Article: 2001 was designated as:
International Year of Volunteers
Events January
January 10 – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission approves the merger of America Online and Time Warner to form AOL Time Warner.
January 13 – A 7.6 magnitude earthquake hits all of El Salvador, killing at least 800 people and leaving thousands homeless.
January 15 – Wikipedia launches.
January 20
George W. Bush is sworn into office, succeeding Bill Clinton as President of the United States, over candidate contender Al Gore in the disputed U.S. presidential election, 2000.
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. His Vice-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo succeeds him as the 14th President of the Republic.
January 23 – The Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident occurs.
January 26 – An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, killing almost 20,000.
January 31 – The Congressional Budget Office of the United States forecasts a $5,600,000,000,000 budget surplus for the next 10 years.
February
February 9 – The submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Japanese fishing vessel Ehime-Maru near Hawaii.
February 12 – The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
February 13 – A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
February 16 – Iraq disarmament crisis: British and U.S. forces carry out bombing raids, attempting to disable Iraq's air defense network.
February 18 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested and charged with spying for Russia for 25 years.
February 20 – The 2001 UK foot-and-mouth crisis begins.
February 28 – The Great Heck rail crash occurs.
March
March 2 – The Taliban begins destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas.
March 4 – A bomb explodes at BBC Television Centre in London, UK.
March 23
The deorbit of Russian space station Mir is carried out near Nadi, Fiji, with Mir falling into the Pacific Ocean.
The World Wrestling Federation (WWF/now WWE) purchases rival organization World Championship Wrestling (WCW) for an estimated US$7 million.
March 24 - The first release of Mac OS X is released as the successor to Mac OS 9 and the Mac OS X Public Beta, which would not cease to function until May 14.
April April 1
Hainan Island incident: A Chinese fighter jet bumps into a U.S. EP-3E surveillance aircraft, which is forced to make an emergency landing in Hainan, China. The U.S. crew is detained for 10 days and the F-8 Chinese pilot, Wang Wei, goes missing and is presumed dead.
Former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on charges of war crimes.
In the Netherlands, the Act on the Opening up of Marriage goes into effect. The Act allows same-sex couples to marry legally for the first time in the world since the reign of Nero.
April 28 – Soyuz TM-32 lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying the first space tourist, American Dennis Tito.
May
May 6 – Space tourist Dennis Tito returns to Earth aboard Soyuz TM-31. (Soyuz TM-32 is left docked at the International Space Station as a new lifeboat.)
May 7 – In Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, an attempt is made to reconstruct the Ferhadija mosque. However, the ceremony results in mass riots by Serb nationalists, who beat and stone 300 elderly Bosnian Muslims.
May 13 – Silvio Berlusconi wins the general election and becomes Prime Minister of Italy for the second time.
May 14 – The Mac OS X Public Beta expires and its Aqua user interface ceases to function.
May 22 – A large trans-Neptunian object (28978 Ixion) is found during the Deep Ecliptic Survey.
May 22–23 – The Bahá'í Terraces officially open on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel (site of the Shrine of the Báb and the Bahá'í World Centre).
May 24
Sherpa Temba Tsheri, 16, becomes the youngest person to summit Mount Everest.
The Versailles wedding hall disaster kills 23 in Jerusalem, Israel.
June 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 in the Nepalese royal massacre. Dipendra dies June 4, as King of Nepal. His uncle Gyanendra accedes to the throne.
A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21, mostly teenagers, in the Dolphinarium disco in Tel Aviv, Israel.
June 5–9 – Tropical Storm Allison produces 36 inches (900 mm) of rain in Houston, killing 22, damaging the Texas Medical Center, and causing more than 5 billion American dollars of damage overall.
June 7 – George W. Bush signs the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, the first tax cut of a series now known as the Bush tax cuts.
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.
June 20 – Andrea Yates drowns all 5 of her young children in Houston, as a way to save them from Satan.
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 long.
June 23 – The 8.4 Mw southern Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami followed, leaving at least 74 people dead, and 2,687 injured.
July
July 2 – The world's first self-contained artificial heart is implanted in Robert Tools in the United States.
