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2001(MMI) occurs as common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. By nonindulgent interpretation of the Gregorian Calendar, 2001 is also a number 1 month of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium. Popular culture, even so, typically views a season 2000 as holding this distinction.
2001 is likewise a season which marks:
Australia's Centenary of Federation
A International Month of the Volunteer
A United Nations Season of Dialogue Among Civilizations
Events
January
January 1 - A melanize monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall appears inside Seattle's Magnuson Park, placed by an anon. creative person around information to the pic 2001: A Space Odyssey.
January 4 - Jagex Ltd. Discharged the polished version of RuneScape Classic (erst referred to as RuneScape, until 2004 (Around mid March of 2004, it come out by owning a modernised Three-D version).
January 6 - The U.S. Congress, presided over by Vice President Al Gore as President of the Senate, certifies George W. Bush's Electoral College victory and thus as the winner of 2000 presidential election.
January 11 - The Federal Trade Commission approved the merger of AOL and Time Warner to form AOL Time Warner.
January 13 - Major earthquake with the magnitude of Septenary.Six hits wholly El Salvador.
January 15 - Wikipedia, a Wiki free content cyclopedia, goes low (Wikipedia Day).
January 20 - George W. Bush succeeds Bill Clinton as President of the United States after prevailing over Al Gore in the disputed U.S. presidential election, 2000.
January 22 - Four of the "Texas 7" are caught at a convenience store within Woodland Park, Colorado and the fifth killed himself within a camping bus.
January 23-25 - UN war crimes prosecutor Del Ponte demands that Serbia hand over Slobodan Milošević.
January 24 -
A previous 2 of the "Texas 7" are taken into custody in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Peter Mandelson resigns from a British cabinet for the second period.
January 26 -
The 50-month-old DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24.
An earthquake hits Gujarat, India. To a higher degree 20,000 deaths & virtually all of the historical city is destroyed.
January 29 - Thousands of student protesters within Indonesia storm parliament and require that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
January 31 - The Scottish Court in the Netherlands convicts a Libyan and acquits another for their a portion in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crashed in Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
February
February - Iraq disarmament crisis: British and U.S. forces carry out bombing raids attempting to disable Iraq's air defense network.
February 5 - Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman announce that they use separated
February 6 - Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon wins election as Prime Minister of Israel
February 9 - American undersea USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks Japanese fishing vessel Ehime-Maru.
February 12 - NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the 1st ballistic capsule to land in an asteroid.
February 13 - An earthquake with a magnitude of Sextuplet.Hexad hits El Salvador, killing at least 400
February 16 - Baghdad suburb bombed by United states of america & UK war planes, Trine population flushed.
February 18 - NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt is killed on the survive lap of the Daytona 500 while blocking for his DEI cars driven by his boy, Dale Earnhardt Jr., and Michael Waltrip, who won the race.
February 19 - A Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.
February 20
FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested and charged using spying for Russia for 15 years.
2001 UK foot and mouth crisis begins.
February 24-27 - Patient Tony Collins spends 77 hours & Half-hour in a hospital trolley car outside the toilets in the Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon, United Kingdom
February 28 - An earthquake with a magnitude of Sixer.Niner hits a Nisqually Valley metropolitan area of Washington. There was of these reported dying, an senior woman world health organization suffered the heart attack.
March - April
March 23 - Russian space stations Mir re-enters the atmosphere touching Nadi, Fiji, and lessens into a Pacific Ocean
March 24 - Apple Computer's Mac OS X v10.0 is released.
March 28 - Tornado [http://www.dallassky.com/fwtornado.htm Dallas Skys] rips through downtown Fort Worth killing 5 & stimulating to a higher degree 500 million dollars within property damage.
March 31 - Invader Zim premieres on Nickelodeon.
April 1
An EP-3E American spyplane collides with a Chinese fighter jet and is forced to make an forced landing inside Hainan, China. A U.S. crew was detained for Decade years & a F-8 Chinese pilot, Wang Wei, went missing and presumed dead.
