August 3rd 2010 – Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage.

August 4, 2015 - A vault containing non-words - those rejected by the Oxford English Dictionary - is uncovered. (The Daily Telegraph)

August 5th 2010 – The Copiapó mining accident occurs, trapping 33 Chilean miners approximately 2,300 ft (700 m) below the ground.

August 5th 2010 – Ten members of International Assistance Mission Nuristan Eye Camp team are killed by persons unknown in Kuran wa Munjan District of Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan.

August 8th 2010 – A massive mudslide of 1.8 million cubic metres (2,400,000 cu yd) of mud and rocks in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, China, killed 1,471 people.

August 14th 2010 – The first-ever Youth Olympic Games are held in Singapore.

August 19th 2010 – Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.

August 23rd 2010 - Danish tennis player Caroline Wozniacki defeats Russia's Vera Zvonareva 6-3, 6-2 at the WTA tour Rogers Cup in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, earning US$350,000 for the victory.

September 3rd 2010 - Mike Edwards a founding member of ELO was killed in a freak accident when a giant bale of hay tumbled down a hill and crashed into his van. The 62 year-old cellist died after the 600 kg (1,323 lb) bale rolled down a steep field in Devon, southern England, smashed through a hedge and careered on to the road. Edwards played cello with ELO, the seven-piece band led by Jeff Lynne, from their first live gig in 1972 until he left in January 1975. He quit the band in 1975 to become a Buddhist, changing his name to Deva Pramada and making his living by teaching the cello.

September 4th 2010 – Canterbury earthquake: A 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes the South Island of New Zealand at 4:35 am causing widespread damage and several power outages.

September 6th 2010 - New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez reaches 100 RBIs for a record 14th season, passing Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Jimmie Fox, all tied at 13 seasons.

September 7th 2010 – A Chinese fishing trawler collided with two Japanese Coast Guard patrol boats in disputed waters near the Senkaku Islands. The collisions occurred around 10am, after the Japanese Coast Guard ordered the trawler to leave the area. After the collisions, Japanese sailors boarded the Chinese vessel and arrested the captain, Zhan Qixiong.

September 7th 2010 -  Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ was voted the greatest ‘lighter in the air song of all time’ by lighter company Zippo. Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway To Heaven’, was voted in at No. 2 and Meat Loaf’s ‘I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)’ was at No. 3 in the survey.

September 7th 2010 -  Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ was voted the greatest ‘lighter in the air song of all time’ by lighter company Zippo. Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway To Heaven’, was voted in at No. 2 and Meat Loaf’s ‘I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)’ was at No. 3 in the survey.


Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird" didn't make the list? ???

Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird" didn't make the list? ???
The list does not seem to be available online.

September 23rd 2010 – Teresa Lewis became the first woman to be executed by the US state of Virginia since 1912, and the first woman in the state to be executed via lethal injection.

December 30, 2010: Ellis Clarke, the 1st president of Trinidad and Tobago has died.

September 23rd 2010 – Teresa Lewis became the first woman to be executed by the US state of Virginia since 1912, and the first woman in the state to be executed via lethal injection.

Seems rather sad. :\'(

January 1, 2011: Estonia officially adopts the Euro currency and becomes the 17th Eurozone country.

Jan. 8, 2011: The attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona. She was critically injured by a gunshot wound to the head; a total of thirteen people were injured and six others were killed in the shooting, among them federal judge John Roll and a 9-year-old child, Christina-Taylor Green. Giffords was later brought to a rehabilitation facility in Houston, Texas, where she recovered some of her ability to walk, speak, read and write.

She has since recovered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabrielle_Giffords#Recovery

January 14th 2011 – Former president of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali flees his country to Saudi Arabia after a series of street demonstrations against his regime and corrupt policies, asking for freedom, rights and democracy, considered as the anniversary of the Tunisian Revolution and the birth of the Arab Spring.

January 25th 2011 – The first wave of the Egyptian revolution begins in Egypt, with a series of street demonstrations, marches, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria, and throughout other cities in Egypt

January 27th 2011 – Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sana'a.

February 11th 2011 – The first wave of the Egyptian revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests.

February 13th 2011 – For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.

February 14th 2011 – As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising, a series of demonstrations, amounting to a sustained campaign of civil resistance, in the Persian Gulf country of Bahrain begins with a 'Day of Rage'.

February 17th 2011 – Libyan protests begin. In Bahrain, security forces launched a deadly pre-dawn raid on protesters in Pearl Roundabout in Manama, the day is locally known as Bloody Thursday.

February 19th 2011 – The debut exhibition of the Belitung shipwreck, containing the largest collection of Tang dynasty artefacts found in one location, begins in Singapore.

