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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Sila Calderón becomes the first female Governor of Puerto Rico.
Vanilla Ice in Jail
Jan 4 Rapper Vanilla Ice
spends night in jail after allegedly ripping out some of his wife's hair during a row
Rapper Vanilla Ice
Jordan Scores 30,000 Points
Jan 4 Washington Wizards forward Michael Jordan
becomes 4th player in NBA history to score 30,000 career points; hits a free throw in 2nd quarter of an 89-83 win against his old team, the Chicago Bulls
Basketball Superstar Michael Jordan Jan 5
A report reveals that doctor and former GP Harold Shipman has potentially killed hundreds of patients
Jan 8
The identities of 2 boys who murdered a toddler in 1993 will be kept secret, the High Court rules
Jan 9
American version of Belgian reality game show "The Mole" premieres on ABC-TV
Jan 9
Apple announced iTunes at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, for organizing and playing digital music and videos
Jan 9
Shenzhou 2, an unmanned Chinese spacecraft, is launched.
Jan 10
A large piece of the chalk cliff at Beachy Head collapses into the sea.
Jan 10
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will not be designated as a national monument, the White House announces; a move environmentalist groups had been pressing for to prevent oil drilling
Jan 11
New York Knicks hold an opponent under 100 points for NBA-record 29th straight game in a 76-75 loss to the Houston Rockets; streak snaps 46-year-old NBA record of 28 straight set by the Fort Wayne Pistons in 1954-55
"Lizzie McGuire" Premieres Jan 12
Disney Channel TV series "Lizzie McGuire" premieres starring
Hilary Duff Actress and Singer Hilary Duff Jan 12
Downtown Disney opens to the public in Anaheim
Jan 13
Atlanta Hawks retire Dominique Wilkins' No. 21 in pre-game ceremonies at Philips Arena; joins Bob Pettit and Lou Hudson as the only Hawks to have their numbers retired
Jan 13
Earthquake measuring magnitude 7.6 strikes El Salvador, killing more than 840 people
"Love Don't Cost A Thing"
Jan 14 Jennifer Lopez
scored her first UK No.1 single with 'Love Don't Cost A Thing'
Singer and Actress Jennifer Lopez Jan 15
Wikipedia a free Wiki or content encyclopedia is launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger
Jan 16
A fuel supply tanker runs aground off the island of San Cristobal, causing an 'ecological disaster'
Congo President Assassinated Jan 16 Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila
is assassinated in his office by one of his own bodyguards
Revolutionary and President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Laurent-Désiré Kabila Jan 16
US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War
Jan 17
OPEC agrees at a meeting of ministers in Vienna, to reduce members' oil production quotas by 1.5 million barrels per day
Clinton Honors Lewis and Clark Expedition
Jan 17 President Clinton honors
Lewis and Clark Expedition
, posthumously raises William Clark
's rank from Lieutenant to Captain, makes Honorary Sergeant Shoshone female guide
Sacagawea
, and York, enslaved by William Clark, who assisted expedition
Interpreter and Guide Sacagawea
Explorer and Leader of Lewis and Clark Expedition
Meriwether Lewis
Explorer and Leader of Lewis and Clark Expedition
William Clark Jan 18
New York's Mike Richter picks up his 267th career NHL win to become the winningest goaltender in team history; passes Ed Giacomin; Rangers beat the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs, 2-1 in overtime
El Chapo Escapes Prison
Jan 19 Mexican drug lord
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán
escapes from Puente Grande maximum-security prison near Guadalajara by bribing prison guards and hiding in a laundry cart
Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán in American custody after being extradited to the United States
George W. Bush Inaugurated
Jan 20 George W. Bush
inaugurated as 43rd US President,
Dick Cheney
becomes 46th Vice President
43rd US President George W. Bush
46th Vice President of the United States
Dick Cheney EDSA II Revolution Jan 20
President of the Philippines
Joseph Estrada
is ousted in the EDSA II Revolution and succeeded by
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo .
