JANUARY 2011
In the News:
1/8/11: Arizona Rep.
Gabrielle Giffords was shot in an
assassination attempt, she survived, however six were killed, including a
Federal Judge.
Prominent Deaths:
1/23/11:
Jack LaLanne (96); Fitness guru and
TV workout pioneer.
Top Facebook post:
1/19/11:
Hang on I.E.!!! 60 to 80 mph wind gusts tonight! (The inland empire, in Southern California is known for the powerful
Santa Ana winds during this time of the year)
FEBRUARY 2011
In the News:
2/16/11: Borders Files for Bankruptcy:
The 40-year-old retail chain that helped usher in the age of the book
superstore files for bankruptcy protection. (A
few months after going bankrupt Borders closed all stores.)
Prominent
Deaths:
2/28/11:
Jane Russell; Hollywood pin-up of
1940s and 50s. Co-star of Marilyn Monroe in "Gentleman Prefer
Blondes."
Top Facebook post:
2/6/11:
it’s going to be a Green Bay Day!!! GO PACKERS (A Superbowl prediction that I was right for a change! Packers beat
Steelers 31-25)
MARCH
2011
In the News:
3/12/11: National
Football League Shuts Down: NFL owners and players cannot agree
to terms of a new collective bargaining agreement before the current one
expires.
Prominent Deaths:
3/23/11:
Movie legend Elizabeth Taylor passed
away at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she had been hospitalized for six
weeks, of congestive heart failure. She was 79.
Top Facebook post:
at the Daiichi facility, Fukushima.)
APRIL 2011
In the News:
4/29/11: Three
Billion Watch Prince William Marry Kate Middleton: A million
people line the streets, half a million gather in front of Buckingham Palace,
and two billion tune in via television or computer to see Kate Middleton marry
Prince William.
Prominent Deaths:
4/27/11: David Wilkerson
(79), American Christian evangelist and author of The Cross and the
Switchblade, was killed in a car accident.
Top Facebook post:
MAY
2011
In the News:
5/1/11: Osama bin
Laden Is Killed in Pakistan: U.S. troops and CIA operatives shoot
and kill Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a city of 500,000 people that
houses a military base and a military academy outside Islamabad, Pakistan.
5/22/11: The
southwest Missouri city of Joplin is just starting to recover from a massive
tornado that tore through the city Sunday, cutting a path nearly six miles
long and killing at least 89 people.
.Prominent
Deaths:
5/27/11:
Jeff Conway: The embattled reality
show star fell into a coma and passed away. He had become more famous in recent
years for his battle with drugs and alcohol on "Celebrity Rehab" than
for his role Kanicky in Grease.
Top Facebook post:
JUNE
2011
In the News:
6/12/11: Dallas Beats
Miami for NBA Title: The Dallas Mavericks win the first NBA
championship in franchise history, beating the Miami Heat 105–95 in Game 6.
6/16/11: Weiner Resigns
Over Online Scandal: U.S. representative Anthony D. Weiner resigns
from office due to a scandal over his online misbehavior, which involved
sending explicit photos of himself to several women via Facebook and Twitter.
Prominent Deaths:
6/24/11:
Peter Falk, an actor best known for
his role in "Columbo," died at the age of 83.
6/18/11:
Clarence Clemons AKA the Big Man, Clemeons
was the saxophonist in the E Street Band, Bruce Springsteen's backup band. He
died of complications from a stroke.
6/3/11:
Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the Michigan
pathologist who put assisted suicide on the world's medical ethics stage died
at the Beaumont Hospital. He was 83.
Top Facebook post:
6/18/11: R.I.P. the Big Man! (Commenting on the sad news of Clarence Clemons death: see above)
JULY
2011
In the News:
7/5/11: Casey
Anthony Found Not Guilty of Murder: After almost six weeks of testimony,
a jury of five men and seven women finds Casey Anthony not guilty of killing
her daughter, Caylee Marie who was last seen with her mother on June 16, 2008.
