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15 April 2011 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 15 April 2011 was a Friday.
- Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
- The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “E.T.” by Katy Perry featuring Kanye West.
- Top Film of 2011
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2011 was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.
- Bestselling Novel of 2011
- “The Litigators” by John Grisham was No. 1 on Publishers Weekly's US fiction list for 2011.
- Top-Rated TV Show
- “Sunday Night Football” (NBC) was No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for the 2011–12 season.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 15 April is Aries.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 15 April 2011 fell in the Year of the Rabbit.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for April is Diamond.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 15 April 2011 was Waxing Gibbous.
On this day: 15 April
- 1952 First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.
- 1955 McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.
- 1960 At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
- 1994 Marrakesh Agreement relating to foundation of World Trade Organization is adopted.
- 2019 The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in France is seriously damaged by a large fire.
Famous people born on April 15
- Jeffrey Archer, English author, playwright, and politician (1940–2026)
- Emma Watson, English actress (born 1990)
- Emma Thompson, English actress, comedian, author, activist and screenwriter (born 1959)
- Maisie Williams, English actress (born 1997)
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Events of 2011 in the United States
A selection from Wikipedia's '2011 in the United States'. Not a complete list.
- February 27 – The 83rd Academy Awards, hosted by James Franco and Anne Hathaway, are held at Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Tom Hooper's The King's Speech wins four awards out of 12 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director.
- March 11 – Following the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issues a tsunami warning to parts of the U.S. West Coast along the affected coastal areas in Alaska, Hawaii and the U.S. Territories in the Pacific Ocean.
- April 15 – Rio is released in theaters.
Life in the US in 2011
President
Barack Obama
Gas (per gallon)
$3.52
Loaf of Bread
$1.74
Average House
$242,300
Weekly Wage
$737
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