On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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Law schools’ rosy statistics say most graduates are working. The problem is, many aren’t working as lawyers, or making enough to pay back their student loans.
Investigations into the way banks foreclose on delinquent homeowners have contributed to a sharp slowdown.
Matt Hasselbeck threw for four touchdowns and the Seahawks rallied from a 10-point deficit to upset the defending champion Saints.
The shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords focused attention on the degree to which inflammatory language has become a steady undercurrent in the nation’s political culture.
Instead of the best quarterback and the most clutch kicker in N.F.L. history prevailing, it was Mark Sanchez and Nick Folk who delivered the Jets.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 5, 2011, covering January 9, 2011.
Taylor Swift
Susan Boyle
Soundtrack
Jackie Evancho
Michael Jackson
2011Makinti Napanangka, Australian painter (born 1930)[†]
Makinti Napanangka AM was a Pintupi-speaking Indigenous Australian artist from Australia's Western Desert region. She was referred to posthumously as Kumentje. The term Kumentje was used instead of her personal name as it is customary among many indigenous communities not to refer to deceased people by their original given names for some time after their deaths. She lived in the communities of Haasts Bluff, Papunya, and later at Kintore, about 50 kilometres (31 mi) north-east of the Lake MacDonald region where she was born, on the border of the Northern Territory and Western Australia. Makinti died in 2011 in Alice Springs and she was posthumously awarded an AM later that year.
2011Iran Air Flight 277 crashes near Urmia in the northwest of the country, in icy conditions, killing 78 people.[†]
Iran Air Flight 277 was a scheduled Iran Air flight from Mehrabad International Airport, Tehran to Urmia Airport, Iran. On 9 January 2011, the Boeing 727 serving the flight crashed after an aborted approach to Urmia Airport in poor weather. Of the 105 people on board, 78 were killed. The official investigation concluded that icing conditions and incorrect engine management by the crew led to a double engine flame-out, loss of altitude and impact with the ground.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]