October 1, 2011, Season 4 Premiere of Merlin: The Darkest Hour Part 1
October 2, 2011, Season 6 premiere of Dexter: Those Kinds of Things
October 2, 2011, Series Premiere of Homeland
October 2, 2011,
October 3, 2011, An Italian appeals court overturns Amanda Knox's 26-year sentence for murder and sexual assault. (The Telegraph)
October 3, 2011, US golfer Tiger Woods drops out of the top 50 in the world ranking for the first time in nearly 15 years, ending a streak of 778 consecutive weeks inside the top 50, dating to when Woods was No. 61 on October 13, 1996. (Los Angeles Times)
October 3, 2011, American cell phone service provider Sprint Nextel reportedly pays $20 billion for exclusive rights to Apple's next mobile phone. (Wall Street Journal via CNET) October 3, 2011, A US court sentences two more Somali pirates to life in prison for capturing a yacht off the coast of Africa in February. (AFP via Google News)
October 3, 2011, Helle Thorning-Schmidt presents her new coalition government, thereby becoming the 41st and the first female Prime Minister of Denmark. She takes over the office from Lars Løkke Rasmussen. (Winnipeg Free Press)
October 4, 2011, Release of Crysis
October 4, 2011, Release of Rage
October 4, 2011, Release of Spiderman: Edge of Time
October 4, 2011, Release of NBA2k12
October 4, 2011, Technology company Apple Inc. announces its much-anticipated iPhone 4S at Apple's Cupertino campus. (USA Today)
October 4, 2011,
October 4, 2011,
October 4, 2011, A helicopter crashes into the East River in New York City killing one person and injuring three after taking off from the East 34th Street Heliport. (New York Times)
October 4, 2011,
October 4, 2011, In basketball, the North American National Basketball Association cancels the remainder of the preseason due to the 2011 NBA lockout, with cancellation of games in the regular season occurring if the lockout continues for another week. (NBC Sports)
October 5, 2011, The former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin announces that she will not put her name forward as a Republican candidate for the 2012 presidential election. (BBC)
October 5, 2011, Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc., dies of pancreatic cancer. (Apple Statement)
October 5, 2011,
October 5, 2011, NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Boerse AG, two exchange operating concerns planning a merger, receive a statement of objections to that merger from the European Union's business regulators. (NYSE Euronext)
October 6, 2011,
October 6, 2011,
October 6, 2011,
October 6, 2011,
October 6, 2011,
October 6, 2011, The Bank of England injects a further £75bn into the British economy through quantitative easing. (BBC)
October 7, 2011, Release of The Ides of March
October 7, 2011, Release of Real Steel
October 7, 2011, Release of Dirty Girl
October 7, 2011,
October 7, 2011,
October 7, 2011,
October 7, 2011,
October 3, 2011, An Italian appeals court overturns Amanda Knox's 26-year sentence for murder and sexual assault. (The Telegraph)
October 3, 2011, US golfer Tiger Woods drops out of the top 50 in the world ranking for the first time in nearly 15 years, ending a streak of 778 consecutive weeks inside the top 50, dating to when Woods was No. 61 on October 13, 1996. (Los Angeles Times)
October 3, 2011, American cell phone service provider Sprint Nextel reportedly pays $20 billion for exclusive rights to Apple's next mobile phone. (Wall Street Journal via CNET) October 3, 2011, A US court sentences two more Somali pirates to life in prison for capturing a yacht off the coast of Africa in February. (AFP via Google News)
October 3, 2011, Helle Thorning-Schmidt presents her new coalition government, thereby becoming the 41st and the first female Prime Minister of Denmark. She takes over the office from Lars Løkke Rasmussen. (Winnipeg Free Press)
October 4, 2011, Release of Crysis
October 4, 2011, Release of Rage
October 4, 2011, Release of Spiderman: Edge of Time
October 4, 2011, Release of NBA2k12
October 4, 2011, Technology company Apple Inc. announces its much-anticipated iPhone 4S at Apple's Cupertino campus. (USA Today)
October 4, 2011,
October 4, 2011,
October 4, 2011, A helicopter crashes into the East River in New York City killing one person and injuring three after taking off from the East 34th Street Heliport. (New York Times)
October 4, 2011,
October 4, 2011, In basketball, the North American National Basketball Association cancels the remainder of the preseason due to the 2011 NBA lockout, with cancellation of games in the regular season occurring if the lockout continues for another week. (NBC Sports)
October 5, 2011, The former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin announces that she will not put her name forward as a Republican candidate for the 2012 presidential election. (BBC)
October 5, 2011, Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc., dies of pancreatic cancer. (Apple Statement)
October 5, 2011,
October 5, 2011, NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Boerse AG, two exchange operating concerns planning a merger, receive a statement of objections to that merger from the European Union's business regulators. (NYSE Euronext)
October 6, 2011,
October 6, 2011,
October 6, 2011,
October 6, 2011,
October 6, 2011,
October 6, 2011, The Bank of England injects a further £75bn into the British economy through quantitative easing. (BBC)
October 7, 2011, Release of The Ides of March