February 22nd 2011 – New Zealand's second deadliest earthquake strikes Christchurch, killing 185 people.

February 22nd 2011 – Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people march in protest against the deaths of seven victims killed by police and army forces during previous protests.

February 24th 2011 – Final launch of Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103).

February 25th 2011 - Susan 'Suze' Rotolo, died from lung cancer. She was the one time girlfriend of Bob Dylan, and the inspiration of some of his early songs. Susan appeared in one of the decade's signature images, walking with Dylan arm-in-arm for the cover photo of his breakthrough album Freewheelin Bob Dylan.

March 9th 2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.

March 9th 2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.

Also, the day was Ash Wednesday (Western Christianity)!

The date is a Wednesday again this year, but Ash Wednesday was already a month ago.

March 11th 2011 – An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

March 11th 2011 – An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

I remember that. There was even a tsunami warning in effect for the west coast of the United States.
Additionally, the date was also a Friday, just like today.

In fact, any date from March 1st of this year through February 28th of next year will fall on the same day of the week as it did 5 years earlier.  This is due to the fact that two Leap Days intervene in between.

March 11th 2011 - The former singer with Iron Maiden was jailed for nine months for fraudulently claiming benefits. Paul Andrews, fronted the band between 1978 and 1981, under the stage name Paul Di'Anno. Andrews, 52, was jailed at the city's crown court after earlier admitting falsely claiming more than £45,000. Fraud investigators had viewed online videos and read about gigs on the performer's website.

March 12th 2011 – A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.

March 15th 2011 – Beginning of the Syrian Civil War.

March 18th 2011 – Jet Harris, bass guitarist for The Shadows, died from throat cancer at the age of 71. Jet played on the hit 'Apache' and during their days as Cliff Richard's backing band, performed on the chart-topper 'Living Doll'. In 1962 he left the group and had solo hits with 'Besame Mucho' and 'The Man With The Golden Arm'.

March 18th 2011– Organisers of an attempt to reunite 19 people who watched The Beatles play in a town hall in 1963 had claims from 24 people who said they were there. Billy Shanks was helping to lead the search for the audience members of the gig in Dingwall, Ross-shire, Scotland in 1963. He said some who turned up thought the music was rubbish and left to join an audience of 1,200 watching a local band in nearby Strathpeffer.

April 2nd 2011 – India won the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup, defeating Sri Lanka by 6 wickets in the final in Mumbai, thus becoming the first country to win the Cricket World Cup final on home soil.

April 6th 2011 – In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 bodies were exhumed from several mass graves made by Los Zetas.

April 11th 2011 – An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others.

April 19th 2011 – Fidel Castro resigns from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba after 45 years of holding the title.

April 27th 2011 – The April 25–28 tornado outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. Two hundred five tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone, killing more than 300 and injuring hundreds more.

May 10th 2011 - It was announced that Microsoft had closed a deal to purchase the internet phone service Skype for $8.5 billion.

May 10th 2011 - The ornate iron gates of a children's home which inspired John Lennon's psychedelic Beatles anthem Strawberry Fields Forever were removed after The Salvation Army, which owned the former home, decided to put the red Victorian gates into storage. Beatles fans who passed the Liverpool site on tours would now be met with 10ft (3m) high replicas. The original gates were being taken to a secret location for storage, and would eventually be auctioned off.

May 11th 2011 - One of the rarest rock t-shirts in the world sold for $10,000 (£6096.00), the largest sum ever paid for a vintage t-shirt. The record-setting sale of a 1979 Led Zeppelin t-shirt on eBay was sold by Kyle Ermatinger of Stormcrow Vintage. The recent completion of the transaction placed the purchase as the world's rarest and most expensive vintage t-shirt

May 13th 2011 – Two bombs explode in the Charsadda District of Pakistan killing 98 people and wounding 140 others.

May 13th 2011 - Like A Rolling Stone was voted as Bob Dylan's best-ever song by Rolling Stone Magazine, who had asked the opinions of a panel of writers, academics and musicians to compile a poll to mark Dylan's 70th birthday on 24th May. Like A Rolling Stone, was described by U2's Bono as 'a black eye of a pop song', while Mick Jagger praised the simplicity of Desolation Row. Keith Richards argued that the original 1963 solo version of Girl From The North Country, ranked 30th, was superior to Dylan's 1969 duet of the same song with Johnny Cash.

May 15th 2011 – The first protest of the Anti-austerity movement in Spain (also known as the Indignádos or 15-May Movement) begins in 58 Spanish cities.

May 16th 2011 – STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour.

