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It is now February 4 2011 Today's featured picture A late 1930s Federal Art Project poster advertising the bobsled track in Lake Placid, New York , United States, which had been used in the 1932 Winter Olympics .
A 6.4 magnitude earthquake strikes the India-Burma border region. (Straits Times) A man from Bamboroo, Queensland becomes the first casualty of Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi in Australia. (AAP via Brisbane Times) The death toll from the January 31–February 2, 2011 North American winter storm is at least a dozen. (AP via Los Angeles Times)
February 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Day of the Armed Struggle ( Angola ) [ 89 ] Earliest day on which Ash Wednesday can fall, while March 10 is the latest; celebrated on the first day of Lent (Western Christianity)
Disasters Cyclone Yasi The Australian state of Queensland evacuates off-shore islands and low-lying parts of North Queensland ahead of Cyclone Yasi which is expected to hit the state as a Category 4 tropical cyclone late on Wednesday or early Thursday. (Courier Mail) (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Cyclone Yasi is upgraded to Category 5 and is predicted to be the worst storm to hit Australia in ...
February 20 – 2011 Daytona 500 is won by the Wood Brothers Racing team entrant Trevor Bayne, who became the youngest winner of the race. Carl Edwards was second ahead of David Gilliland. [41] [42] February 22 – Chicago mayoral election, 2011: Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel wins the race for mayor with more than 55% of the ...
1797 – The Riobamba earthquake, the most powerful in Ecuador's history, devastated Riobamba and many other cities, causing at least 6,000 casualties. 1801 – John Marshall , whose court opinions helped lay the basis for U.S. constitutional law and made the Supreme Court a coequal branch of government , took office as chief justice .
2011 was designated as: International Year of Forests; International Year of Chemistry [1] International Year for People of African Descent; In 2011, the nation of Samoa only had 364 days as it moved across the International Date Line skipping December 30, 2011; it is now 24 hours ahead of American Samoa. [2] [3]
On February 4, 2011, the band officially reunited, performing live for the first time in more than 5 years at Coachella on April 17, 2011. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] A world tour was announced for the summer of 2011.