2001
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This article is about the year 2001. For information on the movie, see
2001: A Space Odyssey
. For the
Dr. Dre
album, see
2001
.
2001
(MMI)
is a
common year starting on Monday
of the
Gregorian calendar
. By strict interpretation of the
Gregorian Calendar
, 2001 is also the first year of the
21st century
and the
3rd millennium
. Popular culture, however, often views the year
2000
as holding this distinction.
2001 is also the year which marks:
-
Australia's
Centenary of Federation
-
The International Year of the
Volunteer
-
The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations
See also
Wikipedia's almanac
of events for this year.
Events
George W Bush, inugurated as President of the United States
-
January 1
- A black
monolith
measuring approximately nine feet tall appears in
Seattle
's Magnuson Park, placed by an anonymous artist in reference to the movie
2001: A Space Odyssey
.
-
January 4
-
Jagex
Ltd. Released the polished version of RuneScape Classic (formerly known as RuneScape, until 2004 (In mid March of 2004, they came out with a modernized 3-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 a magnitude of 7.6 hits all
El Salvador
.
-
January 15
-
Wikipedia
, a
Wiki
free content encyclopedia, goes online (
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 in
Woodland Park, Colorado
and a fifth killed himself inside a motor home.
-
January 23
-
25
-
UN
war crime
s prosecutor Del Ponte demands that
Serbia
hand over
Slobodan Milošević
.
-
January 24
- The last two of the "
Texas 7
" are taken into custody in
Colorado Springs, Colorado
.
-
January 24
-
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
,
Peter Mandelson
resigns from the
British
cabinet for the second time.
-
January 26
- A 50-year-old
DC-3
crashes near
Ciudad Bolivar
,
Venezuela
killing 24.
-
January 26
- An
earthquake
hits
Gujarat
,
India
. More than 20,000 deaths and most of the historical city is destroyed.
-
January 29
- Thousands of student protesters in
Indonesia
storm parliament and demand 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 part in the bombing of
Pan Am Flight 103
which crashed in
Lockerbie, Scotland
in
1988
.
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
walks over a disinfectant mat at Sandown racecourse, as
foot and mouth
hits the UK.
-
June 1
- Crown Prince
Dipendra of Nepal
kills his father, the king, his mother and other members of the royal family with an assault rifle and then shoots himself. He dies
June 4
. King
Gyanendra
acceeds to the throne
-
June 5
-
June 9
-
Houston, Texas
is devastated by flooding when
Tropical Storm Allison
produces 36 inches (900 mm) of
rain
. Particularly hard hit are the downtown area and the
Texas Medical Center
, which lost years of research and data and thousands of lab animals. Twenty-two people die; damage exceeds five billion
American dollars
.
-
June 5
-
Senator
Jim Jeffords
leaves the
Republican party
, an act which changes control of the
United States Senate
from the Republican party to the
Democratic party
-
June 7
-
Tony Blair
's
Labour Party
elected for second term in 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 3-1 in Game 7 over the
New Jersey Devils
at the
Pepsi Center
in
Denver
. This series was highly anticipated as longtime
Boston Bruins
star and current
Colorado
defenseman
Ray Bourque
wins the
Stanley Cup
for the first time in his illustrious 22 year NHL career, a few days after the team's victory,
Bourque
announces his retirement.
-
June 11
- The
United States
executes
Timothy James McVeigh
for the
Oklahoma City Bombing
.
-
June 19
- 23 people killed and 11 wounded 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 in a bathtub and confesses to her crime. She would get life in prison for it.
-
June 21
- Total
solar eclipse
Protestors at the G8 summit in
Genoa
,
Italy
.
-
July 2
- World's first 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 in
Las Vegas
for violating a provision of the
DMCA
.
-
July 18
- In
Baltimore, Maryland
, a 60-car train derailment occurs in a tunnel sparking a fire that will last days and virtually shut down downtown Baltimore
-
July 19
-
UK
politician and novelist
Jeffrey Archer
, sentenced to four years in prison for
perjury
and perverting the course of justice.
