stabbing her boyfriend, Reginald Daye.
* April 4
Events Pre-1600
* 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.
* 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground.
* 611 – ...
** The U.S. Supreme Court upholds Arizona School Vouchers in a 5–4 ruling.
** In men's college basketball
In United States colleges, top-tier basketball is governed by collegiate athletic bodies including National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), the United States Collegiate Athleti ...
, the UConn Huskies
The UConn Huskies (or Connecticut Huskies) are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of Connecticut, located in Storrs. The school is a member of the NCAA's Division I and the Big East Conference. The university's fo ...
defeat the Butler Bulldogs
The Butler Bulldogs are the athletic teams that represent Butler University, located in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Bulldogs participate in 20 NCAA Division I intercollegiate sports. After leaving the Horizon League following the 2011–12 seas ...
to win the 2011 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
The 2011 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament was a single-elimination tournament involving 68 teams to determine the national champion of the 2010–11 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The 73rd edition of the NCAA tournament bega ...
.
* April 5
Events Pre-1600
* 823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I.
* 919 – The second Fatimid invasion of Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, sets out from Raqqada at the head of his a ...
**Cuba
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and its partners announce plans to drill for oil in Cuban waters in The Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico ( es, Golfo de México) is an oceanic basin, ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of ...
.
**In women's college basketball
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, the Texas A&M Aggies
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defeat the Notre Dame Fighting Irish
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to win the 2011 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament.
* April 6
Events Pre–1600
*46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) at the Battle of Thapsus.
* 402 – Stilicho defeats the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.
*132 ...
– A United States Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ...
F/A-18
The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is an all-weather, twin-engine, supersonic, carrier-capable, multirole combat aircraft, designed as both a fighter and attack aircraft (hence the F/A designation). Designed by McDonnell Douglas (now part ...
crashes near Naval Air Station Lemoore
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NAS Lemoore is the Na ...
in California
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, killing both crew members.
* April 8
Events Pre-1600
* 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
* 876 – The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids.
*1139 – Ro ...
– President Obama, House Republicans and Senate Democrats agree on a week-long stopgap spending bill preventing a government shutdown
A government shutdown occurs when the legislative branch does not pass key bills which fund or authorize the operations of the executive branch, resulting in the cessation of some or all operations of a government.
Government shutdowns in the Un ...
resulting from a failure to pass the 2011 federal budget.
* April 10
Events Pre-1600
* 428 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
* 837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles).
* 1407 ...
– 2011 Masters Tournament
The 2011 Masters Tournament was the 75th Masters Tournament, held April 7–10 at Augusta National Golf Club. Charl Schwartzel birdied the final four holes to win his first major championship, two strokes ahead of runners-up Adam Scott and Jason ...
: South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...
n Charl Schwartzel
Charl Adriaan Schwartzel ( ; born 31 August 1984) is a South African professional golfer who currently plays in the LIV Golf Invitational Series and has previously played on the PGA Tour, European Tour and the Sunshine Tour. He has won one maj ...
won the 2011 event by two strokes over Adam Scott and Jason Day
Jason Day (born 12 November 1987) is an Australian professional golfer, PGA Tour member and winner of the 2015 PGA Championship. He is a former world number one in the World Golf Ranking, having first achieved the ranking in September 2015. ...
.
* April 13
Events Pre-1600
*1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
1601–1900
*1612 – In one of the epic samurai ...
**An Air France
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Airbus A380
The Airbus A380 is a large wide-body airliner that was developed and produced by Airbus. It is the world's largest passenger airliner and only full-length double-deck jet airliner.
Airbus studies started in 1988, and the project was annou ...
, operating as Air France
Air France (; formally ''Société Air France, S.A.''), stylised as AIRFRANCE, is the flag carrier of France headquartered in Tremblay-en-France. It is a subsidiary of the Air France–KLM Group and a founding member of the SkyTeam global air ...
Flight 007, collides with a Comair Bombardier CRJ-700
The Bombardier CRJ700, CRJ900, and CRJ1000 are a family of regional jet airliners that were designed and manufactured by Canadian transportation conglomerate Bombardier (formerly Canadair) between 1999 and 2020. Their design was derived from ...
, operating as Comair flight 553/Delta Connection
Delta Connection is a regional airline brand name for Delta Air Lines, under which a number of individually owned regional airlines primarily operate short- and medium-haul routes. Mainline major air carriers often use regional airlines to ope ...
Flight 6293 in Delta Connection livery, on a taxiway at John F. Kennedy International Airport
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in New York City. The double-deck Airbus A380 is the world's largest commercial passenger jet. The A380 has 520 people on board, and the smaller plane 66. There are no injuries. The incident brings into question the spatial taxiway requirements for the new large A380's wingspan on existing airport taxiways.
** Reginald Daye dies 10 days after being repeatedly stabbed by Crystal Mangum
Crystal Gail Mangum (born July 18, 1978) is a former exotic dancer and convicted murderer from Durham, North Carolina, who is best known for having made false allegations of rape against lacrosse players in the 2006 Duke lacrosse case. The fact ...
, the false rape accuser in the Duke lacrosse case
The Duke lacrosse case was a widely reported 2006 criminal case in Durham, North Carolina, United States in which three members of the Duke University men's lacrosse team were falsely accused of rape. The three students were David Evans, Collin ...
.
* April 14
Events Pre-1600
* 43 BC – Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of Mark Antony in the Battle of Forum Gallorum.
* 69 – Vitellius, commanding Rhine-based armies, defeats Roman emperor Otho ...
– 16 – A tornado outbreak and severe thunderstorms kill at least 43 people across the Southern United States
The Southern United States (sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, or simply the South) is a geographic and cultural region of the United States of America. It is between the Atlantic Ocean ...
, with fatalities occurring in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama, North Carolina and Virginia. It is the deadliest U.S. tornado outbreak to occur in three years.
* April 15
Events Pre-1600
* 769 – The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings.
* 1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscar ...
– ''Rio'' is released in theaters.
* April 18
Events Pre-1600
* 796 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The ''patrician'' Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days.
* 1428 – Peace of Ferrara betw ...
– Standard & Poor's
S&P Global Ratings (previously Standard & Poor's and informally known as S&P) is an American credit rating agency (CRA) and a division of S&P Global that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks, bonds, and commodities. S&P is con ...
downgrades its outlook on long-term sovereign debt of the United States to negative from stable for the first time in history, citing "very large budget deficits and rising government indebtedness" as for why it did so. A statement from Standard & Poor's explained its reasoning; "We believe there is a material risk that U. S. policy-makers might not reach an agreement on how to address medium- and long-term budgetary challenges by 2013; if an agreement is not reached…this would…render the U.S. fiscal profile meaningfully weaker than ts peers. This could possibly mean the US losing its AAA credit rating.
* April 20
Events Pre-1600
* 1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.
1601–1900
* 1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament.
* 1657 – English Admiral Robert Blake destroy ...
– BooClips digital book app is released.
* April 25
Events Pre-1600
* 404 BC – Admiral Lysander and King Pausanias of Sparta blockade Athens and bring the Peloponnesian War to a successful conclusion.
* 775 – The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against the ...
–April 28
Events Pre-1600
* 224 – The Battle of Hormozdgan is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V effectively ending the Parthian Empire.
* 357 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory ...
– The most active tornado outbreak
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A tornado outbreak is the occurrence of multiple tornadoes spawned by the same synoptic scale weather system. The number of tornadoes required to qualify as an outbreak typically are at least six to ten, with at least two rotational l ...
in United States history kills 339 people across the Southeastern United States
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, becoming the third deadliest tornado outbreak in United States history, falling behind the Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak of April 1936 and the outbreak that produced the Tri-State Tornado
On March 18, 1925, one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks in recorded history generated at least twelve significant tornadoes and spanned a large portion of the midwestern and southern United States. In all, at least 751 people were ki ...
of March 1925.
* April 27
Events Pre-1600
* 247 – Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ''ludi saeculares''.
* 395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of ...
** Responding to continued coverage by the mainstream media
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of Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories
During Barack Obama's campaign for president in 2008, throughout his presidency and afterwards, there was extensive news coverage of Obama's religious preference, birthplace, and of the individuals questioning his religious belief and citi ...
, that President Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, Obama was the first Af ...
was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii
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, Obama releases his long-form birth certificate.
** In an unprecedented meeting with reporters, the U.S. Federal Reserve chairman
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Ben Bernanke
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states that he expects less economic growth for 2011 as the economy has been weaker in recent months than he had thought it would be. Bernanke refused to speculate on when he would discontinue with The Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus policy, known as quantitative easing.
** Eight American troops and one contractor are shot and killed by an Afghan National Army Air Force pilot. Five Afghan soldiers were also wounded in the attack, for which the Taliban claimed responsibility.
May
* May 2
Events Pre-1600
* 1194 – King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
* 1230 – William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.
* 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and impris ...
** U.S. President
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Barack Obama
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announces in a media statement that Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was a Saudi-born extremist militant who founded al-Qaeda and served as its leader from 1988 until Killing of Osama bin Laden, his death in 2011. Ideologically a Pan-Islamism ...
, the founder and leader of the militant group Al-Qaeda
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and the most-wanted fugitive on the U.S. list, was killed by U.S. forces
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during an American military operation in Pakistan
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and that his body is in U.S. custody.
** Bin Laden's body, which was handled in accordance with Islamic practice and tradition, is buried by the U.S. forces at sea less than a day after his death, thus preventing a burial site from becoming a "terrorist shrine".
** In order to save the city of Cairo, Illinois
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The city is located at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Fort Defiance, a Civil War camp, was built here in 1862 by Union General Ulysses ...
from severe flooding, the Army Corps of Engineers blows up the levee on the Missouri side of the Mississippi
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flooding acres of farmland and forcing some to go homeless. The issue went all the way to the Supreme Court.
* May 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance.
* 1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Sp ...
– ''Thor
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'', directed by Kenneth Branagh
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, is released by Marvel Studios
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as the fourth film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
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(MCU).
* May 7
Events Pre-1600
* 351 – The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out after his arrival at Antioch.
* 558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses, twenty years after its construction. Justinian I imm ...
– Jockey
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John R. Velazquez wins the 2011 Kentucky Derby
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"ESPN Animal Kingdom wins 137th Derby"
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riding Animal Kingdom.
* May 8
Events Pre-1600
* 453 BC – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin.
* 413 – Emperor Honorius signs a ...
– Mississippi flooding worsens, killing 15 more than the 337 in preceding storms, with the Army Corps of Engineers saying an area between Simmesport, Louisiana
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and Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge ( ; ) is a city in and the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-sma ...
would be inundated 20–30 feet.
* May 10
Events Pre-1600
* 28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.
*1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edw ...
– 360,000 Citigroup
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credit card accounts are hacked.
* May 12
Events Pre-1600
* 254 – Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I, becoming the 23rd pope of the Catholic Church, and immediately takes a stand against Novatianism.
* 907 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang d ...
– Plans are cancelled to install prismatic glass on One World Trade Center
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's bottom base.
* May 13
Events Pre-1600
*1373 – Julian of Norwich has visions of Jesus while suffering from a life-threatening illness, visions which are later described and interpreted in her book '' Revelations of Divine Love''.
* 1501 – Amerigo Vespu ...
– The federal government predicts that the Medicare hospital fund will run out in 2024, five years earlier than the previously projected date of 2029. They also predicted that the Social Security
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trust fund would run out in 2036, instead of the previously projected date of 2037.
* May 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1027 – Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior King of the Franks.
*1097 – The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade.
* 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forc ...
** The Morganza Spillway
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on the Mississippi River
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is opened for the second time in its history, deliberately flooding of rural Louisiana and placing three nuclear power plants at risk to save most of Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge ( ; ) is a city in and the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana
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and New Orleans
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Merriam-Webster. ; french: La Nouvelle-Orléans , es, Nuev ...
.
** The President of the Merriam-Webster. ; french: La Nouvelle-Orléans , es, Nuev ...
International Monetary Fund
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and candidate for President of France
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, Dominique Strauss-Kahn
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, is charged with raping a maid in a New York City hotel room.
