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This article is about the year 2001. For information on the movie, see
(''' MMI ''') was a Common Year Starting On Monday of the Gregorian Calendar . By strict interpretation of the Gregorian Calendar , 2001 is also the first year of the 21st Century and the 3rd Millennium . Popular culture, however, often views the year 2000 as holding this distinction.
2001 is also the year which marks:
- Australia's
- ''The International Year of the Volunteer ''
- ''The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations''
See also Wikipedia's Almanac of events for this year.
- ''. Guns N' Roses stages a concert at the House Of Blues in Las Vegas . This is their first concert since 1993.
- January 4 - RuneScape Classic is launched on the internet. By the end of the year it has recorded over 1,000,000 active users.
- January 6 - The U.S. Congress , presided over by Vice President Al Gore as President of the Senate, certifies George W. Bush 's Electoral College victory and thus as the winner of 2000 Presidential Election .
- January 11 - The Federal Trade Commission approves the Merger of AOL and Time Warner to form ''AOL Time Warner''.
- January 13 - Major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 hits all El Salvador .
- January 15 - Wikipedia , a Wiki free content encyclopedia, goes online ().
- January 16 - The first comic of '' Okashina Okashi '' goes online. It later goes on to inspire a project that affects the education of over 60,000 students.
- January 20 - George W. Bush succeeds Bill Clinton as President Of The United States after the U.S. Supreme Court stops the recounting of ballots in Florida in the disputed and controversial U.S. Presidential Election, 2000 .
- January 22 - Four of the " Texas 7 " are caught at a convenience store in Woodland Park, Colorado and a fifth kills himself inside a motor home.
- January 23 - 25 - UN War Crime s prosecutor Del Ponte demands that Serbia hand over Slobodan Milošević .
- January 24 - The last two of the " Texas 7 " are taken into custody in Colorado Springs, Colorado .
- January 24 - Secretary Of State For Northern Ireland , Peter Mandelson resigns from the British cabinet for the second time.
- January 26 - A 50-year-old DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar , Venezuela killing 24.
- January 26 - An Earthquake hits Gujarat , India , causing more than 20,000 deaths and destroying most of the historical city.
- January 27 - A plane crashes 40 miles east of Denver, Colorado , killing two players of the Oklahoma State University basketball team, six team staffers, and the crew of two people.
- January 28 - The Baltimore Ravens defeat the New York Giants, 34-7, in Super Bowl XXXV .
- January 29 - Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
- January 31 - The Scottish Court In The Netherlands convicts a Libyan and acquits another for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crashed in Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 .
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- May 1 - The Japan ese cities of Urawa, Omiya, and Yono merge to form the city of Saitama .
- May 1 - Police declare the disappearance of Chandra Levy . Her remains were discovered a year later.
- May 7 - In Banja Luka , the second largest city in Bosnia , an attempt is made to reconstruct the Ferhadija Mosque . However, the ceremony resulted in mass riots by Serb nationalists that beat and stone three hundred elderly Bosnian Muslims .
- May 10 - In Ghana , a stampede at a Soccer game kills over 120.
- May 11 - Comedy sci-fi author Douglas Adams of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy fame, dies from a Heart Attack , aged 49.
- May 16 - John Prescott , the Deputy Prime Minister of United Kingdom, assaults Craig Evans at an election rally in Rhyll, North Wales .
- May 22 - Large Trans-Neptunian Object 28978 Ixion found during the Deep Ecliptic Survey .
- May 22 and May 23 - Official Opening of the Bahá'í Terraces on Mount Carmel in Haifa , Israel; site of the Shrine Of The Báb and the Bahá'í World Centre .
- May 23 - Bayern München wins the UEFA Champions League .
- May 24 - Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to conquer Mount Everest .
- 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. He dies June 4 . King Gyanendra acceeds to the throne.
- June 1 - Hamas suicide bomber kills 21, mostly teenagers, in the Dolphinarium disco in Tel Aviv , Israel .
- June 5 - June 9 - Houston, Texas is devastated by flooding when Tropical Storm Allison produces 36 inches (900 mm) of Rain . Particularly hard hit are the downtown area and the Texas Medical Center , which lost years of research and data and thousands of lab animals. Twenty-two people die; damage exceeds five billion American Dollars .
- June 5 - Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican Party , an act which changes control of the United States Senate from the Republican party to the Democratic Party
- June 7 - Tony Blair 's Labour Party elected for second term in UK General Election
- June 8 - Popular editorial site Suck.com , one of the first original content sites on the internet, publishes its final article, "Gone Fishin'."
- June 9 - The Colorado Avalanche win their second Stanley Cup Championship 3-1 in Game 7 over the New Jersey Devils at the Pepsi Center in Denver . This series was highly anticipated as longtime Boston Bruins star traded to become a Colorado defenseman Ray Bourque wins the Stanley Cup for the first time in his illustrious 22 year NHL career, a few days after the team's victory, Bourque announces his retirement.
