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This article covers breaking news and events in October 2011.
Daily events
Saturday 1st October 2011
- Munich / Germany : The Siemens Sector Infrastructure & Cities , a main business field (sector) of Siemens AG , is founded. It exists for about 3 years, until September 30, 2014 .
Sunday October 2, 2011
- Belgrade / Serbia : In the final of the 27th European Women's Volleyball Championship , Serbia defeated the German selection 3-2.
Monday 3rd October 2011
- Copenhagen / Denmark : Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt presents her cabinet , in which there are representatives of the Social Democrats , the Socialist People's Party and the Social Liberals .
- Perugia / Italy : A court on appeal overturns the verdict in the Meredith Kercher murder , which means that the two accused are released after just two years in prison.
- San Pedro de Atacama / Chile : The ALMA observatory , which is around a third complete , will start operations two years before the planned completion.
- Stockholm / Sweden : The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to the American Bruce Beutler , the French Jules Hoffmann and the posthumous Canadian Ralph M. Steinman , who died three days earlier .
Tuesday 4th October 2011
- Luxembourg / Luxembourg : The European Court of Justice ruled that foreign decoder cards are allowed for receiving football broadcasts on pay TV .
- Mogadishu / Somalia : At least 139 people are killed and more than 93 others are injured in an al-Shabaab bomb attack .
- New York / United States : In view of the famine in East Africa , the children's aid organization UNICEF warns of another mass death of tens of thousands of children.
- Stockholm / Sweden : The three Americans Saul Perlmutter , Brian P. Schmidt and Adam Riess are awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics .
Wednesday 5th October 2011
- Cambodia , Thailand : Heavy rains in Southeast Asia kill at least 382 people and leave thousands homeless.
- Stockholm / Sweden : This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to the Israeli-US chemist Dan Shechtman .
- Tauranga / New Zealand : The container ship Rena is stranded off the coast and in the following days leads to the largest man-made natural disaster in the history of the country due to the oil leak .
Thursday October 6, 2011
- Stockholm / Sweden : This year's Nobel Prize for Literature goes to the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer .
Friday 7th October 2011
- Oslo / Norway : Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and civil rights activists Leymah Gbowee from Liberia and Tawakkul Karman from Yemen are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- Tokyo / Japan : Beginning of the 43rd World Gymnastics Championships
Saturday 8th October 2011
- Hamburg / Germany : The Chaos Computer Club publishes an analysis of the software known as the "Bundestrojaner" for state surveillance of telecommunications connections, according to which this software contains significant security gaps and unconstitutional functions.
- Kailua-Kona / United States : The Ironman Hawaii ends with victories for the British Chrissie Wellington in the women and the Australian Craig Alexander in the men.
Sunday 9th October 2011
- Cairo / Egypt : In the Maspero massacre , serious clashes between Copts , Muslims and security forces, at least 24 people are killed and more than 150 others are injured.
- Suzuka / Japan : In the 15th race of this year's Formula 1 season on the Suzuka International Racing Course , Briton Jenson Button wins in a McLaren ahead of Fernando Alonso in a Ferrari and Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel , who for the second time in a row has Formula One 1 becomes world champion.
- Warsaw / Poland : The liberal-conservative Platforma Obywatelska of Prime Minister Donald Tusk wins the parliamentary elections with 39.2% of the votes cast, ahead of the national conservative Law and Justice party of the former Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński with 29.9%.
- Yaoundé / Cameroon : In the presidential elections incumbent Paul Biya wins with 78% of the votes cast.
Monday October 10, 2011
- Brussels / Belgium : The banking group Dexia announces its split .
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The Berlin writer Eugen Ruge is awarded the German Book Prize for his GDR family novel In times of waning light .
- Stockholm / Sweden : This year's Nobel Prize in Economics is awarded to the Americans Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims .
Tuesday October 11, 2011
- Athens / Greece : In the financial crisis , the so-called troika made up of experts from the European Union , the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund approved the next tranche of aid to the country threatened by bankruptcy.
- Bratislava / Slovakia : Parliament initially rejects the expansion of the EFSF euro rescue fund and at the same time expresses its distrust in the government of Prime Minister Iveta Radičová .
- Kiev / Ukraine : A court finds former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko guilty of abuse of office and sentenced her to seven years in prison.