President of the Philippines
Joseph Estrada
14th President of the Philippines
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Clinton's 140 Pardons Jan 20 US President Bill Clinton
issues 140 executive pardons on his last day in office; recipients include Marc Rich, Susan McDougall,
Patty Hearst
, and his brother Roger
42nd US President Bill Clinton
Hostage and Bank Robber
Patty Hearst Jan 21
Pittsburgh Penguins beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4-0 in first-ever NHL game featuring 2 European trained coaches; Czech Ivan Hlinka behind the bench for Pittsburgh, and Fin Alpo Suhonen, Chicago
Jan 22
The British government launches pro-vaccine campaign
Jan 23
Cave-in at coal mine leads to two methane gas explosions, kills 13 miners in Brookwood, Alabama
Jan 23
The Chinese Communist Party stages a self-immolation in Tiananmen Square to frame Falun Gong and escalate the persecution.
Jan 24
Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Mandelson resigns
Jan 25
A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24
Jan 26
An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.
Super Bowl XXXV Jan 28
Super Bowl XXXV, Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, FL: Baltimore Ravens beat New York Giants, 34-7; MVP:
Ray Lewis , Baltimore, LB NFL Legend Ray Lewis Jan 29
Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals
Lockerbie Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103
Jan 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 crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988
The remains of the forward section of the Pan Am Boeing 747 named Clipper Maid of the Seas on Tundergarth Hill near Lockerbie
Feb 9
American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School; nine the Ehime-Maru's crew members were killed, including four high school students.
Feb 12
"Ain't Nothing 'bout You" single released by Brooks & Dunn
ESPY Awards Feb 12 9th ESPY Awards: Tiger Woods , Marion Jones win Golfer Tiger Woods
Track and Field Athlete and Drug Cheat
Marion Jones Feb 12
NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lands in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid
Feb 13
An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
Feb 15
First draft of the complete human genome is published in the journal "Nature"
Feb 16
Mathieu Schneider of the Los Angeles Kings becomes the first defenseman in history to score a goal against all 30 NHL teams as LA beats Minnesota, 4-0
Daytona 500 Feb 18
43rd Daytona 500: Michael Waltrip wins tragic race; last lap crash claims life of
Dale Earnhardt
, prompting sport to implement new safety procedures
Auto Racer Dale Earnhardt Event of Interest Feb 18 FBI agent Robert Hanssen
is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life in prison, where he dies
FBI Agent and Soviet Spy
Robert Hanssen Feb 19
An Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial
Feb 20
The United States Supreme Court declines to consider an appeal by five major oil companies against Unocal's patent on production of cleaner "reformulated" gasoline sold in California
Feb 21
43rd Grammy Awards: "Beautiful Day"; Shelby Lynne win
Feb 26
The Taliban destroy two giant Buddha statues in Bamyan, Afghanistan.
Feb 28
Six passengers and four railway staff are killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the Selby rail crash
Feb 28
The Nisqually Earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale hits the Nisqually Valley and the Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia area of the U.S. state of Washington.
Feb 28
The US Environmental Protection Agency announces that it intends to proceed with implementation of tighter restrictions on sulfur content in diesel fuel; the rule is opposed by many in the refining industry
Mar 1
Carolina center Ron Francis scores a goal on his 38th birthday in Hurricanes' 3-1 win over NY Islanders to become only the 2nd player in NHL history to score 50+ points for 20 straight seasons
Mar 4
Hintze Ribeiro disaster, a bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people
Mar 4
IRA detonates a bomb in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, injuring 11 people
Mar 4
Tests in recent days confirm the world's largest oil find in three decades in the Kashagan field in the Caspian Sea
Mar 5
In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
Mar 6
US Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham establishes the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve to be used in emergency circumstances
Mar 15
The world's largest oil rig, located off Brazil and operated by Petrobras, suffers three explosions
Mar 17
OPEC decides to cut output by 4% or 1 million barrels per day, effective April 1
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Mar 19
16th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Aerosmith; Solomon Burke; The Flamingos;
Michael Jackson ; Queen; Paul Simon ; Steely Dan
; Ritchie Valens; James Burton; Johnnie Johnson; and Chris Blackwell
King of Pop Michael Jackson Singer-Songwriter and Keyboardist Donald Fagen Singer-Songwriter Paul Simon Mar 19
The Bank of Japan issued a monetary policy known as quantitative easing, which stimulated the Japanese economy after the burst of the dot-com bubble.
