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- Clockwise from top to bottom left-right:
*a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement;
*protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October;
*a young man celebrates the independence of South Sudan, the world's newest country;
*the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami devastates Eastern Japan and kills nearly 20,000 people, becoming the most expensive natural disaster on record;
*Minecraft is released, which would go on to become the best-selling video game of all time;
*the Norway attacks mark the rise of white supremacist terrorism across the west;
*the U.S. national security team gathered in the White House Situation Room to monitor the progress of Operation Neptune Spear which resulted in the death of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden;
*anti-government protests called the Arab Spring arose in early 2011, and as a result, many governments were overthrown in the Middle East and Northern Africa, which lead to the Arab Winter. (en)
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