- Monrovia / Liberia : In the presidential elections incumbent Ellen Johnson Sirleaf got 43.9% of the votes cast, while Winston Tubman got 32.7% and Yormie Johnson 11.6%. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Winston Tubman will run for a runoff on November 8, 2011 .
- Washington, DC / United States : The Attorney General Eric Holder announced to the press that two Iranian agents a bomb had planned to the Ambassador of Saudi Arabia , Adel al-Jubeir to kill.
Wednesday October 12, 2011
- Tübingen / Germany : According to an article published in the journal Nature , scientists have for the first time succeeded in deciphering the genetic material of the plague pathogen that triggered the so-called Black Death in the Middle Ages and claimed an estimated 25 million lives.
Thursday October 13, 2011
- Bratislava / Slovakia : In a second vote, the parliament - as the last representative of the 17 euro countries - votes for the expansion of the euro rescue fund EFSF .
- Des Moines / United States : Ghana's former President John Agyekum Kufuor and the former Brazilian head of state Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are awarded the World Food Prize for their fight against hunger and poverty .
- Riga / Latvia : The Saeima votes 77 to four with three abstentions to join Protocol 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights , making the country the last member state of the European Union to abolish the death penalty for all offenses.
Friday October 14, 2011
- Dresden / Germany : Opening of the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr .
- London / United Kingdom : Liam Fox , Minister of Defense in David Cameron's cabinet since 2010 , is stepping down after being criticized for mixing personal and professional contacts.
Saturday 15th October 2011
- Panama City / Panama : In the final of the 39th baseball world championship , the Netherlands beat Cuba 2-1 to secure the world championship title for the first time.
- Following the example of the American protest movement Occupy Wall Street, demonstrations and actions against the “immoral” approach of the actors in the financial markets are taking place in around 1,000 cities on a global day of action . There are no specific demands.
Sunday October 16, 2011
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : At the end of the Frankfurt Book Fair , the Algerian writer Boualem Sansal will be awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade .
- Gdańsk / Poland : Final of the 30th European Table Tennis Championships
- Tokyo / Japan : End of the 43rd World Gymnastics Championships
- Washington, DC / United States : Official opening of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial by President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden .
- Yeongam / South Korea : In the 16th race of this year's Formula 1 season at the Korean International Circuit , the German Sebastian Vettel wins in the Red Bull ahead of Lewis Hamilton in the McLaren and team-mate Mark Webber . Thanks to this constellation, Red Bull can also secure the constructors' world championship ahead of schedule after Sebastian Vettel won the world championship title.
Monday 17th October 2011
- Sèvres / France : Beginning of the General Conference on Weights and Measures
Tuesday October 18, 2011
- Gaza / Palestinian Territories , Tel Aviv / Israel : The radical Palestinian organization Hamas releases the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit , who was kidnapped five years ago . In return, Israel releases the first 477 of 1,027 Palestinian prisoners.
- Luxembourg / Luxembourg : The European Court of Justice ruled that human embryonic stem cells must not be patented.
Wednesday October 19, 2011
- London / United Kingdom : British author Julian Barnes is awarded the prestigious Booker Prize for his novel The Sense of an Ending .
Thursday October 20, 2011
- Basque Country / Spain : The ETA announces the "definitive end to its armed activities".
- Mosul / Iraq : The Turkish military is marching into the north of the country as a result of the newly flared Turkish-Kurdish conflict .
- Tripoli / Libya : The National Transitional Council announces that the country's former ruler, Muammar al-Gaddafi , was shot while fleeing in his hometown of Sirte .
Friday October 21, 2011
- Kourou / French Guiana : With the first launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket from the European spaceport , the first two satellites of the Galileo navigation satellite system will be launched.
- New York / United States : Nine months after the start of the protests in Yemen , the UN Security Council unanimously calls on President Ali Abdullah Salih for an orderly transfer of power.
- Washington, DC / United States : President Barack Obama has announced the complete withdrawal of US troops from Iraq by the end of the year.
Sunday October 23, 2011
- Auckland / New Zealand : Host New Zealand wins the 7th Rugby Union World Cup with an 8: 7 final victory over France .
- Bern / Switzerland : In the parliamentary elections , the Swiss People's Party (SVP) is the strongest force with 26.6% of the votes cast, ahead of the Social Democratic Party (SP) with 18.7%, the Liberals (FDP) with 15.1% , the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP) with 12.3% and the Green Party with 8.4%. The Civil Democratic Party , the Green Liberal Party and the Evangelical People's Party will also be represented in the future National Council. In the Council of States , the CVP remains the parliamentary group with the largest number of members, ahead of the FDP and SP.