Mar 20
Petrobras 36 Oil Platform, the world's largest oil rig, sinks with 400,000 US gallons of fuel and crude oil aboard, after suffering three explosions on March 15
Mar 23
The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji
Academy Awards Mar 25
73rd Academy Awards: "Gladiator",
Russell Crowe & Julia Roberts win Actor Russell Crowe Actress Julia Roberts Golf Major Mar 25
Nabisco Championship Women's Golf, Mission Hills CC: Sweden's
Annika Sörenstam
shoots a final round 69 to win the first of her 3 titles at this event, 3 strokes ahead of 5 runners-up
Golfer Annika Sörenstam Mar 26
Kazakhstan's Prime Minister opens an oil pipeline from the giant Tengiz Field to the Russian port of Novorossiysk on Monday, giving the Central Asian producer its first direct link to international markets
World Record Mar 30
At 15 years, 9 months American swimmer
Michael Phelps
breaks 200m butterfly world record at the US World Championship trials at Austin, Texas; becomes youngest male to set a world mark
Swimmer Michael Phelps Sports History Mar 31
German brothers Michael and
Ralf Schumacher
become first siblings to share front row of the grid in a Formula 1 World Championship event; qualify 1st and 2nd respectively for Brazilian GP in São Paulo
Formula 1 Driver Ralf Schumacher Event of Interest Apr 1
Former president of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Slobodan Milošević
surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on charges of war crimes.
President of Serbia and Yugoslavia
Slobodan Milošević Apr 1
Netherlands becomes the first country in the world to make same-sex marriage legal
Baseball Record Apr 2
New York Yankees pitcher
Roger Clemens
becomes American League all-time strikeout leader, recording his 3,509th K in a 7-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals; Walter Johnson previous record 3,508 Ks
MLB Pitching Legend Roger Clemens Sports History Apr 2 Seattle outfielder Ichiro Suzuki
has 2 hits and becomes first Japanese position player to play in a regular season MLB game as Mariners beat Oakland A's, 5-4 at Safeco Field
Baseball Star Ichiro Suzuki Apr 7
Mars Odyssey is launched
Apr 11
Detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, People's Republic of China after a collision with an J-8 fighter are released
Apr 15
The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, GC at Desert Mountain: Doug Tewell wins his second & final Champions Tour major by 9 strokes from Mike McCullough
Event of Interest Apr 17
A letter between Gale Norton and
Jeb Bush
is released, stating that the Bush administration has decided to go ahead with plans to auction 6 million acres of potentially oil-and-gas-rich seabed in the Gulf of Mexico
Governor of Florida Jeb Bush Apr 21
NFL Draft: Virginia Tech quarterback Michael Vick first pick by Atlanta Falcons
Weapon of Choice Apr 23 Fatboy Slim
releases single "Weapon of Choice", music video directed by Spike Jonze starring
Christopher Walken dancing
Musician, DJ and Record Producer
Fatboy Slim Actor Christopher Walken Apr 28
Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist
Apr 30
The Mitchell Report on the Arab-Israeli conflict is published
Event of Interest Apr 30 US Vice President Cheney
calls for increased domestic production of fossil fuels and increased usage of nuclear power to meet America's energy demand
46th Vice President of the United States
Dick Cheney EDSA III Revolt May 1
President of the Philippines
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
declares existence of "a state of rebellion", after thousands of supporters of her arrested predecessor,
Joseph Estrada
, storm towards the presidential palace at the height of the EDSA III rebellion
