Created: 2012-07-31 19:41Updated: 2012-07-31 22:43Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011Notebook: Notebook Stack/Web History of AZ
Monday May 2, 2011 - Osama bin Laden killed by SEAL Team Six
Thursday May 5, 2011 - CF meets with Zoe in her office the morning of the day he leaves for Austin
Friday May 6, 2011 - Meets with Grabmal Surveying, LP and discovers that the Water Treatment survey has completed. That they have no paid positions available, but can offer him an unpaid internship to survey the land use around the historic trees in the city.
May 17 – Vesak (Buddhism) Buddha's Birthday
May 26 – Former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladić, wanted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, is arrested in Serbia.
June 3 – Jack Kevorkian, American euthanasia advocate (b. 1928)
June 5 – Arab Spring: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh travels to Saudi Arabia for treatment of an injury sustained during an attack on the presidential palace. Protesters celebrate his transfer of power to his Vice-President Abd al-Rab Mansur al-Hadi.
June 7 - Shavuot begins
June 12
Arab Spring: Thousands of Syrians flee to Turkey as Syrian troops lay siege to Jisr ash-Shugur.
Clarence Clemons, American musician and actor (b. 1942)
July 7 – The world's first artificial organ transplant is achieved, using an artificial windpipe coated with stem cells.
July 8 – Betty Ford, American feminist, activist, and philanthropist (b. 1918)
July 9 – South Sudan secedes from Sudan, per the result of the independence referendum held in January.
July 21 – Space Shuttle Atlantis lands successfully at Kennedy Space Center after completing STS-135, concluding NASA's space shuttle program.
July 22 – 77 people are killed in twin terrorist attacks in Norway after a bombing in the Regjeringskvartalet government center in Oslo and a shooting at a political youth camp on the island of Utøya.
July 23 - Robert Ettinger, American academic (b. 1918)
July 28 – Abdul Fatah Younis, Libyan army commander (b. 1944)
July 31
In Thailand over 12.8 million people are affected by severe flooding. The World Bank estimates damages at 1,440 billion baht (US$45 billion). Some areas are still six feet under water, and many factory areas remained closed at the end of the year. 815 people are killed, with 58 of the country's 77 provinces affected.
Arab Spring: Because of the uncertaintities associated with a clamp-down of the free press, there are believed to be at least 121 people killed in a Syrian Army tank raid on the town of Hama and over 150 people are reportedly killed across the country. The total dead throughout Syria may never be known, but an estimate as of September 24 is 3,000.
August 1 - Ramadan begins
August 3 – Bubba Smith, American football player and actor (b. 1945)
August 5 - NASA announces that its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured photographic evidence of possible liquid water on Mars during warm seasons.
August 20–28 – Arab Spring and the Libyan civil war: In the Battle of Tripoli, Libyan rebels take control of the nation's capital, effectively overthrowing the government of Muammar Gaddafi.