- Jan 1 97th Rose Bowl: #3 TCU beats #4 Wisconsin, 21-19
- Jan 1 40th Fiesta Bowl: #9 Oklahoma beats #25 Connecticut, 48-20
- Jan 2 Fela! based on music and lyrics by Nigerian singer Fela Kuti, closes on Broadway after 463 performances and 3 Tony awards [1]
- Jan 3 77th Orange Bowl: #5 Stanford beats #12 Virginia Tech, 40-12
- Jan 3 Adrian Lewis of England wins his first PDC World Darts Championship with a 7-5 win over Scotsman Gary Anderson at the Alexandra Palace, London
- Jan 4 77th Sugar Bowl: #6 Ohio State beats #8 Arkansas, 31-26
Film and TV Awards
Jan 6 37th People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Kristen Stewart win (Movie Star) and Hugh Laurie & Lisa Edelstein win (TV Drama)
Film Release
Jan 7 "The King's Speech", starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, and Helena Bonham Carter, is released in United Kingdom
- Jan 8 Attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store kills 6 and wounds 13, including Giffords
- Jan 8 Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Americans Bethanie Mattek-Sands & John Isner beat Belgian pair Justine Henin & Ruben Bemelmans 6-1, 6-3 to clinch a 2-1 victory; 6th title for the United States
Football Awards
Jan 10 FIFA Ballon d'Or: Barcelona forward Lionel Messi wins 2nd straight award from teammates Andrés Iniesta & Xavi; Brazilian forward Marta wins women's award for 5th consecutive year
Lionel Messi
Event of Interest
Jan 10 Ian McKellen officially confirms that he will reprise the role of Gandalf in "The Hobbit" film adaptations
Ian McKellen
- Jan 10 College Football, 13th BCS National Championship, University of Phoenix Stadium: #1 Auburn beats #2 Oregon, 22-19
- Jan 14 Stampede near Sabarimala in Kerala, India kills 104 devotees and injures 100 more
- Jan 14 Tunisian president Ben Ali, flees to Saudi Arabia after popular protests known as the Jasmine Revolution
- Jan 14 16th Critics' Choice Movie Awards: The Social Network wins Best Film
- Jan 15 Wikipedia the free internet encyclopedia turns 10 years old
- Jan 16 68th Golden Globes: The Social Network, Colin Firth, & Natalie Portman win
Event of Interest
Jan 16 French politician Marine Le Pen becomes the leader of the National Front Party
Marine Le Pen
- Jan 17 "Sure Thing" single released by Miguel (Billboard Song of the Year 2011)
- Jan 23 AFC Championship, Heinz Field, Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Steelers beat New York Jets, 24-19
- Jan 23 NFC Championship, Soldier Field, Chicago: Green Bay Packers beat Chicago Bears, 21-14
- Jan 24 At least 35 died and 180 injured in a bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo airport.
- Jan 25 Egyptian Revolution of 2011 begins with a series of street demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, labor strikes and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities
- Jan 25 UK announces it had a shock economic contraction of 0.5% in Q4 2010, due to severe winter weather and budget cuts implemented by the coalition government
Event of Interest
Jan 28 Hundreds of thousands of protesters fill the Egyptian's streets against the Hosni Mubarak's regime in demonstrations referred to as the "Friday of Anger"
Hosni Mubarak
Australian Open Women's Tennis
Jan 29 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Kim Clijsters wins her 4th and final Grand Slam title; beats Li Na of China 3-6, 6-3, 6-3
Li Na
Kim Clijsters
- Jan 30 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 55-41; MVP: DeAngelo Hall, Washington Redskins, DB
Australian Men's Tennis Open
Jan 30 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Novak Đoković wins his 2nd Australian title; beats Scotsman Andy Murray 6-4, 6-2, 6-3
Novak Đoković
Andy Murray
- Jan 30 58th NHL All-Star Game, RBC Centre, Raleigh, NC: Team Lidstrom beats Team Staal, 11-10; MVP: Patrick Sharp, Chicago, LW
- Jan 30 27th Sundance Film Festival: "Like Crazy", directed by Drake Doremus, wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
- Feb 3 All available blocks of IPv4 internet addresses are officially distributed to regional authorities.
