Year in a Minute: 2011

Wall Street Protest

Members from the group Occupy Wall Street march through the Wall Street district of Manhattan, in New York (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano) Credit: Louis Lanzano/AP

SBS celebrating 50 Years. This is a Year in a Minute 2011.


I can report to the American people...
Osama Bin Laden killed by US forces in Pakistan.

A Tunisian street vendor protesting injustice, sets himself alight sending a revolutionary wave across the Arab world

Egyptian president Mubarak resigns,

Saudi troops enter Bahrain.

And Libyan rebels kill Colonel Gaddafi.
...We are the 99 per cent…
Less radical revolt as Occupy Movement takes over Wall Street and a Norwegian extremist shoots 67 dead on island youth camp.

Murdoch’s News of the World phone hacking scandal creates headlines and a royal wedding; William and Kate finally marry.

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