- Buenos Aires / Argentina : incumbent Cristina Fernández de Kirchner wins the presidential and parliamentary elections with 53.96% of the votes cast.
- Hockenheim / Germany : Martin Tomczyk in an Audi-Phoenix becomes overall winner of the DTM for the first time at the Hockenheimring .
- Kingston / Jamaica : Andrew Holness is after the resignation of incumbent Bruce Golding for Prime Minister appointed.
- Sofia / Bulgaria : In the presidential and local elections , Rossen Plevneliev won the runoff on October 30, 2011 with 40.11% of the votes cast and Iwajlo Kalfin with 28.96% . Meglena Kunewa is out of the running , with 14%.
- Tunis / Tunisia : In the elections for the Constituent Assembly , the Nahda movement wins with 41% of the votes cast, while the Congress for the Republic 13.4%, the People's Petition for Freedom, Justice and Development 12%, Ettakatol 9.2%, the Progressive Democratic Party gain 7.4% and the Democratic-Modernist Pole 2.3%.
- Van / Turkey : An earthquake measuring 7.2 M w on the moment magnitude scale kills at least 534 people and injures more than 2,300 more in the eastern province .
Monday October 24, 2011
- Sirte / Libya : More than 100 people are killed and more than 50 others are injured in the explosion of a fuel dump.
Tuesday October 25, 2011
- Berlin / Germany : The Argentine-Israeli conductor and co-founder of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Daniel Barenboim is awarded the International Willy Brandt Prize for his commitment to international understanding .
- Schwerin / Germany : The state parliament re- elects Minister President Erwin Sellering ( SPD ) , who has been in office since 2008, as head of government in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
Wednesday October 26, 2011
- Berlin / Germany : German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere ( CDU ) is on the way for the realignment of the Bundeswehr , the stationing concept in 2011 before.
Thursday October 27, 2011
- Baghdad / Iraq : At least 32 people are killed and more than 70 others are injured in two bomb attacks.
- Brussels / Belgium : The heads of state and government of the euro zone agree on a rescue plan for Greece , which provides, among other things, that private creditors waive 50% of their claims against the country.
- Dublin / Ireland : In the presidential election wins Michael D. Higgins of the votes the vote with 56.8%, while Seán Gallagher reached 35.5%.
Friday October 28, 2011
- Moscow / Russia : After a six-year renovation that cost the equivalent of around one billion euros, the Bolshoi Theater will reopen.
Saturday October 29, 2011
- Kabul / Afghanistan : At least 17 people are killed in a suicide attack.
Sunday October 30, 2011
- Bishkek / Kyrgyzstan : Prime Minister Almasbek Atambayev wins the presidential elections with 63% of the votes cast.
- Munich / Germany : Ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the recruitment agreement with Turkey with the arrival of the special train “50 Years of Migration” from Turkey at the main station.
- Sofia / Bulgaria : In the runoff election for the presidency , Rossen Plewneliew wins with 52.5% of the votes cast, while his opponent Ivajlo Kalfin wins 47.4%. OSCE election observers criticize the state of the presidential elections.
Monday October 31, 2011
- Brussels / Belgium : The negotiating partners of the future government coalition agree that the country's seven nuclear reactors will be shut down from 2015.
- Inner Mongolia / China : The Shenzhou 8 spacecraft takes off from the Jiuquan Cosmodrome with a Long March 2F launch vehicle .
- New York / United States : According to official estimates by the United Nations, the world population reaches seven billion people.
- Paris / France : UNESCO is the first specialized agency of the United Nations to grant full membership to the Palestinian territories .
- Tripoli / Libya : After the Civil War the mandate for the running international military intervention of NATO from.
- Tripoli / Libya : The National Transitional Council elects Abdel Rahim el-Kib as temporary Prime Minister and entrusts him with forming a government by the end of November.
See also
- Nekrolog October 2011 for deaths this month
- List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in October
- Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in October
Web links
Commons : October 2011 - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ spiegel.de: European Volleyball Championship: Germany loses final against Serbia (accessed on October 3, 2011).
- ↑ zeit.de: Europe: Denmark's new government wants to relax the law on foreigners (accessed October 4, 2011).
