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 – The former leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, and his son Mutassim Gaddafi are killed shortly after the Battle of Sirte while in the custody of NTC fighters.

** Mutassim Gaddafi ( 1977 – 2011 ), son of Muammar

* 2011 – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan civil war.

Thus in March 1979 Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who kept absolute power ( until his overthrow in 2011 referred to as " Guide of the Revolution "), after ten years as combined Head of State and Head of government of the Libyan Jamahiriya (" state of the masses "), styled Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, formally transferred both qualities to the General secretaries of the General People's Congress ( comparable to a Speaker ) respectively to a Prime Minister, in political reality both were his creatures.

In February 2011, anti-government mass protests sprang up against Gaddafi in Benghazi, Bayda and Zintan, in the context of the wider Arab Spring.

As a result of the collapse of the Gaddafi government in August 2011 due to the Libyan civil war, Libya is under de facto administration of the National Transitional Council ( NTC ).

In June 2011, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi said his father would agree to internationally monitored general elections, and would step down if he lost them, but his offer was refused by the rebels and ignored by the UN Security Council.

The overthrow of the Gaddafi regime in the fall of 2011 ended an era of censorship.

Following the fall of the Gaddafi regime in August 2011 former state-affiliated dailies have closed and new titles have appeared, many short-lived.

The Revolutionary Guard Corps ( Liwa Haris al-Jamahiriya ) or Jamahiriya Guard was a Libyan paramilitary elite unit that played the role of key protection force of the government of Muammar Gaddafi, until his death in October 2011.

The foreign relations of Libya under Gaddafi ( 1969 – 2011 ) underwent much fluctuation and change.

During the start of the Arab Spring, Gaddafi condemned the Tunisian revolution in January 2011, saying protesters were misled by WikiLeaks and voicing solidarity with ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

On 1 July 2011, Gaddafi threatened to sponsor attacks against civilians and businesses in Europe in what would be a resumption of his policies of the 1970s and 1980s.

* 2011 – Muammar Gaddafi, Ruler of Libya ( b. 1942 )

Relations with Libya also became more mutual following the eight month Libyan civil war in 2011, which resulted in the National Transitional Council ousting longtime Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi from power.

* June 7-Muammar Gaddafi, former dictator of Libya ( d. 2011 )

* Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was indicted for allegedly ordering the killings of protesters and civilians during the 2011 Libyan civil war, however he was killed before he could stand trial in October 2011.

In 2011, Brzezinski supported the NATO intervention against the forces of Muammar Gaddafi in the Libyan civil war, calling non-intervention " morally dubious " and " politically questionable ".

# REDIRECT History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi # Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya ( 1977 – 2011 )

* Libya ( by United Nations ), weapons, enacted 2011 after mass killings of Libyan protesters / rebels and ended later that year after the overthrow and summary execution of Gaddafi.

In February 2011, LSE had to deal with controversy regarding the authorship of the PhD thesis of one of Muammar Gaddafi's sons, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, and also a £ 1. 5m donation to university.