October 7, 2011, Release of Real Steel
October 7, 2011, Release of Dirty Girl
October 7, 2011,
October 7, 2011,
October 7, 2011,
October 7, 2011,
October 7, 2011, The War in Afghanistan marks its tenth anniversary. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
October 7, 2011, The NYPD busts a Queens-based $13 million identity theft and retail crime ring. It was the largest identity theft ring in the history of the United States with over 110 people arrested. (New York Daily News)
October 7, 2011, Alison Redford of the Progressive Conservatives is sworn is as the first female Premier of the Canadian province of Alberta. (CBC)
October 7, 2011, Unemployment and political and corporate corruption in the U.S. causes increasing protests against income inequality, wars, and occupations. (Reuters)
October 9, 2011,
October 9, 2011, 2011 Libyan civil war: ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's stronghold of Sirte is reportedly close to being conquered by the forces of the National Transitional Council, who have captured the city's airport, hospital, university and conference centre. (BBC)
October 9, 2011, At least 25 people are killed and many more injured after protesters and security forces clash in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, during a protest in response to an attack on a Coptic church. (BBC)
October 9, 2011, Having spread across the United States, anti-corruption Occupy Wall Street protests reach Canada, London, and The Hague. (Radio Netherlands)
October 9, 2011, A magnitude 4.3 earthquake hits the southern coast of El Hierro in the southwestern Canary Islands of Spain, the strongest such earthquake to occur in an earthquake swarm on the island. The quake is believed to have been caused by rising magma, which has forced evacuations amid fears of an impending volcanic eruption, which last occurred on El Hierro in 1793. (Irish Weather Online)
October 10, 2011, Series Premiere of Enlightened
October 10, 2011, Terranova S1 Ep3: What remains
October 10, 2011, France and Belgium agree to break up and partially nationalize Dexia, Belgium's largest bank. (Globe and Mail)
October 10, 2011, The Bank of Greece announces the bail-out and takeover of Proton Bank via that country's Financial Stability Fund. (Reuters)
October 10, 2011, In basketball, National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern cancels the first two weeks of the 2011–12 NBA season due to the ongoing lockout. (CBS Sports)
October 11, 2011, Release of Dead rising 2: Off the Record
October 11, 2011, Release of The Cursed Crusade
October 11, 2011, Release of Ace Combat: Assault Horizon
October 11, 2011, EU imposes further sanctions on Belarus, Iran, and Syria, express support for Libya's National Transitional Council and reiterate call for Syria's President Bashar al-Assad to step down. (CNN)
October 11, 2011, An oil spill from the ship MV Rena off the coast of Tauranga in New Zealand becomes that country's worst environmental disaster. (New Zealand Herald)
October 12, 2011,
October 12, 2011,
October 12, 2011, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian man also known as the "underwear bomber", pleads guilty to attempting to blow up an airliner on Christmas Day 2009 in a trial in the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
October 12, 2011, At least eight people are killed and one is seriously injured in a shooting at a hair salon in Seal Beach, California, USA. (Los Angeles Times)
October 13, 2011,
October 14, 2011, Release of The Big Year
October 14, 2011, Release of The Thing
October 14, 2011, Release of Footloose
October 14, 2011, Fringe S4 Ep4: Subject 9
October 14, 2011, Supernatural S7 Ep4: Defending Your Life
October 14, 2011,
October 14, 2011, Apple Inc. releases its latest smartphone model, the iPhone 4S. (MSNBC)
October 14, 2011,
October 14, 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama authorizes the deployment of up to 100 American soldiers to Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to assist in operations against the Lord's Resistance Army insurgency. (Wall Street Journal)
October 14, 2011, Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's cuts Spain's credit rating to AA- with a negative outlook, as the European debt crisis deepens. (Bloomberg)
October 14, 2011, Microsoft completes its acquisition of Internet phone company Skype for US$8.5 billion. (The Register)
October 15, 2011, Occupy Wall Street protests: Activists affiliated with the anti-capitalism Occupy Wall Street movement take to the streets in numerous cities worldwide, including Sydney, Rome, Bucharest, Taipei, Tokyo, Toronto, Berlin, and Madrid, in a day of coordinated mass protests. (BBC)
-Riot police clash with protesters in Rome, with at least 70 people reportedly injured after masked rioters infiltrate the peaceful protests and attack property in the city. (BBC)
October 15, 2011,
October 15, 2011, The Netherlands becomes the first European country to win a professional world baseball championship since 1938, after defeating Cuba 2-1 in the 2011 Baseball World Cup final in Panama City, Panama. (Nu.nl)
October 16, 2011,
October 16, 2011,
October 16, 2011, English auto racing driver Dan Wheldon dies in a crash in the final race of the 2011 IndyCar Series at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, with three other drivers reportedly hospitalised in the crash. (AP via NBC Sports)
October 16, 2011,
October 16, 2011,
October 16, 2011,
