May 2011 calendar

Events

• 01 May 2011 Pope John Paul II is beatified.
• 02 May 2011 US Special Forces kill Osama bin Laden, the FBI's most wanted man and suspected mastermind behind September 11 attacks.
• 03 May 2011 Reaction to Osama bin Laden's death:
• 04 May 2011 2011 Syrian uprising
• 05 May 2011 Libyan civil war 2011
• 06 May 2011 Yemen 2011 Protests: Protests are continuing in Yemen
• 07 May 2011 2011 Syrian uprising
• 08 May 2011 Protests in Syria 2011:
• 09 May 2011 2011 Syrian uprising: The Syrian Army advances on anti-government protesters in a western suburb.
• 10 May 2011 2011 Syrian uprising
• 11 May 2011 2011 Syrian Uprising: Syrian Army Tanks shell Bab Amro, a suburb in the city Homs. At least five people are killed.
• 12 May 2011 Students in Aleppo are the latest victims of the Syrian military's crackdown on protesters.
• 13 May 2011 India: The Communist Party of India (Marxist), which lost West Bengal Assembly elections to Trinamool Congress in India, ended the 34-year rule of the State's longest democratically elected Communist government. [1]
• 14 May 2011 2011 Libyan Civil War:
• 15 May 2011 2011 Bahraini uprising:
• 16 May 2011 The European Union has agreed to a EUR78ampnbspbillion rescue package for Portugal. The bailout loan will equally be split between the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism and the European Financial Stability Facility.
• 17 May 2011 Historic first visit by Queen Elizabeth II to the Republic of Ireland. This was the first visit by a British monarch in Ireland since 1911's visit of George V to Queen Mary.
• 18 May 2011 Three Tunisian security personnel are killed during a clash between gunmen in northern Tunisia.
• 19 May 2011 Syria condemns the United States' decision to impose sanctions against President Bashar al-Assad as a response to continuing anti-government protests.
• 20 May 2011 Protests in Syria 2011:
• 21 May 2011 ''Dawn'' is Pakistan's largest English language newspaper and begins publishing thousands of diplomatic cables from the United States that it obtained through a deal with WikiLeaks or Julian Assange. These cables reveal that Pakistani forces requested the United States to intensify its drone strikes against insurgents in Pakistani territory. This request has not been made public by Pakistani authorities.
• 22 May 2011 Protests in Yemen 2011:
• 23 May 2011 As the attack by Pakistani Taliban on a Pakistan Navy station at Karachi continues, more explosions are reported.
• 24 May 2011 In southern Tunisia, clashes break out between Libyan refugees fleeing civil war in Libya.
• 25 May 2011 At least seven people were killed when a suicide bomber from Pakistani Taliban attacked a Peshawar police station. (AFP via Yahoo! News),
• 26 May 2011 Ratko Mladic is a former commander of the Bosnian Serb Army and is wanted for war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. He was arrested in Serbia.
• 27 May 2011 Libyan civil war 2011
• 28 May 2011 Libyan Civil War 2011: New explosions heard in Tripoli, Libyan Capital. NATO bombing continues.
• 29 May 2011 NATO kills civilians in Afghanistan
• 30 May 2011 Twelve people are killed in an explosion at an army barracks in northern Nigeria.
• 31 May 2011 Afghanistan War:

Famous Birthday

• Bear Jarecki

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Famous Deaths

• Seve Ballesteros

  Spanish golfer, arguably one of the best Europeans to ever play the game.

• Jackie Cooper

  American actor on-screen from age three in 1925 as an adorable top child actor.

• Edward Hardwicke

  English actor (Born 1932).

• Claude Choules

  One of two surviving British veterans of World War I.

• Harmon Killebrew

  American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2011).

• Michael Baze

  American horse racing jockey (Born 1987).

• Thanasis Veggos

  Greek actor and director (d. 2011).

• Lionel Rose

  Australian boxer and singer (d. 2011).

• Sergo Kotrikadze

  Georgian footballer (Born 1936).

• Wouter Weylandt

  Belgian cyclist (Born 1984).

• Ted Lowe

  English snooker commentator (Born 1920).

• Derek Boogaard

  Canadian professional hockey player (Born 1982).

• Yosale Merimovich

  Israeli football player and manager (Born 1924).

• George Webley

  British broadcaster, composer, bandleader and musician (Born 1957).

• Allyson Hennessy

  Trindadian television presenter.

• Derek Boogaard

  Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1982).

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