2001 (MMI) was a common year that started on a Monday. In the Gregorian Calendar, it was the 2001st year of the Common Era or the Anno Domini designation. It was the 2nd year of the 2000s decade, and the 1st year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium.
Events
January
- January 1 – A black monolith—dubbed the Seattle Monolith—measuring approximately 9 feet (2.7 m) tall appears in Seattle, Washington's Magnuson Park, placed by an anonymous artist in reference to the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- January 2 - Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa opens at the Disneyland Resort.
- January 4 - Jagex Games Studios launches RuneScape
- January 8 – Noah, a gaur, is born, the first animal of an endangered species to be cloned.
- January 11 – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission approves the merger of America Online and Time Warner to form AOL Time Warner.
- January 12 - Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
- January 13 – A 7.6 magnitude earthquake hits all of El Salvador, killing at least 800 people and leaving thousands homeless.
- January 15 – Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, launches on the Internet.
- January 17 – Impeachment proceedings against Philippine President Joseph Estrada, accused of playing Jueteng, end preeminently and trigger the second EDSA People Power Revolution or People Power II.
- January 20 – George W. Bush succeeds Bill Clinton as the 43rd President of the United States.
- January 23–January 25 – United Nations war crimes prosecutor Del Ponte demands that Serbia hand over Slobodan Milošević.Confirmation needed
- January 23 – The Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident occurs.
- January 25 – A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, killing 24.[1]
- January 26 – An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, killing more than 12,000.
February
March
April
May
June
- June 1
- June 5–June 9 – Tropical Storm Allison produces 36 inches (900 mm) of rain in Houston, Texas, killing 22, damaging the Texas Medical Center, and causing more than 5 billion American dollars of damage overall.
- June 11 – In Terre Haute, Indiana, Timothy McVeigh is executed for the Oklahoma City bombing.
- June 19 – A missile hits a soccer field in northern Iraq (Tel Afr County), killing 23 and wounding 11. According to U.S. officials, it was an Iraqi missile that malfunctioned.[2]
- June 20 – Pervez Musharraf becomes President of Pakistan after the resignation of Muhammad Rafiq Tarar.
- June 21 – The world's longest train is set up by BHP Iron Ore and is recorded going between Newman and Port Hedland in Western Australia (a distance of 275 km, or 170 miles) and the train consists of 682 loaded iron ore wagons and 8 GE AC6000CW locomotives, giving a gross weight of almost 100,000 tonnes and moves 82,262 tonnes of ore; the train is 7.353 km (4.569 mi) long.
- June 23 – An earthquake (7.9 on the Richter scale) hits the south of Peru.
July
- July 2 – The world's first self-contained artificial heart is implanted in Robert Tools.
- July 3 – A Vladivostokavia Tupolev Tu-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia, killing 145.
- July 13 – Beijing wins the bid to host the 2008 Summer Olympics.
- July 16
- July 17 – The Altamira caves's replica (created by Manuel Franquelo and Sven Nebel) is inaugurated.
- July 18 – In Baltimore, Maryland, a 60-car train derailment occurs in a tunnel, sparking a fire that lasts days and virtually shuts down downtown Baltimore.
- July 19 – UK politician and novelist Jeffrey Archer is sentenced to 4 years in prison for perjury and perverting the course of justice.
- July 20–July 22 – The 27th G8 summit takes place in Genoa, Italy. Massive demonstrations are held against the meeting by anti-globalisation groups. One demonstrator, Carlo Giuliani, is shot dead by a carabiniere. Several others are badly injured during a police attack on a school used by the protesters as their headquarters.
- July 24 – Tamil Tigers attack Bandaranaika International Airport in Sri Lanka, causing an estimated $500 million of damages.
- July 28 – Alejandro Toledo is sworn in as the new president of Peru, 8 months after a vote of no-confidence in former President Alberto Fujimori.
August
September
- September 11 – Nearly 3,000 are killed in the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City; the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia; and in rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania after American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 crash into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93 crashes into grassland in Shanksville.
- September 12 – Israel sends tanks into Jericho, West Bank, starting a new military operation.
- September 18 – The 2001 anthrax attacks commence as letters containing anthrax spores are mailed from Princeton, New Jersey to ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the New York Post, and the National Enquirer. 22 in total are exposed; 5 of them die.
- September 21 – In Toulouse, France, the AZote Fertilisant chemical factory explodes, killing 29 and seriously wounding over 2,500.
October
November
Soldiers board a
Chinook helicopter
December
Births
- January 2 - Christopher Barrios, Jr., American murder victim (d.2007)
- February 2 - Connor Gibbs, American actor
- February 24 - Ramona Marquez, British actor
- October 12 - Raymond Ochoa, American actor
- October 25 – Princess Elisabeth of Belgium, daughter of Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant
- November 21 - Samantha Bailey, American actress
- November 27 - Morgana Davies, Australian actress
- December 1 – Aiko, Princess Toshi of Japan
Deaths
Main article:
Deaths in 2001
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Specific Date of Death Unknown
- Etan Patz was declared legally dead. He was an American child that disappeared on May 25, 1979. His disappearance sparked the missing children's movement.
Nobel Prizes
Templeton Prize
In fiction
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