July 3 – Vladivostok Air Flight 352 crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk Airport, Russia, killing 145.
July 7 – 2001 Bradford riots: Race riots erupt in Bradford in the north of England after National Front members reportedly stab an Asian man outside a pub.
July 16
The People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation sign the 2001 Sino-Russian Treaty of Friendship ("Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation").
The FBI arrests Dmitry Sklyarov at a convention in Las Vegas for violating a provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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 20–22 – The 27th G8 summit takes place in Genoa, Italy. Massive demonstrations are held against the meeting by members of the anti-globalization movement. 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
Bandaranaike Airport attack: Tamil Tigers attack Bandaranaike International Airport in Sri Lanka, causing an estimated $500 million of damage.
Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, deposed as the last Tsar of Bulgaria when a child, is sworn in as the democratically elected 48th Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
August
August 1 – Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
August 6 – Erwadi fire incident, 28 mentally ill persons tied to chain were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.
August 9 – Sbarro Restaurant in Jerusalem is attacked by a Palestinian militant, who kills 15 civilians and wounds 130.
August 10 – The 2001 Angola train attack, causing 252 deaths.
August 21 – NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
August 24 – Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (en route to Lisbon from Toronto) and makes an emergency landing in the Azores.
August 25 – American singer Aaliyah and several members of her record company are killed as their overloaded aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport, Bahamas.
August 31 – September 1 – The 2001 Vancouver TV realignment occurs in British Columbia, Canada.
August 31 – The World Conference against Racism 2001 begins in Durban, South Africa.
September
September – The piece As Slow as Possible, composed by John Cage, begins. It will last 639 years, finishing in the year 2640.
September 3
In Belfast, Protestant loyalists begin a picket of Holy Cross, a Catholic primary school for girls. For the next 11 weeks, riot police escort the schoolchildren and their parents through hundreds of protesters, amid rioting and heightened violence.
The United States, Canada and Israel withdraw from the U.N. Conference on Racism because they feel that the issue of Zionism is overemphasized.
September 4 – Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.
September 6 – United States v. Microsoft Corp.: The United States Justice Department announces that it no longer seeks to break up software maker Microsoft, and will instead seek a lesser antitrust penalty.
September 9
A suicide bomber kills Ahmad Shah Massoud, military commander of the Afghan Northern Alliance.
68 people die of methanol poisoning in Pärnu County, Estonia.
The Unix billennium is reached, marking the beginning of the use of 10-digit decimal Unix time stamps.
September 10
Donald Rumsfeld gives a speech regarding $2.3 trillion in Pentagon spending that cannot be accounted for. He identifies the Pentagon bureaucracy as the biggest threat to America.
Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.
September 11 – 2,977 victims are killed in the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City, New York, The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and in rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania after American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 are hijacked and crash into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, American Airlines Flight 77 is hijacked and crashes into the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93 is hijacked and crashes into grassland in Shanksville, due to the passengers fighting to regain control of the airplane. The World Trade Center towers collapse as a result of the crashes.
September 12 – Ansett Australia Airlines is placed into administration, the company's fleet is grounded 2 days later on September 14.
September 13 – Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.
September 14 – Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.
September 17 – The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
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 20 – In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "War on Terror".
September 21
In Toulouse, France, the AZote Fertilisant chemical factory explodes, killing 29 and seriously wounding over 2,500.
Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly.
America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of the September 11 attacks.
September 27 – Zug massacre: In Zug, Switzerland, Friedrich Leibacher shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then himself.
October
October 1 – Militants attack the state legislature building in Srinagar, Kashmir, killing 38.
October 2 – Swissair seeks for bankruptcy protection and grounds its entire fleet, resulting in over 230 flights cancelled and stranding 18,000 people worldwide.
October 4 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes over the Black Sea en route from Tel Aviv, Israel, to Novosibirsk, Russia; 78 are killed.
October 7 – War in Afghanistan (2001–14): The United States invades Afghanistan, with participation from other nations.
October 8
A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy, killing 118 people.
U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
October 9 – Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
October 11 – The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
October 15 – NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within of Jupiter's moon Io.
October 17 – Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.
October 19 – SIEV X sinks en route to Christmas Island, killing 353 people.
