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Michael Cacoyannis was a Greek Cypriot director, screenwriter, filmmaker, producer, playwright, actor, and lawyer. He is best known for writing, directing, producing, and editing Z…
Michael Cacoyannis, Cypriot-Greek director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922)
Álvaro Arroyo González was a Colombian salsa and tropical music singer, composer and songwriter. He is considered one of the greatest performers of Caribbean and salsa music in his…
Joe Arroyo, Colombian singer-songwriter and composer (born 1955)
Thomas William Borton was an American jazz saxophonist, songwriter and composer, and was the founder and CEO of Los Angeles Post Music, Inc.
Tom Borton, American jazz saxophonist, songwriter and composer (born 1956)
Richard Drew Harris was an American professional football player who was a defensive end who played seven seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He was an All-American in 1…
Richard Harris, American-Canadian football player and coach (born 1948)
Sakyo Komatsu was a Japanese science fiction writer and screenwriter. He was one of the most well known and highly regarded science fiction writers in Japan.
Sakyo Komatsu, Japanese author and screenwriter (born 1931)
Margaret Hannah Olley was an Australian painter. She held over ninety solo exhibitions during her lifetime.
Margaret Olley, Australian painter and philanthropist (born 1923)
Abdul Fatah Younis Al-Obeidi was a Libyan military officer and politician. He served as Libya's interior minister until his resignation on 22 February 2011 when he defected to the …
Abdul Fatah Younis, Libyan general (born 1944)
Robert Peterson was an American basketball player. He played three seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), from 1953 to 1956.
Bob Peterson, American basketball player (born 1932)
William, Prince of Wales, is the heir apparent to the British throne. He is the elder son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales.
Watched by a worldwide television audience of tens of millions, Prince William and Catherine Middleton were married at W
Bulgaria is a country in Europe and a member state of the European Union.
The Russian river cruise liner Bulgaria was caught in a storm in Tatarstan on the Volga River and sank in several…
The Guantánamo Bay files leak began on 24 April 2011, when WikiLeaks, along with The New York Times, NPR and The Guardian and other independent news organizations, began publishin…
Secret documents relating to detainees at the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camp were released on WikiLeaks an
The 2011 Super Outbreak was the largest and costliest tornado outbreak ever recorded, taking place in the Southern, Midwestern, and Northeastern United States from April 25 to 28, …
During the most active day of the 2011 Super Outbreak 218 tornadoes killed 317 people across 16 U
The Conservative Party of Canada, sometimes referred to as the Tories, is a federal political party in Canada. The party sits at the centre-right to right of the Canadian political…
The Conservative Party of Canada won enough seats in the federal election to establish their first majority government
On May 2, 2011, the United States conducted Operation Neptune Spear, in which SEAL Team Six shot and killed Osama bin Laden at his "Waziristan Haveli" in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Bin …
Osama bin Laden was killed by U
The 2011 Lorca earthquake was a moderate 5.1 Mw earthquake that occurred 6:47 p.m. CEST on 11 May 2011, near the town of Lorca, causing significant localized damage in the Region o…
An earthquake registering Mw 5
A double bombing occurred on 13 May 2011 in Shabqadar Fort in Charsadda District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. 98 people were killed when two suicide bombs exploded i…
Two bomb explosions in Charsadda District, Pakistan, killed 98 people and wounded 140 others
The Oprah Winfrey Show is an American daytime talk show that was hosted by Oprah Winfrey. The show ran in syndication for twenty-five seasons from September 8, 1986, to May 25, 201…
The final episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest-rated daytime talk show in U
Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Located in the Pacific Northwest at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, it is the 28th-most populo…
Residents of Portland, Oregon, held a rally called Hands Across Hawthorne in response to an attack against a gay couple
Semi-professional sports are sports in which athletes are not participating on a full-time basis, but still receive some payment. Semi-professionals are not amateur because they re…
The semi-professional English football club Gedling Town F
The June 2011 Christchurch earthquake was a shallow magnitude 6.0 Mw earthquake that occurred on 13 June 2011 at 14:20 NZST. It was centred at a depth of 7 km (4.3 mi), about 5 km …
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The June 2011 Christchurch earthquake was a shallow magnitude 6.0 Mw earthquake that occurred on 13 June 2011 at 14:20 NZST. It was centred at a depth of 7 km (4.3 mi), about 5 km …
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Tabloid journalism is a popular style of largely sensationalist journalism, which takes its name from the tabloid newspaper format: a small-sized newspaper also known as a half bro…
The last edition of the British tabloid News of the World was published, closing due to allegations that it hacked the…
On 11 July 2011, at Evangelos Florakis Naval Base, situated at Mari, Larnaca District in Cyprus, a large amount of ammunition and military explosives self-detonated, killing 13 peo…
An explosion at the Evangelos Florakis Naval Base killed 13 people, including the head of the Cyprus Navy.
Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig owned by Transocean and operated by the BP company. On 20 April 2010, while…
The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill tha