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2001 (MMI) was a common
year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar.
It was the first year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century. Contents · 1Events o 1.3March o 1.4April o 1.5May o 1.6June o 1.7July · 2Births · 3Deaths · 7Fictional
references to the year Events[change | change source] January[change | change source] ·
January 1 – Strictly speaking, it was
the first day of the 3rd millennium and 21st century in the Gregorian
calendar, but according to Popular Culture, the first day of these two
distinctions was January 1, 2000. A nine foot tall rock was placed by an
artist in Seattle's
Magnuson Park, like the one in 2001: A Space
Odyssey. ·
January 13 – A strong earthquake
hits El Salvador,
killing at least 800 (See also February 13). ·
January 15 – Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia, goes online. ·
January 20 – Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo becomes the 14th President of the Republic of the Philippines, replacing Joseph Estrada. ·
January 20 – George W. Bush replaces Bill Clinton and becomes the 43rd President
of the United States. ·
January 22 – Four of the "Texas 7"
are caught at a store in Woodland
Park, Colorado and a fifth kills himself. ·
January 24 – The last two of the "Texas 7"
are caught by police in Colorado
Springs, Colorado. ·
January 26 – A 50-year-old DC-3 crashes near Ciudad
Bolivar, Venezuela and
kills 24 people. ·
January 26 – An earthquake happens in Gujarat, India; more than 20,000 die. ·
January 29 – Thousands of students
in Indonesia tell
President Abdurrahman Wahid that
he should give up his job because he was caught doing something bad. ·
January 31 – A court finds one Libyan guilty and another innocent in
the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which
crashed in Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. February[change | change source] ·
February 5 – Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman announced that they are
not together anymore. ·
February 6 – Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon wins election as Prime Minister
of Israel. ·
February 9 – American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally
hits and sinks Japanese fishing ship Ehime-Maru. ·
February 12 – NEAR
Shoemaker spacecraft lands on 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft
to land on an asteroid. ·
February 13 – An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing at least 400. ·
February 16 – Iraq
disarmament crisis: British and U.S. forces carry out bombing
raids attempting to destroy Iraq's air defense network. ·
February 16 – Baghdad suburb bombed by US and UK war
planes, killing 3 people. ·
February 18 – During the Daytona 500 race, NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt is killed in a car
crash. ·
February 18 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for being
a spy. ·
February 19 – An Oklahoma City
bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial. ·
February 26 – Treaty
of Nice was signed. March[change | change source] ·
March 24 – Apple Computer's Mac OS X version 10.0 is released. April[change | change source] ·
April 1 – An American EP-3E spyplane
collides with a Chinese F-8 fighter
jet and is forced to make an emergency landing in Hainan, China.
The U.S. crew was jailed for 10 days and the Chinese pilot, Wang
Wei, went missing and thought to be dead. ·
April 1 – Former president of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic surrenders
to police special forces, to be tried on charges of war crimes. ·
April 26 – Junichiro Koizumi becomes Prime Minister of
Japan. ·
April 28 – American Dennis Tito becomes
the first space tourist. May[change | change source] ·
May 1 – The Japanese cities of Urawa, Omiya, and
Yono become one to form the city of Saitama. ·
May 10 – In Ghana, a sudden rush at a soccer game kills over 120. ·
May 24 – Mountain climbing:
Sherpa Temba Tsheri,
16, becomes the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest. ·
May 25 – Mountain climbing: Erik
Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado,
becomes the first blind person to
reach the top of Mount Everest. A 64-year old Sherman
Bull, of New Canaan,
Connecticut, becomes the oldest person to reach the top. June[change | change source] ·
June 5-9 – Houston, Texas is devastated by
flooding when Tropical Storm
Allison hits the city. Texas
Medical Center lost years of research and data and thousands
of lab animals. Twenty-two people die; damage exceeds five billion American dollars. ·
June 7 – Tony Blair's Labour Party were
selected for second term in UK General
Election ·
June 11 – Timothy McVeigh is
executed for the Oklahoma City
Bombing. ·
June 19 – An American missile hits a soccer field in northern Iraq, killing 23 people and wounding 11. ·
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. ·
June 23 – An earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale, hits the south of Peru. July[change | change source] ·
July 2 – The world's first
self-contained artificial
heart is implanted in Robert
Tools. ·
July 16 – The FBI arrests Dmitry
Sklyarov at a meeting in Las Vegas for violating a condition of
the DMCA. ·
July 18 – In Baltimore, Maryland,
a 60-car train derails in a tunnel, causing a fire that last for days and
virtually shuts down downtown Baltimore. ·
July 19 – UK politician and novelist Jeffrey Archer is sentenced to four
years in prison for perjury and perverting
the course of justice. ·
July 23 – Megawati
Sukarnoputri becomes the new president of Indonesia, replacing Abdurrahman Wahid. August[change | change source] ·
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, the military seizes power in the
island of Anjouan that had