October 22 – Grand Theft Auto III is released, popularizing a genre of open-world, action-adventure video games as well as spurring controversy around violence in video games.
October 23
The Provisional Irish Republican Army of Northern Ireland commences disarmament after peace talks.
The iPod is first introduced by Apple.
October 25 – Microsoft releases Windows XP.
October 26 – U.S. President George W. Bush signs the Patriot Act into law.
November
November 2 – The Glocal Forum, leading international organization in the field of city-to-city cooperation, is established by Ambassador Uri Savir.
November 4
Hurricane Michelle hits Cuba, destroying crops and thousands of homes.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland is established, replacing the controversial Royal Ulster Constabulary.
November 7 – Sabena, the national airline of Belgium, goes bankrupt.
November 10
The People's Republic of China is admitted to the World Trade Organization after 15 years of negotiations.
Heavy rains and mudslides in Algeria kill more than 900.
John Howard, the Prime Minister of Australia, is elected to a third term.
November 11 – Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
November 12
American Airlines Flight 587 crashes in Queens minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board.
War in Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
November 13 – In the first such act since World War II, U.S. President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against any foreigners suspected of having connections to terrorist acts or planned acts against the United States.
November 14 – War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.
November 20 – U.S. President George W. Bush dedicates the United States Department of Justice headquarters building as the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building, honoring the late Robert F. Kennedy on what would have been his 76th birthday.
November 23 – The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
November 27 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
November 30 – Gary Ridgway, a.k.a. The Green River Killer, is arrested outside of the truck factory where he had worked in Renton, Washington. His arrest marked the end of one of the longest running homicide investigations in US history.
December December 2
Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection 5 days after Dynegy cancels a US$8.4 billion buyout bid (to this point, the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history).
1998–2002 Argentine great depression: Corralito – The government effectively freezes all bank accounts for twelve months leading to December 2001 riots in Argentina.
December 3 – Officials announce that one of the Taliban prisoners captured after the prison uprising at Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan is John Walker Lindh, a United States citizen.
December 11
The United States government indicts Zacarias Moussaoui for involvement in the September 11 attacks.
The United States Customs Service raids members of international software piracy group DrinkOrDie in Operation Buccaneer.
December 13
2001 Indian Parliament attack: 12 are killed, leading to a 2001–02 India–Pakistan standoff.
U.S. President George W. Bush announces the US withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
December 22 – A Paris–Miami flight is diverted to Boston after British-born passenger Richard Reid attempts to set his shoe, filled with explosives, on fire.
December 27
The People's Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade status with the United States.
Tropical Storm Vamei forms within 1.5 degrees of the equator. No other tropical cyclone in recorded history has come as close to the equator.
Births January
January 21 – Jackson Brundage, American actor
February
February 2 – Connor Gibbs, American actor
February 5 – Juan Karlos Labajo, Filipino singer and performer
February 15 – Haley Tju, American actress
February 19 – David Mazouz, American actor
February 20 – Ren Qian, Chinese diver
February 24 – Ramona Marquez, British actress
April
April 8 - Kyla Rae Kowalewski, American actress
May
May 24 – Darren Espanto, Filipino singer and performer
June
June 21 – Eleanor Worthington Cox, British actress
July
July 10 – Isabela Moner, American actress
August
August 23 – Zaijian Jaranilla, Filipino actor
September
September 4 – Tenzing Norgay Trainor, American actor
October
October 12 – Raymond Ochoa, American actor
October 14 – Rowan Blanchard, American actress
October 25 – Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant, daughter and Heiress Apparent of Philippe, King of the Belgians
November
November 21 – Samantha Bailey, American actress
November 27 – Morgana Davies, Australian actress
December
December 1 – Aiko, Princess Toshi of Japan