14th President of the Philippines
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
President of the Philippines
Joseph Estrada May 3
The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
May 4
The Milwaukee Art Museum addition, the first Santiago Calatrava-designed structure in the United States, opens to the public
Event of Interest May 6
During a trip to Syria, Pope
John Paul II
becomes the first pope to enter a mosque
264th Pope John Paul II May 9
Accra Sports Stadium Disaster: 129 Ghanaian football fans die in a stampede caused by the firing of teargas by police following a decision by the referee in a crucial match between arch-rivals Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko
Music Concert May 12 Ringo Starr
's seventh All-Starr Band debuts in concert; members include: Roger Hodgson, Ian Hunter, Howard Jones, Greg Lake, Sheila E., and Mark Rivera
Beatles Drummer, Singer, and Actor
Ringo Starr Election of Interest May 13 Silvio Berlusconi
's right-wing "House of Freedoms" coalition wins the Italian general election
Media Tycoon and Prime Minister of Italy
Silvio Berlusconi Fiesta May 15
"Fiesta" single released by
R. Kelly featuring Jay-Z
and Boo & Gotti (Billboard Song of the Year 2001)
R&B Singer R. Kelly
Rapper and Record Producer
Jay-Z Mulholland Drive May 16
"Mulholland Drive", directed by
David Lynch
, starring Justin Theroux and Naomi Watts, premieres at the Cannes Film Festival
Filmmaker David Lynch May 17 US President George W. Bush
calls for reduced regulations to encourage more oil, gas, and nuclear production
May 18
101-year-old Harold Stilson becomes oldest golfer to record a hole-in-one when he aces the 108-yard, par-3, 16th hole at Deerfield CC, FL
Film & TV History
May 18
DreamWorks Pictures "Shrek", starring
Mike Myers , Eddie Murphy , and Cameron Diaz
in voice-over roles, debuts
Actor Eddie Murphy Actress Cameron Diaz Actor and Comedian Mike Myers May 18
Saudi Arabia selects the eight foreign companies to take part in its "Gas Initiative," three core venture gas projects that have an anticipated worth of $25 billion
May 19
Manchester United lose 3-1 to Tottenham at White Hart Lane but win English Premier League title for the 3rd consecutive season
May 21
French Taubira law officially recognizes the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
May 21
The Enron Corporation's power generating venture in India, the Dabhol Power Company, serves formal notice that it will terminate its power supply contract and pull out
May 22
Laureus World Sports Awards, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco: Sportsman:
Tiger Woods
; Sportswoman: Cathy Freeman; Team: French Men's National Football team
May 23
Marco Siffredi becomes the first person to snowboard down Mount Everest via the Norton Couloir (some share record accreditation with Stefan Gatt)
May 24
Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
May 24
The Democrats gain control of the US Senate for the first time since 1994 when Senator James Jeffords of Vermont abandons the Republican Party and declares himself an independent
May 24
The Versailles wedding hall disaster in Jerusalem, Israel, kills 23 and injures over 200 in Israel's worst-ever civil disaster.
May 25
32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest
May 25
54th Cannes Film Festival: "The Son's Room" directed by Nanni Moretti wins the Palme d'Or
May 26
Super Rugby Final, Canberra: Fullback Andrew Walker kicks 5 penalties & 3 conversions as the ACT Brumbies win their first title; beat Coastal Sharks (Durban), 36-6
May 29
International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers inaugurated.