- June 11 - The United States executes Timothy James McVeigh for the Oklahoma City Bombing .
- June 15 - The Los Angeles Lakers beat the Philadelphia 76ers 4-1 to win their second straight NBA Title. They also finish with the best overall record in playoff history 15-1.
- June 19 - 23 people killed and 11 wounded by an American Missile hitting a Soccer field in northern Iraq , Tel Afr County.
- June 20 - Pervez Musharraf becomes President Of Pakistan after the resignation of Rafiq Tarar .
- June 20 - Andrea Yates drowns her children in a bathtub and confesses to her crime. She would get life in prison for it.
- June 21 - Total Solar Eclipse
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- September 1 - Foundation of the Free State Project .
- September 4 - Google is awarded a Patent , number 6,285,999, for the PageRank Search Algorithm used in the Google Search Engine
- September 5 - Peru 's attorney general files Homicide charges against ex-President Alberto Fujimori
- September 5 - Young Left formed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- announces that it was no longer seeking to break-up Software maker Microsoft and will instead seek a lesser Antitrust penalty
- September 9 - Suicide bomber wounds Ahmed Shah Massoud , military commander of Northern Alliance in Afghanistan . He dies September 14
- September 10 - Norwegian Parliamentary Election, 2001
- September 10 - U.S. Secretary Of Defense Donald Rumsfeld holds a press conference to disclose that over $2,000,000,000,000 in Pentagon funds cannot be accounted for. Rumsfeld states: "According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 rillion in transactions."
- September 11 - Almost 3,000 killed in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack on the World Trade Center in New York City , The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia , and rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania .
- September 11 - They Might Be Giants release their eighth studio album '' Mink Car '' on Restless Records .
- September 17 - The New York Stock Exchange reopens following the Terrorist attacks in New York.
- September 18 - The 2001 Anthrax Attacks commence as anthrax letters are mailed from Princeton, New Jersey to ABC News , CBS News , NBC News , the '' New York Post '', and the '' National Enquirer ''.
- October 15 - NASA 's Galileo Spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter 's moon Io
- October 19 - SIEV-X sinks en route to Christmas Island
- October 20 - The Concert For New York City , "a celebration of the strength, resilience, and pride of New York and America" is held featuring performances by The Who , Paul McCartney , David Bowie , Backstreet Boys , Billy Joel , Destiny's Child , Eric Clapton , Adam Sandler , Bon Jovi , Elton John and many more.
- October 23 - Apple Computer releases the now famous IPod .
- October 23 - Principal Financial Group files its Initial Public Offering on the New York Stock Exchange .
- October 25 - Microsoft releases Windows XP
- January 1 - Ray Walston , American actor (b. 1914 )
- January 2 - Teri Diver , American actress (b. 1971 )
- January 3 - José Greco , Italian-born flamenco dancer (b. 1918 )
- January 5 - Nancy Parsons , American actress (b. 1942 )
- January 12 - William Hewlett , American businessman (b. 1913 )
- January 27 - Marie-José Of Belgium , Last Queen of Italy (b. 1906 )
- January 28 - Curt Blefary , baseball player (b. 1943 )
- January 30 , Jean-Pierre Aumont , French actor (b. 1911 )
- January 30 - Johnnie Johnson , English pilot (b. 1915 )
- January 31 , Gordon R. Dickson , Canadian writer (b. 1923 )
- February 4 - Iannis Xenakis , Greek composer (b. 1922 )
- February 6 - Filemon Lagman , Filipino Communist revolutionary (b. 1953 )
- February 7 - Dale Evans , American actress and singer (b. 1912 )
- February 7 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh , American author and aviator (b. 1906 )
- February 9 - Herbert Simon , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916 )
- February 12 - Kristina Söderbaum , German actress and photographer (b. 1912 )
- February 16 - Bob Buhl , baseball player (b. 1928 )
- February 18 - Balthus , French painter (b. 1908 )
- February 18 - Dale Earnhardt , American race car driver (b. 1951 )
- February 18 - Eddie Mathews , Baseball player (b. 1931 )
- February 19 - Priscilla Davis , American socialite (b. 1942 )
- February 19 - Stanley Kramer , American film director (b. 1913 )
- February 19 - Charles Trenet , French singer (b. 1913 )
- February 24 - Claude Elwood Shannon , American mathematician (b. 1916 )
- February 25 - Sir Donald Bradman , Australian cricketer (b. 1908 )
- March 4 - Harold Stassen , American politician (b. 1907 )
