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 1 – The last Trans World Airlines flight lands at St. Louis International Airport, following TWA's purchase by American Airlines.
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 People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization.
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 15 – The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean.
December 19
A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl, Mongolia.
Argentine economic crisis: December riots: Riots erupt in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
December 22
Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.
Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.
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.
December 29 – A fire at the Mesa Redonda shopping center in Lima, Peru, kills at least 291.
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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Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon causing the deaths of 125 people
9/11 Attack on NY's World Trade Towers
Sep 11
Two passenger planes hijacked by Al Qaeda terrorists crash into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and deaths of 2,606 people
UA Flight 175 flies toward the South Tower of the World Trade Center while the North Tower burns
Sep 12
Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry leaving 10000 people unemployed.
Sep 12
Article V of the NATO agreement is invoked for the first and only time in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States of America.
Sep 13
Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Sep 13
Relative calm returns to world oil markets as US retail gasoline prices return to normal levels; energy trading by Houston energy companies resumes and limited commercial aviation starts
Sep 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.
Sports History Sep 17
Despite suffering from lung cancer and Parkinson's disease,
Jack Buck
stirs emotions by reading a patriotic-themed poem during the pregame ceremonies on baseball's first night back after the September 11th terrorist attacks
Sportscaster Jack Buck Sep 17
Major trading markets in the United States, including the New York Stock Exchange and the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), reopen for the first time since September 11
Sep 18
First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
Event of Interest Sep 20
In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, US President
George W. Bush
declares a "war on terror"
43rd US President George W. Bush Sep 21
AZF chemical plant explodes in Toulouse, France, killing 29 people
Sep 21
Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly.
Sep 21
University of Roorkee, becomes India's 7th Indian Institute of Technology, rechristened as IIT Roorkee
Sep 24
Crude oil and petroleum products futures fall to their lowest levels in nearly two years amid fears that a recession will reduce energy demand
Sep 27
At its two-day meeting in Vienna, OPEC decides to keep its production quotas unchanged at 23.2 million barrels per day, despite crude oil being at its lowest price levels since 1999
Sep 29
The Syracuse Herald-Journal, a U.S. newspaper dating back to 1839, ceases publication
Scrubs Oct 2
American sitcom "Scrubs", starring
Zach Braff as Dr. John
"J.D." Dorian, premieres on NBC
Actor Zach Braff Musician Dr. John Baseball Record Oct 2 Cubs right fielder Sammy Sosa
becomes first player in MLB history to total 60 home runs in three seasons; Chicago slugger connects off Reds starter Lance Davis to reach milestone in 5-4 loss
MLB Outfielder Sammy Sosa Oct 2
NATO backs US military strikes, following 9/11
Paul Coffey Retires Oct 3
After a 21-season career,
Paul Coffey
officially retires from the NHL, having won 4 Stanley Cups with Edmonton Oilers, finishing 2nd on all-time list for points by defensemen (1,531 in 1,409 games), and playing in 14 All-Star Games
NHL Star Paul Coffey Henderson Equals Cobb Oct 3 San Diego outfielder Rickey Henderson
scores a run in the 3rd inning of the Padres' 12-5 loss to LA Dodgers to tie the MLB record of 2,245 runs scored held by the legendary Ty Cobb
MLB Outfielder Rickey Henderson
Barry Bonds Walks to a Record
Oct 3
San Francisco Giants slugger
Barry Bonds
Is walked for the 171st time in 11-8 win at Houston; breaks Babe Ruth's 1923 MLB single-season record for walks
MLB Legend Barry Bonds Sports History Oct 4
Boston Bruins retire future Hockey Hall of Fame defenceman
Ray Bourque
's #77 jersey in the NHL season opener at Boston Garden; beat visiting Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, 4-2
NHL Legend Ray Bourque Oct 4
Brendan Shanahan scores a hat trick in Red Wings 4-3 OT win at San Jose; becomes second player in NHL history to score an opening-night hat trick twice in his career
Oct 4 SF Giants slugger Barry Bonds
hits his 70th home run in 10-2 win v Houston; ties Mark McGwire for the most MLB home runs in a single season
Oct 4
Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: a Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed.
Oct 5 Barry Bonds
hits his 71st and 72nd home runs in 11-10 loss v LA Dodgers at Pacific Bell Park; breaks Mark McGwire's MLB single season HR record
Oct 5
MLB's Atlanta Braves become first pro sports team to win 10 straight division titles after mauling the Marlins, 20-3 to clinch the NL East title; NBA's Boston Celtics (1957-65) & LA Lakers (1982-90) both won 9 in a row
Oct 5
Robert Stevens becomes the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
Oct 5
Tom Ridge resigns as Governor of Pennsylvania to become President
George W. Bush
's Homeland Security Advisor
Event of Interest Oct 6
UK talent show "Pop Idol" debuts, created by Simon Fuller with judges
Simon Cowell
, Pete Waterman. Start of a worldwide Idol franchise.
