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| Date |
Headline |
| January 8, 2011 |
Arizona shooting leaves six dead and 14 injured, including US Representative Gabrielle Giffords |
| February 11, 2011 |
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigns after 18 days of protests |
| March 11, 2011 |
9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, causing widespread damage and a nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant |
| May 1, 2011 |
Osama bin Laden, leader of Al-Qaeda, is killed by US forces in Pakistan |
| July 7, 2011 |
News Corporation's News of the World tabloid is shut down amid a phone hacking scandal |
| August 5, 2011 |
Standard & Poor's downgrades the US credit rating from AAA to AA+ |
| October 20, 2011 |
Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi is captured and killed by rebel forces |
| November 26, 2011 |
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il dies, and is succeeded by his son Kim Jong-un |
| December 15, 2011 |
US troops officially withdraw from Iraq, ending the Iraq War |
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