Osama bin Laden died on 2 May 2011 in Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad (2005-2012), aged 54. A Saudi-born militant, bin Laden came from a wealthy family and went to Afghanistan to support the resistance to the Soviet invasion in the 1980s. He founded the organisation al-Qaeda, which in 1998 issued a call for attacks on Americans, and was behind the bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that year. Al-Qaeda carried out the attacks of 11 September 2001 in the United States, which killed nearly three thousand people and led to the American-led war in Afghanistan. After a manhunt of almost ten years, he was killed by US Navy SEALs in a raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in 2011.
Before and after
- 7 April 2011Shaar HaNegev school bus attack
- from 17 April 2011 to 19 May 2019Premiere of Game of Thrones
- 29 April 2011Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton
- from 1 May 2011 to 2 May 2011Operation Neptune Spear
- 2 May 2011Death of Osama bin Laden
- from 3 May 2011 to 24 June 2019Premiere of The Amazing World of Gumball
- 11 May 2011Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence
- June 2011Rinderpest is declared eradicated
- 6 June 2011Discovery of C/2011 L4
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