What Happened In December 2011 In History

Historical Events for December, 2011

• 13th » A 2011 Liège attack named murder-suicide in Liège, Belgium, kills six and wounds 125 people at a Christmas market.
• 28th » Uludere airstrike: Turkey named Turkish warplanes bomb 34 Kurdish people named Kurds of Turkish nationality in the district of Uludere.
• 30th » Owing to a Samoa Time Zone or change of time zone the day is skipped in Samoa and Tokelau.
• 31st » NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the moon.

Famous Deaths for December 2011

• 1st » Christa Wolf, German author and critic (b. 1929)
• 3rd » Dev Anand, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1923)
• 4th » Sócrates, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1954)
• 4th » Hubert Sumlin, American singer and guitarist (b. 1931)
• 5th » Peter Gethin, English race car driver (b. 1940)
• 5th » Gennady Logofet, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1942)
• 6th » Dobie Gray, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
• 7th » Harry Morgan, American actor and director (b. 1915)
• 11th » John Patrick Foley, American cardinal (b. 1935)
• 11th » Susan Gordon, American actress and singer (b. 1949)
• 13th » T. J. Bass, American physician and author (b. 1932)
• 13th » Kabir Chowdhury, Bangladeshi author and academic (b. 1923)
• 13th » Russell Hoban, American author and illustrator (b. 1925)
• 14th » Joe Simon, American author and illustrator (b. 1913)
• 14th » Billie Jo Spears, American singer (b. 1937)
• 15th » Bob Brookmeyer, American trombone player and composer (The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra) (b. 1929)
• 15th » Christopher Hitchens, English-American journalist and author (b. 1949)
• 15th » Frank X. McDermott, American lawyer and politician (b. 1924)
• 15th » Jason Richards, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1976)
• 16th » Dan Frazer, American actor (b. 1921)
• 17th » Eva Ekvall, Venezuelan journalist and author, Miss Venezuela 2000 (b. 1983)
• 17th » Cesária Évora, Cape Verdean singer (b. 1941)
• 17th » Kim Jong-il, North Korean commander and politician, 2nd List of leaders of North Korea named Supreme Leader of North Korea (b. 1941)
• 18th » Václav Havel, Czech poet, playwright, and politician, 1st President of the Czech Republic (b. 1936)
• 20th » Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright (b. 1926)
• 22nd » William Duell, American actor (b. 1923)
• 24th » Johannes Heesters, Dutch-German actor and singer (b. 1903)
• 25th » Giorgio Bocca, Italian journalist (b. 1920)
• 25th » Ben Breedlove, American blogger (b. 1993)
• 25th » Jim Sherwood, American saxophonist (The Mothers of Invention) (b. 1942)
• 25th » Simms Taback, American author and illustrator (b. 1932)
• 26th » Houston Antwine, American football player (b. 1939)
• 26th » Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., Mexican-American actor and producer (b. 1940)
• 26th » Sarekoppa Bangarappa, Indian politician, 15th Chief Minister of Karnataka (b. 1932)
• 26th » Joe Bodolai, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1948)
• 26th » Fred Fono, Solomon politician (b. 1962)
• 26th » Sam Rivers, American flute player and composer (b. 1923)
• 26th » James Rizzi, American painter and illustrator (b. 1950)
• 27th » Catê, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1973)
• 27th » Michael Dummett, English soldier, philosopher, and academic (b. 1925)
• 27th » Helen Frankenthaler, American painter and educator (b. 1928)
• 27th » Johnny Wilson (ice hockey) called Johnny Wilson, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1929)
• 28th » Jon Roberts, American drug trafficker (b. 1948)
• 29th » Tyron Perez, Filipino model and actor (b. 1985)
• 30th » Ronald Searle, English-French cartoonist (b. 1920)

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