Tarek el-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor, set himself on fire, which became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring
The television show The Walking Dead premiered.
Following the latest release of secret U.S. military documents by WikiLeaks, British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg told BBC television that allegations of prisoner abuse
Chile’s 33 trapped miners cheered and embraced each other as a drill punched into the underground chamber where they had been stuck for an agonizing
President Barack Obama ended the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, declaring no victory after seven years of bloodshed and telling those divided over the war
Floyd Little, former running back for the Denver Broncos, was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
An explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform, leased by British Petroleum, killed 11 workers and began spewing an estimated 200 million gallons of crude
Haiti was struck by a magnitude-7 earthquake, killing as many as 300,000 residents and leaving more than 1.5 million homeless.
