2011

Muammar Gadhafi, Libya’s dictator for 42 years, was killed as revolutionary fighters overwhelmed his hometown of Sirte and captured the last major bastion of resistance

The Occupy Wall Street, a protest movement, began in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City’s Wall Street financial district.

Anders Breivik, a self-described “militant nationalist,” massacred 69 people at a Norwegian Island youth retreat after detonating a bomb in nearby Oslo that killed eight

A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity in the atmosphere a day after Japan’s earthquake.

A magnitude 9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami struck Japan’s northeastern coast, killing nearly 20,000 people and severely damaging the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station.