-
July 20
-
Vanessa Legget
is found in contempt by a Federal Court for refusing to release notes made for her book on the
Doris Angleton
murder.
-
July 20
-
22
- The
27th G8 summit
takes place in
Genoa
,
Italy
. Massive demonstrations against the meeting by
anti-globalisation
groups. One demonstrator,
Carlo Giuliani
, is shot dead by a
carabiniere
and several others are badly injured during an attack by the police on a school which the protesters were using as their headquarters.
-
July 24
-
Tamil Tigers
attack
Bandaranaika International Airport
in
Sri Lanka
, causing estimated $500 million of damages
-
July 28
-
Alejandro Toledo
is sworn as the new president of
Peru
, eight months after the vote of no-confidence of former President
Alberto Fujimori
.
-
August 1 - Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice
Roy Moore
has a 2 1/2 ton monument of the
Ten Commandments
surreptitiously installed in the rotunda of the judiciary building. He would later be
sued
to have it removed. Later, he would be removed from office.
-
August 2
-
Robert Mueller
confirmed as the new
FBI
director.
-
August 6
- : George W. Bush is informed in his President's Daily Brief that Osama bin Laden is determined to strike targets within the United States and that the FBI believed activity consistent with preparations for hijacking US airplanes was underway.
-
August 9
- US President
George W. Bush
announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic
stem cell
s.
-
August 9
- In the
Comoros
, "military committee" of major
Mohamad Bacar
seizes power in the island of
Anjouan
, that had declared independence. They plan to rejoin the Comoros
-
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 killed 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 the terrorist attacks in New York.
-
September 18
- The
2001 anthrax attacks
commence as anthrax letters are mailed from
Princeton, New Jersey
to
ABC News
,
CBS News
,
NBC News
, the
New York Post
, and the
National Enquirer
.
-
October 2
- Bankruptcy of
Swissair
.
-
October 4
- First
case of anthrax
in the US (
attack
) is announced by federal officials.
-
October 4
-
Siberia Airlines Flight 1812
crashes over the Black Sea en route from Tel Aviv Israel to Novosibirsk Russia - 78 dead.
-
October 5
-
Tom Ridge
resigns as
Governor of Pennsylvania
to become the first director of the newly created
United States Office of Homeland Security
.
-
October 7
-
The American attack on Afghanistan
begins. The
United Kingdom
participates.
-
October 8
-
MD-87
of
SAS
collides first with a private plane and then a building in
Milano
airport - 100 dead
-
October 8
- The first comic of
Tsunami Channel
goes online. It would later go on to be the #1 comic of
Keenspace
(in terms of page views) until moving to its own server.
-
October 9
- The
2001 anthrax attacks
continue as anthrax letters are mailed from
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
terrorist
s
-
October 12
- War on Terrorism: Prompted by a request by US President
George W. Bush
, an episode of
America's Most Wanted
aired featuring 22 most wanted
terrorist
s
-
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 now famous
iPod
.
-
October 23
-
Principal Financial Group
files its
initial public offering
on the
New York Stock Exchange
.
-
October 25
- Microsoft releases
Windows XP
Births
Deaths
For more deaths see:
Deaths in 2001
January-February
-
January 1
-
Ray Walston
, American actor (b.
1914
)
-
January 2
-
Teri Diver
, American actress (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 businessman (b.
1913
)
-
January 28
-
Curt Blefary
, baseball 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 writer (b.
1923
)
-
February 4
-
Iannis Xenakis
, Greek composer (b.
1922
)
-
February 7
-
Dale Evans
, American actress and singer (b.
1912
)
-
February 7
-
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
, American author and aviator (b.
1906
)
-
February 9
-
Herbert Simon
, American economist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (b.
1916
)
-
February 12
-
Kristina Söderbaum
, German actress and photographer (b.
1912
)
-
February 16
-
Bob Buhl
, baseball 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 film director (b.
1913
)
-
February 19
-
Charles Trenet
, French singer (b.
1913
)
-
February 24
-
Claude Elwood Shannon
, American mathematician (b.
1916
)
-
February 25
- Sir
Donald Bradman
, Australian 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 professional wrestler (b.
