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Events on the year of 2001 in history

Events
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12 Jan 2001 Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
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13 Jan 2001 An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
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15 Jan 2001 Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
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16 Jan 2001 US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
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16 Jan 2001 Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
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20 Jan 2001 President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
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23 Jan 2001 Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution.
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26 Jan 2001 An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.
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29 Jan 2001 Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
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31 Jan 2001 In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
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01 Feb 2001 Putrajaya, the Malaysian administrative city, is declared a Federal Territory.
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09 Feb 2001 The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School.
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11 Feb 2001 A Dutch programmer launched the Anna Kournikova virus infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star.
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12 Feb 2001 NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
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13 Feb 2001 An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
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15 Feb 2001 The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.
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18 Feb 2001 Inter-ethnic violence between Dayaks and Madurese breaks out in Sampit, Indonesia, that will ultimately result in more than 500 deaths and 100,000 Madurese displaced from their homes.
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18 Feb 2001 Seven-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt dies in an accident during the Daytona 500.
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18 Feb 2001 FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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19 Feb 2001 The Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.
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28 Feb 2001 Six passengers and four railway staff are killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the Selby rail crash.
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28 Feb 2001 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.
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04 Mar 2001 Hintze Ribeiro disaster: A bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
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04 Mar 2001 BBC bombing: A massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring one person. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
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23 Mar 2001 The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
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01 Apr 2001 Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.
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01 Apr 2001 Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.
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01 Apr 2001 An EP-3E United States Navy surveillance aircraft collides with a Chinese People's Liberation Army Shenyang J-8 fighter jet. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, China and is detained.
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07 Apr 2001 Mars Odyssey is launched.
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11 Apr 2001 The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released.
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16 Apr 2001 India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
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25 Apr 2001 Michele Alboreto is killed while testing an Audi R8 at the Lausitzring in Germany.
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28 Apr 2001 Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist.
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01 May 2001 Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares the existence of "a state of rebellion", hours after thousands of supporters of her arrested predecessor, Joseph Estrada, storm towards the presidential palace at the height of the EDSA III rebellion.
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03 May 2001 The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
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06 May 2001 During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
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09 May 2001 In Ghana, 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
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21 May 2001 French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
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24 May 2001 Mountaineering: Temba Tsheri, a 16-year-old Sherpa, becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
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24 May 2001 The Versailles wedding hall disaster in Jerusalem, Israel kills 23 and injures over 200.
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25 May 2001 Erik Weihenmayer, 32 years old, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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27 May 2001 Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
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29 May 2001 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
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01 Jun 2001 Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother, King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aiswarya.
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01 Jun 2001 Dolphinarium massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
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04 Jun 2001 Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal, ascends to the throne after the massacre in the Royal Palace.
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05 Jun 2001 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 causes $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
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10 Jun 2001 Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
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11 Jun 2001 Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
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15 Jun 2001 Leaders of the People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
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20 Jun 2001 Andrea Yates, in an attempt to save her young children from Satan, drowns all five of them in a bathtub in Houston, Texas.
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21 Jun 2001 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.
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28 Jun 2001 Slobodan Milošević is deported to ICTY to stand trial.
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02 Jul 2001 The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted.
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17 Jul 2001 Concorde is brought back in to service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.
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24 Jul 2001 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.
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24 Jul 2001 Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos, all died in this attack. They destroyed 11 Aircraft (mostly military) and damaged 15, there are no civilian casualties. This incident slowed down Sri Lankan economy.
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01 Aug 2001 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.
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10 Aug 2001 2001 Angola train attack, 252 deaths.
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03 Sep 2001 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, some of whom hurl missiles and abuse. The protest sparks fierce rioting and grabs world headlines.
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04 Sep 2001 Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.
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09 Sep 2001 Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al-Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
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09 Sep 2001 Pärnu methanol tragedy occurs in Pärnu County, Estonia.
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09 Sep 2001 The Unix billenium is reached, marking the beginning of the use of 10-digit decimal Unix time stamps.
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10 Sep 2001 Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.
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10 Sep 2001 Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.
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11 Sep 2001 Two hijacked aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, while a third smashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in a series of coordinated suicide attacks by 19 members of al-Qaeda. In total 2,996 people are killed.
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11 Sep 2001 The worst terrorist attack on American soil - 2819+ die as a result of hijacked airplane attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Western Pennsylvania
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12 Sep 2001 Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
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13 Sep 2001 Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.
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14 Sep 2001 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.
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17 Sep 2001 The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
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18 Sep 2001 First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
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20 Sep 2001 In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "War on Terror".
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21 Sep 2001 Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly.
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21 Sep 2001 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.
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27 Sep 2001 Zug massacre: In Zug, Switzerland, Friedrich Leibacher shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then himself.
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02 Oct 2001 NATO backs U.S. military strikes following 9/11.
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04 Oct 2001 NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
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04 Oct 2001 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. Seventy-eight people are killed.
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05 Oct 2001 Barry Bonds surpassed Mark McGwire's single-season home run total with his milestone 71st and 72nd home runs.
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07 Oct 2001 The Global War on Terrorism begins as a result of the September 11 attacks. The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan initiates with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
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08 Oct 2001 A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy, killing 118 people.
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08 Oct 2001 U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
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09 Oct 2001 Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
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11 Oct 2001 The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
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15 Oct 2001 NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
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17 Oct 2001 Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.
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19 Oct 2001 SIEV X, an Indonesian fishing boat en route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
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22 Oct 2001 Grand Theft Auto III was released, popularizing a genre of open-world, action-adventure video games as well as spurring controversy around violence in video games.
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26 Oct 2001 The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
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27 Nov 2001 A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
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30 Nov 2001 In Renton, Washington, United States, Gary Ridgway (aka The Green River Killer) is arrested.
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01 Dec 2001 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.
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02 Dec 2001 Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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11 Dec 2001 The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization.
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12 Dec 2001 Prime Minister of Vietnam Phan Văn Khải announces the decision on upgrading Phong Nha–Kẻ Bàng to the Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park, providing information on projects for the conservation and development of the park and revised maps.
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13 Dec 2001 Sansad Bhavan, the building housing the Indian Parliament, is attacked by terrorists. Twelve people are killed, including the terrorists.
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15 Dec 2001 The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean.
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19 Dec 2001 A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl, Mongolia.
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19 Dec 2001 Argentine economic crisis: December 2001 riots – Riots erupt in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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22 Dec 2001 Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.
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22 Dec 2001 Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.
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27 Dec 2001 China is granted permanent normal trade relations with the United States.
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29 Dec 2001 A fire at the Mesa Redonda shopping center in Lima, Peru, kills at least 291.
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