May 29
Natural gas futures plunge 6% to a 10-month low on speculation that growing US inventories will help power plants meet summer demand for air-conditioning
May 29
U.S. Supreme Court rules that disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments
Jun 1
Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv
Jun 1
Nepalese Royal Massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal slaughters his parents, two siblings, and five other family members during dinner at the Narayanhiti Palace, in Katmandu
Tony Awards Jun 3
55th Tony Awards: "The Producers" (musical) and "Proof" (play) win
Actor Matthew Broderick Jun 3
Iraq announces that it will halt crude oil exports in response to the UN's resolution that extends the oil-for-food program by only 1 month, instead of the normal 6-month period
Six Feet Under Jun 3 TV drama " Six Feet Under
" created by Alan Ball, starring Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall and Frances Conroy premieres on HBO
Television Writer and Director
Jill Soloway Jun 4
Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal, ascends to the throne after the massacre in the Royal Palace
Jun 5
OPEC ministers agree to leave the cartel's oil production quotas unchanged for at least a month, until a scheduled emergency meeting July 3
Jun 5
Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm caused $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
Jun 5
U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican Party, an act which shifts control of the United States Senate from the Republicans to the Democratic Party
Jun 7
BP announces that it will build a new $600-million platform offshore Trinidad that is expected to double the company's production of natural gas there by 2004
Election of Interest Jun 7 Tony Blair
's Labour Party wins another landslide victory in the General Election
British Prime Minister Tony Blair Ray Bourque Retires Jun 8 Ray Bourque
plays the final game in his NHL career
NHL Legend Ray Bourque Jun 9
Stanley Cup Final, Pepsi Center, Denver, CO: Colorado Avalanche beat defending champion New Jersey Devils, 3-1 for 4-3 series win; Avalanche 2nd title
Jun 10 Pope John Paul II
canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa
Jun 11
Saudi Arabia seizes ownership, effective June 7, of the 1.6-million-barrels-per-day IPSA pipeline that had carried Iraqi crude oil to the Saudi Red Sea port of Mu'jiz prior to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait
Music Awards Jun 13
TNN/CMT Country Weekly Music Awards:
George Strait , Faith Hill , and Alan Jackson win Country Singer Faith Hill Country Singer George Strait Country Singer Alan Jackson Jun 14
China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan form the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
Jun 15
ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum sign a letter of intent for a natural gas to liquids (GTL) project that would be the largest in the world
Laagan Premieres Jun 15
Indian epic "Laagan" directed by Ashutosh Gowariker, starring
Aamir Khan
and Gracy Singh premieres
Actor and Director Aamir Khan
The Fast and the Furious
Jun 18
"The Fast and the Furious" film directed by Rob Cohen starring
Paul Walker , Vin Diesel
and Michelle Rodriguez premieres
Actor Paul Walker
Actor, Producer and Screenwriter
Vin Diesel Jun 18
Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and the government of India
Jun 21
A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen
Event of Interest Jun 21 Mexican artist Frida Kahlo
is the 1st Hispanic woman to be honored on a US postage stamp
Painter Frida Kahlo Jun 21
Total solar eclipse in Madagascar-Indian Ocean (4m56s)
Jun 27
NBA Draft: Glynn Academy center Kwame Brown first pick by Washington Wizards
Jun 27 Pope John Paul II
beatifies 28 Ukrainian Greek Catholics, including 27 martyrs most of whom were killed by the Soviet secret police. Beatification takes place at the service in Lviv, western Ukraine during his first visit to this country.
Jun 27
The International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the LaGrand Case.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence Jun 29
"A.I. Artificial Intelligence", directed by
Steven Spielberg and starring Haley Joel Osment , Jude Law
and Frances O'Connor, is released
Actor Haley Joel Osment Director Steven Spielberg Actor Jude Law Sports History Jun 29 Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci
(39) becomes a naturalized US citizen at the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma federal courthouse
Gymnast Nadia Comăneci Jun 30
ENI of Italy signs a $550 million contract to develop Iran's Darquain field, expected to produce 160,000 barrels of petroleum per day
Jul 2
AbioCor self contained artificial heart created.
