2011 in the Netherlands

This article lists some of the events that took place in the Netherlands in 2011.

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Events

January
  • 1: The BES-islands(Saba, Saint Eustatius and Bonaire) exchange their Antillean guilder for the American dollar.
  • 5: In Moerdijk 23.500 liters of toxic and corrosive liquids escape during a large fire on the Chemie-Pack property.
  • 8: Feyenoord says farewell to soccer legend Coen Moulijn.
  • 11: A month after quitting as party chair of GreenLeft Femke Halsema leaves Congress.

February
  • 1: Air-defense and Command-frigate Hr. Ms. Tromp leaves her home port of Den Helder towards the waters around Somalia to take part in the anti-piracy mission Atalanta.
  • 11: Karlo Timmerman wins the alternative elfstedentocht on the Austrian Weissensee over a length of 200 kilometers. Mariska Huisman wins the woman's division.
  • 28: 3 crew-members of a military helicopter are captured by Libyan militias. They flew with their Lynx of the Hr. Ms. Tromp to Sirte and landed there without permission.

March
  • 9: The Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Dutch Railways) are handed a record fine of 2 million euro due to not complying with performance agreements with the government.
  • 10-11: The 3 military crew-members are released during the night after intensive diplomatic discussions.

April

May

June

July
  • 7: During the expansion of the Grolsch Veste an accident occurs with a lifting crane and makes part of the roof collapse. 2 people die and 14 others are injured.
  • 15: Zendstation Smilde in Hoogersmilde partly collapses after a fire.

August

September

October
  • 2: The Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum reopens her doors for visitors.
  • 31: An investigation into social-psychology papers uncovered massive amount of academic fraud at Dutch Universities. At least 30 papers by psychologist Diederik Stapel are found to have been faked.[1]

November

December
  • 21: Astronaut André Kuipers starts his second space-travel from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, he will be staying at the ISS for almost half a year.
  • 29: Theater 't Speelhuis in Helmond is destroyed by a very large fire it damages several cube houses.

Elections
  • Dutch provincial elections, 2011

Sports

See also
gollark: We could go to the police at the front (?) of the house and explain that we were at a bar when heav suddenly started going apioform-mad.
gollark: oh 🐝.
gollark: We have nothing to fear but fear itself and bad police and being implicated.
gollark: We can* explain that heav did it.
gollark: We should really have fled.

See also

References
  1. https://www.nature.com/news/2011/111101/full/479015a.html
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