< Portal:Current events

January 2011 was the first month of that common year. The month, which began on a Saturday, ended on a Monday after 31 days.

Portal:Current events

This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from January 2011.

January 1, 2011 (2011-01-01) (Saturday)
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  • Specialist prison guards and firefighters are sent into Ford Open Prison in West Sussex, United Kingdom, after 40 inmates started a riot. Part of the prison has been destroyed by fire. (BBC)
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January 2, 2011 (2011-01-02) (Sunday)
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January 3, 2011 (2011-01-03) (Monday)
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  • Investments in Facebook totaling US$500 million lead to speculation that its value could be as high as US$50 billion. (CNN)
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January 4, 2011 (2011-01-04) (Tuesday)
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  • Russia begins an operation to free 500 people stranded in ships by ice in the Sea of Okhotsk. (BBC)
  • More evacuations take place in Queensland, Australia, as flood waters continued to rise and the Australian prime minister says damages could amount to hundreds of millions of dollars. (CNN)
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January 5, 2011 (2011-01-05) (Wednesday)
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  • Iran and India develop a stop-gap plan to continue the flow of oil from the former to the latter, and payments in the opposite direction, days after India withdrew from the Asian Clearing Union. The new plan involves payments through the EIH Bank, in Hamburg, Germany. (Domain-b)
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  • A 17-year-old student at Millard South High School, in Omaha, Nebraska, shoots an assistant principal to death and wounds the school principal before turning the gun onto himself. (CNN)
  • A Malaysian coroner records an open verdict in the death of opposition aide Teoh Beng Hock, who fell from the roof of the anti-corruption commission building in July 2009. (BBC) (Malaysia Star)
  • Police investigating the murder of Joanna Yeates make a fresh appeal for information, saying that when discovered, her fully clothed body was missing a sock which may hold important clues. (BBC)
  • In the UK 33 people are convicted for their part in an £80m drugs and money laundering operation. They include Simon Ford, a firefighter commended for his actions during the 7 July London bombings. (BBC)
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  • There were 3 fairly significant mass bird death events in Italy, Sweden and Romania. (Wiki)
January 6, 2011 (2011-01-06) (Thursday)
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  • A French market regulator approves a takeover defense adopted by the Hermès family, who own the manufacturer of Birkin and Kelly handbags. This improves the odds that Hermès will preserve its independence in the face of a bid by LVMH. (Reuters)
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January 7, 2011 (2011-01-07) (Friday)
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January 8, 2011 (2011-01-08) (Saturday)
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  • 2010–2011 Tunisian protests: At least one person is killed and others are injured in the town of Tala during the latest protests against unemployment and poor living conditions. (Al Jazeera)
  • Algerian protests against food prices and unemployment:
    • Government taxes and duties on sugar and cooking oil in Algeria are lowered in response to three days of unrest over increases in unemployment and the cost of living. (Al Jazeera)
    • Two people are killed and hundreds of others are injured during the protests. (Yemen News Agency) (BBC)
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January 9, 2011 (2011-01-09) (Sunday)
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  • An investigation by The Guardian newspaper reveals details of how Metropolitan police officer Mark Kennedy infiltrated dozens of protest groups in 22 countries using the pseudonym Mark Stone. (The Guardian)
  • Prosecutors in the U.K. drop the case against members of a group who were planning to forcefully shut down the coal based Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station temporarily, after the undercover officer, an alleged provocateur in the group, offers to give evidence in support of the activists. (BBC)
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January 10, 2011 (2011-01-10) (Monday)
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January 11, 2011 (2011-01-11) (Tuesday)
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January 12, 2011 (2011-01-12) (Wednesday)
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January 13, 2011 (2011-01-13) (Thursday)
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January 14, 2011 (2011-01-14) (Friday)
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  • Israel's Press Office apologises for what The Jerusalem Post dubbed "Bra-Gate" - the security screening of several international journalists forced to remove their underwear and denial of entry to Al Jazeera producer Najwan Simri Diab after she refused to remove her bra. Najwan Simri Diab says she did not wish for an apology, only to be assured that it won't happen again. (Sify) (The Jerusalem Post) (Ynetnews) (Al Jazeera)
  • Veteran Irish Labour Party TD Michael D. Higgins demands that the British government explain why one of Britain's undercover policemen was operating on Republic of Ireland territory on May Day 2004, as the European Union expanded to the east. Higgins compares it to illegal activities carried out by British state agents in the same country during the 1970s. (The Guardian)
  • A closed-door briefing occurs at New York City's United Nations building. Behind it around 150 non-American diplomats object to the American government about a decision by the country's banks to end services for diplomatic missions, with some diplomats suggesting the UN budget could be affected. (BBC)
  • Guyana formally recognizes Palestine as an independent state as part of its "long-standing and unwavering solidarity with, and commitment to, the just and legitimate aspirations of the people of Palestine for the exercise of their right to self-determination and to achieve a homeland of their own, independent, free, prosperous and at peace", a foreign ministry statement says. (Al Jazeera)
  • South Africa's chief rabbi Warren Goldstein criticises a controversial petition launched by three Jewish Capetonians calling for Archbishop Emeritus and Nobel Peace laureate Desmond Tutu to be axed as patron of two Holocaust centers. (IOL)
  • The Obama administration in the United States eases travel and other restrictions on Cuba. (ABC News)
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January 15, 2011 (2011-01-15) (Saturday)
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January 16, 2011 (2011-01-16) (Sunday)
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January 17, 2011 (2011-01-17) (Monday)
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  • 39 people are killed in South Africa and thousands of homes are destroyed in Mozambique following widespread flooding. (Reuters)
  • Hundreds of people are hospitalised after an extreme cold spell in northern Vietnam that has also killed thousands of cows and buffaloes. (Straits Times)
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January 18, 2011 (2011-01-18) (Tuesday)
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January 19, 2011 (2011-01-19) (Wednesday)
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1 US service member was killed in Afghanistan. Spc. Joshua T. Lancaster

