A presence during the unrest in Côte d ' Ivoire, 2010 – 2011, were not officially confirmed.

* 2011 – In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 bodies were exhumed from several mass graves made by Los Zetas.

* 1917 – Leonora Carrington, British surrealist painter ( d. 2011 )

* 1916 – Russell Garcia, American composer ( d. 2011 )

* 1936 – Charles Napier, American actor ( d. 2011 )

* 1921 – Tove Maës, Danish actress ( d. 2011 )

* 1943 – Frederick Chiluba, Zambian politician, 2nd President of Zambia ( d. 2011 )

* 1915 – Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2011 )

* 1925 – Nat Lofthouse, English footballer ( d. 2011 )

* 1941 – Cesária Évora, Cape Verdean singer ( d. 2011 )

* 2011 – A peaceful march in protest of the death of Mark Duggan in Tottenham, London ends in a riot, sparking off a wave of rioting throughout the country over the following four nights.

* 1919 – George Shearing, English-American pianist ( d. 2011 )

Chris Tremlett bowls Michael Beer ( cricketer ) | Michael Beer to complete England's 3 – 1 Ashes victory on 7 January 2011

* 1951 – Andrew Gold, American singer-songwriter and producer ( Wax ) ( d. 2011 )

* 1946 – Rick Coonce, American drummer ( The Grass Roots ) ( d. 2011 )

* 2011 – Bubba Smith, American football player and actor ( b. 1945 )

* 1932 – Edward Hardwicke, English actor ( d. 2011 )

* 1937 – Zoltán Berczik, Hungarian table tennis player ( d. 2011 )

* 1993 – Ben Breedlove, American blogger ( d. 2011 )

* 1947 – Gerry Rafferty, Scottish musician and songwriter ( The Humblebums and Stealers Wheel ) ( d. 2011 )

* 2011 – Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Kate Middleton.

* 1936 – Trevor Bannister, English actor ( d. 2011 )

* 1927 – Eddie Leadbeater, England cricketer ( d. 2011 )

* 1928 – Eddie Kirkland, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( d. 2011 )

* 1934 – Diana Wynne Jones, English author ( d. 2011 )

* 2011 – A 5. 8 earthquake occurs in Mineral, Virginia, the earthquake is felt as far north as Ontario and as far south as Atlanta, Georgia.

The Census scheduled for 8 March 2011 was cancelled due to the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake.

The most recent large earthquake of magnitude 9. 0 or larger was a 9. 0 magnitude earthquake in Japan in 2011 ( as of March 2011 ), and it was the largest Japanese earthquake since records began.

* 2011 – An earthquake measuring 6. 3 in magnitude strikes Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 185 people.

Another much less severe earthquake occurred near the city in September 2011.

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In the wake of the 2011 tsunami related nuclear disasters, it was discovered that as far back as the 2004 earthquake, authorities knew about the particular risks associated with the Fukushima Daiichi plant but did nothing.

On March 11, 2011 the country was subject to a devastating 9. 0 magnitude earthquake and a massive tsunami as a result.

* 2011 – Digital switchover is completed in 44 of the 47 prefectures of Japan, with Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima television stations terminating analog broadcasting operations later as a result of the Tohoku earthquake.

For example, on 19 May 2011 an earthquake of magnitude 0. 7 in Southern California, USA 4 km deep was classified as of intensity III by the United States Geological Survey ( USGS ), while a 4. 5 magnitude quake in Salta, Argentina 164 km deep was of intensity I.

* 2011 – A powerful 7. 2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands.

Other especially notable earthquakes that spurred major developments in the science of seismology include the 1857 Basilicata earthquake, 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the 1964 Alaska earthquake, the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, and the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake.

In 2010, she donated $ 1 million to relief efforts in Haiti following the Haiti earthquake, and again donated the same amount following the 2011 Japan Earthquake.

In 2011, a group of etiquette experts and international business group formed a non-profit organization called IITTI ( pronounced as " ET ") to help human resource ( HR ) departments of multinationals in measuring the etiquette skills of prospective new employees during the recruitment process by standardizing image and etiquette examination, similar to what ISO does for industrial process measurements.

In 2011, reviewing Camp's role in the founding of the sport and of the NCAA, Taylor Branch also credited Camp with cutting the number of players on a football team from 15 to 11 and adding measuring lines to the field.

In 2011 Erasmus University of Rotterdam introduced S-ray Diagnostics, a spin-off of this cooperation, focused on measuring strategic alignment of organizations.

From 1997 to 2011, the Town Car was the longest car ( but not the heaviest ) built in the Western Hemisphere, measuring nearly in length for a standard Town Car and for an L Edition.

On 6 July 2011 ( 2pm CDT, GMT-5 ), a large earthquake provisionally measuring 7. 6 on the Richter Scale was reported, centered near the Kermadec Islands, 211 km east of Raoul Island.

The most dangerous earthquake was recorded on 7 July 1988 as 9. 7 on Richter scale followed by the earthquake of 18 September 2011 that lasted for 40-46 seconds measuring 6. 8 on Richter scale.

On June 1, 2011, two teenagers from Farmingville in Long Island, New York, drowned after becoming overwhelmed by fumes and trapped in a backyard cesspool measuring 16-feet deep.

32. 2, 2011, with several authors presenting their own tools for measuring language vitality.