December 28 – Madison De La Garza, American actress
Deaths January
January 1 – Ray Walston, American actor (b. 1914)
January 12
William Redington Hewlett, American businessman (b. 1913)
Adhemar da Silva, Brazilian athlete (b. 1927)
January 16
Virginia O'Brien, American actress (b. 1919)
Laurent-Désiré Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1939)
January 27 – Marie José of Belgium, last Queen of Italy (b. 1906)
January 30 – Michel Marcel Navratil, last French citizen and male survivor of the Titanic disaster (b. 1908)
January 31 – Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian writer (b. 1923)
February
February 4 – Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer (b. 1922)
February 7 – King Moody, American actor (b. 1929)
February 9 – Herbert A. Simon, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
February 18
Balthus, French painter (b. 1908)
Dale Earnhardt, American auto racing driver (b. 1951)
February 19
Stanley Kramer, American film director (b. 1913)
Charles Trenet, French singer (b. 1913)
February 20 – Rosemary DeCamp, American actress (b. 1910)
February 24 – Claude Shannon, American mathematician (b. 1916)
February 25 – Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (b. 1908)
March March 12
Morton Downey, Jr., American television personality (b. 1932)
Robert Ludlum, American author (b. 1927)
March 15
Gaetano Cozzi, Italian historian (b. 1922)
Ann Sothern, American actress (b. 1909)
March 18 – John Phillips, American singer/songwriter (b. 1935)
March 22 – William Hanna, American animator and businessman (b. 1910)
March 31 – Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
April
April 7 – David Graf, American actor (b. 1950)
April 8 – Van Stephenson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1953)
April 15 – Joey Ramone, American musician and singer (b. 1951)
April 20 – Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1946)
April 21 – Jack Haley, Jr., American film director and producer (b. 1933)
April 26 – Michele Alboreto, Italian racing driver (b. 1956)
April 29 – Barend Biesheuvel, Dutch politician and corporate director, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1971–1973) (b. 1920)
May
May 11 – Douglas Adams, English author (b. 1952)
May 12 – Perry Como, American singer (b. 1912)
May 13 – R. K. Narayan, Indian novelist (b. 1906)
May 17 – Jacques-Louis Lions, French mathematician (b. 1928)
May 24 – Javier Urruticoechea, Spanish footballer (b. 1952)
May 31 – Arlene Francis, American actress and game show panelist (b. 1907)
June
June 1 – King Birendra of Nepal (b. 1945)
June 2 – Imogene Coca, American actress (b. 1908)
June 3 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor (b. 1915)
June 4 – King Dipendra of Nepal (b. 1971)
June 7 – Víctor Paz Estenssoro, President of Bolivia (b. 1907)
June 10 – Leila Pahlavi, Iranian princess (b. 1970)
June 17 – Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)
June 21
John Lee Hooker, American musician (b. 1917)
Carroll O'Connor, American actor (b. 1924)
June 27
Tove Jansson, Finnish author (b. 1914)
Jack Lemmon, American actor and director (b. 1925)
June 28
Joan Sims, English actress (b. 1930)
Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher (b. 1902)
June 30 – Chet Atkins, American guitarist and record producer (b. 1924)
July
July 1 – Nikolay Basov, Soviet physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
July 11 – Gaspare di Mercurio, Italian doctor and author (b. 1926)
July 24 – Hiroshi Tsuburaya, Japanese actor (b. 1964)
July 28 – Ahmed Sofa, Bangladeshi writer (b. 1943)
July 29 – Edward Gierek, Polish politician (b. 1913)
August
August 1 – Poul Anderson, American author (b. 1926)
August 3 – Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, British peer, politician and reformer (b. 1905)
August 4 – Lorenzo Music, American voice actor (b. 1937)
August 6
Larry Adler, American musician (b. 1914)
Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (b. 1912)
August 20 – Fred Hoyle, British astronomer and writer (b. 1915)
August 22 – Bernard Heuvelmans, Belgian-French cryptozoologist (b. 1916)
August 23 – Kathleen Freeman, American actress (b. 1919)
August 24 – Jane Greer, American actress (b. 1924)
August 25
Ken Tyrrell, British auto racing driver (b. 1924)
Aaliyah, R&B singer and actress (b. 1979)
September September 2
Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon (b. 1922)
Troy Donahue, American actor (b. 1936)
September 3
Pauline Kael, American film critic (b. 1919)
Thuy Trang, Vietnamese American actress (b. 1973)
September 9 – Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan military commander (b. 1953)
September 11 – 2,977 victims who died in the September 11 attacks
David Angell, American television producer (b. 1946)
Berry Berenson, American photographer (and widow of Anthony Perkins) (b. 1948)