Jul 2
Bush Administration announce that it will seek to let oil companies drill on about 1,500,000 acres of the Gulf of Mexico
Jul 2
UN Security Council, facing an almost certain Russian veto, agrees to postpone indefinitely a vote on the US-led "smart sanctions" package for Iraq
Jul 3
A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people
Jul 3
At a meeting of its oil ministers, OPEC agrees to maintain current production quotas; ministers indicate that, if Iraqi oil returns to the market, they may cut production in response to maintain their desired level of prices
Jul 4
In a world record fee for a soccer goalkeeper, Juventus signed Parma's Gianluigi Buffon in a £32.5m deal including midfielder Jonathan Bachini
Jul 5
Australia and East Timor sign an agreement to share royalties from oil and natural gas production in the Timor Sea, which separates the two countries
Jul 7
Australian cricketer Karen Rolton smashes an unbeaten 209 to set a new world record for highest score in a women's Test in Australia's 9 wicket win v England at Headingley
Jul 7
In his first appearance at Daytona since the death of father
Dale Earnhardt
Sr., Dale Jr. wins Pepsi 400 coming from 7th with 9 laps remaining to beat teammate Michael Waltrip
The Office Jul 9
"The Office" mockumentary created by
Ricky Gervais
and Stephen Merchant, starring Ricky Gervais and
Martin Freeman
premieres on BBC Two in the UK
Comedian Ricky Gervais Actor Martin Freeman Jul 10
Amerada Hess agrees to acquire Triton Energy for $2.7 billion in cash
Jul 11
Iraq resumes oil exports, ending a 5-week halt in protest of a US and British-sponsored UN Security Council resolution
Jul 13
International Olympic Committee votes to award Beijing the 2008 Summer Olympic Games
Jurassic Park III Jul 16
"Jurassic Park III", starring
Sam Neill and William H. Macy
, premieres in the US
Actor Sam Neill Actor William H. Macy
Born to Do It
Jul 17 Craig David
releases “Born to Do It” in the United States
Singer-songwriter Craig David Jul 18 Chris Sharma
completes the first ascent of the route Realization/Biographie in Ceüse, France, the world's first consensus 9a+ (5.15a) route
Jul 19
Michael Brunet discovers the skull of Sahelanthropus tchadensis in the Djurab Desert, Chad. One of the oldest known species in the human family tree, 6-7 million years ago years old
Film & TV History
Jul 20
"Spirited Away " written and directed by
Hayao Miyazaki
is released in Japan (Academy Award Best Animated Feature 2003)
Animated filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki Jul 20
Italy: The 27th Annual G8 summit opens in Genoa. An Italian protester in Genoa, Carlo Giuliani, is shot by police.
Jul 20
The London Stock Exchange goes public.
Jul 24
An Iranian warship in the Caspian Sea threatens a BP oil exploration ship off the coast of Azerbaijan
Jul 24
Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
Jul 25
Faced with declining oil prices, OPEC ministers agree to cut crude oil production quotas by about 4%, or 1 million barrels per day
The Princess Diaries Jul 29
"The Princess Diaries", starring
Anne Hathaway
(in her film debut), featuring
Julie Andrews
, and directed by
Garry Marshall
, premieres at El Capitan theater in Hollywood
Actress Anne Hathaway Actress and Singer Julie Andrews
Film Director and Producer
Garry Marshall Aug 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
Aug 1
An agreement is reached on the position of the minority Albanian language in the Republic of Macedonia
Aug 1
Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia and Slovakia join the European Environment Agency.
Aug 3
"The Princess Diaries", starring
Anne Hathaway
in her film debut, is released nationwide
Aug 3
Olympic champion Gezahegne Abera of Ethiopia becomes first athlete to achieve Olympics-World Championships marathon double; runs 2:12:42 to beat Kenya's Simon Biwott by just 0.1s in Edmonton World Championships
Aug 3
The Real IRA detonate a car bomb in Ealing, London, injuring 7 people
Aug 3 US President George W. Bush
signs into law the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA) Extension Act of 2001
Cricket Record Aug 4 Australian cricket spinner Shane Warne
skittles England (162) with 6/33 to guide tourists to a 7 wicket 3rd Test victory at Trent Bridge; Aussies regain Ashes with record 7th straight Test win v England
Cricketer and Broadcaster Shane Warne Aug 5
Cleveland Indians tie a MLB record in erasing a 12 run Seattle lead to win 15-14, also preventing the Mariners from reaching a record 117 season wins
Sports History Aug 6 Two-time champion Marion Jones
is disqualified and has her string of 42 consecutive 100m final victories snapped by Zhanna Pintusevich-Block of Ukraine at the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, Canada
Track and Field Athlete and Drug Cheat
Marion Jones Aug 9 US President George W. Bush
announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic stem cells.
