2001 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2001?
- January 13, 2001 – An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
- January 24, 2001 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Snake in Chinese astrology.
- February 13, 2001 – An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
- February 18, 2001 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
- March 23, 2001 – The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
- March 26, 2001 – World Championship Wrestling is purchased by the World Wrestling Federation.
- April 7, 2001 – Mars Odyssey is launched.
- May 24, 2001 – Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
- May 27, 2001 – Members of Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an upscale island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
- May 29, 2001 – U.S. Supreme Court rules that disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
- June 1, 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.
- June 28, 2001 – Slobodan Milošević deported to ICTY to stand trial.
- July 21, 2001 – At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri railway station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.
- August 21, 2001 – NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
- September 18, 2001 – First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
- October 15, 2001 – NASA’s Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter’s moon Io.
- November 12, 2001 – In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 en route to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
- December 1, 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.
- December 13, 2001 – The King of Perlis has has sweared and signed the proclamation of the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong,thus became the de jure 12th Yang Di-Pertuan Agong,the head of state of Malaysia.He replaced the Sultan of Selangor,whose died in office for five years.
- December 22, 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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