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| 2011 September 11 |
| | | The Occupy Wall Street protest begins and its PR success prompts the Occupy movement around the world | |
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| 2011 October 18 |
| | | Hamas releases the captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange for 1027 Palestinian and Israeli-Arab prisoners held in Israel | |
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| 2011 October 18 |
| | | The Libyan leader Muammad Gaddafi is captured and killed in Sirte | |
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| 2011 October 31 |
| | | UNESCO admits Palestine as a member after a vote with a large majority in favour | |
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| c. 2011 October-December |
| | | At some time during this period the world's population is estimated to have reached seven billion | |
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| 2011 November 18 |
| | | Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam is captured when attempting to flee to Niger and is held for trial | |
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| 2011 November 26 |
| | | NASA launches a rocket carrying the roving science laboratory Curiosity, which is programmed to land on Mars on 6 August 2012 | |
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| 2011 December 15 |
| | | The USA formally declares an end to the Iraq War | |
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| 2011 December 20 |
| | | NASA's Kepler mission discovers the first two earth-size planets outside our solar system | |
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| 2011 December 29 |
| | | Samoa and Tokelau move themselves from east to west of the International Date Line to coincide their date with their nearest trading partners | |
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