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Acquittal for an American woman in the murder trial - Amanda Knox on the way to freedom ( memento from October 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed October 4, 2011).
- ↑ focus.de: Alma Observatory: New giant telescope throws a view into space (accessed on October 4, 2011).
- ↑ morgenpost.de: Despite other rules - Steinman receives the Nobel Prize posthumously (accessed on October 3, 2011).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Judgment on Pay TV: Football shows will be cheaper (accessed on October 5, 2011).
- ↑ presstv.ir: 139 killed in huge Mogadishu blast (English, accessed October 7, 2011).
- ↑ orf.at: UNICEF warns of mass deaths of children in East Africa (accessed October 4, 2011).
- ^ Nobelprize.org: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 - Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, Adam G. Riess (English, accessed October 4, 2011).
- ^ Nzz.ch: Thailand under water - protecting Bangkok as a priority (accessed on October 6, 2011).
- ^ Nobelprize.org: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011 - Dan Shechtman (English, accessed October 5, 2011).
- ↑ stern.de: Freight accident off New Zealand: The catastrophe in paradise (accessed on October 16, 2011).
- ↑ sueddeutsche: Nobel Prize for Literature goes to Tomas Tranströmer (accessed on October 6, 2011).
- ↑ nobelprize.org: The Nobel Peace Prize 2011 - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Tawakkul Karman (accessed October 7, 2011).
- ^ Ccc.de: Chaos Computer Club analyzes state trojans (accessed on October 9, 2011).
- ↑ ftd.de: Chaos Computer Club cracks "Bundestrojaner" ( Memento from October 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on October 9, 2011).
- ↑ trinews.at, Stefan Leitner: Women ( Memento from March 1, 2020 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ trinews.at, Stefan Leitner: Gentlemen ( Memento from March 1, 2020 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ morgenpost.de: Conflict with Muslims - At least 24 dead in Coptic protests in Cairo (accessed on October 10, 2011).
- ↑ kicker.de: Button wins, but Vettel is third world champion (accessed October 9, 2011).
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Historical victory for Tusk in Poland ( memento from October 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on October 11, 2011).
- ^ Sixth term for the President. In: wienerzeitung.at . October 22, 2011, accessed April 25, 2019 .
- ↑ de.reuters.com: First victim of the euro crisis - Dexia is nationalized (accessed on October 12, 2011).
- ↑ zeit.de: Award: Eugen Ruge receives the German Book Prize (accessed on October 11, 2011).
- ^ Nobelprize.org: The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011 - Thomas J. Sargent, Christopher A. Sims (English, accessed October 10, 2011).
- ↑ https://www.fr.de/wirtschaft/gruenes-licht-griechenland-hilfe-11368955.html
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Voting on extended rescue package - Slovak government collapses on the euro (accessed on October 12, 2011).
- ↑ tagesanzeiger.ch: The EU threatens Ukraine with “serious consequences” (accessed on October 11, 2011).
- ↑ focus.de: Liberia: Opposition candidate Tubman is considering boycott of the election (accessed November 2, 2011).
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: USA accuse Iran of a murder plot (accessed November 4, 2011).
- ↑ stern.de: University of Tübingen: genetic material of plague pathogen has been completely deciphered (accessed on October 17, 2011).
- ↑ zeit.de: Slovakia votes for the expansion of the euro rescue package ( memento from January 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on October 14, 2011).
- ↑ worldfoodprize.org: World Food Prize Week, Oct. 10-16, 2011 (accessed October 9, 2011).
- ↑ oe24.at: Latvia waives the death penalty (accessed on October 15, 2011).
- ^ Sueddeutsche.de: Business travel affair. British Defense Secretary Fox resigns (accessed October 17, 2011).
- ↑ sport1.de: Netherlands get baseball title (accessed October 28, 2011).
- ^ Faz.net: "Occupy Wall Street": The wave of protests covers all continents (accessed on October 15, 2011).
- ↑ stern.de: Frankfurter Buchmesse 2011: A positive balance at the end (accessed on October 17, 2011).
- ↑ orf.at: Obama inaugurates memorial for Martin Luther King (accessed October 17, 2011).
- ↑ kicker.de: Vettel leads Red Bull to the next title (accessed on October 16, 2011).
- ↑ bipm.org: On the possible future revision of the International System of Units, the SI (English, accessed January 30, 2011; PDF; 111 kB).