* May 16
Events Pre-1600
* 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.
*1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
* 1364 ...
** STS-134
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: Space Shuttle ''Endeavour'' is launched for the final time at 8:56 A. M. EDT.
** The U.S. Supreme Court makes a controversial 8-1 decision that the exigent circumstance In criminal procedure law of the United States, an exigent circumstance allows law enforcement (under certain circumstances) to enter a structure without a search warrant, or if they have a "knock and announce" warrant, allows them to enter without ...
warrantless searches do not violate the Fourth Amendment when it is believed that there is an imminent destruction of evidence." Writing for the majority, Associate Justice Samuel Alito
Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. ( ; born April 1, 1950) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George W. Bush on October 31, 2005, and has served ...
said that citizens are under no obligation to respond when law enforcement knocks at the door or, if they do open the door, allow the police to come in. In cases where no exigent circumstances In criminal procedure law of the United States, an exigent circumstance allows law enforcement (under certain circumstances) to enter a structure without a search warrant, or if they have a " knock and announce" warrant, allows them to enter withou ...
exist, police officers who desire entry would have to persuade a judge to issue a search warrant. But Alito said, "Occupants who choose not to stand on their constitutional rights but instead elect to attempt to destroy evidence adonly themselves to blame."
** Congress considers whether and by how much to extend the debt ceiling
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again. In a May 16, 2011 letter to Congress, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner declared a "debt issuance suspension period," which provides the Secretary with certain extraordinary authorities to prevent a breach of the debt limit. Geithner had previously sent letters to Congress requesting an increase in the debt ceiling on January 6, April 4 and May 2.
* May 19
Events
Pre-1600
* 639 – Ashina Jiesheshuai and his tribesmen assaulted Emperor Taizong at Jiucheng Palace.
* 715 – Pope Gregory II is elected.
* 1051 – Henry I of France marries the Rus' princess, Anne of Kiev.
*1445 &n ...
**In Pennsylvania
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, teenager Angela Marinucci becomes the first of The Greenboro Six to be convicted of the murder of Jennifer Daugherty
Jennifer Lee Daugherty (November 8, 1979 – February 11, 2010) was an American woman who was torture-murdered in Greensburg, Pennsylvania as an act of revenge in February 2010. Daugherty, who was mentally disabled, was tortured and murde ...
, a mentally disabled woman who was tortured and murdered in February 2010.
**During a speech in support of the Arab Spring
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, Obama stated that a resolution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
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would involve creation of a Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders
The Green Line, (pre-)1967 border, or 1949 Armistice border, is the demarcation line set out in the 1949 Armistice Agreements between the armies of Israel and those of its neighbors (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) after the 1948 Arab–Is ...
.
* May 20
Events Pre-1600
* 325 – The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church.
* 491 – Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed '' Augusta'' is able to choose her ...
** During a meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama
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and Israeli Prime Minister
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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at the White House
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, Netanyahu emphasizes that Israel would not make a full withdraw to the pre-1967
Events
January
* January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair.
* January 5
** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and ...
borders as Obama requested the previous day because these borders are not defensible.
** Travel on the Mississippi River is closed for five miles (8 km) near the US city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana due to flooding.
**WWE
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wrestler Randy Savage
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dies of a heart attack
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in Seminole, Florida
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History
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when he loses control of his Jeep Wrangler
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and crashes into a tree; he was 58 years old.
* May 21
Events Pre-1600
* 293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as ''Caesar (title), Caesar'' to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.
* 878 – Syracuse, Sicily, is Siege of Syracuse ...
** U.S. businessman Herman Cain
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announces that he will be seeking the Republican Party nomination in the 2012 U.S. presidential election
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.
** The Minnesota House of Representatives
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votes to put a constitutional referendum on marriage before voters in the US state of Minnesota
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.
* May 22
Events Pre-1600
* 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu.
* 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
* 11 ...
– A tornado
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touched down in Joplin, Missouri
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, causing widespread damage. 158 are killed and 1,150 are injured, making it the deadliest U.S. tornado in 64 years.
* May 23
Events Pre-1600
* 1430 – Joan of Arc is captured at the Siege of Compiègne by troops from the Burgundian faction.
* 1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.
*1533 – The marriage of King Henry VI ...
– The U.S. Supreme Court makes a controversial 5-4 decision that court-mandated population limit was necessary to remedy a violation of prisoners’ Eighth Amendment constitutional rights (United States Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment). The court requires that there be a controversial prisoner reduction plan forced on California prison administrators whereby the state reduces its inmate population by tens-of-thousands to ease overcrowding. Writing for the majority, Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy
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said that "after years of litigation, it became apparent that a remedy for the constitutional violations would not be effective absent a reduction in the prison system population."
* May 25
Events Pre-1600
* 567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
*240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Tol ...
** Jared Loughner, the man charged with the 2011 Tucson shooting
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, is found by a federal judge to be incompetent to stand trial.
** Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Gail Winfrey (; born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954), or simply Oprah, is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show, ''The Oprah Winfrey Show'', br ...
hosts the finale of her syndicated talk show, which was on the air for 25 years.
* May 26
Events Pre-1600
* 17 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe.
* 451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empire take ...
– The U.S. Supreme Court makes a controversial 5–3 decision which upheld the Arizona state law that monetarily (up to and including seizure, but not criminally) punished businesses that hire illegal aliens.
* May 27
Events Pre-1600
* 1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed.
* 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
* 1153 &ndash ...
– The Space Shuttle
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spacewalk portions of the International Space Station
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are completed.
* May 28
Events Pre-1600
* 585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from w ...
– U.S.-based missile producer Lockheed Martin
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, the largest military contractor in the world, is targeted by a "significant and tenacious" cyber attack
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.
* May 29
Events Pre-1600
* 363 – The Roman emperor Julian defeats the Sasanian army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sasanian capital, but is unable to take the city.
* 1108 – Battle of Uclés: Almoravid troops under ...
**Indy
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*Indy (software), used for Internet access to music
*Internet Direct, or "Indy", a software library
*SGI Indy, a computer workstation
Periodicals
*''The Indy'', shorthand for newspapers that include " ...
-style British
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* British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies.
** Britishness, the British identity and common culture
* British English, ...
racer Dan Wheldon
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wins the 2011 Indianapolis 500
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.
** The Wallow Fire
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begins, named for the Bear Wallow Wilderness
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area where the fire originated, in eastern Arizona
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, in the White Mountains near Alpine
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** Alpine states, which overlap with the European range
Australia
* Alpine, New South Wales, a Northern Village
* Alpine National Pa ...
. By June 7, 2011, it had burned about .
* May 31
Events Pre-1600
* 455 – Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome.
* 1223 – Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River: Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeat K ...
** The U.S. Supreme Court makes a limited-usage (narrow in scope and application) 8-0 decision which sided with former United States Attorney General
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John Ashcroft
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in a claim for damages against a public official.
** The U.S. Supreme Court makes a limited-usage (narrow in scope and application) 8-1 decision which sided with SEB S. A. in a patent infringement case.
June
* June – US-International Women in Science Dialogue conference is held. *June 1
Events Pre-1600
*1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen people, Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
*1252 – Alfonso X is pr ...
** The Obama
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administration states that it will boycott a United Nations
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anti-racism conference because of concerns over Anti-Semitism
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Antis ...
.
** The new United States military strategy explicitly states that a cyberattack is ''casus belli
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'' for a traditional act of war
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.
** STS-134
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: Space Shuttle ''Endeavour'' lands for the final time, after 19 years of orbital spaceflight.
* June 2
Events Pre-1600
* 455 – Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.
* 1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city; the second siege began five days later. 1601 ...
** The Federal Bureau of Investigation
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investigate claims that hackers in China attacked the Google
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email accounts of officials in the United States and Asian countries, as well as Chinese pro-democracy activists.
** Mitt Romney
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announces plans
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...
to seek the Republican Party nomination as President of the United States
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.
* June 3
Events Pre-1600
* 350 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
* 713 – The Byzantine Empire, Byzantine emperor Philippikos Ba ...
– John Edwards
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, former United States presidential candidate and Senator
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representing North Carolina
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, is indicted
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on charges of conspiracy and violating campaign finance
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laws in connection to his affair with Rielle Hunter
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Events Pre-1600
* 913 – Constantine VII, the eight-year-old illegitimate son of Leo VI the Wise, becomes nominal ruler of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of a seven-man council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, appointed b ...
** The U.S. Supreme Court makes a 7–2 decision that inventors do not give up their patent rights to their employers if that employer received federal funding. The ruling went against Stanford University
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in a dispute of patent infringement over a Roche
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HIV Polymerase chain reaction, PCR detection test. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts
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said that "Since 1790, the patent law has operated on the premise that rights in an invention belong to the inventor. The question here is whether the University and Small Business Patent Procedures Act of 1980—commonly referred to as the Bayh–Dole Act—displaces that norm and automatically vests title to federally funded inventions in federal contractors. We hold that it does not."
** Anthony Weiner photo scandal: United States Congress, Representative Anthony Weiner ( D-New York (state), NY) admits he sent a lewd photo of himself over Twitter to a Washington (state), Washington woman. He also admits sending explicit photos and messages to at least 6 other woman over the past 3 years. He states that he will not resign.
* June 8 – Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, mastermind of the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, is killed in Somalia.
* June 9 – The U.S. Supreme Court makes an Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Ltd. Partnership, 8–0 decision that in patent dispute challenges against inventors the standard of proof required is more than a preponderance of evidence. The ruling upholds a 2009 jury verdict in favor of i4i in a dispute of patent infringement over a Microsoft Word software editing subprogram. Writing for the majority, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that "Under §282 of the Patent Act of 1952, "[a] patent shall be presumed valid" and "[t]he burden of establishing in-validity of a patent or any claim thereof shall rest on the party asserting such invalidity." 35 U. S. C. §282. We consider whether §282 requires an invalidity defense to be proved by clear and convincing evidence. We hold that it does."
* June 12
** The 2010–11 Dallas Mavericks season, Dallas Mavericks win their first National Basketball Association, NBA List of NBA Champions, championship, four games to two, against the star-studded 2010–11 Miami Heat season, Miami Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals.
** The coat of Mad Men star Christina Hendricks catches fire and bursts into flames at the Tony Awards after party. She was said to be unharmed.
* June 13 – Hackers break Into US Senate
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The composition and po ...
computers.
* June 15 – The Boston Bruins win their first National Hockey League, NHL title in 39 years over the Vancouver Canucks in the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals.
* June 16
** Anthony Weiner photo scandal: United States Congress, Representative Anthony Weiner ( D-New York (state), NY) resigns.
** The U.S. Supreme Court makes a controversial J. D. B. v. North Carolina, 5–4 decision that, in the interrogations of minors, a Miranda warning, Miranda statement must be made. The ruling involves a 13-year-old child under schoolroom police interview. The court ruled in favor of the child, J. D. B., in a dispute of his confession made during a North Carolina
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theft investigation. Writing for the majority, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that "This case presents the question whether the age of a child subjected to police questioning is relevant to the custody analysis of Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U. S. 436 (1966). It is beyond dispute that children will often feel bound to submit to police questioning when an adult in the same circumstances would feel free to leave. Seeing no reason for police officers or courts to blind themselves to that commonsense reality, we hold that a child's age properly informs the Miranda warning, Miranda custody analysis."
** On March 19, because of the continuing attacks on Libyan rebels by Gaddafi forces, there was a military intervention authorized under UNSCR 1973. Various forces including ones from the United States attacked with fighter jets
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in bombardment over Libya. Ten US House of Representatives, Congressman announce plans to sue President Barack Obama
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in Federal court over violation of the War Powers Resolution. The 10 Congressman include 3 Democratic Party (United States), Democrats, Dennis Kucinich of Ohio
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, John Conyers of Michigan
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and Michael Capuano of Massachusetts, as well as 7 Republican Party (United States), Republicans, Ron Paul of Texas
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, Walter B. Jones, Walter Jones and Howard Coble of North Carolina
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, Tim Johnson (Illinois politician), Tim Johnson of Illinois
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, Dan Burton of Indiana
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, Jimmy Duncan (U.S. politician), Jimmy Duncan of Tennessee and Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland.
