What Happened In November 2011 In History

Historical Events for November, 2011

• 8th » The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distance (astronomy) lunar distances from Earth (about convert 324600 km disp=or), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its Absolute magnitude Solar system brightness since mpl 2010 XC
• 12th » Silvio Berlusconi tenders his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy, effective November 16, due in large part to the European sovereign debt crisis.
• 23rd » Arab Spring: After 11 months of 2011 Yemeni uprising e.g protests in Yemen, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.
• 26th » 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan: NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani checkpost in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others.

Famous Deaths for November 2011

• 1st » Dorothy Howell Rodham, American mother of Hillary Rodham Clinton (b. 1919)
• 2nd » Sickan Carlsson, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1915)
• 2nd » Ilmar Kullam, Estonian basketball player and coach (b. 1922)
• 2nd » Leonard Stone, American actor (b. 1923)
• 3rd » Peeter Kreitzberg, Estonian politician (b. 1948)
• 7th » Joe Frazier, American boxer (b. 1944)
• 8th » Heavy D, Jamaican-American rapper, producer, and actor (b. 1967)
• 8th » Bil Keane, American cartoonist (b. 1922)
• 10th » Peter J. Biondi, American politician (b. 1942)
• 10th » Ivan Martin Jirous, Czech poet (b. 1944)
• 11th » Francisco Blake Mora, Mexican lawyer and politician, Secretariat of the Interior (Mexico) called Mexican Secretary of the Interior (b. 1966)
• 14th » Neil Heywood, English-Chinese businessman (b. 1970)
• 14th » Jackie Leven, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Doll by Doll) (b. 1950)
• 17th » Olin Branstetter, American businessman and politician (b. 1929)
• 17th » Kurt Budke, American basketball player and coach (b. 1961)
• 21st » Anne McCaffrey, American-Irish author (b. 1926)
• 22nd » Svetlana Alliluyeva, Russian-American author and educator (b. 1926)
• 22nd » Sena Jurinac, Bosnian-Austrian soprano (b. 1921)
• 22nd » Lynn Margulis, American biologist and academic (b. 1938)
• 22nd » Danielle Mitterrand, French activist, First Lady of France (b. 1924)
• 22nd » Paul Motian, American drummer and composer (b. 1931)
• 23rd » Jim Rathmann, American race car driver (b. 1928)
• 25th » Vasily Alekseyev, Russian weightlifter and coach (b. 1942)
• 25th » Coco Robicheaux, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
• 27th » Sultan Khan (musician) e.g Sultan Khan, Indian singer and sarangi player (Tabla Beat Science) (b. 1940)
• 27th » Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1969)
• 30th » Leka, Crown Prince of Albania (b. 1939)

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