October 16, 2011, In baseball, the Saint Louis Cardinals defeat the Milwaukee Brewers in the 2011 National League Championship Series; the Cardinals now go on to face the Texas Rangers in the 2011 World Series. (St Louis Today)
October 17, 2011, Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson opens the world's first commercial spaceport, Spaceport America, in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The SpaceShipTwo spaceplane is expected to begin commercial flights from the spaceport by 2013. (BBC)
October 17, 2011, Occupy Wall Street protests take place in hundreds of cities worldwide. (CNN)
October 17, 2011, Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces announces a law banning all forms of discrimination, in the wake of recent violence between Coptic protesters and security forces. (Al-Jazeera)
October 17, 2011, Apple Inc. releases its sales report for the iPhone 4S smartphone, which has reportedly sold over 4 million units worldwide in under four days, breaking company sales records. (Computer World)
October 18, 2011, Release of Batman: Arkham City
October 18, 2011, Release of Rocksmith
October 18, 2011, Moody's downgrades Spain's credit rating to A1 after Standard & Poor's and Fitch downgraded Spain's rating two weeks ago. (Wall Street Journal)
October 18, 2011, Motorola introduces the Droid RAZR, the world's thinnest smartphone. (MSNBC)
October 18, 2011, Spaceport America in New Mexico, United States, officially opens as the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport. Sydney Morning Herald. BBC News
October 18, 2011, United States Secretary of State Hilary Clinton makes an unannounced visit to the Libyan capital Tripoli, aiming to strengthen ties between the United States and the National Transitional Council, which has established itself as Libya's ruling body following the ousting of Muammar Gaddafi. (BBC)
October 18, 2011, About 400,000 illegal immigrants were deported from the United States in the 2011 fiscal year, the most deportations ever in United States history, according to a report released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (CNN)
October 19, 2011, 56 animals are intentionally released by their owner from an exotic animal farm in Muskingum County, Ohio. The owner subsequently commits suicide. (CBS/AP)
October 19, 2011,
October 19, 2011, Google unveils the latest version of its Android mobile operating system, 4.0 (code named Ice Cream Sandwich), along with the Galaxy Nexus, its newest flagship smartphone. (The Telegraph)
October 19, 2011, The United States' largest bank, Bank of America, is surpassed by JPMorgan Chase in total assets, according to Bank of America's quarterly financial earnings report. (New Mexico Business Weekly)
October 19, 2011, The parent of American Airlines, AMR, reports a larger third-quarter loss than expected, due to the cost of aviation fuel and the volatility of foreign exchange. (Reuters)
October 19, 2011, Floodwaters threaten the Thai capital of Bangkok as the 2011 Thai floods - which have killed 317 people and affected nearly nine million in Thailand since August - continue unabated. (Washington Post)
October 20, 2011, Libya's former dictator Muammar Gaddafi is killed in Sirte, with acting Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril promising to release more details regarding Gaddafi's death later in the week. (BBC)
October 20, 2011, The Prime Minister of Thailand, Yingluck Shinawatra, admits that it is impossible to protect all of the capital Bangkok from ongoing nationwide flooding, describing the floods as a "national crisis". (AFP via Thai Visa)
October 20, 2011, A man is killed and at least 74 people are injured in major riots in the Greek capital Athens on the second day of a nationwide general strike, as Greeks protest in their thousands against new austerity measures intended to alleviate the country's ongoing debt crisis. (ABC)
-Amid major riots and a general strike, the Hellenic Parliament approves a highly controversial package of austerity measures aimed at resolving Greece's ongoing debt crisis. The austerity measures include higher taxes and cuts to public sector wages. (BBC)
October 21, 2011, Release of The 3 Musketeers
October 21, 2011, Release of Johnny English: Reborn
October 21, 2011, Release of Paranormal Activity 3
October 21, 2011,
October 21, 2011, The President of the United States, Barack Obama, announces a plan to withdraw all of the remaining American military forces from Iraq by the the end of 2011. (CBS News)
October 21, 2011,
October 21, 2011, London's St Paul's Cathedral is forced to close its doors to visitors for the first time since the Second World War after protesters set up camp on its doorstep. (BBC)
October 22, 2011, National Transitional Council chairman Mahmoud Jibril announces that Libyan elections will occur "within months". (CNN)
October 22, 2011,
October 22, 2011,
October 22, 2011,
October 22, 2011, A 7.2-magnitude earthquake rocks the city of Van in eastern Turkey, killing at least 100 people. (CNN Türk)
October 23, 2011, Series Premiere of Once Upon a Time
October 23, 2011, Autopsy results reveal that former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was killed by a gunshot to the head. (CNN)
October 23, 2011, Voters in Tunisia go to the polls for the first election since the Tunisian Revolution. (Xinhua)
October 23, 2011, Dexter S6 Ep4: Horse of a Different Color
October 24, 2011, Release of Kirby: Return to Dreamland
