WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO AUGUST 2011
Find out what all happened March to August 2011

Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the end of the world would occur on this day, a prophecy that would prove incorrect. (21. May 2011)

STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour. (16. May 2011)

A explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others. (11. April 2011)

A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people. (1. June 2011)

A 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. (6. August 2011)

Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty-five-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show. (25. May 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. (23. August 2011)

An E. coli outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak. (2. May 2011)

Hurricane Irene strikes the United States east coast, killing 47 and causing an estimated $15.6 billion in damage. (28. August 2011)

Libyan civil war: After the failure of Muammar Gaddafi's forces to take Benghazi, French Air Force launches Opération Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya. (19. March 2011)

Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sunk in Volga near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, leading to 122 deaths. (10. July 2011)

After protests against the burning of the Quran turn violent, a mob attacks a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of thirteen people, including eight foreign workers. (1. April 2011)

South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan. (9. July 2011)

NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135. (21. July 2011)

Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first being a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, the second being a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya. (22. July 2011)

Beginning of the Syrian civil war. (15. March 2011)

Malta votes on the introduction of divorce. (28. May 2011)

An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale. (11. March 2011)

In the 2011 Charsadda bombing in the Charsadda District of Pakistan, two bombs explode, resulting in 98 deaths 140 wounded. (13. May 2011)

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing's all-new composite airliner, receives certification from the EASA and the FAA (26. August 2011)