2001 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2001?
- January 2, 2001 – Sila María Calderón becomes the first female Governor of Puerto Rico
- January 15, 2001 – Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
- 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.
- March 26, 2001 – World Championship Wrestling is purchased by the World Wrestling Federation.
- April 16, 2001 – India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
- 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.
- July 2, 2001 – The AbioCor self contained artificial heart is first implanted.
- 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.
- 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 4, 2001 – Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.
- September 9, 2001 – At exactly 01:46:40 UTC, the Unix billenium is reached, marking the beginning of the use of 10-digit decimal Unix timestamps.
- September 10, 2001 – Antonio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil was assassinated.
- 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.
- October 2, 2001 – NATO backs U.S. military strikes following 9/11.
- October 7, 2001 – The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
- December 15, 2001 – The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean.
- December 19, 2001 – Argentine economic crisis: December 2001 riots – Riots erupt in Buenos Aires.
- December 22, 2001 – Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.
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