Barbara Olson, American television commentator (b. 1955)
September 12 – Victor Wong, Chinese-American character actor (b. 1927)
September 13 – Frédéric-Antonin Breysse, French cartoonist (b. 1907)
September 14 – Dorothy McGuire, American actress (b. 1916)
September 20
Marcos Pérez Jiménez, former President of Venezuela (b. 1914)
Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler, East German journalist and host of the television show Der schwarze Kanal (b. 1918)
September 22 – Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1920)
October
October 4 – Blaise Alexander, American automobile racing driver (b. 1976)
October 15 – Zhang Xueliang, Chinese military figure (b. 1901)
October 22 – Bertie Mee, English football player and coach (b. 1918)
October 24 – Jaromil Jireš, Czechoslovak filmmaker (b. 1935)
November
November 3 – Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, OM, CBE, Austrian-born art historian (b. 1909)
November 9 – Giovanni Leone, former Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1908)
November 10 – Ken Kesey, American author (b. 1935)
November 24
Melanie Thornton, American singer (La Bouche) (b. 1967)
Rachel Gurney, British actress (b. 1920)
November 25 – Gohar Shahi, Pakistani spiritual leader (b. 1941)
November 29
George Harrison, English musician (The Beatles) (b. 1943)
John Mitchum, American actor (b. 1919)
December
December 12 – Josef Bican, Czech-Austrian footballer (b. 1913)
December 13 – Chuck Schuldiner, American singer and guitarist (b. 1967)
December 16 – Stuart Adamson, Scottish singer and guitarist (Big Country) (b. 1958)
December 18 – Marcel Mule, French saxophonist (b. 1901)
December 20 – Léopold Sédar Senghor, First president of Senegal (b. 1906)
December 22
Grzegorz Ciechowski, Polish musician (b. 1957)
Walter Newton Read, American lawyer and second chairman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission (b. 1918)
December 23 – Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch politician and economist, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1966–1967) (b. 1918)
December 26 – Nigel Hawthorne, British actor (b. 1929)
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
Physics – Eric Allin Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, and Carl Wieman
Chemistry – William Standish Knowles, Ryōji Noyori, and Karl Barry Sharpless
Medicine – Leland H. Hartwell, Tim Hunt, and Paul Nurse
Literature – V. S. Naipaul
Peace – United Nations, Kofi Annan
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – George Akerlof, Michael Spence, and Joseph Stiglitz
In fiction
List of works of fiction set in 2001
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One Hundred years ago today.
Ian Fleming is born. He will become a famous English writer and invent the James Bond character.
The first long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower (Paris, Europe).
Robert Baden-Powell begins the Boy Scout movement which will spread over the entire globe within the next decades.
The very first intercontinental car race is born, leading from New York to Paris.
Frenchman Henri Farman pilots the first passenger flight.
Mother's Day is observed for the first time (West Virginia).
In Siberia, Russia, a large meteoroid causes a 10-15 megatons TNT explosion (1, 000 times Hiroshima the bomb).
Robert Peary starts his famous Arctic exploration, he will be the first man to reach the North Pole.
A new US law department is founded, it will later become well known as the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation).
Thomas Selfridge is the first person to die in an aeroplane crash. The pilot was Orville Wright who was also severely injured.
Henry Ford produces his first Model T automobile. It's the first car to feature a steering wheel on the left.
Famous western bandits Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are supposedly killed in Bolivia.
Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at the age of two.
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U.S. 2002 U.S.A. John Walker Lindh 5th February, 2002 : The American John Walker Lindh who was captured on November 25, during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan while fighting for the Taliban is indicted by A federal grand jury on 10 charges, alleging that he was trained by Osama bin Laden's network and that he conspired with the Taliban to kill Americans. On July 15th Walker accepted the plea bargain offered which meant he would plead guilty to two charges: — serving in the Taliban army and carrying weapons, also consent to a gag order that would prevent him from making any public statements on the matter for the duration of his twenty-year sentence. In return, all other charges would be dropped. He is currently serving his sentence at ADMAX in Florence, Colorado, the federal Supermax facility .
