2001 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2001?
- 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 17, 2001 – U.S. President Bill Clinton posthumously raises Meriwether Lewis’ rank from Lieutenant to Captain.
- January 24, 2001 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Snake in Chinese astrology.
- February 8, 2001 – Disney California Adventure Park opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
- February 12, 2001 – NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the “saddle” region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
- February 19, 2001 – The Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.
- April 16, 2001 – India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
- May 6, 2001 – During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
- 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 28, 2001 – Slobodan Milošević deported to ICTY to stand trial.
- 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.
- July 28, 2001 – Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championships.
- 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 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 – Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
- September 18, 2001 – First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
- October 17, 2001 – Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi became the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.
- 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 29, 2001 – A fire at the Mesa Redonda shopping center in Lima, Peru, kills at least 291.
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