Previous president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to become try charges of war crimes.
In the Netherlands, the Act on the Opening up of Marriage goes into effect. A Work allows same-sex couples to legally marry for the first time in the globe.
April 27 - Impostor Christopher Rocancourt arrested in Oak Bay, British Columbia
April 29 - Census of population in the United Kingdom.
May
May 1
A Japanese cities of Urawa, Omiya, and Yono merge to form a city of Saitama.
Constabulary declare a disappearance of Chandra Levy. Her remains were found a year late.
May 10 - In Ghana, the stampede at a soccer game kills over Great hundred.
May 11 - Comedy sci-fi author Douglas Adams of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fame, dies from a heart attack, aged 49.
May 16 - John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister of United Kingdom, assaults Craig Evans at an election rally inside Rhyll, Northerly Wales.
May 22 - Large trans-Neptunian object 28978 Ixion found during a Deep Ecliptic Survey.
May 22 and May 23 - Official Opening of the Bahá'í Terraces (see: The Terraces (Bahá'í)) on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel; site of the Shrine of the Báb and the Bahá'í World Centre.
May 24 - Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the younker to conquer Mount Everest.
June
June 1 - Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal kills his father, the king, his mmore & other members of the royal line by owning an assault gun so shoots himself. He dies June 4. King Gyanendra acceeds to the throne
June 5-June 9 - Houston, Texas is devastated by flooding after Tropical Storm Allison produces 36 inches (90Millimetre) of rain. Particularly strong hit come a downtown region & a Texas Medical Center, which lost years of search & information & hundreds to thousands of laboratory fauna. Twenty-22 population die; damage exceeds 5 billion American dollars.
June 5 - Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican party, an act which changes control of the United States Senate from the Gop to the Democratic party
June 7 - Tony Blair's Labour Party elected for second term around UK General Election
June 8 - Popular editorial site suck.com, one of the first original content sites on the internet, publishes its final article, "Gone Fishin'."
June 9 - The Colorado Avalanche win their second Stanley Cup Championship 3-One around Game 7 all over a New Jersey Devils at the Pepsi Center in Denver. This series wwhen extremely anticipated as longtime Boston Bruins star and todays Colorado defenseman Ray Bourque wins the Stanley Cup for a first instance within his illustrious Twenty-two month NHL career, two or three years fallowing the team's triumph, Bourque announces his retirement.
June 11 - The United States executes Timothy James McVeigh for the Oklahoma City Bombing.
June 19 - 23 people flushed & Xi injured by an American missile hitting a soccer field in northern Iraq, Tel Afr County.
June 20 - Pervez Musharraf becomes President of Pakistan after the resignation of Rafiq Tarar.
June 20 - Andrea Yates drowns her children inside the tub & confesses to her crime. She would acquire life within prison for it.
June 21 - Total solar eclipse
July
July 2 - World's 1st self-contained artificial heart implanted in Robert Tools.
July 3 - A Vladivostokavia Tupolev Tu-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145
July 16 - The FBI arrests Dmitry Sklyarov at a convention within Las Vegas for violating a provision of the DMCA.
July 18 - In Baltimore, Maryland, the 60-car train derailment occurs in the burrow sparking a fire that may day of reckoning & virtually close up downtown Baltimore
July 19 - UK politician and novelist Jeffrey Archer, sentenced to four years within prison for perjury and perverting the course of justice.
July 20 - Vanessa Legget is found around contempt by the Federal Court for refusing to release notes bring her book on the Doris Angleton murder.
July 20-22 - The 27th G8 summit takes place in Genoa, Italy. Massive demonstrations against a meeting by anti-globalisation groups. A single demonstrator, Carlo Giuliani, is shot dead by a carabiniere and several others come badly wounded when you took an attack per law in a school which the protesters were applying when their headquarters.
