2011, year

 Year 2011 OTT

 Year 2011 CE

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Civilian Events
A Tunisian street vendor dies after setting himself on fire a month earlier, sparking anti-government protests in Tunisia and later other Arab nations. These protests become known collectively as the Arab Spring.

Terra's first artificial organ transplant is achieved, using an artificial trachea coated with stem cells.

Space Shuttle Atlantis lands successfully at Kennedy Space Center after completing STS-135, concluding NASA's Space Shuttle program.

NASA announces that its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured photographic evidence of possible liquid water on Mars during warm seasons.

Juno, the first solar-powered spacecraft on a mission to Jupiter, is launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Terra's global population reaches seven billion.

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, its most elaborate Martian exploration vehicle to date, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center.

Simon van der Meer dies. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 CE for contributions to the CERN project which led to the discovery of the W and Z particles, two of the most fundamental constituents of matter.

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc dies.

John McCarthy, American computer scientist and cognitive scientist dies. McCarthy was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence. He coined the term "artificial intelligence".

The fourth natural satellite of Pluto, Kerberos, was discovered by Terran astronomers.

Military Events
U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the militant group Al-Qaeda, has been killed on May 2, 2011 during an American military operation in Pakistan.

The United States formally declares an end to the Iraq War.