Prominent Deaths:
7/23/11: Amy Winehouse; U.K. pop star was found dead Saturday in her London
home. The cause of death has not been released, but she was only 27 years old.
7/8/11:
Betty Ford died at the age of 93.
Top Facebook post:
7/9/11: Had
a chance to stop by for one more walk down memory lane...(Bethany Bible College, where I received my ministry degree, officially
came to a close on August 11, 2011)
AUGUST 2011
In the News:
Nothing newsworthy in August!
Prominent Deaths :
8/3/11:
Bubba Smith 10-year NFL veteran and
"Police Academy" franchise star Bubba Smith died at age 66 in his Los
Angeles home.
Top Facebook post:
8/19/11: "Care is a state in which something
does matter; it is the source of human tenderness"~Rollo May (A quote from one of my favorite existential
authors)
SEPTEMBER 2011
In the News:
Same ol' same ol...just the usual normal stuff.
Prominent Deaths:
9/10/11: Oscar-winning actor Cliff Robertson, best known to modern audiences as Uncle Ben from
the "Spider-Man" films, died just one day after his 88th birthday.
Top Facebook post:
9/10/11: "9-10-11" (Once in a life time to have these numbers
line up in this sequence)
OCTOBER 2011
In the News:
10/20/11: Qaddafi Is
Captured and Killed: Libya's interim government announces that
Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi has been killed by rebel troops in Surt, his hometown.
10/28/11: Cardinals
Beat Rangers to Win World Series: The St. Louis Cardinals beat the
Texas Rangers 6–2 in game seven to win the World Series.
Prominent Deaths:
10/5/11:
Steve Jobs (56), American computer
entrepreneur and inventor, co-founder of Apple Inc.
10/8/11:
Al Davis (82), American football
coach and team owner
10/16/11:
Indy Car driver Dan Wheldon died
after suffering severe injuries in a 15-car wreck at the Las Vegas Indy 300. He
was 33 years old.
Top Facebook post:
10/5/11: "I want to put a ding in the
universe." ~Steve Jobs...I believe he did...R.I.P. (Steve Jobs passed away, considered a Thomas Edison in our
generation)
NOVEMBER 2011
In the News:
11/5/11: Sex Abuse
Scandal Shakes Up Penn State (Nov. 5): Former Penn State defensive
coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, is arrested on charges of 40 counts of sexual
abuse over a 15-year period.
11/18/11: Penn State head
football coach Joe Paterno is fired (Nov.
18) by the school's Board of Trustees because he failed to notify
the police in 2002 after he was informed of a suspected assault by Sandusky.:
Prominent Deaths:
11/8/11: Bill Keane; Creator
of the long running newspaper comic "Family Circus", passed at the
age of 89.
11/8/11: Popular rapper Heavy
D (real name: Dwight Arrington Myers) was rushed to an LA hospital after
collapsing at his Beverly Hills home.
11/7/11: Former Heavyweight Champion, ‘Smokin'
Joe Frazier, succumbed to liver
cancer at the age of 67
11/5/11:
Emmy Award winning 60 Minutes commentator Andy
Rooney, most famous for his A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney segment, died of
complications due to a recent surgery.
Top Facebook post:
11/20/11: “Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on
ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring
repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession....
Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace
without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
DECEMBER 2011
In the News:
12/25/11: Man dressed as
Santa Clause fatally shoots 6 family members, then kills himself. GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP)
Prominent Deaths :
12/18/11: Kim Jong-Il
was pronounced dead. Known in North Korea as "Dear Leader" and other
places as a tyrant, Jong-Il served as the countries leader under the communist
regime.
12/18/11: Vaclav Havel;
Playwright and President of both Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, died in
his home at the age of 75.
12/15/11: Christopher
Hitchens; Prolific writer and politico, passed away at the age of 62 from
complications due to cancer.
12/7/11: Harry Morgan,
most known for his turn as Colonel Sherman T. Potter in the smash TV show
"M*A*S*H" when he replaced McLean Stevenson in the fourth season.
Top Facebook post:
12/11/11:
“Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others
we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as
entitled to as we are.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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