* June 19 – Northern Ireland golfer Rory McIlroy wins the 2011 U.S. Open (golf), 2011 U.S. Open, setting scoring records in the process.
* June 20
** The internet domain names can now be any "dot"-suffix. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved the change.
** The U.S. Supreme Court makes a controversial Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 9–0 decision that, in large class-action lawsuits, a cohesive element must exist. The ruling involves the class-action status of a sex discrimination case against Wal-mart containing 1.6 million litigants. The court ruled in favor of Wal-mart, only on the class action status of the dispute of the women's claims. The ruling rejects the lower courts lowering of standards in class-action status certification. Writing for the majority, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia said that "We are presented with one of the most expansive class actions ever. The District Court and the Court of Appeals approved the certification of a class comprising about one and a half million plaintiffs, current and former female employees of petitioner Wal-Mart who allege that the discretion exercised by their local supervisors over pay and promotion matters violates Title VII by discriminating against women. In addition to injunctive and declaratory relief, the plaintiffs seek an award of backpay. We consider whether the certification of the plaintiff class was consistent with Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 23(a) and (b)(2)."
* June 21 – The Food and Drug Administration announces that starting in 2012, they will require new warning labels that feature graphic images to convey the dangers of smoking on U.S. cigarette packs.
* June 22
** The Congressional Budget Office predicts the US debt-to-GDP ratio will top 101% by 2021, 10% higher than the 91% previously projected. Further predictions show an increase to 150% by 2030 and 200% by 2037. This assumes current spending levels continue.
** 82-year-old Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger, wanted for his alleged role in 19 murders, is captured by the FBI in Santa Monica, California after 16 years as a fugitive.
* June 23 – The U.S. Supreme Court makes a Marshall v. Marshall, 5–4 decision that, in will lawsuits, bankruptcy state courts are superseded by will courts in matters of core proceedings. The ruling involves the US$1.6 billion estate of J. Howard Marshall, J. Howard Marshall Jr. between Anna Nicole Smith and Pierce Marshall. The court ruled in favor of the estate of the deceased Pierce Marshall and the Texas Probate Court versus the estate of the deceased Vickie Lynn Marshall (a.k.a. Anna Nicole Smith) and the California Bankruptcy Court. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts
John Glover Roberts Jr. (born January 27, 1955) is an American lawyer and jurist who has served as the 17th chief justice of the United States since 2005. Roberts has authored the majority opinion in several landmark cases, including '' Nat ...
said that "... the Texas state decision controlled, after concluding that the Bankruptcy Court lacked the authority to enter final judgment on a counter claim that Vickie brought against Pierce in her bankruptcy proceeding. 1 To determine whether the Court of Appeals was correct in that regard, we must resolve two issues: (1) whether the Bankruptcy Court had the statutory authority under 28 U. S. C. §157(b) to issue a final judgment on Vickie's counterclaim; and (2) if so, whether conferring that authority on the Bankruptcy Court is constitutional ... We conclude that, although the Bankruptcy Court had the statutory authority to enter judgment on Vickie's counterclaim, it lacked the constitutional authority to do so."
* June 24
** New York
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becomes the sixth state to legalize same-sex marriage.
** Pixar Animation Studios' twelfth feature film, ''Cars 2'', the sequel to 2006's ''Cars (film), Cars'', is released in theaters.
* June 27
** The U.S. Supreme Court makes a Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, 7–2 decision that strikes down a California
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law enacted in 2005 that bans the sale of certain violent video games to children without parental supervision. The Court upholds the lower court decisions and revokes the law, ruling that video games were protected speech under the First Amendment
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as other forms of media. The ruling involves a freedom of speech case by The Entertainment Merchants Association against a California
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law. The court ruled in favor of The Entertainment Merchants Association, only on the overly broad status of the statute's wording of the minors' rights. Writing for the majority, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia said that "We consider whether a California law imposing restrictions on violent video games comports with the First Amendment
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...Because the Act imposes a restriction on the content of protected speech, it is invalid unless California can demonstrate that it passes strict scrutiny—that is, unless it is justified by a compelling government interest and is narrowly drawn to serve that interest. R. A. V., 505 U. S., at 395. The State must specifically identify an "actual problem" in need of solving, Playboy, 529 U. S., at 822–823, and the curtailment of free speech must be actually necessary to the solution, see R. A. V., supra, at 395. That is a demanding standard. "It is rare that a regulation restricting speech because of its content will ever be permissible." Playboy, supra, at 818. California cannot meet that standard...And finally, the Act's purported aid to parental authority is vastly overinclusive. Not all of the children who are forbidden to purchase violent video games on their own have parents who care whether they purchase violent video games."
** Former Illinois
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Governor Rod Blagojevich is found guilty of 17 of the 20 counts against him, including trying to sell President Barack Obama
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's Senate
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seat.
* June 28
** In baseball, a judge in the U.S. state of Delaware
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authorizes the Los Angeles Dodgers to enter into a $150 million bankruptcy financing deal after the club addresses concerns of Major League Baseball.
** Richard Poplawski is Capital punishment, sentenced to death in the murder of three Pittsburgh police officers in April 2009.
* June 29 –''Transformers: Dark of the Moon'' is released in theaters as the third film in the ''Transformers (film series), Transformers'' film series.
July
* July 1
**''The New York Times'' Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexual assault case, sexual assault case against former International Monetary Fund
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head Dominique Strauss-Kahn
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is on the verge of collapse due to concerns over the credibility of the alleged victim's testimony. A judge releases him from house arrest as prosecutors said that the maid had made false statements.
** Owners in the North American National Basketball Association start a Lockout (sports), lock out after failing to reach a new collective bargaining
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agreement.
** The Minnesota
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government shuts down after budget talks fail between Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Governor Mark Dayton and the Republican-controlled Minnesota Legislature.
** According to a 2012 U.S. Census Bureau estimate, for the first time, the majority of children under one year old are minority group, minorities.
** Leon Panetta is sworn in as the new United States Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Defense, succeeding Robert Gates.
* July 2 – ExxonMobil workers attempt to contain an oil spill on the Yellowstone River in the U.S. state of Montana
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.
* July 3 – A tourist boat List of shipwrecks in 2011#July, sinks in the Gulf of California off the coast of Baja California in Mexico with 23 people missing.
* July 5
** The US city of Phoenix, Arizona is hit by a large dust storm leaving thousands of people without power and grounding flights at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Phoenix Airport.
** Casey Anthony is found Death of Caylee Anthony, not guilty of first degree murder and manslaughter in the death of her daughter Caylee, but found guilty of four misdemeanor counts of giving false information to police.
* July 7
** The U.S. Supreme Court makes a controversial Leal Garcia v. Texas, 5–4 decision that Humberto Leal García, a Mexican people, Mexican national, should be executed in the US state of Texas
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despite concerns over whether the circumstances of his execution would breach international law.
** Casey Anthony trial, Casey Anthony is sentenced to four years for lying to law enforcement regarding the death of her child Caylee in the U.S. state of Florida
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but after credit for time served, will be released on July 17.
** 2011 Grand Rapids mass murder, Seven people are shot dead by Rodrick Dantzler in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
* July 8 – STS-135: In an added flight, Space Shuttle Atlantis, Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' of the U.S. Space Shuttle
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program is launched for its final time. This is also the final launch for the entire NASA
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NASA was established in 1958, succeedin ...
Space Shuttle
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program.
* July 12
** A three judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules that Jared Lee Loughner, the suspect in the 2011 Tucson shooting
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, has the right to refuse antipsychotic medication while he appeals the treatment prescribed by prison mental health authorities.
** CNN reports that the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives has lost track of 1,400 guns involved in Operation Fast and Furious aimed at tracing the flow of weapons to Mexican drug cartels.
** The United States Coast Guard ends aerial searches for seven American people, Americans still missing after a charter fishing boat sank in the Gulf of California off Mexico on July 3.
* July 14
** United States District Court for the District of Columbia, U.S. district court judge Reggie Walton declares a mistrial in the perjury trial of former baseball star Roger Clemens after prosecutors present evidence that Walton had previously ruled inadmissible. Walton will hold a hearing on September 2 to determine whether to hold a new trial.
** News International phone hacking scandal: The FBI is investigating reports that News Corporation (1980–2013), News Corporation sought to hack the phones of victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
** Borders Group, the once-major bookstore chain now in chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States, says that its arrangement with stalking horse bidder Najafi Companies has collapsed and it will seek a modification of bid procedures.
* July 15
** The Dawn (spacecraft), Dawn spacecraft arrives and settles into its one-year orbit around the minor planet 4 Vesta.
** Walt Disney Animation Studios' 51st feature film, ''Winnie the Pooh (2011 film), Winnie the Pooh'', is released in theaters. A revival of the studio's Winnie the Pooh (franchise), ''Winnie the Pooh'' franchise, it is met with strongly positive reception but middling box office performance. To date, it is Disney's most recent traditionally-animated film.
* July 17 – Japan wins the FIFA Women's World Cup 2011 by beating the USA 3–2 in the Penalty Shootout.
* July 18 – The U.S. city of Phoenix Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona
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, is hit by a haboob or dust storm.
* July 19
** Northern Mariana Islands Governor Benigno Fitial and Guam Governor Eddie Calvo state that they are in serious talks to potentially merge the U.S. territories of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.
** Sixteen alleged members of the Hacker (computer security), computer hacking group Anonymous (group), Anonymous are arrested in FBI raids across several states in the US.
** The Federal Bureau of Investigation
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(FBI) arrests an alleged agent of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence in the US state of Virginia for making illegal campaign contributions.
* July 21
** Two dozen people die throughout the week in a heat wave in the United States.
** STS-135: Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' touches down at the Shuttle Landing Facility
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at Kennedy Space Center
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, ending the 30-year shuttle program, which began with the launch of Space Shuttle Columbia, shuttle ''Columbia'' on April 12, 1981.
** Minnesota
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Governor Mark Dayton signs a Mark Dayton#Governor of Minnesota, budget agreement with Republicans in the Minnesota Legislature, ending a 20-day government shutdown.
* July 22 – ''Captain America: The First Avenger'', directed by Joe Johnston, is released by Marvel Studios
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as the fifth film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
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(MCU). It is the final MCU film to be distributed by Paramount Pictures.
* July 23 – Nearly 4,000 employees of the US Federal Aviation Administration are furloughed due to United States Congress, Congressional authorization for its programs lapsing.
* July 24 – Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party leaders call for the United States House Committee on Ethics to investigate claims that Rep David Wu of Oregon had sexual assault, sexually assaulted a teenager.
* July 25
** In American football, the NFL Players Association executive unanimously accepts a 10-year pay deal with team owners in the US National Football League.
** Nickelodeon launches a block of reruns of its 1990s programming to cater to its twentysomething viewers. Dubbed ''The '90s Are All That'', the block airs on its older-skewing sister channel, TeenNick.
* July 26
** The United States Post Office closure list is sent. Some 3,653 post offices were reviewed for possible closure.
** David Wu resigns as a member of the United States House of Representatives
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following allegations of an unwanted sexual encounter with an 18-year-old.
* July 27
**Maria Ridulph: a 7-year-old 1957 murder victim is exhumed.
** The United States Senate, in an exception to the 10-year limit, extends the term of the current FBI director, Robert Mueller.
August
* August 1 – The United States Congress votes on a deal to resolve the United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2011, United States debt-ceiling crisis with the House of Representatives passing it. U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords
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( D-Arizona
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) casts her first vote since her 2011 Tucson shooting, traumatic brain injury at the hands of a deranged assassin.
* August 2 – The United States Senate passes legislation to raise the debt ceiling in order to avert the 2011 US debt ceiling crisis and President Barack Obama
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signs it into law; it thus became the Budget Control Act of 2011.
* August 3 – It is announced that Jerry Lewis would no longer host any further Muscular Dystrophy Association, MDA telethons. Earlier this year, it was announced that Lewis was no longer the national chairman of the MDA.