Recording Executive Simon Cowell Oct 7
Crude oil resumes flowing through the trans-Alaska pipeline after workers welded shut a bullet hole that caused 260,000 US gallons of oil to spill out
Oct 7
U.S. invasion of Afghanistan starts with an air assault and covert operations on the ground
Oct 8
A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy killing 118.
Oct 8 US President George W. Bush
announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security
Oct 9
Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack
Event of Interest Oct 11 Caribbean writer V.S. Naipaul
is awarded the Noble Prize for Literature
Novelist V. S. Naipaul
Nobel Prize for Economics
Oct 11
Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences jointly awarded to
George Akerlof
, Joseph E. Stiglitz and A.
Michael Spence
for "their analyses of markets with asymmetric information"
Economist George Akerlof Economist Michael Spence Oct 11
The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
F1 World Champion Oct 14 German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher
wins his 4th F1 World Drivers Championship by 58 points from David Coulthard; takes out Japanese GP at Suzuka for 9th win of the season
Formula 1 Driver Michael Schumacher Oct 15
NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
Oct 15
The first tanker loading of the new $2.5-billion Kazakh-Russia Pipeline takes place
Oct 16
The US Coast Guard lifts a ban on liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers entering Boston Harbor to make deliveries to Distrigas' Everett LNG terminal that had been imposed on September 26 in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11
Oct 18
Crude Oil for November delivery falls to its lowest level since August 1999 on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX)
Oct 19
SIEV-X, an Indonesian fishing boat en-route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sinks killing 353
Music Concert Oct 21
"United We Stand" benefit concert for September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks victims, held at RFK Stadium Washington, D.C. organized and headlined by
Michael Jackson and featuring Aerosmith, Mariah Carey
and The Backstreet Boys
King of Pop Michael Jackson Singer Mariah Carey Oct 23
Apple releases the iPod
Oct 23
The Provisional Irish Republican Army of Northern Ireland commences disarmament after peace talks
Oct 25
Microsoft releases Windows XP for retail sale
Oct 26
The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
Donnie Darko Oct 28
The indie cult hit "
Donnie Darko ", starring Jake Gyllenhaal , is released Actor Jake Gyllenhaal Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal Oct 29
ExxonMobil announces that a consortium it leads will spend $4 billion over 5 years to develop large offshore oil and natural gas fields in Russia's far eastern Sakhalin region
Nov 1
In the Wallabies’ 400th rugby union Test match in history, Australia routs Spain 92-10 (Australian record score) in Madrid; Matt Burke kicks an Australian record 10 conversions
Nov 3
Arkansas beats Mississippi, 58-56 at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, Oxford in 7 overtime periods; the longest game in NCAA football history
Nov 3
San Antonio Spurs guard Steve Smith plays first game against Portland after being traded from the Trail Blazers; ties NBA record for most 3-point field goals in a game without a miss; goes 8-for-8, scores 36 points in 106-90 win
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Nov 4 " Harry Potter
and the Philosopher's Stone" 1st film adaptation of the book series by
J. K. Rowling starring Daniel Radcliffe
, premieres in London (Titled "
Harry Potter
and the Sorcerer's Stone" in some markets)
Actor Rupert Grint Actor Daniel Radcliffe Novelist J. K. Rowling Emmy Awards Nov 4 53rd Emmy Awards: The West Wing
, Sex and the City,
James Gandolfini & Edie Falco win Actor James Gandolfini Actress Edie Falco Actress Allison Janney Sports History Nov 4 American tennis star Serena Williams
wins the WTA Tour Championship in Munich, Germany after
Lindsay Davenport
defaults the final due to a knee injury; Williams' first season-ending title
Tennis Player Serena Williams Tennis Player Lindsay Davenport Nov 6
Crude oil for December delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) falls to a two-year low after OPEC members warn that a downward price spiral could occur if major non-OPEC oil exporters do not reduce oil production
Television Premiere Nov 6
TV drama series "24" starring
Kiefer Sutherland premieres on Fox Actor Kiefer Sutherland Nov 7
The supersonic commercial aircraft Concorde resumes flying after a 15-month hiatus.
Nov 10
An agreement is reached at talks in Marrakech, Morocco, on rules for implementation of the Kyoto climate change treaty
Nov 11
Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they were traveling on top off.
Nov 12
In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
Nov 12
Taliban forces abandon Afghanistan's capital Kabul, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops
Laundry Service Nov 13 Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira
's fifth studio album and first English language album, "Laundry Service", is released
Singer Shakira Nov 13
Doha Round: The World Trade Organization ends a four-day ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar
Nov 13 US President George W. Bush
orders that the Strategic Petroleum Reserve be filled to capacity over the next few years
Nov 13
War on Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President
George W. Bush
signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.