1974
)
-
March 12
-
Morton Downey Jr.
, American television personality (b.
1933
)
-
March 12
-
Robert Ludlum
, American author (b.
1927
)
-
March 12
-
Ann Sothern
, American actress (b.
1909
)
-
March 18
-
John Phillips
, American singer (b.
1935
)
-
March 21
-
Norma Macmillan
, Canadian 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
-
David Graf
, American actor (b.
1950
)
-
April 7
-
Beatrice Straight
, American actress (b.
1914
)
-
April 10
-
Willie Stargell
- American baseball player (b.
1940
)
-
April 11
-
Harry Secombe
, Welsh entertainer (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 and singer (
The Ramones
) (b.
1951
)
-
April 20
-
Giuseppe Sinopoli
, Italian conductor and composer (b.
1946
)
May-June
-
May 5
-
Clifton Hillegass
, American author and creator of Cliff Notes (b.
1918
)
-
May 9
-
James E. Myers
, American songwriter (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
, Chilean biologist and philosopher (b.
1946
)
-
June 1
-
Hank Ketcham
, American cartoonist (b.
1920
)
-
June 1
- Queen
Aiswarya
of Nepal (assassinated (b.
1949
)
-
June 1
- King
Birendra of Nepal
(assassinated) (b.
1945
)
-
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
- Prince
Dipendra of Nepal
(b.
1971
)
-
June 4
-
John Hartford
, American musician and composer (b.
1937
)
-
June 10
-
Princess Leila of Iran
(b.
1970
)
-
June 11
-
Timothy McVeigh
, American terrorist (executed) (b.
1968
)
-
June 17
-
Donald J. Cram
, American chemist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (b.
1919
)
-
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 and 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
, Italian 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 author (b.
1926
)
-
August 1
-
Korey Stringer
, American football 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 and science fiction writer (b.
1915
)
-
August 25
-
Aaliyah
, American singer and 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-born actress (b.
1973
)
-
September 7
-
Spede Pasanen
, Finnish television personality (b.
1930
)
-
September 9
-
Ahmed Shah Massoud
, Afghani military commander (b.
1953
)
-
September 11
-
Casualties of the September 11, 2001 attacks
-
September 11
-
Barbara K. Olson
, American television commentator (b.
1955
)
-
September 13
-
Victor Wong
, American actor (b.
1927
)
-
September 22
-
Isaac Stern
, Ukrainian violinist (b.
1920
)
-
October 7
-
Chris Adams
, American judoka and professional wrestler (murdered) (b.
1955
)
-
October 12
-
Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone
, British lawyer and politician (b.
1907
)
-
October 15
-
Zhang Xueliang
, Chinese military figure (b.
1901
)
-
October 26
-
Josh Kirby
, British artist (b.
1928
)
November-December
-
November 5
-
Roy Boulting
, English film director and producer (b.
1913
)
-
November 10
-
Ken Kesey
, American author (b.
1935
)
-
November 12
-
Tony Miles
, English chess player (b.
1955
)
-
November 17
-
Michael Karoli
, German guitarist (
Can
) (b.
1948
)
-
November 24
-
Melanie Thornton
, American-born singer (b.
1967
)
-
November 28
-
William Kienzle
, American author (b.
1928
)
-
November 29
-
George Harrison
, English musician (
The Beatles
) (b.
1943
)
-
November 29
-
John Knowles
, American author (b.
1926
)
-
December 4
-
Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj
, King of Malaysia (b.
1926
)
-
December 5
- Sir
Peter Blake
, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist (shot) (b.
1948
)
-
December 5
-
Franco Rasetti
, Italian physicist (b.
1901
)
-
December 8
-
Don Tennant
, American advertising executive (b.
1922
)
-
December 15
-
Rufus Thomas
, American singer (b.
1917
)
-
December 20
-
Foster Brooks
, American actor and comedian (b.
1912
)
-
December 26
-
Nigel Hawthorne
, British actor (b.
1929
-
December 30
-
Eileen Heckart
, American actress (b.
1919
)
Date unknown
Nobel Prizes
Fictional references to the year
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