2001 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2001?
- January 13, 2001 – An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
- January 15, 2001 – Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
- January 16, 2001 – US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish-American War.
- January 24, 2001 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Snake in Chinese astrology.
- February 19, 2001 – The Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.
- March 4, 2001 – Hintze Ribeiro disaster: A bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
- March 26, 2001 – World Championship Wrestling is purchased by the World Wrestling Federation.
- May 1, 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.
- May 9, 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.
- June 12, 2001 – Robert Edward Dyer is sentenced to 16 years’ imprisonment for attempting to extort money from a British supermarket chain through a letter bomb campaign.
- June 28, 2001 – Slobodan Milošević deported to ICTY to stand trial.
- July 2, 2001 – The AbioCor self contained artificial heart is first implanted.
- July 3, 2001 – A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev Tu-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people.
- August 21, 2001 – The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
- September 11, 2001 – The September 11 attacks take place in the United States. Airplane hijackings result in the collapse of the World Trade Center in New York City, damage to The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and the crashing of a passenger airliner near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
- September 12, 2001 – Ansett Australia, Australia’s first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
- October 8, 2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
- November 13, 2001 – 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.
- December 19, 2001 – Argentine economic crisis: December 2001 riots – Riots erupt in Buenos Aires.
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