* August 4
** Kraft Foods announces that it will split into two operations consisting of its North American grocery business and its global snack foods business.
** United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2011, United States debt-ceiling crisis: The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges 512 points (−4.3%) on economic worries, becoming the List of largest daily changes in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, worst day for stocks since December 2008 and, at this time, the 9th largest drop in United States history (See August 8).
* August 5
** NASA
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's Juno (spacecraft), Juno Spacecraft launches to Jupiter. The orbital insertion will occur in August 2016.
** United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2011, United States debt-ceiling crisis: After the U.S. trading markets close for the weekend, the Standard & Poor's
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credit rating agency downgrades the credit rating of the United States from AAA to AA+ with a negative outlook. This was the first downgrade of the US credit rating since it was first issued in 1917. Barack Obama
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's administration had told Standard and Poor's they made a nearly 2 trillion dollar error in their calculations. S&P acknowledged the error, but proceeded with the downgrade anyway.
* August 6
** A NATO Chinook helicopter 2011 Chinook shootdown in Afghanistan, crashes in the Sayd Abad district of Afghanistan's Wardak Province after being List of aviation accidents and incidents in the War in Afghanistan, shot down using rocket-propelled grenade by the Taliban with 38 deaths. At least 20 of the U.S. Navy SEALs killed in the attack were members of United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group, SEAL Team Six, the unit that carried out the Operation Neptune Spear, operation that killed Osama Bin Laden. The Associated Press and CNN later reported that none of the unit members that participated in the raid were involved. This was the single deadliest day for US troops since the War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan War began in 2001.
** The Hacker (computer security), computer hacking group Anonymous (group), Anonymous attacks 70 mostly rural law enforcement websites in the United States. Many of the sheriff's offices outsourced their websites to the media hosting company, Brooks-Jeffrey Marketing. If Brooks-Jeffrey's had been breached, hackers would have access to every website that the company hosted.
* August 7 – Ohio man 2011 Copley Township, Ohio shooting, Michael Hance kills seven people before being shot dead by police.
* August 8 – United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2011, United States debt-ceiling crisis: The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges another 635 points (−5.6%) in reaction to Standard and Poor's downgrade on August 5. It is the List of largest daily changes in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, 6th largest drop in United States history and the largest drop since December 2008.
* August 9
** United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2011, United States debt-ceiling crisis: The U.S. Federal Reserve announces it will keep interest rates at "exceptionally low levels" at least through mid-2013; but, it also makes no commitment for further quantitative easing. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the New York Stock Exchange as well as other world stock markets, recover after recent falls.
** The largest group of Wisconsin Senate recall elections, 2011, simultaneous recall elections in United States history ends with Republican Party (United States), Republicans keeping control of the Wisconsin State Senate, despite Democratic Party (United States), Democrats picking up 2 seats.
* August 10
**''New England Journal of Medicine'': A therapy destroys leukemia (advanced cases of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, or CLL) in three patients.
** United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2011, United States debt-ceiling crisis: Stocks dive again on Europe and economy fears. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 519.83 points, or 4.62% to 10719.94, more than wiping out the gains posted in Tuesday's sizable late-day rally. It was the Dow's fourth triple-digit move in five days and brings its declines since its April peak to more than 16%.
* August 12
** Judge sentences Ohio serial killer Anthony Sowell to Capital punishment in Ohio, death by lethal injection – he is believed to be responsible for 11 murders.
** United States Post Office considering budget cuts of cutting as many as 120,000 jobs.
* August 13
** Ames Straw Poll: Republican candidates for the party's nomination in the 2012 United States presidential election, 2012 presidential election face off in the informal Iowa contest. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann of List of United States Representatives from Minnesota, Minnesota finishes first place, ahead of runner-up Rep. Ron Paul of List of United States Representatives from Texas, Texas and former Governor of Minnesota Tim Pawlenty, who comes in third.
** Seven people are killed and 45 are injured when the Indiana State Fair stage collapse, main stage collapses at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis. The tragedy occurred in part from a hurricane-force wind gust ahead of an approaching severe thunderstorm. The scheduled event was to be a performance by the band Sugarland.
*August 14—The 2011 PGA Championship, played at the Atlanta Athletic Club, is won by American professional golfer, Keegan Bradley, defeating Jason Dufner in a playoff.
* August 15 – Google
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announces a proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility.
* August 17 – 2011 University of Miami athletics scandal, University of Miami football scandal: NCAA investigating claims by a former booster, Nevin Shapiro, who claims that he provided players with prostitutes, cars and other gifts over the past decade.
* August 19
** U.S. President Barack Obama, Obama provides temporary relief for Illegal immigration in the United States, illegal immigrants who are students, military veteran, veterans, the elderly, crime victims and those with family, including Same-sex marriage, same-sex partners, as part of immigration reform in the United States.
** Hewlett-Packard shares drop 20% on news that the company plans to spin-out its personal computer division into a separate company.
** Doctor Tyron Reece, who wrote nearly a million prescriptions for the painkiller hydrocodone in 2010, is being charged with assisting a Mexican prescription drug smuggling ring.
* August 20 – Striking Verizon union workers will return to work starting August 22, 2011, though their contract dispute isn't resolved.
* August 23 – A rare Eastern-seaboard 2011 Virginia earthquake, earthquake of magnitude 5.8 strikes Virginia. The Virginia Seismic Zone's faults ruptured, resulting in activity being felt in Washington, D.C., New York City and other cities.
* August 24
** A Russian Progress M-12M, Progress resupply vehicle that was destined for the International Space Station
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experienced a catastrophic engine failure. The unmanned craft failed to reach orbit and impacted in the Altai Republic.
** The ailing head of Apple Inc., Steve Jobs resigns.
* August 26 – The filming of government officials while on duty is protected by the First Amendment
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First or 1st may also refer to:
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* 1$T, American rapper, singer-songwriter, DJ, and reco ...
, said the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, United States First Circuit Court.
* August 28 – Hurricane Irene (2011), Hurricane Irene: A rare hurricane drives North up the mid-Atlantic and Northeast coast. Nine million homes lose power. Total Caribbean and U.S. fatalities and flooding damage are 55 dead and US$10 billion, respectively. The New England state of Vermont suffers its worst flooding in 100 years.
* August 30 – While reportedly on his way to surrender to police in the US city of Atlanta to face murder charges, former National Basketball Association player Javaris Crittenton is arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California.
* August 31
** Solyndra, a California
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solar panel company declares bankruptcy. Only 2 years earlier, Solyndra had received over $500 million from the federal government as requested by the Obama administration.
** The United States Department of Justice files a lawsuit in an attempt to stop the $39 billion Merger of AT&T and T-Mobile USA, merger between cell phone giants AT&T
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and T-Mobile
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.
September
* September 1 – Tropical Storm Lee (2011), Tropical Storm Lee: With memories of Hurricane Katrina (2005), Hurricane Katrina, a Gulf Coast of the United States, Gulf of Texas storm lands on New Orleans. After a storm track footprint into the Southeastern states, there are a total of 21 fatalities. * September 2 – An audit report from the United States Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found that last year illegal aliens fraudulently collected $4.2 billion from the Additional Child Tax Credit, a refundable credit meant for working families. The audit found that the means for the crime was as a result of vague U.S. law. * September 3 – A 47-year-oldNorth Carolina
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man is convicted of eight counts of second-degree murder in the shooting deaths at a nursing home on March 29, 2009 – the type of conviction means that he will not be eligible for the death penalty.
* September 5
**Bastrop County Complex fire, Wildfires rage across Texas
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. A fire near Bastrop, Texas burns 1,500 homes and , breaking the record for most homes destroyed in a single fire in Texas history.
** The new format, prime-time Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethons begin without Jerry Lewis the first telethon not to feature him. In six hours, the organization, which leads the fight against progressive muscle diseases, broadcast its 46th annual MDA Labor Day Telethon. The 2011 telethon raised $61,491,393 — up from the $58,919,838 achieved during the prior year's 21½-hour telethon.
* September 6 – Gunman Carson City IHOP shooting, Eduardo Sencion opens fire in an IHOP in Carson City, Nevada, killing three members of National Guard (United States), National Guard and one civilian before committing suicide.
* September 8 – U.S. President Barack Obama
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unveils the Barack Obama speech to joint session of Congress, September 2011, American Jobs Act to a joint-session of Congress
A congress is a formal meeting of the representatives of different countries, constituent states, organizations, trade unions, political parties, or other groups. The term originated in Late Middle English to denote an encounter (meeting of ...
. Critics label it as a "Third stimulus package".Alison Gendar and Thomas M. DeFrankPresident Obama punts to earlier time against NFL game after caving to GOP of televised jobs speech.
''New York Daily News, 9/1/2011. * September 11 ** The National September 11 Memorial & Museum, 9/11 National Memorial & Museum in New York City opens; the ceremony commemorates the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, 9/11 attacks. ** In tennis, Samantha Stosur of Australia wins the 2011 US Open – Women's Singles, Women's Singles in the 2011 US Open (tennis), 2011 US Open defeating
Serena Williams
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of the United States 6–2, 6–3.
* September 12
** Bank of America announces 30,000 layoffs.
** In tennis, Novak Djokovic of Serbia wins the 2011 US Open – Men's Singles, Men's Singles at the 2011 US Open (tennis), 2011 US Open defeating Rafael Nadal of Spain 6–2, 6–4, 6–7 (3–7), 6–1.
* September 13
** In what was called a referendum on U.S. President Barack Obama
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, Republican Bob Turner (New York politician), Bob Turner defeats Democratic Party (United States), Democrat David Weprin in a New York's 9th congressional district special election, 2011, special election for New York's 9th congressional district, the seat held previously by Anthony Weiner until he resigned amid a Weinergate, sexting scandal. Turner is the first Republican to represent this district in 88 years.
** The Fall television season officially kicks off with the first new show, ''Ringer (TV series), Ringer''.
* September 14
** In a DuPont v. Kolon Industries, court case concerning the theft of Kevlar-related trade secrets, DuPont is awarded US$920 million in damages.
** NASA
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NASA was established in 1958, succeedin ...
announces plans for a Space Launch System to replace the Space Shuttle
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program with the first flight tentatively scheduled for 2017.
* September 15
** The United States House of Representatives, House passes a bill that would severely limit the power of the National Labor Relations Board with a vote of 238–186. The NLRB had recently come under fire from Republicans for trying to prevent Boeing from opening a new Boeing 787, 787 Dreamliner production facility in South Carolina with non-union workers instead of in Washington (state), Washington state.
** Criminal questions arise over a United States Air Force general being pressured by the Obama administration to approve a plan by telecom company LightSquared to develop a nationwide satellite phone network. The company has backing by Democratic Party (United States), Democratic donors. LightSquared technology may be a Global Positioning System#Possible threat, threat to Global Positioning System guidance of U. S. missiles and airline Air traffic control systems.
** Walter Reed Army Medical Center closes. (it was merged into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland)
* September 16 – 2011 Reno Air Races crash: There are 11 dead and at least 75 injured, 25 critically, when a P-51D Mustang airplane crashes into the crowd at the annual Reno Air Races in Reno, Nevada.
* September 17 – Occupy Wall Street: Thousands march on Wall Street in response to high unemployment, record executive bonuses and extensive bailouts of the financial system.
* September 18 – The 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards for television programs broadcast in the United States are held in Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles with ''Mad Men'' winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, outstanding drama series and ''Modern Family'' winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Comedy.
* September 20 – The United States military officially ends its policy of Don't ask, don't tell allowing gay and lesbian personal to publicly declare their sexual orientation.
* September 22 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation
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arrests suspected members of the Hacker (computer security), computer hacking groups LulzSec and Anonymous (group), Anonymous in the US cities of Phoenix, Arizona and San Francisco, California.
* September 23
** 2011 NBA lockout: The ongoing labor dispute forces the National Basketball Association, NBA to cancel the first 43 preseason games of the 2011–12 NBA season.
** The Dow Jones Industrial Average has its worst week in nearly 3 years, falling 6.41% as new recession fears grow.
* September 27 – Andy Rooney announces his retirement from 60 Minutes after 33 years of providing commentary.