Super Bowl
Feb 6 Super Bowl XLV, Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, TX: Green Bay Packers beat Pittsburgh Steelers, 31-25; MVP: Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay, QB
Aaron Rodgers
Event of Interest
Feb 7 Laureus World Sports Awards, Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi, UAE: Sportsman: Rafael Nadal; Sportswoman: Lindsey Vonn; Team: Spanish Men's National Football team
Rafael Nadal
Event of Interest
Feb 9 Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday album reaches number one on the Billboard 200 in its eleventh week on the chart
Nicki Minaj
- Feb 9 Latvia leaves deep recession with an annualised growth of 3.7% in the last quarter of 2010, it is reported today
- Feb 10 61st Berlin International Film Festival: "A Separation" wins the Golden Bear
- Feb 11 Egyptian Revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests (Arab Spring)
- Feb 13 53rd Grammy Awards: Need You Now, Esperanza Spalding wins
- Feb 13 64th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): "The King's Speech" Best Film, David Fincher Best Director
- Feb 14 The 2011 Bahraini uprising commenced.
Event of Interest
Feb 15 Libyan protests begin opposing Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi's rule
Muammar Gaddafi
Event of Interest
Feb 15 US President Barack Obama awards writer and activist Maya Angelou the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Maya Angelou
- Feb 15 "A Separation" written and directed by Asghar Farhad, starring Leila Hatamiand and Payman Maadi premieres at the Fajr Film Festival in Tehran (Academy Award Best Foreign Film)
NBA All-Star Game
Feb 20 60th NBA All-Star Game, Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA: West beats East, 148-143; MVP: Kobe Bryant, LA Lakers, F
Kobe Bryant
- Feb 20 53rd Daytona 500: 20 year old Trevor Bayne, driving for Wood Brothers Racing, wins to become the youngest Daytona 500 winner
- Feb 21 Thailand's GDP rose 3.8% in the fourth quarter of 2010 after a minor recession caused by GDP contractions of 0.4% in the second quarter and 0.3% in the third quarter of 2010, it is reported today
- Feb 22 An earthquake measuring 6.3 in magnitude strikes Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 181 people
- Feb 23 Venezuela's economy grew 0.6% in the last quarter of 2010, technically leaving the recession after six quarters, it is reported today
- Feb 24 Final Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103).
- Feb 25 In the Irish general election, the Fianna Fáil-led government suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government since the formation of the Irish state in 1921
- Feb 25 French fashion house Christian Dior suspends its chief designer John Galliano after he is arrested for an anti-semitic verbal attack in Paris
- Feb 26 31st Golden Raspberry Awards: "The Last Airbender" wins
Academy Awards
Feb 27 83rd Academy Awards: Best Picture "The King's Speech", Colin Firth and Natalie Portman win best acting awards
Natalie Portman
Colin Firth
Academy Awards
Feb 27 83rd Academy Awards: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross win Best Original Score for 'The Social Network'
Trent Reznor
- Mar 1 Tomb of a 700 year old female mummy, discovered by road workers, opened in Taizhou, Jiangsu, China
- Mar 2 One of cricket’s great upsets; Kevin O’Brien smokes fastest century in World Cup history off 50 balls (ends 113 off 63) to help Ireland beat England by 3 wickets in Bangalore
- Mar 4 42nd NAACP Image Awards: "For Colored Girls" wins Outstanding Motion Picture
- Mar 5 David Silva scores 38' winner as Manchester City scores 1-0 win over Wigan at City of Manchester Stadium to start EPL record 20 home game winning streak; streak ends 31/3/12
Event of Interest
Mar 7 Charlie Sheen is fired from the CBS sitcom "Two and a Half Men"
Charlie Sheen
- Mar 7 "Crazy Girl" single released by Eli Young Band (ACM Awards Song of the Year 2012, Billboard Song of the Year 2011)
- Mar 9 Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights
- Mar 11 9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people and causing the second worst nuclear accident in history at Fukushima nuclear plant
- Mar 12 A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.