July 24 - Tamil Tigers attack Bandaranaika International Airpot in Sri Lanka, causing forecasted $500 million of damages
July 28 - Alejandro Toledo is sworn when a freshly president of Peru, eight months after a vote of there is no-confidence of previous President Alberto Fujimori.
August
August One - Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Deuce 1/2 ton monument of the Ten Commandments surrepticiously installed in the rotunda of the judiciary building. He would later on be sued to have it removed. Late, he would exist as flushed from either professional.
August 2 - Robert Mueller confirmed as a fresh FBI director.
August 6 - : George W. Bush is informed within his President's Daily Brief that Osama bin Laden is determined to strike targets in a United States & that a FBI believed activity uniform by having preparations for hijacking U.s. aeroplane was afoot.
August 9 - US President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic stem cells.
August 9 - In the Comoros, "military committee" of major Mohamad Bacar seizes power in the island of Anjouan, that had declared independence. It project to rejoin a Comoros
September
September 1 - Fundation of the Free State Project.
September 4 - Google Inc. is awarded a patent, number 6,285,999, for the PageRank search algorithm used in the Google search engine
September 5 - Peru's attorney general files homicide charges against ex-President Alberto Fujimori
September 5 - Young Left formed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
September 6 - United States v. Microsoft: The United States Justice Department announces that it was no longer seeking to break-up software maker Microsoft and will instead seek a lesser antitrust penalty
September 9 - Suicide bomber wounds Ahmed Shah Massoud, military commander of Northern Alliance in Afghanistan. He dies September 14
September 10 - Norwegian parliamentary election, 2001
September 11 - Around 3,000 flushed in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
September 17 - The New York Stock Exchange reopens following a terrorist attacks around Future York.
September 18 - The 2001 anthrax attacks commence as anthrax letters come mailed from either Princeton, New Jersey to ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the New York Post, and a National Enquirer.
October
October 2 - Bankruptcy of Swissair.
October 4
First case of anthrax in the US (attack) is announced by federal officials.
Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes over a Black Sea on the way from either Tel Aviv Israel to Novosibirsk Russia - 78 dead.
October 5 - Tom Ridge resigns as Governor of Pennsylvania to become a foremost director of the fresh created United States Office of Homeland Security.
October 7 - The American attack on Afghanistan begins. A United Kingdom participates.
October 8
MD-87 of SAS collides first by using the personal plane then the building inside Milano airport - 100 dead
The number one comedian of Tsunami Channel goes online. It would down a road last in to exist as the #1 comical of Keenspace (in terms of web page views) until moving to its have server.
October 9 - The 2001 anthrax attacks continue as anthrax letters come mailed from either Princeton, New Jersey to Senators Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont.
October 10 - War on Terrorism: US President George W. Bush presents a list of 22 most wanted terrorists
October 12 - War on Terrorist act: Prompted by the asking by U.s.a. President George W. Bush, an episode of America's Most Wanted aired featuring 22 most wanted terrorists
October 15 - NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io
October 19 - SIEV-X sinks en route to Christmas Island
October 20 - The Concert for New York City, "a celebration of the strength, resilience, and pride of New York and America" is held featuring performances by The Who, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Billy Joel, Destiny's Child, Eric Clapton, Adam Sandler, Bon Jovi, Elton John and many more.
October 23
Apple Computer releases the nowadays celebrated iPod.
Principal Financial Group files its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange.
October 25 - Microsoft releases Windows XP
November
November - The Doha Declaration relaxes the grip of international intellectual property law by a bit.
November 4 - Hurricane Michelle hits Cuba destroying crops and hundreds to thousands of homes.
November 4 - The Police Service of Northern Ireland is established, replacing the discredited RUC.
November 7 - Bankruptcy of Belgium's SABENA Airlines.
November 7 - The extremely-ultrasonic commercial aircraft Concorde resumes flying after the Xv-year break.
November 10 - China is admitted to the World Trade Organization after 15 years of negotiations.
November 10 - John Howard, prime minister of Australia, is elected to a third term.
