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As network executives start to share with advertisers and agencies their schedules for 2011-12, ad revenue could grow by as much as $1 billion.
Acknowledging that last season’s new shows were a washout, the networks are promising something different.
Jorge Posada expressed remorse to Yankees Manager Joe Girardi for removing himself from the lineup an hour before a game against Boston.
A year after Greece received a bailout from Europe and the I.M.F., people’s anxiety has grown into deep despair.
Weekend arraignment courts will be reduced, presenting the possibility that prisoners will not see a judge within 24 hours, as required by law.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 11, 2011, covering May 16, 2011.
Adele
Foo Fighters
Mumford & Sons
Britney Spears
Soundtrack
2011Ralph Barker, English author (born 1917)[†]
Ralph Hammond Cecil Barker was an English non-fiction author with over twenty-five books to his credit. He wrote mainly about the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and Royal Air Force (RAF) operations in the First and Second World Wars, and about cricket.
2011Bob Davis, Australian footballer and coach (born 1928)[†]
Robert "Bob" Davis was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
2011Edward Hardwicke, English actor (born 1932)[†]
Edward Cedric Hardwicke was an English actor, who had a career on the stage and on-screen. He was best known for playing Captain Pat Grant in Colditz (1972–73), and Dr. Watson in Granada Television's Sherlock Holmes (1986–94).
2011Kiyoshi Kodama, Japanese actor (born 1934)[†]
Kiyoshi Kodama was a Japanese TV personality and actor. He hosted the Asahi Broadcasting Corporation quiz show Panel Quiz Attack 25 continuously for thirty-six years from its start in April 1975 until he was forced to step down due to poor health at the end of March 2011. His signature catchphrase on the show is "Attack Chance!"
2011STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour.[†]
STS-134 was the penultimate mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the 25th and last spaceflight of Space Shuttle Endeavour. This flight delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and an ExPRESS Logistics Carrier to the International Space Station. Mark Kelly served as the mission commander. STS-134 was expected to be the final Space Shuttle mission if STS-135 did not receive funding from Congress. However, in February 2011, NASA stated that STS-135 would fly "regardless" of the funding situation. STS-135, flown by Atlantis, took advantage of the processing for STS-335, the Launch on Need mission that would have been necessary if the STS-134 crew became stranded in orbit.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]