- Mar 12 32nd Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: #9 Connecticut beats #3 Louisville, 69-66
- Mar 13 58th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: #5 Duke beats #6 North Carolina, 75-58
- Mar 13 52nd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Florida, 70-54
Event of Interest
Mar 16 U.S. Postal Service issues a set of five "Latin Music Legends" stamps, including one of Carlos Gardel
Carlos Gardel
Event of Interest
Mar 22 Lawrence Taylor pleads guilty for misdemeanors of sexual misconduct and is sentenced to six years probation
Lawrence Taylor
- Mar 30 Global credit information group Experian report that economic recovery in Wales slower than the rest of the UK, forecasting growth of 1.6% vs 2.2% for the rest of the UK
- Apr 1 After protests against the burning of the Quran turned violent, a mob attacked a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan and killed thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.
Event of Interest
Apr 1 Alan Rickman's last performance in "Seminar" on Broadway
Alan Rickman
- Apr 3 Kraft Nabisco Championship Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Stacy Lewis shoots final round 69 to win her first major, 3 strokes ahead of defending champion Yani Tseng
- Apr 4 73rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Connecticut beats Butler, 53-41; Huskies' point guard Kemba Walker scores 16 points
- Apr 5 30th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Texas A&M beats Notre Dame, 76-70; Aggies center Danielle Adams scores 22 of her 30 points in the 2nd half
- Apr 9 Gunman murders five people, injures eleven, and commits suicide in a mall in the Netherlands
- Apr 9 164th Grand National: Jason Maguire wins aboard Irish 14/1 shot Ballabriggs; first GN win for trainer Donald McCain Jr., son of 4-time winning trainer Ginger McCain
- Apr 10 75th US Masters Tournament, Augusta National GC: Charl Schwartzel of South Africa birdies the final 4 holes to win his first major title, 2 strokes ahead of Australian pair Adam Scott and Jason Day
- Apr 11 Minsk Metro bombing in Belarus kills at least 15 and injures over 200
- Apr 15 "Black Friday" for online poker in the US: indicment United States v. Scheinberg shuts down sites, accusing companies of fraud and money laundering
- Apr 17 "Thor", directed by Kenneth Branagh, starring Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman, premieres in Sydney, Australia
Event of Interest
Apr 17 "Game of Thrones", based on the fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin premieres on HBO
- Apr 18 115th Boston Marathon: Kenyan double; Geoffrey Mutai wins men's race in record 2:03:02; Caroline Kilel takes women's section in 2:22:36
Event of Interest
Apr 19 Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding the title.
Fidel Castro
- Apr 23 Zach Daniels defeated Rick Michaels to become the new TNT Heavyweight Champion.
- Apr 25 At least 300 people killed in deadliest tornado outbreak in the Southern United States since the 1974 Super Outbreak.
- Apr 27 Deadliest day of the 2011 super outbreak of tornadoes, the largest tornado outbreak in United States history
Event of Interest
Apr 27 U.S. President Barack Obama, coerced by incessant false "birther" accusations, publicly releases a copy of his birth certificate
Barack Obama
- Apr 28 NFL Draft: Auburn quarterback Cam Newton first pick by Carolina Panthers
Beatification
May 1 Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI
John Paul II
Benedict XVI
Event of Interest
May 2 Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man is killed by US special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan
Osama bin Laden
- May 2 The 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak.