October 24, 2011, Release of Pokemon: Rumble Blast
October 24, 2011,
October 24, 2011, The Tokyo Stock Exchange announces that it is asking for more disclosure from the embattled Japanese camera and imaging equipment manufacturer Olympus, which is facing a stock price collapse following the dismissal of its CEO, Michael Woodford. The TSE cannot at this time confirm violations of any listing requirements by Olympus. (Reuters)
October 24, 2011, The death toll from Turkey's recent earthquake reaches 279, and is expected to increase further as rescue teams search the rubble of the city of Van for survivors. Meanwhile, thousands made homeless by the quake are forced to endure freezing overnight temperatures in the open. (CNN)
October 24, 2011, Julian Assange's whistleblowing website Wikileaks announces that it will suspend the publication of classified files and will instead focus on fundraising, after a "financial blockade" by numerous American companies reportedly destroys 95% of the site's revenue. (The Guardian)
October 24, 2011, A coronal mass ejection makes the Northern Lights visible over much of North America. (Space Weather)
October 25, 2011, Release of Battlefield 3
October 25, 2011,
October 25, 2011, Aftermath of 2011 Libyan civil war: The bodies of ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, his son and advisor Moatassem Gaddafi, and former defence minister Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr are buried in unmarked graves by the National Transitional Council. (BBC)
October 25, 2011, Turkish earthquake:The death toll of eastern Turkey's recent earthquake reaches 366, as emergency services continue to search the rubble of Van for survivors. (The Guardian)
October 25, 2011, Floodwaters continue to rise on the outskirts of the Thai capital Bangkok, with floodwaters having reached Don Mueang International Airport, leading to the cancellation of many flights. (Bangkok Post)
October 25, 2011, The death toll from the 2011 United States listeriosis outbreak rises to 28, with 133 people in 26 states reportedly suffering from the disease. (AP via Washington Post)
October 25, 2011, Police arrest 75 people outside Oakland City Hall in the U.S. state of California while clearing the campsite of the Occupy Oakland protest. (CBS News)
October 25, 2011, The last of the United States' nine-megaton B53 warheads, formerly the most powerful nuclear weapons in the country's nuclear arsenal, is disassembled near Amarillo, Texas, having been in service since 1962. (AP)
October 25, 2011,Space telescope observations indicate that the supernova RCW 86, first seen by Chinese astronomers in 185 AD, expanded at an unprecedented rate due to the formation of a vacuum-like "cavity" around it in the early stages of the death of its star. The supernova's rapid expansion had previously been one of astronomy's most enduring mysteries. (BBC)
October 26, 2011, Indian superhero film Ra.One, the most expensive Bollywood film to date, is released to coincide with the Hindu festival of Diwali. (BBC)
October 26, 2011, A coroner finds that the death of British soul singer Amy Winehouse in July was caused by alcohol poisoning. (AP via The Australian)
October 26, 2011, The composite-bodied Boeing 787 Dreamliner makes its first commercial flight with All Nippon Airways, flying between Tokyo and Hong Kong. (BBC)
October 26, 2011, Tsuyoshi Kikukawa resigns as the President and Chairman of Olympus Corporation, as financial and law enforcement bodies in Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom investigate the optical equipment company's acquisitions in recent years. (Wall Street Journal)
October 26, 2011,European Union leaders hold an emergency meeting to discuss the European sovereign debt crisis. (BBC)
October 26, 2011, Occupy Wall Street movement: In California, Oakland police disperse Occupy Oakland protesters, using tear gas and rubber bullets and making numerous arrests. (DailyKos)
-A U.S. Marine Corps veteran is reportedly left in serious but stable condition after the Oakland clashes. (CNN)
October 27, 2011,
October 27, 2011,
October 27, 2011, Eurozone rescue deal:Reports indicate that European private banks have agreed to accept a 50% loss on Greek bonds, therefore removing the last apparent roadblock to a solution for the European sovereign debt crisis. (AP via Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
-European Union leaders agree to a deal to reduce Greece's debts and provide an additional 100 billion euros for a bailout fund. (AP via USA Today)
October 27, 2011, 2011 Thailand floods: Tens of thousands of people attempt to flee the Thai capital Bangkok as floodwaters rise. (News Limited)
-The Governor of Bangkok, Sukhumphand Baripatra, urges people in the flood-threatened Sai Mai District to evacuate. (Bangkok Post)
October 27, 2011, The death toll from the 2011 Van earthquake in Turkey reaches 523, with rain and snow making conditions worse for people left homeless by the earthquake. (AP via Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
October 27, 2011, Dr Giles Fraser, the canon chancellor of London's St Paul's Cathedral, announces his resignation from the post, as police prepare to remove Occupy London protesters from the cathedral's churchyard. Dr Fraser said he could not condone the use of violence against the demonstrators. (BBC)