November 11 - Mark McGwire announces his retirement from agency baseball.
November 12 - In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587 crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on-board
November 12 - 2001 Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Northern Alliance troops (Northern Alliance fighters took Kabul on November 14)
November 13 - Doha Round: The World Trade Organization ends a little joe-day ministerial conference inside Doha, Qatar.
November 13 - Symbionese Liberation Army member Kathleen Soliah (Sara Jane Olsen) withdraws her previous hangdog plea.
November 13 - War on Terrorism: In the first such work since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against any foreigners suspected of having connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States
November 22 - Pope John Paul II sends the number 1 apostolic electronic mail from either the laptop computer inside his professional.
December
December 2 - Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection five years fallowing Dynegy canceled a America$8.Four billion buyout bid. At a period this was a big bankruptcy in the history of the United States.
December 3 - Officials announce that one of the Taliban prisoners captured after a prison insurrection at Mazar-e Sharif is John Walker Lindh, an American citizen.
December 11 - The United States government indicts Zacarias Moussaoui for involvement in the attacks on September 11th.
December 13 - The Indian Parliament is attacked by terrorists, killing 14 population. This will bring India & Pakistan to the brink of war.
December 13 - U.S. President George W. Bush announces the United States' withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
December 14 - Annular solar eclipse
December 19
A occident-record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) was placed at Tosontsengel, Hövsgöl Aymag, Mongolia.
Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was released into theaters.
December 21 - Japanese television performer Masashi Tashiro got No. Single temporarily in the Internet vote of Time's Person of the Year.
December 22 - Hamid Karzai is sworn within when head of the interim government in Afghanistan.
December 22 - A Paris-Miami flight is diverted to Boston after passenger Richard Reid attempts to light his shoe, filled using explosives, alight.
December 27 - The People's Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade status with the United States.
December 27 - Typhoon Vamei forms within One.Quintet degrees of the equator. There are no more tropical cyclone in recorded history hwhen come as or so a equator.
Births
June 13 - Scott & Zachary Benes, child actors
Deaths
For other deaths watch: Deaths in 2001
January-February
January 1 - Ray Walston, American actor (b. 1914)
January 2 - Teri Diver, American pornstar (b. 1971)
January 3 - José Greco, Italian-born flamenco dancer (b. 1918)
January 5 - Nancy Parsons, American actress (b. 1942)
January 12 - William Hewlett, American man of affairs (b. 1913)
January 16 - Virginia O'Brien, American actress (b. 1919)
January 28 - Curt Blefary, American baseball streaming video player (b. 1943)
January 30, Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (b. 1911)
January 30 - Johnnie Johnson, English pilot (b. 1915)
January 31, Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian science fiction writer (b. 1923)
February 4 - Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer (b. 1922)
February 7 - Dale Evans, American actress & singer (b. 1912)
February 7 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American creator & flyer (b. 1906)
February 12 - Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and lensman (b. 1912)
February 16 - Bob Buhl, American Baseball streaming video player (b. 1928)
February 18 - Balthus, French painter (b. 1908)
February 18 - Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (b. 1951)
February 19 - Priscilla Davis, American socialite (b. 1942)
February 19 - Stanley Kramer, American director (b. 1913)
February 19 - Charles Trenet, French singer (b. 1913)
February 24 - Claude Elwood Shannon, mathematician (b. 1916)
February 25 - Sir Donald Bradman, cricketer (b. 1908)
March-April
March 4 - Glenn Hughes, American singer (b. 1950)
March 4 - Harold Stassen, American politician (b. 1907)
March 11 - Russ Haas, American office matman (b. 1974)
