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2011

Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown by the National Transitional Council (NTC).

The “hashtag” is invented and used for the first time in a Twitter post.

In St. Basil the Great, 3,000 residents are forced to evacuate their homes for 19 days due to a fire at a BPC warehouse.

Trans Canada Airlines begins its transatlantic flights. The company would later be renamed Air Canada.

Hard D. Weed invents tire chains for automobiles.

England seizes Hong Kong from China.

The inhabitants of New France are now required to pay 1/26 of their assets to their lord.

It happened on… August 23