- March 4 - Fred Lasswell , American cartoonist (b. 1916 )
- March 4 - Glenn Hughes , American singer (b. 1950 )
- March 11 - Russ Haas , American professional wrestler (b. 1974 )
- March 12 - Morton Downey Jr. , American television personality (b. 1933 )
- March 12 - Robert Ludlum , American author (b. 1927 )
- March 12 - Ann Sothern , American actress (b. 1909 )
- March 18 - John Phillips , American singer (b. 1935 )
- March 21 - Norma Macmillan , Canadian voice actress (b. 1921 )
- March 22 - William Hanna , American animation studio executive (b. 1910 )
- March 31 - Clifford Shull , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915 )
- April 7 - David Graf , American actor (b. 1950 )
- April 7 - Beatrice Straight , American actress (b. 1914 )
- April 10 - Willie Stargell , baseball player (b. 1940 )
- April 11 - Harry Secombe , Welsh entertainer (b. 1921 )
- April 12 - Harvey Ball , American designer (b. 1921 )
- April 14 - Hiroshi Teshigahara , Japanese director (b. 1927 )
- April 15 - Joey Ramone , American musician and singer ( The Ramones ) (b. 1951 )
- April 20 - Giuseppe Sinopoli , Italian conductor and composer (b. 1946 )
- April 20 - Bert Sutcliffe , New Zealand cricketer (b. 1923 )
- May 2 - Ted Rogers , British comedian (b. 1935 )
- May 2 - Gina Mastrogiacomo , American actress (b. 1961 )
- May 5 - Clifton Hillegass , American author and creator of Cliff Notes (b. 1918 )
- May 9 - James E. Myers , American songwriter (b. 1919 )
- May 11 - Douglas Adams , English author (heart attack) (b. 1952 )
- May 12 - Perry Como , American singer (b. 1912 )
- May 13 - R.K. Narayan , Indian novelist (b. 1906 )
- May 20 - Renato Carosone , Italian musician and singer (b. 1920 )
- May 27 - Ramon Bieri , American actor (b. 1929 )
- May 28 - Francisco Varela , Chilean biologist and philosopher (b. 1946 )
- June 1 - Hank Ketcham , American cartoonist (b. 1920 )
- June 1 - Queen Aiswarya of Nepal (assassinated (b. 1949 )
- June 1 - King Birendra Of Nepal (assassinated) (b. 1945 )
- June 2 - Imogene Coca , American actress (b. 1908 )
- June 2 - Joey Maxim , American boxer (b. 1922 )
- June 3 - Anthony Quinn , Mexican actor (b. 1915 )
- June 4 - Prince Dipendra Of Nepal (b. 1971 )
- June 4 - John Hartford , American musician and composer (b. 1937 )
- June 10 - Princess Leila Of Iran (b. 1970 )
- June 11 - Timothy McVeigh , American terrorist (executed) (b. 1968 )
- June 17 - Donald J. Cram , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919 )
- June 21 - John Lee Hooker , American musician (b. 1917 )
- June 21 - Carroll O'Connor , American actor (b. 1924 )
- June 26 - Peter Von Zahn , German journalist (b. 1913 )
- June 27 - Tove Jansson , Finnish author (b. 1914 )
- June 27 - Jack Lemmon , American actor and director (b. 1925 )
- June 28 - Mortimer Adler , American philosopher (b. 1902 )
- June 28 - Joan Sims , British actress (b. 1930 )
- June 30 - Chet Atkins , American musician (b. 1924 )
- July 1 - Nikolay Basov , Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922 )
- July 5 - Hannelore Kohl , wife of chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl (suicide) (b. 1933 )
- July 7 - Fred Neil , American singer-songwriter (b. 1936 )
- July 11 - Herman Brood , Dutch musician and painter (suicide) (b. 1946 )
- July 18 - Fabio Taglioni , Italian automotive engineer (b. 1920 )
- July 20 - Milt Gabler , American record producer (b. 1911 )
- July 27 - Leon Wilkeson , American musician (b. 1952 )
- July 29 - Edward Gierek , Polish politician (b. 1913 )
- July 29 - Wau Holland , German hacker (b. 1951 )
- August 1 - Poul Anderson , American author (b. 1926 )
- August 1 - Korey Stringer , American football player (b. 1974 )
- August 3 - Christopher Hewett , British actor (b. 1922 )
- August 6 - Jorge Amado , Brazilian writer (b. 1912 )
- August 15 - Richard Chelimo , Kenyan athlete (b. 1972 )
- August 20 - Fred Hoyle , British astronomer and science fiction writer (b. 1915 )
- August 25 - Aaliyah , American singer and actress (plane crash) (b. 1979 )
- September 2 - Christiaan Barnard , South African heart surgeon (b. 1922 )
- September 3 - Pauline Kael , American film critic (b. 1919 )
- September 3 - Thuy Trang , Vietnamese-born actress (b. 1973 )
- September 7 - Spede Pasanen , Finnish television personality (b. 1930 )
- September 9 - Ahmed Shah Massoud , Afghani military commander (b. 1953 )
- --- David Angell , American television producer (b. 1946 )
- --- Berry Berenson , American actress and photographer (b. 1948 )
- --- Barbara K. Olson , American television commentator (b. 1955 )
- September 13 - Victor Wong , American actor (b. 1927 )
- September 22 - Isaac Stern , Ukrainian violinist (b. 1920 )
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