Editing 2011 (section)

== Events ==
*January 1 - [[Andrew Cuomo]] takes office as Governor of New York.
*January 8 - [[Jared Lee Loughner]] attempts to assassinate U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords while she is holding a constituent meeting in a supermarket parking lot in Tucson, Arizona. She would survive the attack, but six others were killed.
*January 8 - Former Presient of Haiti [[Jean-Claude Duvalier]] is arrested by Haitian authorities and charged with embezzlement, corruption, and human rights abuses.
*January 14 - [[Zine El Abidine Ben Ali]] resigns as President of Tunisia after a month of protests.
*February - [[Ross William Ulbricht]] launches ''[[Silk Road]]''.
*February 11 - [[Hosni Mubarak]] resigns as President of Egypt following 18 days of protests.
*February 17 - Beginning of the First Libyan Civil War. 
*March 15 - Beginning of the Syrian Civil War.
*March 24 - [[Tomohiro Kato]] is sentenced to death for 7 charges of murder.
*March 24 to 29 - [[Los Zetas]] massacres 193 people at La Joya ranch in the municipality of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
*March 30 - The [[State Peace and Development Council]] formally dissolves.
*April 7 - [[Wellington de Oliveira|Tasso da Silveira Municipal school shooting]]
*April 19 - [[Fidel Castro]] steps down as First Secretary of the [[Communist Party of Cuba]], ceding the position to his brother Raúl. 
*May 2 - [[Osama bin Laden]] is killed by U.S. Navy SEALs in his private compound in Abottabad, Pakistan. [[Ayman al-Zawahiri]] succeeds him as General Emir of [[Al-Qaeda]].
*June 27 - The International Criminal Court (ICC) indicts Libyan dictator [[Muammar Gaddafi]], his son [[Saif al-Islam Gaddafi]], and his brother-in-law [[Abdullah Senussi]] on charges of [[crimes against humanity]].
*July 5 - [[Casey Anthony]] is found not guilty for the [[murder]] of her 2-year old daughter Caylee.
*July 22 - [[Anders Behring Breivik]] perpetrates the 2011 Norway attacks, killing 77 people.
*July 29 - The [[Free Syrian Army]] is founded.
*August 6 to 11 - [[2011 London riots]]
*September 6 - [[Eduardo Sencion|2011 IHOP shooting]]
*October 4 - [[Al-Shabaab]] perpetrates a [[Suicide Bombing|suicide bombing]] by driving a truck into the gate of the Transitional Federal Government's ministerial complex in Mogadishu, Somalia. The resulting explosion kills 100 people and injures over 110 others.
*October 16 - The [[Sesame Street YouTube Hack]] takes place.
*October 20 - Muammar Gaddafi is captured and brutally [[Lynching|lynched]] by anti-Gaddafi rebels in the town of Sirte. The [[Libyan Arab Jamahiriya]] regime officially collapses.
*October 23 - End of the First Libyan Civil War.
*October 28 - [[Christine Weston Chandler]] and his mother tried to attack Michael Snyder and ended up both getting arrested and facing multiple charges: hit-and-run (both), misdemeanor assault, trespassing (Chris), and attacking a law official (Barb).
*December 17 - After the death of his father [[Kim Jong-il]], [[Kim Jong-un]] becomes the Supreme Leader of North Korea (DPRK).
*December 18 - End of the [[Iraq War]].