- ^ Sueddeutsche.de: Schalit and Hundreds of Palestinians Free ( Memento from September 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 5, 2016).
- ↑ diepresse.com: ECJ prohibits patents on embryonic stem cells (accessed on October 19, 2011).
- ^ Spiegel.de: British Literature Prize: Julian Barnes wins Booker Prize (accessed October 19, 2011).
- ↑ politica.elpais.com: Texto íntegro del comunicado - Declaración de ETA del fin de la violencia (Spanish, accessed October 21, 2011).
- ↑ derstandard: Army invades Northern Iraq (accessed October 20, 2011).
- ↑ bazonline.ch: Death of the ex-ruler confirmed - "Today we are celebrating a great victory" (accessed on October 20, 2011).
- ↑ nzz.ch: Double premiere in Kourou - Russian Soyuz rocket launches two Galileo satellites into space on first launch in Kourou (accessed on October 22, 2011).
- ^ Diepresse.com: UN Security Council calls for a change of power in Yemen (accessed October 24, 2011).
- ↑ faz.net: Iraq: Obama withdraws troops in 2011 (accessed October 21, 2011).
- ^ N-tv.de: Golden triumph at the Rugby World Cup - All Blacks redeem New Zealand (accessed on October 23, 2011).
- ^ National Council elections on October 23, 2011. In: parlament.ch . Retrieved September 4, 2018 .
- ^ Elections to the Council of States on October 23, 2011. In: parlament.ch . Retrieved September 4, 2018 .
- ↑ spiegel.de: Kirchner election victory: Argentina relies on Project K (accessed on November 2, 2011).
- ↑ kicker.de: Ekström secures second place - Green defeats Master Tomczyk in the end (accessed on December 31, 2011).
- ↑ opm.gov.jm: Inaugural Address, Prime Minister Andrew Holness ( October 26, 2011 memento in the Internet Archive ) (English, accessed December 31, 2011).
- ↑ focus.de: Bulgaria: runoff election decides on future president (accessed on November 2, 2011).
- ↑ faz.net: Elections in Tunisia - Clear victory for Islamists (accessed on November 2, 2011).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Four days after the earthquake - rescuers free two young men from rubble (accessed on October 27, 2011).
- ↑ stern.de: Libya: More than 100 dead from explosion in Sirte (accessed on October 28, 2011).
- ↑ zeit.de: Music: Daniel Barenboim honored with Willy Brandt Prize ( Memento from October 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on October 27, 2011).
- ^ The election of the Prime Ministers in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein. In: nomos.de , material from NordÖR . September 2013, accessed on October 21, 2017 : "Day of the Prime Minister's Election, Name of the Prime Minister"
- ^ Bundeswehr.de: New stationing concept of the Bundeswehr (accessed on October 26, 2011).
- ↑ rp-online.de : At least 32 dead after attacks in Baghdad ( Memento from October 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ n-tv.de: After the summit is before the summit - the solution harbors new problems (accessed on October 28, 2011).
- ↑ welt.de: Ireland chooses a leftist poet (accessed November 2, 2011).
- ↑ de.rian.ru: Bolshoi Theater: Enjoyment of culture only after passport control (accessed on November 26, 2011).
- ↑ cnn.com: Kabul: At least 17 killed in Kabul suicide bomb attack ( Memento from November 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English, accessed November 26, 2011).
- ↑ focus.de: Kyrgyzstan: USA and Russia observe development by choice (accessed on November 2, 2011).
- ↑ https://www.br.de/presse/inhalt/pressemitteilungen/anwerbeabkommen-tuekei100.html
- ↑ zeit.de: OSCE observers criticize the election in Bulgaria (accessed on November 2, 2011).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Out for seven reactors - Belgium wants to get out of nuclear power from 2015 (accessed on November 1, 2011).
- ↑ focus.de: "Shenzhou 8": Chinese spaceship successfully launched (accessed on November 1, 2011).
- ↑ unfpa.org: World Population to Reach 7 trillion on 31 October (English, access on 19 October 2011).
- ↑ nature.com: Seven billion and counting (accessed October 19, 2011).
- ^ Abendblatt.de : USA stop contribution payments ( Memento from November 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ dw-world.de: The military operation in Libya ends (accessed on October 28, 2011).
- ↑ stern.de: After Muammar Gaddafi - Kib is the new premier in Libya (accessed on November 2, 2011).