May 18th 2011 - John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for the 1967 Beatles song 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' sold for $237,132 (£145,644) at an auction in the US. The sale of the sheet, which featured the song's third verse and the opening words to 'She's Leaving Home', took place at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills. Both songs feature on the 1967 album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was speculated the song was about the drug LSD, however, The Beatles denied this, with Lennon saying the inspiration had come from a picture his son Julian had drawn of a classmate named Lucy Vodden - who died of the immune system disease Lupus in 2009.

...and I believe it was also on that date when my laptop computer finally got fixed, and I ended my 2 1/2 week absence from this site. (That's the longest period of time I've ever been away from here!)

May 28th 2011 – Malta votes on the introduction of divorce.

May 28, 2011: Dodgers lost to Miami Marlins at Dodger Stadium, 6-1. (I remember, I was at that game!)

I believe this was 15 years ago, not 5! ;)
Oops!

June 1st 2011 – Charles F. McMillan takes charge as 10th director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, succeeding Michael R. Anastasio.

June 1st 2011 – A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people.

June 9th 2011 - The world's first artificial organ transplant was performed. It was an artificial windpipe coated with stem cells.

June 19th 2011 - Amy Winehouse was booed by crowds in Serbia's capital Belgrade after appearing to be too drunk to perform. The concert - the first on the singers 12-day European tour, saw Winehouse mumble her way through parts of songs, leave the stage altogether and at one point she threw her microphone to the floor. She was frequently booed by the crowd, who had paid up to £45 to see her in a country in which wages are some of the lowest in Europe.

June 22nd 2011 - It was reported in the Irish press that Bono's wandering peahen was causing havoc for some south Dublin residents. The peahen the less spectacular-coloured female partner to a male peacock had arrived in the Ard Mhuire housing estate in Killiney near to where the singer lived. One newspaper ran the headline: "Bono's cock drives me nuts". Local woman Susan McKeon said she first noticed the bird at night. "It had a tiny head and a huge body. It was actually quite ugly but I don't think it's fully grown."

June 23rd 2011 - The pilot episdoe of "Suits" aired on USA.

June 28th 2011 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 1991 relating to Democratic Republic of Congo is adopted.

June 29th 2011 - The state of Nevada passed the first law that permitted the operation of autonomous cars on public roads. The law went into effect on March 1, 2012 and did not permit the use of the cars to the general public. Google received the first self-driving vehicle license in the U.S. on May 4, 2012 in Nevada.

June 30th 2011 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 1994 is adopted.

July 23rd 2011: Amy Winehouse, British singer-songwriter, passed away at her London home from alcohol poisoning, age 27.

July 23rd 2011: Amy Winehouse, British singer-songwriter, passed away at her London home from alcohol poisoning, age 27.
:\'(

Died this day in 2011, Gene McDaniels, who scored the 1961 US No.3 hit 'A Hundred Pounds Of Clay' died at the age of 76 after a short illness. Gene also wrote Roberta Flack's 1974 No.1 hit 'Feel Like Makin' Love' which won a Grammy Award.

August 22nd 2011 - Songwriter and producer Jerry Leiber died at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 78 from cardio-pulmonary failure. With Mike Stoller he wrote many hits including: 'Hound Dog', 'Jailhouse Rock', 'King Creole', 'There Goes My Baby', 'Searchin', 'Yakety Yak', 'Stand By Me', 'Poison Ivy,' and 'Kansas City'.

August 22nd 2011 - Nicholas Ashford, one half of Ashford and Simpson died of complications from throat cancer, in New York. With his wife Valerie Simpson they had the 1979 US No.36 single 'Found A Cure', and 1985 UK No. 3 single 'Solid'. The pair wrote hits such as: 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough', 'You're All I Need To Get By', 'Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing', and 'Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)'.

August 23rd, 2011:

A magnitude 5.8 (class: moderate) earthquake occurs in Virginia. Damage occurs to monuments and structures in Washington D.C. and the resulted damage is estimated at $200 million–$300 million USD.

August 26th 2011 – The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing's all-new composite airliner, receives certification from the EASA and the FAA

August 27th 2011 – Hurricane Irene strikes the United States east coast, killing 47 and causing an estimated $15.6 billion in damage.

September 1st 2011, Billy Joe Armstrong was thrown off a Southwest flight because the singer was wearing his pants too low. A flight attendant had approached Armstrong and told him, "Pull your pants up or you get off the plane." Later, Southwest spokesman Brad Hawkins released a statement saying that the airline and the Green Day pop star had settled their differences over the incident.

September 5th 2011, Britain's Mo Farah won gold in the 5,000 metres at the World Championships in Daegu.