Event of Interest Aug 10
US and UK reject a proposal by UN Secretary General
Kofi Annan
to permit the Iraqi government to use $1 billion per year to fund infrastructure improvements and to increase oil production capacity
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan F1 World Champion Aug 19 German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher
wins the Hungarian Grand prix at the Hungaroring to clinch his 4th F1 World Drivers Championship and equal
Alain Prost
's record of 51 Grand Prix victories
Formula 1 Driver Michael Schumacher Formula 1 Driver Alain Prost Aug 21
"How You Remind Me" single released by Nickelback (Billboard Song of the Year 2002)
Aug 21
NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Aug 21
The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Aug 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.
Aug 24
Microsoft releases to manufacturing software for Windows XP
Aug 25
Singer Aaliyah and 8 others killed in an air crash in the Bahamas
Film & TV History
Aug 27 Angelina Jolie
is named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador at UNHCR headquarters in Geneva
Actress Angelina Jolie Aug 29
Goodwill Games V opens in Brisbane, Australia; this is the final edition of the event
Sep 1
Australian Rugby Union team gives all-conquering captain John Eales perfect send off in his final international with a famous last minute, 29-26 win over New Zealand in Sydney; Wallabies retain Tri Nations Series
Baseball Record Sep 1
Facing 4-time Cy Young Award winner
Greg Maddux , Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa
hits the longest home run in Turner Field history as his 53rd of the season travels 471 feet to straight away center
MLB Pitching Legend Greg Maddux MLB Outfielder Sammy Sosa Sep 1
Jockey Tim Moccasin caps a streak of 14 consecutive victories, a North American record, at Marquis Downs in Saskatoon, Canada aboard Intricate Stitch in the 5th race
Sep 2 German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher
wins the Belgian Grand Prix at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps for his record 52nd F1 Grand Prix victory
Sep 3
In just his 11th start, St. Louis Cardinals' rookie pitcher Bud Smith no-hits the San Diego Padres, 4-0
Sep 5
John Cage's musical composition "As Slow as Possible", to be played for 639 years, begins at St. Burchardi Church, Halberstadt, Germany
Sep 7
30th Anniversary Celebration of singer
Michael Jackson
's solo career held at NYC's Madison Square Garden features an all-star line-up. including a reunion with his brothers for a medley of their hits
Sep 7
The US Federal Trade Commission approves Chevron's bid to buy Texaco
I Just Can't Get You Out of My Head
Sep 8 Kylie Minogue
releases her single "I Just Can't Get You Out of My Head", the biggest of her career
Pop Star and Singer
Kylie Minogue Band of Brothers Sep 9
"Band of Brothers" based on book by
Stephen E. Ambrose , created by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks
premieres, then most expensive miniseries ever made
Director Steven Spielberg Historian Stephen E. Ambrose Actor Tom Hanks Sep 9
At 01:46:40 UTC the time on the Unix clock in milliseconds passes 1 billion since January 1, 1970, which Unix systems recognize as zero-time
Event of Interest Sep 9
Two al-Qaeda linked suicide bombers disguised as journalists kill Northern Alliance leader
Ahmad Shah Massoud
by detonating explosives hidden in a camera and a battery-pack belt while interviewing him in Takhar Province, northeastern Afghanistan
Military Commander and Politician
Ahmad Shah Massoud Event of Interest Sep 11
Attempt by passengers and crew of
United Airlines Flight 93
to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania field killing all 64 people on board
Passenger on United Airlines Flight 93
Todd Beamer Sep 11
Betty Farmer, American jazz and cabaret singer, killed in World Trade Center attack at 62
Blueprint Sep 11 Jay-Z
releases his album "Blueprint" featuring contributions by Eminem and
Kanye West
Rapper and Record Producer
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