Major Events Around the World in 2011 (Part 1)

In my previous blog I wrote about the major events that happen in my life over the past year in 2011, now I am going to post a couple of major events that happen around the world in 2011. When I was researching, I came across lots of interesting information that I didn’t know about or forgot that it happen last year, I had a lot of “really that only happened last year” moments.  Here is my list of some of the major things that happened in 2011:

January 8^th: Jared Loughner, 22, starts shooting at a political event outside a shopping center in Tucson, Arizona. Six people were killed and 16 were injured during the shooting. The target, Congresswomen Gabrielle Gifford’s was shot in the head but survived. Later in the year she is able to come out of the hospital and is able to talk and walk but still has some functional problems.

Feb 2^nd: After starting to protest in Egypt, weeks in advance against their President Hosni Mubarak’s government, he finally resigns leaving the military to take over the government. In late May Hosni Mubarak has to face a trail resulting in the death penalty for killing the democratic protestors.

March 7^th: This is more of a social media thing but Charlie Sheen gets fired from Two and a Half Men. He has been in and out of rehab, arrested for domestic assault and was in trouble for destroying a hotel room in New York. Charlie Sheen takes to the media to express his anger which increases his audience. Later on he starts a comedian show that traveled to a couple of cities but failed due to unpreparedness and lack of support from the audience.

April 28^th: The royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton took place. Thousands of people (including me) watched the wedding take place at the royal palace. 

May 1^st after almost 10 years on searching for Osama Bin Laden, Americans commandos find and kill him in a compound north of Islamabad, Pakistan. Because of the death of Bin Laden many people were worried that another major attack like what happen on September 11^th with the twin towers would happen again. The U.S. increased security and were on high alert of any terrorist action.