Event of Interest
May 2 Flavor Flav is arrested on four outstanding misdemeanor warrants for various driving offenses
Flavor Flav
Film Premier
May 7 "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides", directed by Rob Marshall, starring Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz, premieres in - opening weekend makes $350.6m
Penélope Cruz
Johnny Depp
- May 8 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Shoal Creek G&CC: Tom Lehman wins second of 3 Champions Tour majors with par on 2nd playoff hole against Australian Peter Senior
Album Release
May 10 Christina Perri releases her debut studio album, "lovestrong"
Christina Perri
- May 13 Portugal slips into double-dip recession after the economy contracts by 0.7% in the first quarter of 2011, with a 0.6% contraction in the last quarter of 2010, it is reported today
- May 13 Romania officially leaves the recession after 2 years following economic growth of an annualised 1.6% in the first quarter
- May 14 56th Eurovision Song Contest: Ell & Nikki for Azerbaijan wins singing "Running Scared" in Dusseldorf
- May 14 English FA Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London (88,643): Manchester City beats Stoke City, 1-0; Yaya Touré scores 74' winner; Citizens' 5th title
Film Premier
May 15 "The Artist" directed by Michel Hazanavicius and starring Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo premieres at the Cannes Film festival (Best Picture 2012)
Jean Dujardin
Event of Interest
May 19 Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, project to search for dark matter, led by Samuel C. C. Ting, installed on the International Space Station
Samuel C. C. Ting
Event of Interest
May 25 Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty five year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show
Oprah Winfrey
Music Awards
May 25 46th Academy of Country Music Awards: Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert & Brad Paisley win
Taylor Swift
Brad Paisley
Miranda Lambert
- May 27 NHL Eastern Conference Finals: Boston Bruins beat Tampa Bay Lightning, 4 games to 3
- May 28 UEFA Champions League Final, London: FC Barcelona beats Manchester United, 3-1; 4th title for Barça
- May 28 IPL Cricket Final, M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai: Chennai Super Kings beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 58 runs; Murali Vijay 95 (52), Ravichandran Ashwin 3/16
- May 29 Indianapolis 500: Dan Wheldon wins in 2:56:11.7267 (274.015 km/h)
Event of Interest
May 29 Hong Kong student activist group Scholarism started by Joshua Wong and Ivan Lam
Joshua Wong
Event of Interest
May 29 Senior PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Valhalla GC: Tom Watson wins his 6th and final Champions Tour major title with a birdie on the first playoff hole against David Eger
Tom Watson
- Jun 4 French Open Women's Tennis: Li Na becomes first Chinese player to win a Grand Slam singles title; beats Italian defending champion Francesca Schiavone 6-4, 7-6
- Jun 5 French Open Men's Tennis: Defending champion Rafael Nadal wins his 6th French title; beats Roger Federer 7-5, 7-6, 5-7, 6-1
- Jun 6 MLB Draft: UCLA pitcher Gerrit Cole first pick by Pittsburgh Pirates
- Jun 8 45th CMT Music Awards: Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert & Blake Shelton wins
- Jun 11 143rd Belmont: Jose Valdivia Jr aboard Ruler On Ice wins in 2:30.88
- Jun 12 NBA Finals: Dallas Mavericks beat Miami Heat, 105-95 in Game 6 for first title in franchise history; MVP: Dirk Nowitzki
- Jun 12 65th Tony Awards: The Book of Mormon & War Horse win
- Jun 13 Christchurch, New Zealand is hit by another strong earthquake measuring magnitude 6.3
- Jun 15 Stanley Cup Final, Rogers Arena, Vancouver, BC: Boston Bruins defeat Vancouver Canucks, 4-0 for 4-3 series win; Bruins end 39-year Stanley Cup drought