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U.S. 1922 U.S.A. Readers Digest First Published 5th February, 1922 : DeWitt Wallace and his wife Lila Wallace publish the first Reader's Digest magazine designed to provide abridged articles on a wide variety of subjects, for easy reading. They publish and direct market the magazine themselves, the success of the magazine has led to a circulation of over 10 million copies in the United States and is still believed to be the best-selling consumer magazine in the country.
UK 1931 England Sir Malcolm Campbell 5th February, 1931 : Sir Malcolm Campbell set a new land speed record on Daytona Beach of 245 MPH with his racing machine Bluebird beating the previous record of 231 MPH by 14 MPH . The new record now stands at 245 MPH.
UK 1953 UK Sweet Rationing 5th February, 1953 : After 13 years of sweet rationing since the beginning of World War II sweet rationing has ended in Great Britain and children all over the country are heading straight for the nearest sweet-shop as the first unrationed sweets went on sale today. The most popular sweets are toffee apples, bars of nougat, chocolates, lollipops and liquorice.
Space 1971 Space Apollo 14 5th February, 1971 : Apollo 14 commander Alan B. Shepard Jr. became the fifth human to walk on the moon with astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell .
U.S. 1974 U.S.A. Patty Hearst 5th February, 1974: Patty Hearst is Kidnapped by the leftist group, The Symbionese Liberation Army
UK 1982 UK Freddie Laker 5th February, 1982: Laker Airways the first of the low cost airlines operating out of the UK has collapsed owing £270 million to banks and other creditors and the company chairman Sir Freddie Laker asked Clydesdale Bank to appoint a receiver.
1983 Bolivia Klaus Barbie 5th February, 1983 : Klaus Barbie, 69, Known as the ( Butcher of Lyon ) who was chief of the Gestapo in Lyon, France, during Nazi occupation, was flown to France today where he was indicted for "crimes against humanity."
Afghanistan 1989 Afghanistan Soviets Withdraw 5th February, 1989 : The last Russian troops withdraw from the capital city of Kabul. In 1979 in attempts to destroy Afghan rebels, who had been armed by U.S. hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops are sent to Afghanistan where the fighting is bloody, costly, and ultimately 13,000 Russian soldiers are left dead and over 22,000 wounded. Less than two weeks later, all Soviet troops depart Afghanistan entirely, ending what many observers referred to as Russia's "Vietnam."
1994 Bosnia Bombing of Market 5th February, 1994 : A mortar bomb explodes in the main market square in Sarajevo killing 68 and wounding 200 people.
U.S. 1994 U.S.A. Murder Trial 5th February, 1994 : Byron de la Beckwith is convicted of the assassination of civil rights leader Medger Evers 31 years earlier, ending the lengthiest murder case in American history. The movie Ghosts of Mississippi dramatised the story including the original crime and the trials that followed .
UK 1996 England GM Food 5th February, 1996 : The first genetically modified, or GM, food goes on sale in British supermarkets. The first GM puree based on GM tomatoes with the rotting gene removed.
Lebanon 2006Lebanon The Danish embassy in Beirut is burnt 5th February, 2006 : Demonstrators in Beirut have set fire to the Danish embassy as a protest against the publication of cartoons that depict the Prophet Mohammed. Numerous Lebanese attend a rally, and clashes break out with the security forces that are sent to protect the compound. Lebanese leaders condemn the attack, and the Interior Minister announces his resignation. This comes a day after mobs in Syria have torched the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus.
Comment Post Cancel bojangles 4x2 Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 8825 Share Tweet #18 06-02-2013, 10:13 AM 6th February
February 6: Sami National Day (Sami people); Waitangi Day in New Zealand (1840)
1820 – Sponsored by the American Colonization Society, the first African American emigrants departed New York to establish a settlement in present-day Liberia.
1833 – Otto became the first modern King of Greece.
1862 – Union forces earned one of their first important victories in the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Henry in western Tennessee.
1958 – British European Airways Flight 609, carrying the Manchester United football club, a number of their fans and journalists covering the team, crashed while attempting to take off from Munich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany, killing eight players and 15 others.