declared independence. They plan to rejoin the Comoros. ·
August 31 – PBS airs the final episode of Mister
Rogers' Neighborhood with host Fred Rogers retiring September[change | change source] ·
September 5 – Peru's attorney general files homicide charges against
ex-President Alberto Fujimori. ·
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 – Ahmed
Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern
Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan. ·
September 11 – Almost 3,000 people are
killed in the September 11,
2001 attacks on the World
Trade Center in New York City, The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia,
and rural Pennsylvania. ·
September 14 – The Nintendo GameCube is
released in Japan. ·
September 15 – President George W. Bush says that the United States of
America is at war against terror. October[change | change source] ·
October 4 – The first case of anthrax in
the U.S. is announced by federal officials. ·
October 7 – The 2001 U.S. Attack on Afghanistan begins. ·
October 10 – War on Terrorism: US President George W. Bush presents a list of 22
most wanted terrorists. ·
October 15 – NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes
within 112 miles of Jupiter's
moon Io. ·
October 23 – Apple Inc. releases the iPod. ·
October 25 – Microsoft releases Windows XP. November[change | change source] ·
November – The
Doha Declaration relaxes the international intellectual
property law by a bit. ·
November 4 – Hurricane Michelle hits Cuba, destroying crops and thousands of
homes. ·
November 7 – The super-sonic commercial
aircraft Concorde starts
flying again after a 15-month break. ·
November 10 – The People's
Republic of China became a member of the World Trade
Organization. ·
November 12 – In New York City, an Airbus A300 crashes minutes after
takeoff from John
F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board. ·
November 12 – 2001 U.S. Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, as the Northern
Alliance troops are coming (Northern Alliance fighters took
Kabul on November 14). ·
November 13 – Doha Round:
The World Trade
Organization ends a four-day conference in Doha, Qatar. ·
November 13 – War on Terrorism:
In the first such act 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 16 – The first Harry Potter movie, Harry
Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, is released, earning US $975.8
million, becoming the second highest earning movie around the world of all
time, behind Titanic. ·
November 24 - Melanie Thornton, the
German/American Pop singer, also the former member of La Bouche, dies in a
plane crash going to Zürich, Switzerland, along with Maria Serreno-Serreno
and Nathaly Van Het Ende of the German dance band Passion Fruit (band). ·
November 29 - George Harrison,
former lead guitarist of The Beatles, dies of lung cancer at the age
of 58. December[change | change source] ·
December 2 – Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
protection five days after Dynegy canceled
a US$8.4 billion buyout bid (At the time this was the largest bankruptcy in the history of the United States). ·
December 13 – The United States withdraw from the
1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. ·
December 13 – Tuanku
Syed Sirajuddin, Raja of Perlis becomes the 12th Yang di-Pertuan
Agong of Malaysia. ·
December 14 – Annular solar eclipse. ·
December 22 – 2001 U.S. Attack on Afghanistan: Hamid Karzai became head of the interim
government in Afghanistan. ·
December 27 – The People's
Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade status
with the United States. Births for more information, see Category:2001 births. Deaths for more information, see Category:2001 deaths. ·
February 18 – Dale Earnhardt – NASCAR race car driver ·
February 25 – Sir Donald Bradman, cricketer of
Australia ·
March 12 – Robert Ludlum, writer of spy novels ·
March 22 – William Hanna, cofounder (with Joseph Barbera) of famous Hanna-Barbera animation studio ·
May 11 – Douglas Adams, writer of The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ·
June 3 – Anthony Quinn, 86, actor ·
June 7 – Charles Templeton, Canadian cartoonist and television evangelist (b. 1915) ·
June 11 - Timothy McVeigh,
33, terrorist ·
June 21 – John Lee Hooker- Blues musician ·
June 23 – Yvonne Dionne,
One of the Dionne Quintuplets ·
June 27 – Jack Lemmon, 76, actor and movie director ·
July 5 – Hannelore Kohl, 68, wife of ex-chancellor
of Germany Helmut Kohl (suicide) ·
August 25 – Aaliyah, 22, American singer and actress ·
November 29 – George Harrison,
58, musician and former member of The Beatles ·
37,862
U.S. Citizens die in car crashes.[1] ·
Approximately
40,000 citizens in the European Union die in car crashes Movies released[change | change
source] ·
Harry
Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ·
Driven ·
Rat Race Hit Songs[change | change source] ·
Family
Affair – Mary J. Blige ·
Whenever, Wherever – Shakira ·
Irresistible – Jessica Simpson ·
Breathless – The Corrs ·
What It Feels Like for a Girl – Madonna ·
How
You Remind Me – Nickelback ·
First Date – Blink-182 ·
There
You'll Be – Faith Hill Nobel prize winners[change | change
source] ·
Chemistry – William S. Knowles ·
Chemistry – Ryoji Noyori ·
Chemistry – K. Barry Sharpless ·
Economics – George A. Akerlof ·
Economics – A.
Michael Spence[2] ·
Economics – Joseph E. Stiglitz ·
Literature – V. S. Naipaul ·
Medicine – Leland H. Hartwell ·
Medicine – Tim Hunt ·
Medicine – Sir Paul Nurse ·
Peace – United Nations ·
Peace – Kofi Annan ·
Physics – Eric A. Cornell ·
Physics – Wolfgang Ketterle ·
Physics – Carl E. Wieman Fictional references to the year[change | change source] ·
Arthur C. Clarke set
the 1968 movie 2001: A Space
Odyssey in this year, the first year of the 21st century. |
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