Eee by gum, it's a good thing nothing happened in the latter half of the 20th century.
Thanks to Lowdown, Dagger Dias, bringitback, Dowds, Dmbfantomas, Mack Militant, Yaz and Sally twice, HBSam31, Uncle Sam (to answer your question, you Chris Benoited the Cold War), and Pedigree1 for bringing us what could be the penultimate edition of
Diet Soda's
Rep History Facts!
2011 - A politically charged year in the Middle East as riots sweep several nations, collectively known as the Arab Spring.
An earthquake and tsunami hits Eastern Japan, killing over 15,000 people and causing fears over the damage sustained to surrounding nuclear power plants.
An estimated 2 billion people worldwide (which is now 2/7ths of the global population) tune in to watch Pippa Middleton's sister get married to the second in line to the British throne.
The Occupy Wall Street movement begins and begets a larger, more general, Occupy stuff movement, in which several people made signs and typically got in the way.
In space news, the Space Shuttle program comes to an end, whilst the Mars Rover Curiosity is launched toward the Red Planet.
And pretty much the whole world admits that it's skint.
2011 saw the deaths of actors Pete Postlethwaite and Michael Gough, actress Elizabeth Taylor, musician Gerry Rafferty, top face 'Macho Man' Randy Savage, top heels Osama Bin Laden, Kim Jong-Il, and Colonel Gadaffi, Apple guy Steve Jobs, and former undisputed heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier.