X Factor hopeful Frankie Cocozza faced the axe after one too many late nights, Michael Jackson doctor Conrad Murray got sent to jail over the singer's death and Modern Warfare 3 became the biggest entertainment launch of all time.
And that was just November.
To remember the rest of the past 12 months, look back over the year 2011 with our picture gallery below:
2011: The year in pictures
Published Saturday, Dec 31 2011, 09:00 GMT | By Adam Silverstein | 4 comments
January 7: EastEnders' controversial baby swap storyline - which saw Ronnie (Samantha Womack) switch her dead son with Kat Moon's (Jessie Wallace) newborn child - becomes the most complained-about plot in the soap's history.
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