- Jun 19 US Open Men's Golf, Congressional CC: Irishman Rory McIlroy wins by 8 strokes ahead of Australian Jason Day; sets 11 tournament records, including lowest total 72-hole score (268) and lowest total under par (−16)
- Jun 20 1st Critics' Choice Television Awards: Modern Family wins Best Comedy Series, Mad Men wins Best Drama Series
- Jun 20 Betty Dukes v. Walmart class action lawsuit on alleged employee gender discrimination in pay and promotion policies is decided in a 5-4 decision, ruling that the class should not be certified in its current form
Event of Interest
Jun 22 After hiding for 16 years, Boston gangster Whitey Bulger is arrested outside an apartment in Santa Monica, California
Whitey Bulger
Film Premier
Jun 23 "Transformers: Dark of the Moon", directed by Michael Bay and starring Shia LaBeouf premieres at the Moscow Film Festival
Shia LaBeouf
Megan Fox
Event of Interest
Jun 23 NBA Draft: Duke point guard Kyrie Irving first pick Cleveland Cavaliers
Kyrie Irving
Appointment of Interest
Jun 24 Italian economist Mario Draghi is confirmed as new President of the European Central Bank
Mario Draghi
- Jun 24 NHL Draft: Red Deer Rebels (WHL) center Ryan Nugent-Hopkins first pick by Edmonton Oilers
- Jun 26 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Locust Hill CC: Yani Tseng of Taiwan scores her 4th major title win by 10 strokes over Morgan Pressel
Election of Interest
Jun 28 Christine Lagarde becomes the 1st women to be elected head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Christine Lagarde
- Jul 1 NBA owners begin the second player lockout in 12 years, shortening the season by 16 games before a salary agreement was reached
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 2 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Czech left hander Petra Kvitová wins her first Grand Slam title beating Maria Sharapova 6-3, 6-4
Maria Sharapova
- Jul 2 American twin brothers Bob & Mike Bryan earn their record equalling 11th Grand Slam doubles title with a straight sets win over Robert Lindstedt & Horia Tecău at Wimbledon
- Jul 3 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Novak Đoković of Serbia beats Spaniard Rafael Nadal 6-4, 6-1, 1-6, 6-3 for his first Wimbledon title
- Jul 5 "Somebody That I Used to Know" single released by Gotye ft. Kimbra (Grammy Award Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, Record of the Year 2013)
- Jul 7 Roof of a stand in De Grolsch Veste Stadium in Enschede which was under construction collapses, one killed and 14 injured.
Film Premier
Jul 7 "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2", the last Harry Potter film, premieres in London
- Jul 8 Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program
- Jul 9 South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan.
- Jul 9 Super Rugby Final, Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane: Queensland Reds beat Canterbury Crusaders 18-13 at home for their first SR title
- Jul 10 British tabloid News of the World publishes its last edition after 168 years in the wake of a phone hacking scandal.
- Jul 11 Neptune completes its first orbit since its discovery on September 23, 1846
- Jul 11 US Open Women's Golf, The Boardmoor: Ryu So-yeon wins her first major in a playoff with fellow South Korean Hee Hung Seo
- Jul 12 82nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-1 at Chase Field, Phoenix
- Jul 13 Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and injuring 130
- Jul 13 19th ESPY Awards: Dirk Nowitzki, Lindsey Vonn win
- Jul 16 NASA's Dawn space probe enters orbit around the protoplanet Vesta
British Golf Open
Jul 17 British Open Men's Golf, Royal St George's GC: Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland claims his only major title; wins by 3 strokes from American pair Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson.