October 27, 2011, Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, the Saudi Arabian Minister of the Interior, is named as the new Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, following the death of Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud on October 22. (AP via Washington Post)
October 28, 2011, Release of Anonymous
October 28, 2011, Release of In Time
October 28, 2011, Release of The Rum Diary
October 28, 2011, Release of Puss in Boots
October 28, 2011, Release of The Double
October 28, 2011, Series Premiere of Grimm
October 28, 2011,
October 28, 2011, The St. Louis Cardinals win the 2011 World Series, defeating the Texas Rangers 6–2 in Game 7. (Yahoo! Sports)
October 28, 2011, The United States commemorates the 125th anniversary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty in New York City. (Christian Science Monitor)
October 28, 2011, The heads of government of the Commonwealth of Nations meet in the Western Australian city of Perth. (ABC News Australia)
October 28, 2011, Occupy London protests:St Paul's Cathedral re-opens to visitors after closing a week ago because Occupy London protesters had set up camp in its churchyard. (BBC)
-The City of London Corporation announces plans to launch legal action to evict the protesters from St Paul's. (BBC)
October 28, 2011, The Obama administration orders an independent review of Department of Energy "clean-energy" loans following the bankruptcy of solar energy company Solyndra. (Associated Press via Google)
October 28, 2011, NASA launches its NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite to send back data on weather and climate conditions. (AFP via Google News)
October 28, 2011, In basketball, the North American National Basketball Association cancels all games scheduled up until November 30, 2011 after failing to achieve a resolution of the 2011 NBA lockout with the National Basketball Players Association. (AP via NPR)
October 29, 2011, A rare October snow storm hits the northeastern United States and Mid-Atlantic United States, leaving millions without power and killing two. (CNN)
October 30, 2011, Dexter S6 Ep5:
October 30, 2011, Once Upon a Time S1 Ep2: The Thing You Love Most
October 30, 2011,The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2011 finishes in the Australian city of Perth. (The West Australian)
October 31, 2011,
October 31, 2011, US brokerage firm MF Global files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after declaring £4bn of Eurozone debt exposure. (BBC)
October 31, 2011, UNESCO becomes the first United Nations agency to admit Palestine as a full member, with the United States withdrawing funding in protest. (AFP via Adelaide Now)
October 31, 2011, The Rt Rev Graeme Knowles resigns as Dean of London's St Paul's Cathedral as protests by Occupy London demonstrators continue. (BBC)
October 31, 2011, The United Nations Population Division estimates that the world population has reached seven billion people. (Los Angeles Times)
October 7, 2011, The NYPD busts a Queens-based $13 million identity theft and retail crime ring. It was the largest identity theft ring in the history of the United States with over 110 people arrested. (New York Daily News)
October 7, 2011, Alison Redford of the Progressive Conservatives is sworn is as the first female Premier of the Canadian province of Alberta. (CBC)
October 7, 2011, Unemployment and political and corporate corruption in the U.S. causes increasing protests against income inequality, wars, and occupations. (Reuters)
October 9, 2011,
October 9, 2011, 2011 Libyan civil war: ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's stronghold of Sirte is reportedly close to being conquered by the forces of the National Transitional Council, who have captured the city's airport, hospital, university and conference centre. (BBC)
October 9, 2011, At least 25 people are killed and many more injured after protesters and security forces clash in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, during a protest in response to an attack on a Coptic church. (BBC)
October 9, 2011, Having spread across the United States, anti-corruption Occupy Wall Street protests reach Canada, London, and The Hague. (Radio Netherlands)
October 9, 2011, A magnitude 4.3 earthquake hits the southern coast of El Hierro in the southwestern Canary Islands of Spain, the strongest such earthquake to occur in an earthquake swarm on the island. The quake is believed to have been caused by rising magma, which has forced evacuations amid fears of an impending volcanic eruption, which last occurred on El Hierro in 1793. (Irish Weather Online)
October 10, 2011, Series Premiere of Enlightened
October 10, 2011, Terranova S1 Ep3: What remains
October 10, 2011, France and Belgium agree to break up and partially nationalize Dexia, Belgium's largest bank. (Globe and Mail)
October 10, 2011, The Bank of Greece announces the bail-out and takeover of Proton Bank via that country's Financial Stability Fund. (Reuters)
October 10, 2011, In basketball, National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern cancels the first two weeks of the 2011–12 NBA season due to the ongoing lockout. (CBS Sports)
October 11, 2011, Release of Dead rising 2: Off the Record
October 11, 2011, Release of The Cursed Crusade
October 11, 2011, Release of Ace Combat: Assault Horizon
October 11, 2011, EU imposes further sanctions on Belarus, Iran, and Syria, express support for Libya's National Transitional Council and reiterate call for Syria's President Bashar al-Assad to step down. (CNN)
