2001 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2001?
- January 20, 2001 – Philippine president Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
- January 24, 2001 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Snake in Chinese astrology.
- January 25, 2001 – A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24.
- February 13, 2001 – An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
- February 19, 2001 – The Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.
- February 28, 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.
- April 28, 2001 – Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world’s first space tourist.
- 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.
- July 24, 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.
- September 14, 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.
- October 2, 2001 – NATO backs U.S. military strikes following 9/11.
- October 4, 2001 – NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
- October 11, 2001 – The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
- 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.
- November 20, 2001 – In Washington, D.C., 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.
- December 2, 2001 – Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
- December 11, 2001 – The People’s Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization.
- December 13, 2001 – The Indian Parliament Sansad is attacked by terrorists. 15 people are killed, including all the terrorists.
- December 19, 2001 – Argentine economic crisis: December 2001 riots – Riots erupt in Buenos Aires.
- 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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