2001 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2001?
- January 13, 2001 – An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
- 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 31, 2001 – In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
- 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 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.
- March 23, 2001 – The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
- March 26, 2001 – World Championship Wrestling is purchased by the World Wrestling Federation.
- May 21, 2001 – French Taubira law officially recognizes the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
- 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.
- 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.
- September 10, 2001 – Antonio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil was assassinated.
- 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 4, 2001 – NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
- October 8, 2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
- October 23, 2001 – Apple announces the iPod.
- 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.
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