Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

2011 in the United States

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Remove ads

Events in the year 2011 in the United States.

Quick facts Decades:, See also: ...
Remove ads

Incumbents

Federal government

Nancy Pelosi (D-California) (until January 3)
John Boehner (R-Ohio) (since January 5)
More information Governors and lieutenant governors ...
Remove ads

Events

January

Thumb
January 8: 2011 Tucson shooting – US Rep. Gabby Giffords is among 14 injured; 6 others are killed.
Thumb
January 31February 2: Groundhog Day blizzard – Satellite image of the storm on the evening of February 1 over the American Midwest

February

Thumb
February 24: STS-133: Space Shuttle Discovery launches for the final time.

March

Thumb
March 18: Artist's rendering of NASA's Messinger orbiting Mercury
Thumb
March 19: French, British and American forces launch attacks on pro-Gaddafi troops in Libya in support of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973.
Thumb
March 21: U.S. President Barack Obama (second left) and his wife of First Lady Michelle Obama (left) meets with Chilean President Sebastián Piñera (second right) and his wife of First Lady Cecilia Morel at the La Moneda Palace in Santiago, Chile, on March 21, 2011.

April

Thumb
April 4: Japanese Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa given an Operation Tomodachi banner.
Thumb
2011 Super Outbreak – Satellite image of the storm on the evening of April 27 over the American Southeast
339 total fatalities
Thumb
April 27: In response to the Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories by the mainstream media, that Obama was not born in the United States, Obama releases his original birth certificate form.

May

Thumb
May 2: Death of Osama bin Laden
Thumb
May 19: Map of Israel with pre-1967 borders.

June

July

Thumb
July 21: The final mission of the Space Shuttle program, STS-135, ends as Atlantis lands at Kennedy Space Center.
Thumb
July 22: U.S. president Barack Obama meets with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key makes a statement to the press conference at the Oval Office in the White House, on July 22, 2011.
Thumb
July 24: An image of 4 Vesta taken by the Dawn spacecraft from a distance of 3,200 miles (5,200 km)
Thumb
July 26: U.S. president Barack Obama signs the condolence book for a victims of the 2011 Norway attacks, during a visit to the Norwegian ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C.

August

Thumb
August 28: Hurricane Irene

September

October

Thumb
October 5: Death of American computer entrepreneur and inventor Steve Jobs

November

Thumb
November 11: U.S. President Obama and Asia-Pacific leaders at the APEC United States Delegates in Honolulu, Hawaii, on November 11, 2011.

December

Thumb
December 11: U.S. President Obama's family at the Oval Office in the White House, before the Christmas Day.

Ongoing

Remove ads

Births

Deaths

January

Thumb
Sargent Shriver

February

Thumb
Kenneth Mars
Thumb
Duke Snider
Thumb
Jane Russell

March

Thumb
Warren Christopher
Thumb
Elizabeth Taylor
Thumb
Farley Granger

April

Thumb
William Lipscomb
Thumb
Sidney Lumet

May

Thumb
Jackie Cooper
Thumb
Randy Savage
Thumb
Jeff Conaway
Thumb
Gil Scott-Heron

June

Thumb
Jack Kevorkian
Thumb
Lawrence Eagleburger
Thumb
Clarence Clemons
Thumb
Ryan Dunn
Thumb
Peter Falk

July

Thumb
Betty Ford

August

Thumb
Baruj Benacerraf
Thumb
Bubba Smith

September

Thumb
Cliff Robertson

October

Thumb
Steve Jobs
Thumb
Charles Napier

November

Thumb
Joe Frazier

December

Thumb
Harry Morgan
Remove ads

See also

References

Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads