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(October 2011 roughly) New Zealand beat France 8-7 to win the rugby world cup; Muammar Gaddafi died from bullet wounds; Liam Fox resigned as Defence Secretary; Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, died, aged 56; (September 2011 roughly) Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were cleared on appeal of killing Meredith Kercher; Conrad Murray went on trial for the involuntary manslaughter of Michael Jackson; Wangari Maathai died aged 71; Paddy Doherty won Celebrity Big Brother 2011; Maria Lucimar Pereira had her 121st birthday; Steve Jobs resigned as chief executive of Apple; in the midst of riots in London, Richard Mannington Bowes died after being attacked while he tried to stamp out a fire; Amy Winehouse died, aged 27; Anders Behring Breivik was arrested in connection with a massacre at a Utoeya island youth camp and a bombing in Norway's capital Oslo; Lucian Freud died, aged 88; Brian Dowling was appointed the new host of Big Brother; News of the World phone-hacking whistleblower Sean Hoare was found dead; Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates resigned; Tom Pellereau won The Apprentice; Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson resigned; Darren Clarke won the Open Championship; Barack Obama held talks with the Dalai Lama; Googie Withers died aged 94; News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brooks resigned; Warren Buffett donated $1.78bn to charity; the day following the announcement of the end of the News of the World its former editor Andy Coulson was arrested; Ricky Hatton hung up his boxing gloves; Novak Djokovic beat Rafael Nadal to win the Wimbledon men's singles final; (August 2011 roughly) Petra Kvitova beat Maria Sharapova to win the Wimbledon women's singles title; following the resignation of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Christine Lagarde was appointed head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF); Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz married; Columbo star, Peter Falk died, aged 83; Laura Kuenssberg switched channels from BBC to ITV; Rory McIlroy posted a tournament record 16 under par 268 to win the US Open 8 shots ahead of his nearest rival; Ayman al-Zawahiri took over as al-Qaeda's leader; Lamps and Christine have got engaged; (July 2011 roughly) Glenn got fired; the deaths of Salvador Allende and Pablo Neruda are being investigated again; The Queen's Birthday Honours included a knighthood for Bruce Forsyth, aged 83, and an OBE for Bernard Cribbins, aged 82; (June 2011 roughly) George Lamb joined Talksport; Julian Assange won the prestigious Martha Gellhorn prize for journalism; Alastair Cook scored his 18th century for England; The case of the missing story - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first novel, The Narrative of John Smith, is to be published for the first time this autumn; the News of the World has apologised to Sienna Miller for hacking into her mobile phone messages; Jai McDowall has won Britain's Got Talent; England came from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 against Switzerland but Darren Bent missed a great chance; the Queen's horse Carlton House came third in the Derby; the actress Miriam Karlin has died aged 85; in a double eviction Ellie Reed and Vincent Disneur were fired in the UK's Apprentice.
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