2000 – Second Chechen War: Russia captured Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen government into exile.
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February 6: Sami National Day (Sami people); Waitangi Day in New Zealand (1840)
1820 – Sponsored by the American Colonization Society, the first African American emigrants departed New York to establish a settlement in present-day Liberia.
1833 – Otto became the first modern King of Greece.
1862 – Union forces earned one of their first important victories in the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Henry in western Tennessee.
1958 – British European Airways Flight 609, carrying the Manchester United football club, a number of their fans and journalists covering the team, crashed while attempting to take off from Munich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany, killing eight players and 15 others.
2000 – Second Chechen War: Russia captured Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen government into exile.
liberia...meaning liberty....the us president's name was MONROE..hence the capital city of liberia's name .....MONROVIA...
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IVAN GROZNY....called IVAN THE TERRIBLE....the word grozny can also mean wonderment in russian.....
the russian word for red...and beautiful are the same.....hence ..red square...
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liberia...meaning liberty....the us president's name was MONROE..hence the capital city of liberia's name .....MONROVIA...
Didnt know that Joe , well spotted
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457 – Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire
1074 – Pandulf IV of Benevento is killed battling the invading Normans at the Battle of Montesarchio.
1301 – Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.
1497 – The bonfire of the vanities occurs in which supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn thousands of objects like cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy.
1783 – American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
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1807 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Eylau – Napoléon's French Empire begins fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at Eylau, Poland.
1863 – HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
1900 – Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
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1935 – The classic board game Monopoly is invented.
1943 – Imperial Japanese naval forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.
1951 – Korean War: Sancheong-Hamyang massacre
1962 – The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.
1964 – The Beatles first arrived in the United States. Their performance on The Ed Sullivan Show two days later would mark the beginning of the British Invasion.
1974 – Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1979 – Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
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1986 – Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
1990 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power.
1991 – Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
1992 – The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union.
1995 – Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
1999 – Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
2009 – Bushfires in Victoria left 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history.
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siege of ladysmith...........british and colonial forces surrounded by one third as many boer farmers.....
white city in west london named after british commander of ladysmith.......
great pub there called Jan Smuts......named after the boer commando leader....
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Comment Post Cancel bojangles 4x2 Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 8825 Share Tweet #24 07-02-2013, 03:39 PM [..
great pub there called Jan Smuts......named after the boer commando leader....[/QUOTE]
Aw that sounded like a strip club ,
Comment Post Cancel quinner Senior Member Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 34414 Share Tweet #25 07-02-2013, 03:42 PM Originally posted by bojangles View Post [..
great pub there called Jan Smuts......named after the boer commando leader....
Aw that sounded like a strip club ,
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lots of them round the corner in shepherds bush.....
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during the siege of mafeking.(second boer war).....the commander of the besieged forces (BADEN POWELL, of boy scout fame)....was very reluctant to feed the blacks in the town, especially the children as they were useless to the efforts of the defenders....
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The famous one and only Tommie was born on this day 1944 in Dublin
I'm a Freeborn Man of the Travellin' People
Comment Post Cancel Pammy Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 4841 Share Tweet #28 07-02-2013, 09:22 PM Originally posted by tommie View Post
The famous one and only Tommie was born on this day 1944 in Dublin
I suppose ya want a Happy Birthday Tommie................ok then Happy Birthday Tommie...
It is what it is.
Comment Post Cancel quinner Senior Member Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 34414 Share Tweet #29 07-02-2013, 09:23 PM Originally posted by tommie View Post
The famous one and only Tommie was born on this day 1944 in Dublin
a great day for dublin......and the pubs in enniskerry.....
Here Rex!!!...Here Rex!!!.....Wuff!!!....... Wuff!!!
Comment Post Cancel tommie Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 2842 Share Tweet #30 07-02-2013, 09:51 PM Originally posted by quinner View Post
a great day for dublin......and the pubs in enniskerry.....
Great days ,Joe,,rockin' the #44,,singing,,,"ye should never shove yer Granny off the bus" ,,then into Prossers for a few Jars
I'm a Freeborn Man of the Travellin' People
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