Timeline May 2011

Events in May 2011 10

• 1922 – 2011 Jackie Cooper (1922-2011) American actor and director, the youngest Best Actor nominee ever and later Perry White in Superman.
• 1949 – 2011 Gil Scott-Heron American poet, musician & author Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011) was an American poet, musician and author whose spoken-word recordings — above all "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" — made him one of the most influential forefathers of hip-hop and a defining voice of Black political consciousness in American music.
• 2011 2011 World Snooker Championship John Higgins Title 4 Winner: John Higgins; Runner-up: Judd Trump. Score: 18–15.
• 2011 F-22 fleet grounded Oxygen system problems The entire F-22 fleet is grounded for months after pilots report hypoxia-like symptoms.
• 2011 Parliament's Mothership goes to the Smithsonian Museum piece The stage prop is donated to the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
• 2011 Osama bin Laden killed US Navy SEALs raid Abbottabad Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed by US Navy SEALs in a raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2, 2011, nearly ten years after the 9/11 attacks he orchestrated.
• 2011 Jackie Cooper dies in Beverly Hills Jackie Cooper dies aged 88.
• 2011 Thor Marvel expands its universe Directed by Kenneth Branagh, starring Chris Hemsworth. The arrogant Norse god is banished to Earth and must prove himself worthy.
• 2011 Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrested in New York IMF chief's arrest upends French politics Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund and a leading contender for the French presidency, was arrested in New York on charges of sexually assaulting a hotel housekeeper. He resigned from the IMF days later, and the criminal charges were ultimately dropped, but a separate civil suit and the scandal ended his political ambitions. The case drew intense international media coverage.
• 2011 Gil Scott-Heron dies in New York 27 May 2011, aged 62 Gil Scott-Heron died on the afternoon of 27 May 2011 in a Manhattan hospital, at the age of 62. He had been performing and touring almost until the end of his life.