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Top Song(s)
• LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem
• Adele - Rolling In The Deep
• Bruno Mars - Grenade
• Lady GaGa - Born This Way
• Adele - Someone Like You
Top Film(s)
• Drive
• A Separation
• Warrior
• The Raid
• The Intouchables
Best Selling Book(s)
• City of Fallen Angels - Cassandra Clare
Clockwork Prince - Cassandra Clare
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• Delirium - Lauren Oliver
• Silence - Becca Fitzpatrick
• The Son of Neptune - Rick Riordan
Famous Deaths
• January 6 - Don Tyson, American businessman, founder of Tyson Foods
• February 6 - Kenneth H Olsen, American electrical engineer, and co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation
• March 26 - Harry Coover, American chemist and inventor of Superglue
• April 16 - Allan Blakeney, Canadian politician (10th Premier of Saskatchewan)
• May 29 - Ferenc Madl, Hungarian politician, President of Hungary
• June 18 - Frederick Chiluba, 2nd President of Zambia (1991-2001)
• July 8 - Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States (1974-77)
• August 6 - Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and National Scientist of the Philippines
• September 20 - Burhanuddin Rabbani, President of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996
• December 13 - Park Tae-joon, South Korean general and founder of steel giant Posco
Medical/Science/Technology
• Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania find that a major cause of baldness.
• Researchers announce that salty junk food can damage arteries in as little as thirty minutes after being eaten.
• Studies conclude in Australia announce that sharks are colorblind.
• A blood test to detect vCJD is developed by British scientists.
• Scientists at Oxford University successfully test a universal flu vaccine, which should work against all known strains of the illness.
• Stanford University researchers create new stretchable solar cells.
• Surgeons in Houston, Texas, successfully implant the world's first continuous-flow artificial heart in a human patient.
• Archeologists believe that they have found the lost city of Atlantis in mud swamps near Cadiz, Spain.
• A new way of delivering drugs to the brain, using the body's own exosomes, is developed.
• A human heart is grown in a laboratory from stem cells, marking a major advance in personalized medicine.
Political
• January 6 – The US Constitution is read aloud on the floor of the US House of Representatives for the first time in history.
• January 7 – Oklahoma and Wyoming join the other 22 states suing the federal government over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
• January 10 - Former Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay is sentenced to three years in prison for money laundering.
• January 18 – U.S. president Barack Obama begins a four-day meeting with Chinese president Hu Jintao.
• January 25 – U.S. president Barack Obama delivers his 2011 State of the Union Address.
• February 2 – The US Senate blocks a repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with a vote of 51–47.
• February 15 – The Senate approves the same extension of some parts of the controversial Patriot Act until December.
• March 1 – The U.S. House of Representatives passes a small spending bill that funds the federal government until March 18.
• March 3 - The U.S. Supreme Court makes a controversial 8–1 decision that the controversial protests of the Westboro Baptist Church
• May 2 - President Barack Obama announces in a media statement that Osama bin Laden, was killed by U.S. forces.
National
• January 20 – In a landmark study, a new technique renders T-Cells resistant to HIV.
• January 31–February 2 – A blizzard dumps as much as 2 feet of snow across the Midwestern United States.
• February 7 – AOL purchases online publisher The Huffington Post in a $315 million deal.
• March 10 – The Wisconsin State Assembly passes the law that restricts bargaining rights for unions in a 53–42 vote.
• March 21 - AT&T announces plans to buy T-Mobile for $39 billion.
• April 14–16 – A tornado outbreak and severe thunderstorms kill at least 43 people across the Southern United States.
• May 10 – 360,000 Citigroup credit card accounts are hacked.
• June 2 - The Federal Bureau of Investigation investigate claims that hackers in China attacked the Google email accounts.
• July 2 – ExxonMobil workers attempt to contain an oil spill on the Yellowstone River in the U.S. state of Montana.
• August 7 – Ohio man Michael Hance kills seven people before being shot dead by police.
Worldwide
• January 1 - A bomb explodes as Coptic Christians in Alexandria, Egypt leave a new year service, killing 23 people.
• February 11 – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigns after widespread protests calling for his departure.
• March 29 – More than 1.5 million web sites around the world had been infected by the LizaMoon SQL injection attack.
• April 15 – The Mexican town of Cherán is taken over by vigilantes in response to abuses from the local drug cartel.
• May 11 – A 5.1 earthquake strikes southern Spain, killing 9 and injuring over 400.
• July 9 – South Sudan secedes from Sudan, per the result of the independence referendum held in January.
• October 4 – The death toll from the flooding of Cambodia's Mekong river and attendant flash floods reaches 207.
• October 20 - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is killed in Sirte, with National Transitional Council forces ending the war.
• November 18 – Mojang Studios of Sweden release the blockbuster video game Minecraft, which becomes the best-selling video game of all time.
• December 17 – North Korean leader Kim Jong-il dies of either a heart attack or stroke on his way to a field guidance.