September 6th 2011, A California judge ruled that Madonna does not hold a trademark over the phrase "Material Girl" for her line of clothing just because she wrote a song by that name in 1985. An L.A. retailer called LA Triumph has been using the name "Material Girl" clothing and has registered it as a trademark.

September 12th 2011 – The 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City opens to the public.

September 14th 2011, It was reported that a Swedish Bob Dylan fan had been arrested for singing Bob Dylan songs outside his ex-girlfriend's house. The love-sick man had also cobbled together a group of five other men to serve as vocal accompaniment for the late-night live performance, each of who donned hoodies with their hoods up. But soon after the man began to serenade his ex, who had previously taken out a restraining order against him, she called the police, leaving 50-year-old guitarist blowin in the wind. 'I had the idea that I'd play a Bob Dylan song for her,' the man told police. (No word on which song, unfortunately.)

September 17th 2011 – Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti Park, New York City.

September 17th 2011, Adele went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Someone Like You'. The track was also No.1 in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Finland, France, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, the United Kingdom.

September 17th 2011, The estate of Jimi Hendrix gave the go-ahead for another round of archival releases nearly 41 years to the day after the singer's death. The four new products included an expanded version of his landmark Winterland concerts in 1968, a revamp of a 1972 live compilation, an upgraded DVD of his final U.K. festival gig, and a DVD reissue of some old talk-show appearances.

September 18th 2011 – The 2011 Sikkim earthquake was felt across northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet.

September 19th 2011 – Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees surpasses Trevor Hoffman to become Major League Baseball's all time saves leader with 602.

September 20th 2011 – The United States military ends its "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.

September 21st 2011, A contract revealing that The Beatles refused to perform in front of a segregated audience at the Cow Palace in Daly City, California on August 31st, 1965, sold for $23,033 at an auction in Los Angeles. In addition to the desegregation clause, the contract guaranteed the band $40,000 and at least 150 police officers to provide security at the show.

September 22nd 2011 - The pilot episode of "Person of Interest" aired.

September 22nd 2011, Research conducted by car maker SEAT found that Queen’s 'Bohemian Rhapsody' was the song most likely to be found on British iPods, with more than 40% of owners having the hit on their players. The Beatles had four songs in the list, a feat also matched by Coldplay. Other favourites included U2, The Killers and Rihanna.

September 25th 2011, The New York Post reported that Sly Stone was living in a van, parked in the notoriously rough Los Angeles neighborhood of Crenshaw. The 68-year-old was quoted as saying "I like my small camper. I just do not want to return to a fixed home. I cannot stand being in one place. I must keep moving."

September 28th 2011 -- last time this date fell on a Wednesday -- this was the final day of the MLB regular season that year. Both of the Wild Card races had yet to be decided, although the Braves were leading the NL race for much of the season, with the Cardinals in hot pursuit; and the Red Sox were leading the AL race for much of the season, with the Rays in pursuit on that side.

But the Red Sox lost their game and the Rays won theirs; while the Braves lost their game and the Cardinals easily won theirs... due in part to the Sox' and Braves' inability to hold their respective leads in their respective games.

This might have inspired MLB to create a second wildcard, to be implemented starting the following year.

September 30th 2011, American guitarist and songwriter Marv Tarplin died aged 70. He was best known as the guitarist for the Miracles from the 1950s through the early 1970s who co-wrote several of their biggest hits, including the 1965 Grammy Hall Of Fame inducted 'The Tracks of My Tears'. Tarplin also worked with Marvin Gaye, The Marvelettes and The Supremes.

October 10th 2011 - Nelson Cruz (Texas Rangers) hit the first-ever postseason walk-off grand slam to give the Rangers a 7-3 win. The win gave the Rangers a 2-0 lead in the ALCS over the Detroit Tigers.

October 11th 2011 - The single "Young, Wild & Free" was released as a digital download by Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa featuring Bruno Mars in the U.S.

October 23rd 2011 – The Libyan National Transition Council deems the Libyan Civil War over.

October 23rd 2011 – A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands.

October 23rd 2011 - The pilot episode of "Once Upon a Time" aired.

October 26th 2011, Aerosmith were forced to delay a concert in South America after Steven Tyler fell in his hotel bathroom. The singer suffered cuts to his face and lost two of his teeth ahead of a concert in Asuncion, Paraguay. He was said to have received stitches and had emergency dental work, forcing the gig to be postponed by 24 hours.