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January 20, 2011 (2011-01-20) (Thursday)
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  • 2010 tied for the warmest year ever recorded, and the last decade was the warmest ever recorded, since records began in the 1800s.(Reuters)
January 21, 2011 (2011-01-21) (Friday)
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January 22, 2011 (2011-01-22) (Saturday)
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January 23, 2011 (2011-01-23) (Sunday)
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  • Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is permitted to leave hospital and return home, eight days after undergoing the amputation of her right leg. (BBC)
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January 24, 2011 (2011-01-24) (Monday)
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  • Hamas bans the sale of two books that it says "contradict" Islam after receiving complaints from locals. (Associated Press)
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January 25, 2011 (2011-01-25) (Tuesday)
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January 26, 2011 (2011-01-26) (Wednesday)
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January 27, 2011 (2011-01-27) (Thursday)
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January 28, 2011 (2011-01-28) (Friday)
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January 29, 2011 (2011-01-29) (Saturday)
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January 30, 2011 (2011-01-30) (Sunday)
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  • Exotic birds are found to have been driven into Britain's back gardens by the extreme cold, as more than half a million people participate in the largest wildlife survey in the world. (The Observer)
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January 31, 2011 (2011-01-31) (Monday)
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  • Pharmaceutical companies Genzyme and Sanofi-Aventis are reported to have reached an "agreement in principle" on a deal in which Sanofi, a French company, will acquire Cambridge-based Genzyme for an undetermined amount of money. (CNBC)
  • The price of oil rises above $100 for the first time since 2008 as traders worry about possible disruption to the Suez Canal as a result of events in Egypt. (AFP via The Bangkok Post)
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References

  1. "IRAN: Judiciary official says woman to be stoned for husband's murder, not just adultery | Babylon & Beyond | Los Angeles Times". Latimesblogs.latimes.com. 2010-07-12. Retrieved 2016-03-22.
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