2011

2011 (MMXI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2011th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designation, the 11th year of the 3rd millennium, the 11th year of the 21st century, and the 2nd year of the 2010s decade.

January
January 1st - Youtuber Stanley The KitKat starts his career.

January 2nd - Argentine Authorities warn of a unknown strain of the Norovirus called the Toronovirus.

January 4rd - The servers for the 2006 online game, S.H.O.O.T, shut down after a 2010 scandal of the developer.

January 6th:


 * Anna The Lost Princess airs its first episode
 * Red-Ray DVD technology is revealed to the entire world and eventually replaces both DVD and Blu-Ray

January 8th - The Winter Global Gaming Olympics in Beijing are held

January 9th - Albanian Airlines Flight 4563 crashes in the outskirts of Bari, Italy.

January 12th:


 * Season 4 of Digital Racers airs on Disney XD


 * A massive 7.7 earthquake happens in France, the epicenter in in the town of Avignon, destroying it and causing a massive tsunami, the first in Europe

January 23rd - The series finale of Lizard City airs.