October 11, 2011, An oil spill from the ship MV Rena off the coast of Tauranga in New Zealand becomes that country's worst environmental disaster. (New Zealand Herald)
October 12, 2011,
October 12, 2011,
October 12, 2011, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian man also known as the "underwear bomber", pleads guilty to attempting to blow up an airliner on Christmas Day 2009 in a trial in the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
October 12, 2011, At least eight people are killed and one is seriously injured in a shooting at a hair salon in Seal Beach, California, USA. (Los Angeles Times)
October 13, 2011,
October 14, 2011, Release of The Big Year
October 14, 2011, Release of The Thing
October 14, 2011, Release of Footloose
October 14, 2011, Fringe S4 Ep4: Subject 9
October 14, 2011, Supernatural S7 Ep4: Defending Your Life
October 14, 2011,
October 14, 2011, Apple Inc. releases its latest smartphone model, the iPhone 4S. (MSNBC)
October 14, 2011,
October 14, 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama authorizes the deployment of up to 100 American soldiers to Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to assist in operations against the Lord's Resistance Army insurgency. (Wall Street Journal)
October 14, 2011, Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's cuts Spain's credit rating to AA- with a negative outlook, as the European debt crisis deepens. (Bloomberg)
October 14, 2011, Microsoft completes its acquisition of Internet phone company Skype for US$8.5 billion. (The Register)
October 15, 2011, Occupy Wall Street protests: Activists affiliated with the anti-capitalism Occupy Wall Street movement take to the streets in numerous cities worldwide, including Sydney, Rome, Bucharest, Taipei, Tokyo, Toronto, Berlin, and Madrid, in a day of coordinated mass protests. (BBC)
-Riot police clash with protesters in Rome, with at least 70 people reportedly injured after masked rioters infiltrate the peaceful protests and attack property in the city. (BBC)
October 15, 2011,
October 15, 2011, The Netherlands becomes the first European country to win a professional world baseball championship since 1938, after defeating Cuba 2-1 in the 2011 Baseball World Cup final in Panama City, Panama. (Nu.nl)
October 16, 2011,
October 16, 2011,
October 16, 2011, English auto racing driver Dan Wheldon dies in a crash in the final race of the 2011 IndyCar Series at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, with three other drivers reportedly hospitalised in the crash. (AP via NBC Sports)
October 16, 2011,
October 16, 2011,
October 16, 2011,
October 16, 2011, In baseball, the Saint Louis Cardinals defeat the Milwaukee Brewers in the 2011 National League Championship Series; the Cardinals now go on to face the Texas Rangers in the 2011 World Series. (St Louis Today)
October 17, 2011, Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson opens the world's first commercial spaceport, Spaceport America, in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The SpaceShipTwo spaceplane is expected to begin commercial flights from the spaceport by 2013. (BBC)
October 17, 2011, Occupy Wall Street protests take place in hundreds of cities worldwide. (CNN)
October 17, 2011, Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces announces a law banning all forms of discrimination, in the wake of recent violence between Coptic protesters and security forces. (Al-Jazeera)
October 17, 2011, Apple Inc. releases its sales report for the iPhone 4S smartphone, which has reportedly sold over 4 million units worldwide in under four days, breaking company sales records. (Computer World)
October 18, 2011, Release of Batman: Arkham City
October 18, 2011, Release of Rocksmith
October 18, 2011, Moody's downgrades Spain's credit rating to A1 after Standard & Poor's and Fitch downgraded Spain's rating two weeks ago. (Wall Street Journal)
October 18, 2011, Motorola introduces the Droid RAZR, the world's thinnest smartphone. (MSNBC)
October 18, 2011, Spaceport America in New Mexico, United States, officially opens as the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport. Sydney Morning Herald. BBC News
October 18, 2011, United States Secretary of State Hilary Clinton makes an unannounced visit to the Libyan capital Tripoli, aiming to strengthen ties between the United States and the National Transitional Council, which has established itself as Libya's ruling body following the ousting of Muammar Gaddafi. (BBC)
October 18, 2011, About 400,000 illegal immigrants were deported from the United States in the 2011 fiscal year, the most deportations ever in United States history, according to a report released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (CNN)
October 19, 2011, 56 animals are intentionally released by their owner from an exotic animal farm in Muskingum County, Ohio. The owner subsequently commits suicide. (CBS/AP)
October 19, 2011,
October 19, 2011, Google unveils the latest version of its Android mobile operating system, 4.0 (code named Ice Cream Sandwich), along with the Galaxy Nexus, its newest flagship smartphone. (The Telegraph)
October 19, 2011, The United States' largest bank, Bank of America, is surpassed by JPMorgan Chase in total assets, according to Bank of America's quarterly financial earnings report. (New Mexico Business Weekly)
October 19, 2011, The parent of American Airlines, AMR, reports a larger third-quarter loss than expected, due to the cost of aviation fuel and the volatility of foreign exchange. (Reuters)
October 19, 2011, Floodwaters threaten the Thai capital of Bangkok as the 2011 Thai floods - which have killed 317 people and affected nearly nine million in Thailand since August - continue unabated. (Washington Post)
October 20, 2011, Libya's former dictator Muammar Gaddafi is killed in Sirte, with acting Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril promising to release more details regarding Gaddafi's death later in the week. (BBC)
October 20, 2011, The Prime Minister of Thailand, Yingluck Shinawatra, admits that it is impossible to protect all of the capital Bangkok from ongoing nationwide flooding, describing the floods as a "national crisis". (AFP via Thai Visa)
October 20, 2011, A man is killed and at least 74 people are injured in major riots in the Greek capital Athens on the second day of a nationwide general strike, as Greeks protest in their thousands against new austerity measures intended to alleviate the country's ongoing debt crisis. (ABC)
-Amid major riots and a general strike, the Hellenic Parliament approves a highly controversial package of austerity measures aimed at resolving Greece's ongoing debt crisis. The austerity measures include higher taxes and cuts to public sector wages. (BBC)
October 21, 2011, Release of The 3 Musketeers
October 21, 2011, Release of Johnny English: Reborn
October 21, 2011, Release of Paranormal Activity 3
October 21, 2011,
October 21, 2011, The President of the United States, Barack Obama, announces a plan to withdraw all of the remaining American military forces from Iraq by the the end of 2011. (CBS News)
October 21, 2011,
October 21, 2011, London's St Paul's Cathedral is forced to close its doors to visitors for the first time since the Second World War after protesters set up camp on its doorstep. (BBC)
October 22, 2011, National Transitional Council chairman Mahmoud Jibril announces that Libyan elections will occur "within months". (CNN)
October 22, 2011,
October 22, 2011,
October 22, 2011,
October 22, 2011, A 7.2-magnitude earthquake rocks the city of Van in eastern Turkey, killing at least 100 people. (CNN Türk)
October 23, 2011, Series Premiere of Once Upon a Time
October 23, 2011, Autopsy results reveal that former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was killed by a gunshot to the head. (CNN)
October 23, 2011, Voters in Tunisia go to the polls for the first election since the Tunisian Revolution. (Xinhua)
October 23, 2011, Dexter S6 Ep4: Horse of a Different Color
October 24, 2011, Release of Kirby: Return to Dreamland
October 24, 2011, Release of Pokemon: Rumble Blast
October 24, 2011,
October 24, 2011, The Tokyo Stock Exchange announces that it is asking for more disclosure from the embattled Japanese camera and imaging equipment manufacturer Olympus, which is facing a stock price collapse following the dismissal of its CEO, Michael Woodford. The TSE cannot at this time confirm violations of any listing requirements by Olympus. (Reuters)
October 24, 2011, The death toll from Turkey's recent earthquake reaches 279, and is expected to increase further as rescue teams search the rubble of the city of Van for survivors. Meanwhile, thousands made homeless by the quake are forced to endure freezing overnight temperatures in the open. (CNN)
October 24, 2011, Julian Assange's whistleblowing website Wikileaks announces that it will suspend the publication of classified files and will instead focus on fundraising, after a "financial blockade" by numerous American companies reportedly destroys 95% of the site's revenue. (The Guardian)
October 24, 2011, A coronal mass ejection makes the Northern Lights visible over much of North America. (Space Weather)
October 25, 2011, Release of Battlefield 3
October 25, 2011,
October 25, 2011, Aftermath of 2011 Libyan civil war: The bodies of ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, his son and advisor Moatassem Gaddafi, and former defence minister Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr are buried in unmarked graves by the National Transitional Council. (BBC)
October 25, 2011, Turkish earthquake:The death toll of eastern Turkey's recent earthquake reaches 366, as emergency services continue to search the rubble of Van for survivors. (The Guardian)
October 25, 2011, Floodwaters continue to rise on the outskirts of the Thai capital Bangkok, with floodwaters having reached Don Mueang International Airport, leading to the cancellation of many flights. (Bangkok Post)
October 25, 2011, The death toll from the 2011 United States listeriosis outbreak rises to 28, with 133 people in 26 states reportedly suffering from the disease. (AP via Washington Post)
October 25, 2011, Police arrest 75 people outside Oakland City Hall in the U.S. state of California while clearing the campsite of the Occupy Oakland protest. (CBS News)
October 25, 2011, The last of the United States' nine-megaton B53 warheads, formerly the most powerful nuclear weapons in the country's nuclear arsenal, is disassembled near Amarillo, Texas, having been in service since 1962. (AP)
October 25, 2011,Space telescope observations indicate that the supernova RCW 86, first seen by Chinese astronomers in 185 AD, expanded at an unprecedented rate due to the formation of a vacuum-like "cavity" around it in the early stages of the death of its star. The supernova's rapid expansion had previously been one of astronomy's most enduring mysteries. (BBC)