* September 28 – The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention links an 2011 American listeriosis outbreak, outbreak of listeriosis that has caused 23 deaths and 116 illnesses in 25 states to infected cantaloupes from Colorado.
* September 30
** After a manhunt that lasted more than two years, during a U.S. military operation in northern Yemen's Al Jawf Governorate, al-Jawf province, American General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, drones carried out a targeted killing of al-Qaida's leader in the Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Arabian Peninsula Anwar al-Awlaki while he traveled in a convoy together with his senior aides.
** ''Jessie (2011 TV series), Jessie'' debuts on Disney Channel
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.
October
* October 1 – 700 people are arrested while attempting to cross the Brooklyn Bridge during the Occupy Wall Street movement.
* October 3
** Amanda Knox is released from Italian prison following a successful appeal of her murder conviction.
** The U.S. Supreme Court announces that it won't hear a Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc., much-noted dispute on the width of the "first sale" doctrine in copyright law. The Supreme Court denied Vernor's petition for certiorari – the action affirms the lower court of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit which held that when the transfer of software to the purchaser materially resembled a sale it was, in fact, not a "sale with restrictions on use", giving rise to no right to resell the copy under the first-sale doctrine. As such, Autodesk could pursue an action for copyright infringement against Vernor, who sought to resell used versions of its software on eBay. The Ninth Circuit's decision means that the policy considerations involved in the case might affect motion pictures and libraries as well as sales of used software. The net effect of the Ninth Circuit's ruling (and now the Supreme Court's) is to limit the "You bought it, you own it" principle asserted by such organizations who would like to resell items.
** American cell phone service provider Sprint Nextel reportedly pays $20 billion for rights to Apple Inc., Apple's next iPhone 4S, mobile phone.
* October 4
** In basketball, the North American National Basketball Association cancels the remainder of the preseason due to the 2011 NBA lockout, with cancellation of games in the 2011–12 NBA season, regular season occurring if the lockout continues for another week.
** Voters in the U.S. state of West Virginia
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go to the polls for a West Virginia gubernatorial special election, 2011, gubernatorial special election with acting Governor, Democratic Party (United States), Democrat Earl Ray Tomblin, being elected as Governor of West Virginia.
* October 5 – Steve Jobs dies at the age of 56. He was an American computer engineer, who co-founded in 1976 Apple Inc., an electronics producer, which at many times has been the largest company in the world.
* October 7 – The New York Police Department, NYPD busts a Queens, New York, Queens-based identity theft and Organized retail crime, retail crime ring, arresting over 110 people. It was the largest identity theft ring in the history of the United States, making an annual profit of over $13 million.
* October 11
** The United States Senate passes economic sanctions on China due to so called low manipulation of the Chinese yuan, yuan.
** The United States Senate rejects the American Jobs Act in a procedural vote.
* October 12 – Scott Dekraai opens fire in a 2011 Seal Beach shooting, hair salon in Seal Beach, California, killing eight, including his ex-wife. He is later arrested.
* October 14 – The United States under President Barack Obama
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deployed 100 troops in Uganda to assist in the capture of Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony in the current Lord's Resistance Army insurgency, insurgency.
* October 16 – British auto racing driver Dan Wheldon
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dies in a 15-car pileup while participating in the 2011 IZOD IndyCar World Championship, final race of the 2011 IndyCar Series season, 2011 IndyCar season at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
* October 22 – Republican Governor Bobby Jindal wins a second term as Governor of Louisiana.
* October 28 – The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Texas Rangers (baseball), Texas Rangers in seven games to win their 11th world series.
November
* November 4 – After announcing his retirement on September 27, Andy Rooney dies at the age of 92.
* November 7 – Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant coach for the Pennsylvania State University, Penn State University football team, is arrested on nearly 40 counts of molesting eight boys over a 15-year period. The charges come following a grand jury investigation, which also alleges attempts to cover up the incidents and failure to report the incidents to law enforcement. In the days following the report, longtime coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier (already heavily criticized for alleged inaction) are fired.
* November 8 – Election Day
** Republican Phil Bryant wins the Mississippi gubernatorial election, 2011, 2011 Mississippi Gubernatorial election.
** Voters in Mississippi
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reject a life-at-conception proposal.
** Incumbent Democratic Party (United States), Democrat Steve Beshear wins the Kentucky gubernatorial election, 2011, 2011 Kentucky Gubernatorial election.
** Republicans gain control of the Virginia Senate, with Republican Lieutenant Governor of Virginia Bill Bolling breaking all tie votes.
** Arizona Senate majority leader Russell Pearce is recalled from office.
** Voters in Ohio
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Ohio Senate Bill 5 Voter Referendum, Issue 2 (2011), reject a law that would ban collective bargaining
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for government employees.
* November 11 – U.S. President Barack Obama
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arrives in Honolulu, Hawaii
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with Asia-Pacific leaders to attends the APEC United States 2011, APEC Summit.
* November 14 – The United States Supreme Court announces it will make its ruling on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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sometime in 2012.
* November 21 – The US national debt tops the United States's Gross domestic product, GDP for the first time since the late 1940s.
* November 26 – NASA
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's Mars Science Laboratory launches with the Curiosity rover. The scheduled landing date is August 6, 2012.
* November 29 – AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines announces a sudden bankruptcy. The company's stock plunges 84% on the news.
December
* December 2 – The U.S. unemployment rate falls to 8.6% – the lowest since early 2009.
* December 7 – Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption and trying to sell Barack Obama
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's former Senate seat.
* December 9
** Republican party nomination hopeful Newt Gingrich fuels controversy by referring to Palestinian people, Palestinians as an "invented people".
** Joshua Komisarjevsky, one of the suspects in the Cheshire, Connecticut, home invasion murders, Cheshire, Connecticut home invasion murders, is sentenced to Capital punishment in Connecticut, death by lethal injection.
** SnoBar Cocktails launches a line of alcohol infused ice cream and ice-pops.
* December 10 – Robert Griffin III, the quarterback with the Baylor Bears football, Baylor Bears college football team, wins the Heisman Trophy.
* December 13 – Iran rejects a U.S. request to return an RQ-170 unmanned reconnaissance aircraft that was recently captured by Iranian forces. Iranian officials claimed they used a cyber attack
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to capture the aircraft and that they are extracting data from it.
* December 15 – ''Impractical Jokers'' debuts its first episode on TruTV.
* December 18 – The last American troops are withdrawn from Iraq, ending the Iraq War.
* December 31–January 2 – A 2011–12 Los Angeles arson attacks, string of 52 arson fires are set in the Los Angeles area, causing up to $2 million in damage. A foreign national named Harry Burkhart, reportedly angry at Americans, is arrested for the crimes.
Ongoing
* War in Afghanistan (2001–2021), War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) * Iraq War (2003–2011) * 2010–2012 Southern United States droughtUndated
* Community Advantage Loan program is launched by the U.S. Small Business Administration. * Philadelphia Game Lab is founded. *''Sifuna Okwethu'', documentary film is released. * Snapette, a location-based shopping mobile application and website is launched. * Study Archive file format, a data compression and File archiver, archive format, is created by The Mental Faculty for flashcard applications.Births
* August 10 – Jeremy Maguire, actor * October 6 – Ryan Kaji, YouTube starDeaths
January
* January 1
** Charles Fambrough, musician and composer (b. 1950 in the United States, 1950)
** Billy Joe Patton, amateur golfer (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
* January 2
** William R. Ratchford, William Richard Ratchford, U.S. Representative from Connecticut from 1979 to 1985 (b. 1934 in the United States, 1934)
** Anne Francis, actress (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
** Peter Hobbs (actor), Peter Hobbs, French-born American actor (b. 1918 in France, 1918)
** Richard Winters, World War II soldier (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
* January 5 – John Ertle Oliver, geophysicist (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
* January 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1066 – Following the death of Edward the Confessor on the previous day, the Witan meets to confirm Harold Godwinson as the new King of England; Harold is crowned the same day, sparking a succession crisis that will ...
– Donald J. Tyson, businessman (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
* January 7
Events Pre-1600
* 49 BC – The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army. This prompts the tribunes who support him to flee to Ravenna, where Caesar is waiting.
* 1325 – Alfonso I ...
– Thomas J. White, construction company executive and philanthropist (b. 1920 in the United States, 1920)
* January 8
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – Jin Huaidi becomes emperor of China in succession to his father, Jin Huidi, despite a challenge from his uncle, Sima Ying.
* 871 – Æthelred I and Alfred the Great lead a West Saxon army to repel an inv ...
** John Roll
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, US federal judge and 2011 Tucson shooting
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victim (b. 1947 in the United States, 1947)
** Christina-Taylor Green, documentary subject and 2011 Tucson shooting
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victim (b. 2001 in the United States, 2001)
* January 10
Events Pre-1600
* 49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.
* 9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the ...
– John Dye, actor (b. 1963 in the United States, 1963)
* January 18
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later.
* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
*1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chin ...
– Sargent Shriver, Peace Corps founder (b. 1915 in the United States, 1915)
* January 21 – Dennis Oppenheim, artist (b. 1938 in the United States, 1938)
* January 23 – Jack LaLanne, François Henri "Jack" LaLanne, fitness and dietary health trainer (b. 1914 in the United States, 1914)
* January 24 – Bernd Eichinger, German film producer and director, died in Los Angeles (b. 1949 in Germany, 1949)
* January 25
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.
* 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty ...
– Daniel Bell, sociologist (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
* January 27 – Charlie Callas, comedian and actor (b. 1927 in the United States, 1927)
* January 29 – Milton Babbitt, composer (b. 1916 in the United States, 1916)
* January 30 – John Barry (composer), John Barry, British film score composer, died in Oyster Bay (town), New York, Oyster Bay, New York
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* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* '' ...
(b. 1933 in the United Kingdom, 1933)
* January 31
Events Pre-1600
* 314 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades.
*1208 – The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on the ...
– Charles Kaman, aeronautical engineer (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
February
* February 3 – LeRoy Grannis, surfing photographer (b. 1917 in the United States, 1917)
* February 4 – Tura Satana, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1938 in Japan, 1938)
* February 5 – Peggy Rea, actress (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
* February 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1579 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop.
1601–1900
* 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death ...
– Kenneth Harry Olsen, electrical engineer (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
* February 7
Events Pre-1600
* 457 – Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor.
* 987 – Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II.
*1301 &nda ...
– Maria Altmann, litigant versus Nazi Austria (b. 1916 in Austria)
* February 8
** Marvin Sease, singer (b. 1946 in the United States, 1946)
** Tony Malinosky, baseball player (b. 1909 in the United States, 1909)
* February 10 – Bill Justice, cartoonist (b. 1914 in the United States, 1914)
* February 12
** Betty Garrett, actress (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
** Kenneth Mars, actor (b. 1935 in the United States, 1935)
* February 14
Events Pre-1600
* 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt.
* 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis t ...
– George Shearing, pianist (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
* February 15
Events Pre-1600
* 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus
* 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia.
* 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tib ...
– Charles Epstein (geneticist), Charles Epstein, geneticist and Unabomber victim (b. 1933 in the United States, 1933)
* February 16
** Neal Amundson, Neal R. Amundson, mathematical modeling in chemical engineering (b. 1916 in the United States, 1916)
** Len Lesser, Leonard King "Len" Lesser, actor (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
* February 18
Events Pre-1600
*1229 – The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.
* 1268 &n ...
– Walter Seltzer, film producer (b. 1914 in the United States, 1914)
* February 19 – Ollie Matson, American football player (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
* February 21
** Edwin D. Kilbourne, physician and vaccine scientist (b. 1920 in the United States, 1920)
** Dwayne McDuffie, comic book writer, editor and animator (b. 1962 in the United States, 1962)
** Russell W. Peterson, 66th governor of Delaware from 1969 till 1973. (b. 1916 in the United States, 1916)
** Haila Stoddard, actress (b. 1913 in the United States, 1913)
** Judith Sulzberger, physician and newspaper director (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
* February 26 – Greg Goossen, baseball player and actor (b. 1945 in the United States, 1945)
* February 27
Events Pre-1600
* 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Nicene Christianity.
