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This oil-rich kingdom is spending $130 billion to pump up salaries, build housing and finance religious organizations, effectively neutralizing any opposition.
The Greek prime minister tried unsuccessfully to win support for a bond issue by Europe’s central bank to pay off his nation’s debts.
Women describe the rapid and reckless fashion with which Representative Anthony D. Weiner sought to transform online conversations about politics into sexually-charged exchanges.
Hundreds of residents fled across the border into Turkey, heightening fears of a refugee crisis and a widening crackdown.
Apple changed its guidelines for content subscriptions sold through its App Store after publishers criticized the original terms.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 8, 2011, covering June 9, 2011.
Lady Gaga
Brad Paisley
Adele
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Various Artists
2011M. F. Husain, Indian painter and director (born 1915)[†]
Maqbool Fida Husain was an Indian painter and film director who painted narrative paintings in a modified Cubist style. He was one of the founding members of Bombay Progressive Artists' Group. M.F. Husain is associated with Indian modernism in the 1940s. His early association with the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group used modern technique, and was inspired by the "new" India after the partition of 1947. His narrative paintings, executed in a modified Cubist style, can be caustic and funny as well as serious and sombre. His themes—sometimes treated in series—included topics as diverse as Gandhi, Mother Teresa, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the British Raj, and motifs of Indian urban and rural life. In September 2020, his painting titled “Voices”, auctioned for a record $2.5 million.
2011Tomoko Kawakami, Japanese voice actress (born 1970)[†]
Tomoko Kawakami was a Japanese voice actress. She was also known by her pen-name Tomozou (とも蔵), and her Christian name Cecilia (セシリア). Having graduated from the Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music, she was a member of Production Baobab.
2011Mike Mitchell, American basketball player (born 1956)[†]
Michael Anthony Mitchell was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA), over eleven seasons, from 1978 to 1990.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]