Nov 14
OPEC announces that it intends to cut its crude oil output quotas by 1.5 million barrels per day effective, but only if non-OPEC producers cut their output by 500,000 barrels per day as well
Nov 14
War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters takeover the capital Kabul
Nov 15
Microsoft releases the first Xbox game console in the US
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Nov 16 " Harry Potter
and the Sorcerer's Stone", 1st film adaptation of the book series by
J. K. Rowling starring Daniel Radcliffe
, premieres in US (Titled "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's's Stone" in some markets)
Actor Daniel Radcliffe Actor David Thewlis Novelist J. K. Rowling Nov 18
Home crowd favourite Leyton Hewitt wins his first of 2 season-ending Tennis Masters Cup titles with a 6–3, 6–3, 6–4 victory over Frenchman Sébastien Grosjean in Sydney, Australia
Nov 18
Phillips Petroleum and Conoco merge into a new company as 'ConocoPhillips', the third-largest oil and natural gas company in the US
Josh Groban Nov 20 Josh Groban
releases his debut album "Josh Groban"; sales exceed over 5 million units
Singer Josh Groban
Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building
Nov 20 US President George W. Bush
dedicates the US Department of Justice headquarters the
Robert F. Kennedy
Justice Building, on what would have been his 76th birthday
US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy 43rd US President George W. Bush Nov 23
Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.
Nov 27
A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
Nov 29
UN Security Council unanimously approves a resolution extending the Oil-for-Food program in Iraq for another six-month period
Dec 1
Captain Bill Compton brings Trans World Airlines Flight 220, an MD-83, into St. Louis International Airport bringing to an end 76 years of TWA operations following TWA's purchase by American Airlines.
Dec 1
Nicaraguan baseball team wins the Central American Games; Ramon Padilla ends 15 year stint with the national team with 2 homers in the 9-0 finale against Guatemala
Dec 2
Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the Southern District of New York
AirAsia Dec 2 Tony Fernandes
' company Tune Air Sdn Bhd buys the heavily indebted AirAsia for 1 MYR (about USD 0.26 at the time)
Entrepreneur and Co-founder of AirAsia
Tony Fernandes Marike de Klerk Dec 4
Marike de Klerk, ex-wife of former President F.W. de Klerk is murdered at her home in Cape Town
South African President
F. W. de Klerk
Ocean's Eleven Dec 5
"Ocean's Eleven" directed by
Steven Soderbergh , starring George Clooney , Brad Pitt , Matt Damon and Julia Roberts
premieres in Westwood, California
Actor George Clooney Director Steven Soderbergh Actor Matt Damon Dec 6
The Canadian province of Newfoundland is renamed Newfoundland and Labrador
The Fellowship of the Ring
Dec 10
"The Fellowship of the Ring"
Lord of the Rings
film directed by Peter Jackson and starring Elijah Wood and Ian McKellen premieres in London
Film Director, Producer, and Screenwriter
Peter Jackson Actor Elijah Wood Actor Ian McKellen Dec 10
67th Heisman Trophy Award: Eric Crouch, Nebraska (QB)
Dec 11
The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization.
Winona Ryder Arrested Dec 12 Winona Ryder
is arrested on shoplifting charges in Beverly Hills, California
Actress Winona Ryder A Beautiful Mind Dec 13 " A Beautiful Mind
" based on the bio by Sylvia Nasar, directed by Ron Howard and starring
Russell Crowe
premieres in Los Angeles (Best Picture 2002)
Actor Russell Crowe Actor Judd Hirsch Dec 13
Indian Parliament Sansad attacked by terrorists. 15 people killed, including all terrorists
Dec 15
The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean
Dec 18
Ballon d'Or: Liverpool forward Michael Owen is named best football player in Europe ahead of Real Madrid striker Raúl and Bayern Munich goalkeeper Oliver Kahn
The Fellowship of the Ring
Dec 19
"The Fellowship of the Ring", 1st
Lord of the Rings
film is released. Makes US$47 million US opening weekend, $871 million total worldwide.
Actress Liv Tyler Writer and Academic
J. R. R. Tolkien
Dec 19
A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia.
Dec 19
Argentine economic crisis: December 2001 riots - Riots erupt in Buenos Aires after Domingo Cavallo's corralito measures restrict the withdrawal of cash from bank deposits.
Dec 20
Argentine economic crisis: President of Argentina Fernando de la Rúa is forced out of office.
Northern Alliance Hands Over Power
Dec 22
Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President
Hamid Karzai President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai Dec 22
Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.
Giuliani Person of the Year
Dec 24
"Time Magazine" names New York Mayor
Rudy Giuliani
'Person of the Year', for leadership after 9/11 attacks
Mayor of New York City
Rudy Giuliani Dec 26
Crude oil prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) record one of their largest 1-day jumps of the year as traders become convinced that OPEC will follow through on production cuts
Dec 27
The People's Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade relations with the United States.
Dec 28
OPEC oil ministers meeting in Cairo agree to reduce their crude oil output quotas by a combined 1.5 million barrels per day
Dec 29
Mesa Redonda shopping center fire, Lima, Peru, at least 291 killed.
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