October 26, 2011, Indian superhero film Ra.One, the most expensive Bollywood film to date, is released to coincide with the Hindu festival of Diwali. (BBC)
October 26, 2011, A coroner finds that the death of British soul singer Amy Winehouse in July was caused by alcohol poisoning. (AP via The Australian)
October 26, 2011, The composite-bodied Boeing 787 Dreamliner makes its first commercial flight with All Nippon Airways, flying between Tokyo and Hong Kong. (BBC)
October 26, 2011, Tsuyoshi Kikukawa resigns as the President and Chairman of Olympus Corporation, as financial and law enforcement bodies in Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom investigate the optical equipment company's acquisitions in recent years. (Wall Street Journal)
October 26, 2011,European Union leaders hold an emergency meeting to discuss the European sovereign debt crisis. (BBC)
October 26, 2011, Occupy Wall Street movement: In California, Oakland police disperse Occupy Oakland protesters, using tear gas and rubber bullets and making numerous arrests. (DailyKos)
-A U.S. Marine Corps veteran is reportedly left in serious but stable condition after the Oakland clashes. (CNN)
October 27, 2011,
October 27, 2011,
October 27, 2011, Eurozone rescue deal:Reports indicate that European private banks have agreed to accept a 50% loss on Greek bonds, therefore removing the last apparent roadblock to a solution for the European sovereign debt crisis. (AP via Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
-European Union leaders agree to a deal to reduce Greece's debts and provide an additional 100 billion euros for a bailout fund. (AP via USA Today)
October 27, 2011, 2011 Thailand floods: Tens of thousands of people attempt to flee the Thai capital Bangkok as floodwaters rise. (News Limited)
-The Governor of Bangkok, Sukhumphand Baripatra, urges people in the flood-threatened Sai Mai District to evacuate. (Bangkok Post)
October 27, 2011, The death toll from the 2011 Van earthquake in Turkey reaches 523, with rain and snow making conditions worse for people left homeless by the earthquake. (AP via Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
October 27, 2011, Dr Giles Fraser, the canon chancellor of London's St Paul's Cathedral, announces his resignation from the post, as police prepare to remove Occupy London protesters from the cathedral's churchyard. Dr Fraser said he could not condone the use of violence against the demonstrators. (BBC)
October 27, 2011, Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, the Saudi Arabian Minister of the Interior, is named as the new Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, following the death of Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud on October 22. (AP via Washington Post)
October 28, 2011, Release of Anonymous
October 28, 2011, Release of In Time
October 28, 2011, Release of The Rum Diary
October 28, 2011, Release of Puss in Boots
October 28, 2011, Release of The Double
October 28, 2011, Series Premiere of Grimm
October 28, 2011,
October 28, 2011, The St. Louis Cardinals win the 2011 World Series, defeating the Texas Rangers 6–2 in Game 7. (Yahoo! Sports)
October 28, 2011, The United States commemorates the 125th anniversary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty in New York City. (Christian Science Monitor)
October 28, 2011, The heads of government of the Commonwealth of Nations meet in the Western Australian city of Perth. (ABC News Australia)
October 28, 2011, Occupy London protests:St Paul's Cathedral re-opens to visitors after closing a week ago because Occupy London protesters had set up camp in its churchyard. (BBC)
-The City of London Corporation announces plans to launch legal action to evict the protesters from St Paul's. (BBC)
October 28, 2011, The Obama administration orders an independent review of Department of Energy "clean-energy" loans following the bankruptcy of solar energy company Solyndra. (Associated Press via Google)
October 28, 2011, NASA launches its NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite to send back data on weather and climate conditions. (AFP via Google News)
October 28, 2011, In basketball, the North American National Basketball Association cancels all games scheduled up until November 30, 2011 after failing to achieve a resolution of the 2011 NBA lockout with the National Basketball Players Association. (AP via NPR)
October 29, 2011, A rare October snow storm hits the northeastern United States and Mid-Atlantic United States, leaving millions without power and killing two. (CNN)
October 30, 2011, Dexter S6 Ep5:
October 30, 2011, Once Upon a Time S1 Ep2: The Thing You Love Most
October 30, 2011,The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2011 finishes in the Australian city of Perth. (The West Australian)
October 31, 2011,
October 31, 2011, US brokerage firm MF Global files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after declaring £4bn of Eurozone debt exposure. (BBC)
October 31, 2011, UNESCO becomes the first United Nations agency to admit Palestine as a full member, with the United States withdrawing funding in protest. (AFP via Adelaide Now)
October 31, 2011, The Rt Rev Graeme Knowles resigns as Dean of London's St Paul's Cathedral as protests by Occupy London demonstrators continue. (BBC)
October 31, 2011, The United Nations Population Division estimates that the world population has reached seven billion people. (Los Angeles Times)
