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 12, 2001 – NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the “saddle” region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
- February 13, 2001 – An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
- February 18, 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.
- 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 1, 2001 – Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.
- August 1, 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.
- September 10, 2001 – Antonio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil was assassinated.
- 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.
- September 26, 2001 – Polish Wikipedia was started.
- October 2, 2001 – NATO backs U.S. military strikes following 9/11.
- October 26, 2001 – The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
- November 27, 2001 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
- November 30, 2001 – In Renton, Washington, United States, Gary Ridgway aka The Green River Killer is arrested.
- December 13, 2001 – The Indian Parliament Sansad is attacked by terrorists. 15 people are killed, including all the terrorists.
- December 15, 2001 – The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean.
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