2011
2011 (MMXI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2011th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 11th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 2nd year of the 2010s decade.
A series of protests and government overthrows, known as the Arab Spring, swept through the Middle East in 2011.
In 2011, the nation of Samoa only had 364 days as it moved across the International Date Line skipping December 30, 2011; it is now 24 hours ahead of American Samoa.[2][3]
The U.S. national security team gathered in the White House Situation Room to monitor the progress of Operation Neptune Spear
Osama bin Laden
Randy Savage
Gil Scott-Heron
Jack Kevorkian
Frederick Chiluba
Otto von Habsburg
Amy Winehouse
Jack Layton
Vicco von Bülow
Rudolf Mössbauer
Wangari Maathai
Ralph M. Steinman
Steve Jobs
Muammar Gaddafi
Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Joe Frazier
Anne McCaffrey
Gary Speed
Harry Morgan
Cesária Évora
Kim Jong-il
Václav Havel