* 425 – The University of Constantin ...
** Frank Buckles, soldier, last living U.S. World War I veteran (b. 1901 in the United States, 1901)
** Duke Snider, baseball player (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
** Gary Winick, film director (b. 1961 in the United States, 1961)
* February 28
** Peter J. Gomes, professor and theologian (b. 1942 in the United States, 1942)
** Nick LaTour, actor (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
** Jane Russell, actress (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
March
* March 1
Events Pre-1600
* 509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor Dioclet ...
** Leonard Lomell, soldier (b. 1920 in the United States, 1920)
** John M. Lounge, astronaut (b. 1946 in the United States, 1946)
* March 4
** Charles Jarrott, British film director, died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, Woodland Hills, California
California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...
(b. 1927 in the United Kingdom, 1927)
** Johnny Preston, singer (b. 1939 in the United States, 1939)
* March 6 – Jean Bartel, Miss America Pageant winner and actress (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
* March 8 – Mike Starr (musician), Mike Starr, musician (b. 1966 in the United States, 1966)
* March 9
Events Pre-1600
*141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.
*1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
*1226 &ndas ...
– David S. Broder, journalist (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
* March 11
Events Pre-1600
* 222 – Roman emperor Elagabalus is murdered alongside his mother, Julia Soaemias. He is replaced by his 14-year old cousin, Severus Alexander.
* 843 – Triumph of Orthodoxy: Empress Theodora II restores the ven ...
– Hugh Martin, film music composer (b. 1914 in the United States, 1914)
* March 15
Events Pre-1600
* 474 BC – Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce.
* 44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar takes place.
* 493 &ndash ...
** Nate Dogg, rapper (b. 1969 in the United States, 1969)
** Marty Marion, baseball player (b. 1917 in the United States, 1917)
* March 17
Events Pre-1600
* 45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
* 180 – Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age of eigh ...
** Ferlin Husky, singer and musician (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
** Mirabelle Thao-Lo, murder victim (b. 2010 in the United States, 2010)
* March 18
Events Pre-1600
* 37 – Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ''(aka Caligula = Little Boots)'' emperor.Tacitus, ''Annals'' V.10.
* 1068 – An earthquake in the Levant and the Ara ...
** Warren Christopher, 63rd United States Secretary of State from 1993 till 1997. (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
** Drew Hill, American football player (b. 1956 in the United States, 1956)
* March 19
Events Pre-1600
* 1277 – The Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1277 is concluded, stipulating a two-year truce and renewing Venetian commercial privileges in the Byzantine Empire.
*1279 – A Mongol victory at the Battle of Yamen ends ...
– Robert Ross (entrepreneur), Robert Ross, medical school founder (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
* March 23
** Jean Bartik, computer engineer (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
** Elizabeth Taylor, British-born American actress (b. 1932 in the United Kingdom, 1932)
* March 24
Events Pre-1600
* 1199 – King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6.
*1387 – English victory over a Franco- Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate off ...
– Lanford Wilson, writer (b. 1937 in the United States, 1937)
* March 25
Events Pre-1600
* 421 – Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto.
* 708 – Pope Constantine becomes the 88th pope. He would be the last pope to vi ...
– Thomas Eisner, biologist, died in Ithaca, New York, Ithaca, New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* '' ...
(b. 1929)
* March 26
** Paul Baran, internet pioneer, died in Palo Alto, California
California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...
(b. 1926)
** Harry Coover, inventor (b. 1917 in the United States, 1917)
** Geraldine Ferraro, United States Representative from New York from 1979 till 1985. (b. 1935 in the United States, 1935)
* March 27
** Farley Granger, actor (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
** Dorothea Puente, murderer (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
* March 28
** Lee Hoiby, composer (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
** Guy M. Townsend, Air Force brigadier general and test pilot (b. 1920 in the United States, 1920)
* March 31
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine the Great, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian.
*1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at V ...
– Mel McDaniel, singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1942 in the United States, 1942)
April
* April 1 – Lou Gorman, baseball manager (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
* April 2
** Larry Finch, college basketball player and coach (b. 1951 in the United States, 1951)
** John C. Haas, chemical engineer (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
** Bill Varney, film sound editor (b. 1934 in the United States, 1934)
* April 3
Events Pre-1600
* 686 – Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.
* 1043 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
* 1077 – The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created ...
– William Prusoff, pharmacologist (b. 1920 in the United States, 1920)
* April 4
Events Pre-1600
* 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.
* 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground.
* 611 – ...
– Ned McWherter, 46th governor of Tennessee from 1987 till 1995. (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
* April 5
Events Pre-1600
* 823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I.
* 919 – The second Fatimid invasion of Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, sets out from Raqqada at the head of his a ...
** Baruch Samuel Blumberg, Nobel physician (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
** Larry Shepard, baseball manager (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
* April 6
Events Pre–1600
*46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) at the Battle of Thapsus.
* 402 – Stilicho defeats the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.
*132 ...
** Skip O'Brien, actor (b. 1950 in the United States, 1950)
** F. Gordon A. Stone, chemist (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925).
* April 7 – Edward Edwards (serial killer), Edward Edwards, murderer and one-time member of the FBI's most wanted list (b. 1933 in the United States, 1933)
* April 9
** Jerry Lawson (engineer), Jerry Lawson, video game pioneer (b. 1940 in the United States, 1940)
** Sidney Lumet, film director (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
* April 10
Events Pre-1600
* 428 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
* 837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles).
* 1407 ...
– Homer Smith (American football), Homer Smith, American football player and coach (b. 1931)
* April 12
** Sidney Harman, businessman and publisher (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
** Eddie Joost, baseball player and manager (b. 1916 in the United States, 1916)
* April 14
Events Pre-1600
* 43 BC – Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of Mark Antony in the Battle of Forum Gallorum.
* 69 – Vitellius, commanding Rhine-based armies, defeats Roman emperor Otho ...
** Walter Breuning, current oldest living man and third oldest man ever (b. 1896 in the United States, 1896)
** Cyrus Harvey Jr., film distributor (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
** William Lipscomb, Nobel chemist (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
** Arthur Marx, writer (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
* April 16
** William A. Rusher, magazine publisher (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
** Sol Saks, television writer (b. 1910 in the United States, 1910)
* April 17 – Joel Colton, historian (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
* April 18
Events Pre-1600
* 796 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The ''patrician'' Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days.
* 1428 – Peace of Ferrara betw ...
– William Donald Schaefer, 58th governor of Maryland from 1987 till 1995. (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
* April 19
** Lynn Chandnois, American football player (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
** Norm Masters, American football player (b. 1933 in the United States, 1933)
* April 20
Events Pre-1600
* 1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.
1601–1900
* 1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament.
* 1657 – English Admiral Robert Blake destroy ...
** Chris Hondros, photojournalist (b. 1970 in the United States, 1970)
** Madelyn Pugh, television writer (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
** Gerard Smith (musician), Gerard Smith, guitarist (b. 1974 in the United States, 1974)
* April 21
** Harold Garfinkel, sociologist (b. 1917 in the United States, 1917)
** Max Mathews, electrical engineer (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
* April 22 – Merle Greene Robertson, archaeologist (b. 1913 in the United States, 1913)
* April 23 – Phillip Shriver, historian and college president (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
* April 25
Events Pre-1600
* 404 BC – Admiral Lysander and King Pausanias of Sparta blockade Athens and bring the Peloponnesian War to a successful conclusion.
* 775 – The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against the ...
– Joe Perry (American football), Joe Perry, American football player (b. 1927 in the United States, 1927)
* April 26 – Jim Mandich, American football player (b. 1948 in the United States, 1948)
* April 27
Events Pre-1600
* 247 – Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ''ludi saeculares''.
* 395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of ...
– Marian Mercer, actress (b. 1935 in the United States, 1935)
* April 28
Events Pre-1600
* 224 – The Battle of Hormozdgan is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V effectively ending the Parthian Empire.
* 357 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory ...
– William Campbell (film actor), William Campbell, actor (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
May
* May 1
** Steven A. Orszag, mathematician (b. 1943 in the United States, 1943)
** William O. Taylor II, journalist (b. 1932 in the United States, 1932)
** J. Ernest Wilkins Jr., nuclear physicist (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
* May 2
Events Pre-1600
* 1194 – King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
* 1230 – William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great.
* 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and impris ...
– David Sencer, physician (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
* May 3
** Robert Brout, American-born Belgian physicist (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
** Jackie Cooper, actor (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
* May 4
** Mary Murphy (actress), Mary Murphy, actress (b. 1931 in the United States, 1931)
** Sada Thompson, actress (b. 1927 in the United States, 1927)
* May 5
** Arthur Laurents, screenwriter (b. 1917 in the United States, 1917)
** Dana Wynter, actress, died in Ojai, California (b. 1931)
* May 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance.
* 1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Sp ...
** Lawrence Johnson, inventor (b. 1913 in the United States, 1913)
** Horace Freeland Judson, science historian (b. 1931 in the United States, 1931)
** Dick Walsh (executive), Dick Walsh, baseball manager (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
* May 7
Events Pre-1600
* 351 – The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out after his arrival at Antioch.
* 558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses, twenty years after its construction. Justinian I imm ...
** Ross Hagen, actor (b. 1938 in the United States, 1938)
** Robert Stempel, automobile executive (b. 1933 in the United States, 1933)
* May 8
Events Pre-1600
* 453 BC – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin.
* 413 – Emperor Honorius signs a ...
– Corwin Hansch, chemist (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
* May 9
** Henry Feffer, surgeon (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
** Jeff Gralnick, journalist (b. 1939 in the United States, 1939)
* May 10
Events Pre-1600
* 28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.
*1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edw ...
** Bill Bergesch, baseball manager (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
** Burt Reinhardt, journalist (b. 1920 in the United States, 1920)
* May 11
** Maurice Goldhaber, physicist, died in East Setauket, New York (b. 1911 in Austria)
** Leo Kahn (entrepreneur), Leo Kahn, businessman (b. 1916 in the United States, 1916)
* May 12
Events Pre-1600
* 254 – Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I, becoming the 23rd pope of the Catholic Church, and immediately takes a stand against Novatianism.
* 907 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang d ...
** Charles F. Haas, film and television director (b. 1913 in the United States, 1913)
** Jack Jones (journalist), Jack Jones, journalist (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
** Jack Keil Wolf, electrical engineer (b. 1935 in the United States, 1935)
* May 13
Events Pre-1600
*1373 – Julian of Norwich has visions of Jesus while suffering from a life-threatening illness, visions which are later described and interpreted in her book '' Revelations of Divine Love''.
* 1501 – Amerigo Vespu ...
– Mel Queen (pitcher/outfielder), Mel Queen, baseball manager (b. 1942 in the United States, 1942)
* May 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1027 – Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior King of the Franks.
*1097 – The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade.
* 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forc ...
** Murray Handwerker, businessman (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
** Joseph Wershba, journalist (b. 1920 in the United States, 1920)
* May 15 – Barbara Stuart, actress (b. 1935 in the United States, 1935)
* May 16
Events Pre-1600
* 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.
*1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
* 1364 ...
– Douglas Blubaugh, athlete (b. 1934 in the United States, 1934)
* May 17 – Harmon Killebrew, baseball player (b. 1936 in the United States, 1936)
* May 19
Events
Pre-1600
* 639 – Ashina Jiesheshuai and his tribesmen assaulted Emperor Taizong at Jiucheng Palace.
* 715 – Pope Gregory II is elected.
* 1051 – Henry I of France marries the Rus' princess, Anne of Kiev.
*1445 &n ...
** Phyllis Avery, actress (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
** David H. Kelley, Canadian archaeologist (b. 1924 in the United States)
** Tom West, computer engineer (b. 1939 in the United States, 1939)
* May 20
Events Pre-1600
* 325 – The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church.
* 491 – Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed '' Augusta'' is able to choose her ...