March 12 - Morton Downey Jr., American television personality (b. 1933)
March 12 - Robert Ludlum, American creator (b. 1927)
March 12 - Ann Sothern, American actress (b. 1909)
March 18 - John Phillips, American singer (b. 1935)
March 21 - Norma Macmillan, voice actress (b. 1921)
March 22 - William Hanna, American animation studio executive
March 31 - Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
April 7 - Beatrice Straight, American actress (b. 1914)
April 7 - David Graf, American actor (b. 1950)
April 10 - Willie Stargell - American baseball streaming video player (b. 1940)
April 11 - Harry Secombe, Welsh entertainer, member of The Goons (b. 1921)
April 12 - Harvey Ball, American designer (b. 1921)
April 14 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (b. 1927)
April 15 - Joey Ramone (Jeffrey Hyman), American musician, singer by using The Ramones (b. 1951)
April 20 - Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor, composer (b. 1946)
May
May 5 - Clifton Hillegass, American developer, creator of Cliff Notes (b. 1918)
May 9 - James E. Myers (a.k.a. Jimmy DeKnight), Our contries songster (b. 1919)
May 11 - Douglas Adams, English author (heart attack) (b. 1952)
May 12 - Perry Como, American singer (b. 1912)
May 13 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (b. 1906)
May 20 - Renato Carosone, Italian musician and singer (b. 1920)
May 27 - Ramon Bieri, American actor (b. 1929)
May 28 - Francisco Varela, biologist and philosopher (b. 1946)
June
June 1 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
June 1 - King Birendra of Nepal (assassinated) (b. 1945)
June 1 - Queen Aiswarya of Nepal (assassinated (b. 1949)
June 2 - Imogene Coca, American actress (b. 1908)
June 2 - Joey Maxim, American boxer (b. 1922)
June 3 - Anthony Quinn, Mexican actor (b. 1915)
June 4 - John Hartford, American musician & composer (b. 1937)
June 4 - Prince Dipendra of Nepal (b. 1971)
June 10 - Princess Leila of Iran (b. 1970)
June 11 - Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (executed) (b. 1968)
June 21 - John Lee Hooker, American musician (b. 1917)
June 21 - Carroll O'Connor, American actor (b. 1924)
June 26 - Peter von Zahn, German journalist (b. 1913)
June 27 - Tove Jansson, Finnish author (b. 1914)
June 27 - Jack Lemmon, American actor & director (b. 1925)
June 28 - Mortimer Adler, American philosopher (b. 1902)
June 28 - Joan Sims, British actress (b. 1930)
June 30 - Chet Atkins, American musician (b. 1924)
July-August
July 1 - Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
July 5 - Hannelore Kohl, wife of chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl (suicide) (b. 1933)
July 11 - Herman Brood, Dutch musician and painter (suicide) (b. 1946)
July 18 - Fabio Taglioni, automotive engineer (b. 1920)
July 20 - Milt Gabler, American record producer (b. 1911)
July 27 - Leon Wilkeson, American musician (b. 1952)
July 29 - Edward Gierek, Polish politician (b. 1913)
July 29 - Wau Holland, German hacker (b. 1951)
August 1 - Poul Anderson, American fantasy & science fiction creator (b. 1926)
August 1 - Korey Stringer, American football streaming video player (b. 1974)
August 3 - Christopher Hewett, British actor (b. 1922)
August 6 - Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (b. 1912)
August 15 - Richard Chelimo, Kenyan athlete, (b. 1972)
August 20 - Fred Hoyle, British astronomer & science fiction writer (b. 1915)
August 25 - Aaliyah, American singer & actress (plane crash) (b. 1979)
September-October
September 2 - Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (b. 1922)
September 3 - Pauline Kael, American film critic (b. 1919)
September 3 - Thuy Trang, Vietnamese-American actress (b. 1973)
September 7 - Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (b. 1930)
September 9 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, Afghani military commander (b. 1953)
September 11 - Barbara K. Olson, American television commentator (b. 1955)
September 11 - Casualties of the September 11, 2001 attacks
September 13 - Victor Wong, American actor (b. 1927)
September 22 - Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1920)
October 7 - Chris Adams, judo and office wrestling star (murdered) (b. 1955)
October 12 - Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, British lawyer & politician (b. 1907)
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