2001

• The International Year of the Volunteer
• The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations

Table of contents

1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March-April 1.4 May 1.5 June 1.6 July-August 1.7 September 1.8 October 1.9 November 1.10 December 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 4.11 January-February 4.12 March-May 4.13 June 4.14 July-August 4.15 September-December 5 Nobel Prizes 6 Fictional references to the year 7 External links 8 Heads of state in

Events

January

• 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 .
• January 6 - The United States 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 13 - Major earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale 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 24 - The last two of the "Texas 7" are taken into custody in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
• 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.
• 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 - In the Netherlands a Scottish court convicts a Libyan and acquits another for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crash into Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.

• 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 announced that they had separated.
• February 6 - Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon wins election as Prime Minister of Israel.
• February 9 - American submarine 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 first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
• February 13 - An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
• February 16 - Baghdad suburb bombed by US and UK war planes, 3 people killed
• February 18 - During the Daytona 500 race, NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, known as "The Intimidator" for his aggressive driving style, is killed in a crash.
• February 19 - A Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial Center.
• February 20 - FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested and charged with spying for Russia for 15 years.
• February 20 - 2001 UK foot and mouth crisis begins
• February 26 - Treaty of Nice

• March 24 - Apple Computer's Mac OS X version 10.0 is released.
• 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 detained for 10 days and the Chinese pilot, Wang Wei, went missing and presumed 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.

• May 1 - The Japanese cities of Urawa, Omiya, and Yono merge to form the city of Saitama.
• May 1 - Police declare the dissappearance of Chandra Levy. Her remains were discovered a year later.
• May 10 - In Ghana, a stampede at a soccer game kills over 120.
• May 11 - Comedy sci-fi author Douglas Adams (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) dies from a heart attack, aged 49.
• May 19 - One child policy: Zhonghua Sun is put to death by the People's Republic of China government officials because she refused to be sterilized.
• May 22 - Large trans-Neptunian object 28978 Ixion found during the Deep Ecliptic Survey.
• May 25 - Mountain climbing: 32-year old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
• May 25 - Mountain climbing: 64-year old Sherman Bull, of New Canaan, Connecticut, becomes the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

• June 5-June 9 - Houston, Texas is devastated by flooding when Tropical Storm Allison dumps 36 inches of rain on the city. 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 8 - Popular editorial site suck.com, one of the first original content sites on the internet, publishes its final article, "Gone Fishin'."
• 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 11 - Timothy McVeigh is executed for the Oklahoma City Bombing.
• June 19 - 23 people killed and 11 wounded by an American missile hitting a soccer field in northern Iraq, county of Tel Afr
• June 20 - Pervez Musharraf takes over as President of Pakistan.
• 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

• July 2 - World's first self-contained artificial heart implanted in Robert Tools.
• 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, Lord Archer of Weston-Super-Mare, 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.
• August 7 - Australian census
• August 9 - US President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic stem cells.

• September 5 - Peru's attorney general files homicide charges against ex-President Alberto Fujimori.
• September 6 - Microsoft antitrust case: 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 - Around 3,000 killed in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack on the Source | Copyright

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