** Steve Rutt, early pioneer of video animation (b. 1945 in the United States, 1945)
** Randy Savage
Randall Mario Poffo (November 15, 1952 – May 20, 2011), better known by his ring name "Macho Man" Randy Savage, was an American professional wrestler best known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and World Championship Wrestl ...
, wrestler (b. 1952 in the United States, 1952)
* May 22
Events Pre-1600
* 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu.
* 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
* 11 ...
– Joseph Brooks (songwriter), Joseph Brooks, songwriter (b. 1938 in the United States, 1938)
* May 24 – Mark Haines, lawyer and television news anchor (b. 1946 in the United States, 1946)
* May 25
Events Pre-1600
* 567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
*240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Tol ...
– Paul J. Wiedorfer, World War II soldier (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
* May 26
Events Pre-1600
* 17 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe.
* 451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empire take ...
– Irwin D. Mandel, dentist (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
* May 27
Events Pre-1600
* 1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed.
* 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
* 1153 &ndash ...
** Jeff Conaway, actor (b. 1950 in the United States, 1950)
** Gil Scott-Heron, poet and musician (b. 1949 in the United States, 1949)
* May 28
Events Pre-1600
* 585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from w ...
** Leo Rangell, physician (b. 1913 in the United States, 1913)
** John H. Sinfelt, chemical engineer (b. 1931 in the United States, 1931)
* May 29
Events Pre-1600
* 363 – The Roman emperor Julian defeats the Sasanian army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sasanian capital, but is unable to take the city.
* 1108 – Battle of Uclés: Almoravid troops under ...
– Bill Clements, 42nd and 44th governor of Texas from 1979 to 1983 and 1987 to 1991 (b. 1917 in the United States, 1917)
* May 30
** Clarice Taylor, actress (b. 1917 in the United States, 1917)
** Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Nobel physicist in medicine (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
* May 31
Events Pre-1600
* 455 – Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome.
* 1223 – Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River: Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeat K ...
** Pauline Betz, tennis player (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
** Andy Robustelli, American football player (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
** Philip Rose (theatrical producer), Philip Rose, stage and film producer (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
June
* June 2
Events Pre-1600
* 455 – Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.
* 1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city; the second siege began five days later. 1601 ...
** Walter R. Peterson Jr., 81st governor of New Hampshire from 1969 to 1973 (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
** Geronimo Pratt, Black Panther, died in Tanzania (b. 1947 in the United States, 1947)
* June 3
Events Pre-1600
* 350 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
* 713 – The Byzantine Empire, Byzantine emperor Philippikos Ba ...
** James Arness, actor, brother of Peter Graves (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
** Andrew Gold, singer (b. 1951 in the United States, 1951)
** John Henry Johnson, American football player (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
** Jack Kevorkian, physician (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
* June 4 – Lawrence Eagleburger, 62nd Secretary of State from 1992 to 1993 (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
* June 6
Events Pre-1600
* 913 – Constantine VII, the eight-year-old illegitimate son of Leo VI the Wise, becomes nominal ruler of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of a seven-man council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, appointed b ...
– John R. Alison, World War II Air Force pilot (b. 1912 in the United States, 1912)
* June 7
** Genaro Hernández, boxer (b. 1966 in the United States, 1966)
** Leonard B. Stern, television writer, director and producer (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
* June 8 – Jim Northrup (baseball), Jim Northrup, baseball player (b. 1939 in the United States, 1939)
* June 9 – Godfrey Myles, American football player (b. 1968 in the United States, 1968)
* June 12
** Carl Gardner, singer (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
** Alan Haberman, businessman (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
** Kathryn Tucker Windham, writer (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
** Laura Ziskin, film producer (b. 1950 in the United States, 1950)
** Bessie Higginbottom, school (b. 1968 in the United States, 1968)
** Ben Higginbottom, school (b. 1968 in the United States, 1968)
** Happy Higginbottom, school (b. 1968 in the United States, 1968)
* June 13 – Betty Neumar, murder suspect (b. 1931 in the United States, 1931)
* June 15 – Bob Banner, television producer (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
* June 16 – Claudia Bryar, actress (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
* June 17 – George M. White, architect (b. 1920 in the United States, 1920)
* June 18
** Clarence Clemons, musician (b. 1942 in the United States, 1942)
** Bob Pease, electrical engineer (b. 1940 in the United States, 1940)
* June 19 – Don Diamond, actor (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
* June 20
** Ryan Dunn, reality television star (b. 1977 in the United States, 1977)
** Robert H. Widmer, aeronautical engineer (b. 1916 in the United States, 1916)
* June 22
** David Rayfiel, film screenwriter (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
** Robert Miller (art dealer), Robert Miller, art dealer (b. 1939 in the United States, 1939)
* June 23
** Gene Colan, comic book artist (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
** Peter Falk, actor (b. 1927 in the United States, 1927)
** Fred Steiner, television and film composer (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
* June 24 – F. Gilman Spencer, newspaper editor (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
* June 25
** Shelby Grant, actress and wife of Chad Everett (b. 1936 in the United States, 1936)
** Alice Playten, actress (b. 1947 in the United States, 1947)
* June 26
** Edith Fellows, actress (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
** Robert Morris (cryptographer), Robert Morris, cryptographer (b. 1932 in the United States, 1932)
* June 27
** Lorenzo Charles, basketball player (b. 1963 in the United States, 1963)
** Elaine Stewart, actress (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
* June 29 – Billy Costello (boxer), Billy Costello, boxer (b. 1956 in the United States, 1956)
July
* July 1 – Bud Grant (broadcaster), Bud Grant, television producer (b. 1934 in the United States, 1934)
* July 4
** Wes Covington, baseball player (b. 1932 in the United States, 1932)
** William G. Thrash, general in the United States Marine Corps (b. 1916 in the United States, 1916)
* July 5 – Armen Gilliam, basketball player (b. 1964 in the United States, 1964)
* July 6 – John Mackey (American football), John Mackey, American football player (b. 1941 in the United States, 1941)
* July 7
** Humberto Leal Garcia Jr., murderer, died in Huntsville, Texas (b. 1973 in Mexico)
** Dick Williams, baseball player and manager (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
* July 8
** Roberts Blossom, actor (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
** William R. Corliss, physicist (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
** Sam Denoff, television writer and producer (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
** Pete Duranko, American football player (b. 1943 in the United States, 1943)
** Betty Ford, wife of Gerald Ford (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
* July 10 – Deacon Turner, American football player (b. 1955 in the United States, 1955)
* July 11
** Tom Gehrels, Dutch-born American astronomer (b. 1925 in the Netherlands)
** Rob Grill, singer-songwriter and bass player (born 1943 in the United States, 1943)
* July 12
** Ame Deal, murder victim (b. 2000 in the United States, 2000)
** Leiby Kletzky, murder victim (b. 2002 in the United States, 2002)
** Sherwood Schwartz, television writer and producer (b. 1916 in the United States, 1916)
* July 13 – Jerry Ragovoy, songwriter and producer (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
* July 14 – Noel Gayler, World War II naval aviator, admiral and bureaucrat (b. 1914 in the United States, 1914)
* July 15
** Cornell MacNeil, operatic baritone (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
** John S. Toll, physicist and college administrator (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
* July 17
** Jim Kincaid, television news correspondent (b. 1934 in the United States, 1934)
** Alex Steinweiss, album cover artist (b. 1917 in the United States, 1917)
* July 18
** Nat Allbright, sports commentator (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
** Rudiger D. Haugwitz, German-born American chemist (b. 1932 in Germany, 1932)
** Edson Stroll, actor (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
* July 21
** Franz Alt (mathematician), Franz Alt, mathematician (b. 1910 in Austria)
** Elliot Handler, businessman (b. 1916 in the United States, 1916)
** Harold J. Kosasky, Canadian-born American physician (b. c. 1928 in Canada, 1928)
** Bruce Sundlun, 71st Governor of Rhode Island from 1991 to 1995 (b. 1920 in the United States, 1920)
* July 22
** Tom Aldredge, actor (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
** Linda Christian, Mexican-born American actress, first Bond girl and wife of Tyrone Power (b. 1923 in Mexico)
** Charles Taylor Manatt, lawyer and political party leader (b. 1936 in the United States, 1936)
* July 23
** Robert Ettinger, academic, writer and father of cryonics (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
** John Shalikashvili, Polish-born American 13th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (b. 1936 in Poland, 1936)
** Elmer B. Staats, 5th Comptroller General of the United States from 1966 to 1981 (b. 1914 in the United States, 1914)
* July 24
** Dan Peek, singer (b. 1950 in the United States, 1950)
** G. D. Spradlin, actor (b. 1920 in the United States, 1920)
** Skip Thomas, American football player (b. 1950 in the United States, 1950)
* July 26 – Elmer Lower, television journalist and executive (b. 1913 in the United States, 1913)
* July 27
** Hideki Irabu, Japanese and American baseball player (b. 1969 in Japan)
** Jerome Liebling, photographer and film producer (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
** Polly Platt, film producer, wife of Peter Bogdanovich (b. 1939 in the United States, 1939)
* July 28 – John Marburger, physicist (b. 1941 in the United States, 1941)
* July 29
** John E. Anderson, John Edward Anderson, businessman (b. 1917 in the United States, 1917)
** Max Harry Weil, physician (b. 1927 in Switzerland)
* July 30 – Daniel D. McCracken, computer scientist (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
August
* August 2
** Baruj Benacerraf, Nobel immunologist (b. 1920 in Venezuela)
** James Ford Seale, murderer (b. 1935 in the United States, 1935)
* August 3
** Ray Patterson (basketball), Ray Patterson, basketball executive (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
** Bubba Smith, American football player (b. 1945 in the United States, 1945)
* August 4 – Sherman White (basketball), Sherman White, American college basketball player and convicted City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal, game fixer (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
* August 5 – Francesco Quinn, actor, son of Anthony Quinn (b. 1963 in Italy)
* August 6
** Bernadine Healy, physician (b. 1944 in the United States, 1944)
** Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and first woman to attend Harvard Medical School, died in Quezon City, Philippines (b. 1911 in the Philippines, 1911)
** John W. Ryan, college administrator (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
* August 7
** Hugh Carey, 51st Governor of New York from 1975 to 1982 (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
** Charles C. Edwards, physician (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
** Mark Hatfield, 29th governor of Oregon from 1959 to 1967 (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
** Paul Meier (statistician), Paul Meier, mathematician (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
** Charles Wyly, businessman (b. 1933 in the United States, 1933)
* August 8 – Harry Hillel Wellington, lawyer and college administrator (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
* August 11
** Don Chandler, American football player (b. 1934 in the United States, 1934)
** George Devol, first Unimate, industrial robot inventor (b. 1912 in the United States, 1912)
* August 12
** Ernie Johnson (pitcher), Ernie Johnson, baseball player (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
** Charles P. Murray Jr., World War II soldier (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
* August 14 – Fritz Bach, Fritz H. Bach, physician (b. 1934 in Austria)
* August 16 – Pete Pihos, American football player (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
* August 18
** Maurice M. Rapport, neuroscience biochemist (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
** Scotty Robertson, basketball coach (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
** Jerome J. Shestack, lawyer (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
* August 20
** Reza Badiyi, Iranian-born American television director (b. 1930 in Iran, 1930)
** Risk factor#History, William B. Kannel, physician (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
** William I. Wolff, physician and Colonoscopy co-developer (b. 1916 in the United States, 1916)
* August 22