October 26th 2011, A coroner's inquest on the death of Amy Winehouse reached a verdict of misadventure. The report explained that Winehouse's blood alcohol content was 416 mg per decilitre at the time of her death, more than five times the legal drink-drive limit. According to the coroner ‘The unintended consequences of such potentially fatal levels was her sudden death’.

October 27th 2011 -- the last time this date fell on a Thursday -- The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Texas Rangers 10-9 in the 11th inning of Game 6 of the World Series. The win forces Game 7, also to occur in St. Louis, Missouri. Twice, the Rangers were one strike away from their first World Series title, but the Cardinals got a hit to keep the series alive. (Both times -- in the 9th inning and the 10th inning -- they erased a two-run deficit.)

October 27th 2011 -- the last time this date fell on a Thursday -- The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Texas Rangers 10-9 in the 11th inning of Game 6 of the World Series. The win forces Game 7, also to occur in St. Louis, Missouri. Twice, the Rangers were one strike away from their first World Series title, but the Cardinals got a hit to keep the series alive. (Both times -- in the 9th inning and the 10th inning -- they erased a two-run deficit.)

and they won Game Seven the next night. (A couple days late in mentioning this, I know.)

31 October 2011: The global population of humans reaches seven billion. This day is now recognized by the United Nations as Seven Billion Day.

November 8th 2011 – The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.

November 11th 2011 – The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is released worldwide for the Playstation 3, the Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows.

November 11th 2011 – The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is released worldwide for the Playstation 3, the Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows.

...and no matter where you were, the date was written in shorthand as 11/11/11! :D

(It was also the last time this date fell on a Friday.)

...and no matter where you were, the date was written in shorthand as 11/11/11! :D

(It was also the last time this date fell on a Friday.)
O0

November 11th 2011, The four original band members of Black Sabbath announced that they were reuniting and recording a new album followed by a world tour in 2012.

November 12th 2011 – Silvio Berlusconi tenders his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy, effective November 16, due in large part to the European sovereign debt crisis.

Nov. 16, 2011: President Barack Obama, visiting Canberra, said he would send military aircraft and up to 2,500 Marines to northern Australia for a training hub to help allies and protect American interests across Asia.

November 23rd 2011 – Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.

December 5th 2011, After spending 45 weeks at the top end of the UK charts, singer Adele's second album ‘21’ became the biggest selling LP in Britain this century, surpassing the late Amy Winehouse's 2006 LP ‘Back to Black’.

December 6th 2011, American singer and songwriter Dobie Gray died from complications of cancer surgery in Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 71. His hit records included 'The 'In' Crowd' in 1965 and 'Drift Away', which was one of the biggest hits of 1973, and went on to sell over one million copies.

December 8th 2011 - India batsman Virender Sehwag hit a then highest score in a one-day international, reaching 219 against West Indies in Indore.

December 31st 2011 – NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon.

January 1st 2012 – A Moldovan civilian is fatally wounded by a Russian peacekeeper in the Transnistrian security zone, leading to demonstrations against Russia.

January 12th 2012 – Violent protests occur in Bucharest, Romania, as two-day-old demonstrations continue against President Traian Băsescu's economic austerity measures. Clashes are reported in numerous Romanian cities between protesters and law enforcement officers.

February 1st 2012: Don Cornelius, American television show host and producer who was best known as the creator of the nationally syndicated dance and music show Soul Train, which he hosted from 1971 until 1993, passed away at the age of 75 after taking his own life. :\'(

February 13th 2012 - The first Vega rocket was launched by the European Space Agency.

March 20th 2012 – At least 52 people are killed and more than 250 injured in a wave of terror attacks across ten cities in Iraq.

April 1, 2012 at Midnight ET Cartoon Network/Adult Swim brought back Toonami as an April Fool's joke. Popular demand brought it back for good.

Ironically, they postponed tonight's Samurai Jack for April Fool's so that they could play a new episode of Rick & Morty.

April 1, 2012 at Midnight ET Cartoon Network/Adult Swim brought back Toonami as an April Fool's joke. Popular demand brought it back for good.

Ironically, they postponed tonight's Samurai Jack for April Fool's so that they could play a new episode of Rick & Morty.


And that really pissed me off, because the next episode was gonna be really dramatic. I honestly wished that episode played, instead of that godforsaken Rick and Morty premiere. People have been thirteen years for new episodes of Samurai Jack. Even though I never got into the original series, the fifth season was still awesome.  >:(

And that really pissed me off, because the next episode was gonna be really dramatic. I honestly wished that episode played, instead of that godforsaken Rick and Morty premiere. People have been thirteen years for new episodes of Samurai Jack. Even though I never got into the original series, the fifth season was still awesome.  >:(

Samurai Jack for LIFE. is stupid for doing that.