Phil Mickelson
- Jul 17 FIFA Women's World Cup Final, Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt, Germany: Japan beats US, 3-1 on penalties; 2-2 after extra time
Film Premier
Jul 19 "Captain America: The First Avenger", directed by Joe Johnston, starring Chris Evans and Hayley Atwell, premieres in Los Angeles
Chris Evans
- Jul 21 NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135
- Jul 21 44th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
- Jul 22 Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first a bomb blast targeting government buildings in central Oslo, second a massacre at a youth camp on island of Utøya
- Jul 24 98th Tour de France won by Cadel Evans of Australia; first and only Australian to win the event
- Jul 24 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Walton Heath: Russ Cochran wins by 2 shots from fellow American Mark Calcavecchia
- Jul 24 Copa América Final, River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires: Diego Forlán scores twice as Uruguay beats Paraguay, 3–0 to earn their 15th title
- Jul 31 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Inverness Club: Olin Browne wins by 3 strokes ahead of Mark O'Meara; 5th player in history to win on Nationwide Tour, PGA Tour and Champions Tour
- Jul 31 British Open Women's Golf, Carnoustie GL: Yani Tseng of Taiwan becomes first to successfully defend the Open as a major championship, 4 strokes ahead of Brittany Lang
- Aug 4 Mark Duggan is shot by police in London at 29, sparking widespread riots that cost an estimated £200 million worth of property damage
- Aug 5 Svalbard Polar Bear Attack - a rogue Polar Bear attacks and kills a British schoolboy
- Aug 5 NASA launches its Juno space probe from Cape Canaveral to orbit and study Jupiter
- Aug 6 A helicopter containing members of Navy SEAL 6 is shot down in Afghanistan killing 38
- Aug 14 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Atlanta Athletic Club: Keegan Bradley wins first major title by 1 stroke in 3-hole aggregate playoff with fellow American Jason Dufner
- Aug 16 World Youth Day 2011, organised by the Catholic church, begins in Madrid
- Aug 18 The "West Memphis Three" are released from prison after 18 years in imprisonment
Event of Interest
Aug 20 Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, Westchester CC: Fred Couples wins first of 2 Champions Tour major titles with birdie on 3rd playoff hole against John Cook
Fred Couples
- Aug 23 5.8 earthquake occurs in Mineral, Virginia felt as far north as Ontario and as far south as Atlanta, Georgia
- Aug 23 Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan Civil War.
Event of Interest
Aug 24 Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple Inc., and is succeeded by Tim Cook, as a result of his illness
Tim Cook
Steve Jobs
- Aug 26 The 787 Dreamliner, Boeing's all-new composite airliner, receives certification from the EASA and the FAA
- Aug 27 13th Athletics World Championships open at Daegu, South Korea
- Aug 27 Australia claims final Tri Nations Rugby Series with 25-20 win over New Zealand in Brisbane; Argentina's Pumas join competition the following year; series rebranded The Rugby Championship
Video Music Awards
Aug 28 28th MTV Video Music Awards: Katy Perry, Lady Gaga & Justin Bieber win
Event of Interest
Sep 3 Following his disqualification in the 100m, Jamaica's Usain Bolt runs a season best 19.40 to win the 200m at the World Athletics Championships in South Korea
Usain Bolt
- Sep 7 Plane crash in Russia kills 43 people, including nearly the entire roster of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Kontinental Hockey League team
- Sep 8 Fashion designer John Galliano is found guilty of anti-semitic remarks in a Paris court and fined €6,000
- Sep 9 58th National Film Awards (India): "Adaminte Makan Abu" wins the Golden Lotus
US Open Women's Tennis
Sep 10 US Open Women's Tennis: Samantha Stosur becomes first Australian to win a Grand Slam title since 1980; upsets Serena Williams 6-2, 6-3
Serena Williams
- Sep 12 US Open Men's Tennis: Novak Đoković wins his first US title; beats Rafael Nadal 6-2, 6-4, 6-7, 6-1
Music Single
Sep 12 "Love On Top" single released by Beyoncé (Grammy Award Best Traditional R&B Performance 2013, Billboard Song of the Year 2012)
Beyoncé Knowles
Election of Interest
Sep 14 Elizabeth Warren announces she intends to run for the Democratic nomination for the 2012 Massachusetts Senatorial election
Elizabeth Warren
- Sep 15 St. Thomas Assembly automobile plant in Southwold, Ontario, closes permanently after 44 years resulting in the loss of roughly 1,400 jobs