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George Christopher Band was an English mountaineer. He was the youngest climber on the 1953 British expedition to Mount Everest on which Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became th…
George Band, Taiwanese-English mountaineer and author (born 1929)
Patrick Carl Fischer was an American computer scientist, a noted researcher in computational complexity theory and database theory, and a target of the Unabomber.
Patrick C. Fischer, American computer scientist and academic (born 1935)
John Thomas "Mac" McAleese, MM was a Scottish soldier who took part in several late 20th century conflicts with the British Army's Royal Engineers and the Special Air Service. Duri…
John McAleese, Scottish sergeant (born 1949)
Bernard Gallacher was a Scottish professional footballer who made 113 appearances in the English Football League, playing predominantly at left-back.
Bernie Gallacher, English footballer (born 1967)
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
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…
A series of riots took place between 6 and 7 August 2011 in cities and towns across England, which saw looting and arson, as well as mass deployment of police and the deaths of fiv…
A series of riots broke out in several London boroughs and in cities and towns across England in response to the…
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 …
A 6
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.
Juno is a NASA space probe orbiting the planet Jupiter. Built by Lockheed Martin and operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral A…
NASA launched the Juno probe to Jupiter as part of the New Frontiers program.
The moment magnitude scale is a measure of an earthquake's magnitude based on its seismic moment. Mw was defined in a 1979 paper by Thomas C. Hanks and Hiroo Kanamori. Before Hanks…
A 5.8 MW earthquake struck the Piedmont region of Virginia, and was felt by more people than any other quake in U.S.…
The Mexican drug war is an ongoing asymmetric armed conflict between the Mexican government and various drug trafficking syndicates. When the Mexican military intervened in 2006, t…
Mexican drug war: Fifty-two people were killed in an arson attack at a casino in Monterrey, Mexico.
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