** Nickolas Ashford, singer (b. 1942 in the United States, 1942)
** Jerry Leiber, songwriter (b. 1933 in the United States, 1933)
** Sanford H. Winston, World War II soldier (b. 1920 in the United States, 1920)
* August 24 – Mike Flanagan (baseball), Mike Flanagan, baseball player and manager (b. 1951 in the United States, 1951)
* August 26
** Patrick C. Fischer, computer scientist and Unabomber target (b. 1935 in the United States, 1935)
** Donn A. Starry, soldier (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
* August 27 – Keith Tantlinger, mechanical engineer (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
* August 29
** Pauline Morrow Austin, meteorologist (b. 1916 in the United States, 1916)
** David P. Reynolds, businessman (b. 1915 in the United States, 1915)
September
* September 3 – Don Fambrough, American college football coach (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
* September 4 – Lee Roy Selmon, American football player (b. 1954 in the United States, 1954)
* September 5 – Charles S. Dubin, television director (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
* September 6
** Bruce B. Dan, physician (b. 1946 in the United States, 1946)
** Michael S. Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg (b. 1947 in the United States, 1947)
** Malcolm Prine, baseball executive (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
* September 10 – Cliff Robertson, film actor (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
* September 13
** John Calley, film studio executive (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
** Sam DeLuca, American football player (b. 1936 in the United States, 1936)
* September 14 – Malcolm Wallop, Senator for Wyoming (b. 1933 in the United States, 1933)
* September 15
** Frances Bay, Canadian film and television actress, died in Tarzana, California (b. 1919 in Canada, 1919)
** Bill Taylor (baseball), Bill Taylor, baseball player (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
* September 16 – Dave Gavitt, basketball coach and administrator (b. 1937 in the United States, 1937)
* September 17
** Julius Blank, mechanical engineer (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
** Charles H. Percy, U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1967 to 1985 (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
* September 18
** Bayless Manning, lawyer and college administrator (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
** Suicide of Jamey Rodemeyer, Jamey Rodemeyer, suicide victim (b. 1997 in the United States, 1997)
* September 19
** Thomas Capano, murderer (b. 1949 in the United States, 1949)
** Dolores Hope, singer, wife of Bob Hope (b. 1909 in the United States, 1909)
* September 20 – Oscar Handlin, historian (b. 1915 in the United States, 1915)
* September 21
** Troy Davis, murderer (b. 1968 in the United States, 1968)
** Michael Julian Drake, astronomer (b. 1946 in the United States, 1946)
* September 22 – John H. Dick, basketball player and U.S. Navy admiral (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
* September 23
** Orlando Brown Sr. (American football), Orlando Brown Sr., American football player and successful litigant against the National Football League (b. 1970 in the United States, 1970)
** Danny Litwhiler, baseball player and college coach (b. 1916 in the United States, 1916)
* September 24
** Richard Koch (developmental disability physician), Richard Koch, physician, advocate for phenylketonuria neonate screening (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
** Tony Knap, American football coach (b. 1914 in the United States, 1914)
* September 26
** David Zelag Goodman, film screenwriter (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
** Jerry Haynes, television actor (b. 1927 in the United States, 1927)
* September 27
** Wilson Greatbatch, electrical engineer and the inventor of the implantable cardiac pacemaker (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
** Fritz Manes, film producer (b. 1932 in the United States, 1932)
* September 28 – Claude R. Kirk Jr., 36th governor of Florida from 1967 to 1971 (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
* September 30 –
** Anwar al-Awlaki, terrorist, died in al-Jawf Governorate, Yemen (b. 1971 in the United States, 1971)
** Lee Davenport, physicist (b. 1915 in the United States, 1915)
** Peter Gent, American football player and writer (b. 1942 in the United States, 1942)
** Mike Heimerdinger, American football coach, died in Mexico (b. 1952 in the United States, 1952)
** Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian Nobel immunologist, died in New York City (b. 1943 in Canada)
** Marv Tarplin, guitarist and songwriter (b. 1941 in the United States, 1941)
October
* October 1 – J. Willis Hurst, physician (b. 1920 in the United States, 1920)
* October 2 – Don Lapre, conartist (b. 1964 in the United States, 1964)
* October 3
** George Harrison (swimmer), George Harrison, swimmer (b. 1939 in the United States, 1939)
** Aden Meinel, astronomer (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
* October 4
** Joseph R. Aceti, television sports director (b. 1935 in the United States, 1935)
** Doris Belack, actress (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
** Kenneth H. Dahlberg, World War II pilot (b. 1917 in the United States, 1917)
* October 5
** Derrick Bell, lawyer and college administrator (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
** Steve Jobs, computer engineer (b. 1955 in the United States, 1955)
** Charles Napier (actor), Charles Napier, actor (b. 1936 in the United States, 1936)
** Fred Shuttlesworth, minister (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
* October 6 – William S. Dietrich II, executive (b. 1938 in the United States, 1938)
* October 7
** Paul Kent (actor), Paul Kent, actor (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
** Andrew Laszlo, film cinematographer (b. 1926 in Hungary)
** Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Colombian businessman, died in New York City (b. 1919 in Columbia)
** Mildred Savage, author (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
* October 8
** Al Davis, American football executive (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
** David Hess, actor and songwriter (b. 1936 in the United States, 1936)
** Milan Puskar, pharmaceutical executive (b. 1934 in the United States, 1934)
** Mikey Welsh, bassist (b. 1971 in the United States, 1971)
** Roger Williams (pianist), Roger Williams, pianist (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
* October 10
** Ray Aghayan, costume designer (b. 1928 in Iran)
** Albert Rosellini, 15th governor of Washington from 1957 to 1965 (b. 1910 in the United States, 1910)
* October 11 – Bob Galvin, electronics executive (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
* October 12
** Patricia Breslin, actress, wife of Art Modell (b. 1931 in the United States, 1931)
** Paul Leka, songwriter (b. 1943 in the United States, 1943)
** Dennis Ritchie, computer scientist (b. 1941 in the United States, 1941)
* October 13 – Barbara Kent, actress (b. 1907 in Canada)
* October 14 – Morris Chafetz, psychiatrist (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
* October 16
** Elouise P. Cobell, Native American litigant (b. 1945 in the United States, 1945)
** Pete Rugolo, Italian-born American television composer (b. 1915 in Italy, 1915)
** Dan Wheldon
Daniel Clive Wheldon (22 June 1978 – 16 October 2011) was a British motor racing driver who won the 2005 IndyCar Series season, 2005 IndyCar Series Drivers' Championship for Andretti Autosport, Andretti Green Racing (AGR). He won the Indiana ...
, British race car driver, died in Las Vegas Valley, Las Vegas (b. 1978 in the United Kingdom, 1978)
* October 17 – Edgar Villchur, audio equipment inventor (b. 1917 in the United States, 1917)
* October 18 – Norman Corwin, radio, film and television screenwriter (b. 1910 in the United States, 1910)
* October 20 – Barry Feinstein, photographer (b. 1931 in the United States, 1931)
* October 22 – Robert Pierpoint (journalist), Robert Pierpoint, television journalist (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
* October 23 – Herbert A. Hauptman, mathematician and Nobel laureate in chemistry (b. 1917 in the United States, 1917)
* October 25 – Tom McNeeley, boxer (b. 1937 in the United States, 1937)
* October 30 – David Utz, surgeon (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
November
* November 2
** John F. Burke (physician), John F. Burke, physician (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
** Sid Melton, actor (b. 1917 in the United States, 1917)
* November 3
** Matty Alou, baseball player (b. 1938 in the Dominican Republic)
** Bob Forsch, baseball player (b. 1950 in the United States, 1950)
** Morris Philipson, publisher (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
* November 4
** Andy Rooney, columnist (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
** Theadora Van Runkle, film costume designer (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
* November 6 – Hal Kanter, film and television writer (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
* November 7
** Joe Frazier, boxer (b. 1944 in the United States, 1944)
** Andrea True, actress and singer (b. 1943 in the United States, 1943)
* November 8
** Hal Bruno, magazine and television journalist (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
** Heavy D, Jamaican-born American rapper and actor (b. 1967 in Jamaica)
** Bil Keane, cartoonist (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
** Ed Macauley, basketball player (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
* November 9 – Roger Christian (ice hockey), Roger Christian, ice hockey player (b. 1935 in the United States, 1935)
* November 11 – William Aramony, charity organization fraudster (b. 1927 in the United States, 1927)
* November 15
** Moogy Klingman, keyboardist and songwriter (b. 1950 in the United States, 1950)
** Oba Chandler, murderer (b. 1946; executed)
* November 19 – Ira Michael Heyman, lawyer and college administrator (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
* November 21
** George Gallup Jr., pollster (b. 1930 in the United States, 1930)
** Anne McCaffrey, American-born Irish writer (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
* November 22
** Svetlana Alliluyeva, writer (b. 1926 in the Soviet Union)
** Lynn Margulis, biologist (b. 1938 in the United States, 1938)
* November 23 – Jim Rathmann, race car driver (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
* November 24 – Jeno Paulucci, businessman (b. 1918 in the United States, 1918)
* November 25
** Judy Lewis, actress, psychologist and daughter of Clark Gable and Loretta Young (b. 1935 in the United States, 1935)
** Frederik Meijer, businessman (b. 1919 in the United States, 1919)
** T. Franklin Williams, physician (b. 1921 in the United States, 1921)
* November 26 – Ron Lyle, boxer (b. 1941 in the United States, 1941)
* November 27 – Judd Woldin, composer (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
* November 28
** Charles T. Kowal, astronomer (b. 1940 in the United States, 1940)
** Lloyd J. Old, physician (b. 1933 in the United States, 1933)
* November 30
** Carl Robie, swimmer (b. 1945 in the United States, 1945)
** Bill Waller, 55th governor of Mississippi from 1972 to 1976 (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
December
* December 1
** Bill McKinney, actor (b. 1931 in the United States, 1931)
** Alan Sues, screen actor (b. 1926 in the United States, 1926)
* December 4 – Patricia C. Dunn, businesswoman (b. 1953 in the United States, 1953)
* December 5
** Paul M. Doty, biochemist (b. 1920 in the United States, 1920)
** Joe Lonnett, baseball player and coach (b. 1927 in the United States, 1927)
* December 6 – Dobie Gray, singer (b. 1940 in the United States, 1940)
* December 7
** Harry Morgan, film and television actor (b. 1915 in the United States, 1915)
** Jerry Robinson, comic book artist (b. 1922 in the United States, 1922)
* December 12
** Bert Schneider, television and film producer (b. 1933 in the United States, 1933)
** Gene Summers (architect), Gene Summers, (b. 1928 in the United States, 1928)
* December 13 – Russell Hoban, writer (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
* December 14 – Joe Simon, comic book writer, artist, editor and publisher (b. 1913 in the United States, 1913)
* December 15
** Andy Carey, baseball player (b. 1931 in the United States, 1931)
** Christopher Hitchens, English writer, died in Houston, Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...
(b. 1949 in the United Kingdom)
* December 22 – Bennie Ellender, American football player and coach (b. 1925 in the United States, 1925)
* December 24
** Cheeta, Cheetah-Mike, notable chimpanzee (b. c. 1931 in the United States, 1931)
** Jody Rainwater, musician and radio personality (b. 1920 in the United States, 1920)
* December 25
** Ben Breedlove, internet personality (b. 1993 in the United States, 1993)
** Adrienne Cooper, klezmer and Yiddish vocalist (b. 1946 in the United States, 1946)
** Andrew Geller, architect (b. 1924 in the United States, 1924)
** Jim Sherwood, musician (b. 1942 in the United States, 1942)
** Simms Taback, author, graphic artist and illustrator (b. 1932 in the United States, 1932)
* December 26
** Houston Antwine, American football player (b. 1939 in the United States, 1939)
** Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Mexican actor, died in New York City (b. 1940 in Mexico, 1940)
** Joe Bodolai, television comedy writer and producer (b. 1948 in the United States, 1948)
** Sean Collins (surf forecaster), Sean Collins, surfer and surf forecaster (b. 1952 in the United States, 1952)
** Barbara Lea, singer and actress (b. 1929 in the United States, 1929)
** Sam Rivers (jazz musician), Sam Rivers, musician and composer (b. 1923 in the United States, 1923)
** James Rizzi, artist (b. 1950 in the United States, 1950)
* December 31 – Glenn Lord, editor (b. 1931 in the United States, 1931)
See also
* 2011 in American music * 2011 in American soccer * 2011 in American television * List of American films of 2011 * May 2011 tornado outbreak * Timeline of United States history (2010–present)References
External links
* {{Year in North America, 2011 2011 in the United States, 2010s in the United States 2011 by country, United States 2011 in North America, United States Years of the 21st century in the United States