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The 2011 Groundhog Day blizzard [3] [4] [5] was a powerful and historic winter storm that affected large swaths of the United States and Canada from January 31 to February 2, 2011, especially on Groundhog Day. [3] [6] During the initial stages of the storm, some meteorologists predicted that the system would affect over 100 million people in ...
February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; ... 1922 – Bhimsen Joshi, Indian vocalist of the Hindustani classical music tradition (d. 2011) [42]
The 2011 Wisconsin protests were a series of demonstrations in the state of Wisconsin in the United States beginning in February involving as many as 100,000 protesters [ 3] opposing the 2011 Wisconsin Act 10, also called the "Wisconsin Budget Repair bill."
t. e. 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. The year marked the start of a series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world ...
April 14 – 16 – A tornado outbreak and severe thunderstorms kill at least 43 people across the Southern United States, with fatalities occurring in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama, North Carolina and Virginia. It is the deadliest U.S. tornado outbreak to occur in three years. [88] April 15 – Rio is released in theaters.
Six collaboration singles topped the chart. Pop singers Adele, Britney Spears, Katy Perry and Rihanna each earned two number-one songs during the year. [a] One of Adele's songs, "Rolling in the Deep", was the best-performing single of 2011, topping the Billboard Year-End Hot 100. [ 4] She became the fourth solo female to have multiple songs ...
The 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2010 in the United States and took place on February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST (8:30 p.m. EST ). During the ceremony, Academy Awards (commonly called the ...
February 24 – Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-gheit announced that former Vice President Omar Suleiman had survived an assassination attempt on February 4, 2011, when a group of unidentified men opened fire on Suleiman's car from a stolen ambulance in Cairo. One of Suleiman's bodyguards was killed in the attack. March