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Year '''2001''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MMI]]''') was a [[common year starting on Monday]] according to the [[Gregorian calendar]]. It was the [[year of the snake]] in the [[Chinese Zodiac]].
By traditional interpretation of the [[Gregorian Calendar]], 2001 is also the first year of the [[21st century]] and the [[3rd millennium]]. Popular culture, however, views the year [[2000]] as holding this distinction.
Also see: [[Current events#Past events by month|Wikipedia's almanac]] of events for this year.
==Events of 2001==
===[[January 2001|January]]===
* [[January 1]] - A black [[The Monolith|monolith]] measuring approximately 9 feet tall appears in [[Seattle, Washington]]'s Magnuson Park, placed by an anonymous artist in reference to the movie ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]''.
* [[January 8]] - Noah, a [[gaur]], is born, the first individual of an endangered species to be [[cloning|cloned]].
* [[January 11]] - The U.S. [[Federal Trade Commission]] approves the [[merger]] of [[America Online]] and [[Time Warner]] to form [[AOL Time Warner]].
* [[January 13]] - A [[2001 El Salvador earthquakes|7.6 magnitude earthquake]] hits all of [[El Salvador]], killing at least 800 people and leaving thousands homeless. (See also February 13.)
* [[January 15]] - [[Wikipedia]] is founded.
* [[January 16]] - [[US President]] [[Bill Clinton]] awards former US President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] a posthumous [[Medal of Honor]] for his service during the [[Spanish-American War]]. Eleven of Roosevelt's descendants accept on his behalf.
* [[January 17]] - [[Impeachment]] proceedings against Philippine President [[Joseph Estrada]], accused of committing [[plunder]], end prematurely and trigger the second [[EDSA Dos|EDSA People Power Revolution]] or [[People Power II]].
* [[January 20]] - [[Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo]] is sworn in as the 14th President of the Philippines after the [[Armed Forces of the Philippines]] and several cabinet members withdraw support for [[Joseph Estrada]].
* [[January 20]] - [[George W. Bush]] is sworn in as the 43rd [[President of the United States]].
* [[January 22]] - Four of the "[[Texas 7]]" are caught at a convenience store in [[Woodland Park, Colorado]], and a fifth kills himself inside a motor home.{{noMention}}
* [[January 23]]-[[January 25]] - [[United Nations]] [[war crime]]s prosecutor Del Ponte demands that [[Serbia]] hand over [[Slobodan Milošević]].{{noMention}}
* [[January 23]] - The [[Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident]] occurs.
* [[January 24]] - The last 2 of the "[[Texas 7]]" are taken into custody in [[Colorado Springs, Colorado]].{{noMention}}
* [[January 24]] - [[Secretary of State for Northern Ireland]] [[Peter Mandelson]] resigns from the [[United Kingdom|British]] cabinet for the second time.
* [[January 25]] - A 50-year-old [[Douglas DC-3]] crashes near [[Ciudad Bolivar]], [[Venezuela]], killing 24.<ref>[http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20010125-0 ASN Aircraft accident Douglas C-47A-65-DL (DC-3C) YV-224C Ciudad Bolívar<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[January 26]] - An [[earthquake]] hits [[Gujarat]]<!--confirmed here-->, [[India]], killing more than 12,000.
* [[January 28]] - The [[Baltimore Ravens]] defeat the [[New York Giants]] 34-7 in [[Super Bowl XXXV]]. It is the Ravens' first Super Bowl title.
===[[February 2001|February]]===
{{Month3|2|3|0}}
* [[February 6]] - [[Likud Party]] leader [[Ariel Sharon]] wins election as [[Prime Minister of Israel]].
* [[February 9]] - The submarine [[USS Greeneville (SSN-772)|USS ''Greeneville'']] strikes and sinks the [[Japan]]ese fishing vessel ''[[Ehime-Maru]]'' near [[Hawaii]].
* [[February 11]] - [[Three Rivers Stadium]] in [[Pittsburgh]] is imploded.
* [[February 12]] - The [[NEAR Shoemaker]] spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of [[433 Eros]], becoming the first spacecraft to land on an [[asteroid]].
* [[February 13]] - A [[2001 El Salvador earthquakes|6.6 magnitude earthquake]] hits [[El Salvador]], killing at least 400.
* [[February 16]] - [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: British and U.S. forces carry out bombing raids, attempting to disable [[Iraq]]'s air defense network.
* [[February 16]] - US and UK war planes bomb a Baghdad suburb, killing three.
* [[February 18]] - [[NASCAR]] driver [[Dale Earnhardt]] is [[Death of Dale Earnhardt|killed in a crash]] during the [[Daytona 500]].
* [[February 18]] - [[FBI]] agent [[Robert Hanssen]] is arrested and charged with [[spying]] for [[Russia]] for 15 years.
* [[February 19]] - An [[Oklahoma City bombing]] museum is dedicated at the [[Oklahoma City National Memorial]].
* [[February 20]] - The [[2001 UK foot and mouth crisis]] begins.
* [[February 23]] - [[Isla Vista massacre|Four students are killed and one critically injured]] by a University of California, Santa Barbara freshman.
* [[February 28]] - The [[Selby rail crash]] near Selby, North Yorkshire, [[England]], kills 10 people.
* [[February 28]] - The [[Nisqually Earthquake]] strikes [[Seattle, Washington]].
===[[March 2001|March]]===
{{Month3|3|3|0}}
* [[March 4]] - [[Hintze Ribeiro disaster]]: A bridge collapses in northern [[Portugal]], killing up to 70.
* [[March 23]] - The Russian space station [[Mir]] re-enters the atmosphere near [[Nadi]], [[Fiji]], and falls into the [[Pacific Ocean]].
* [[March 25]] - The [[73rd Academy Awards]], hosted by [[Steve Martin]] are held at the [[Shrine Auditorium]] in [[Los Angeles, California]], with ''[[Gladiator (film)|Gladiator]]'' winning [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]].
===[[April 2001|April]]===
{{Month3|4|6|0}}
* [[April 1]] - [[U.S.-China Spy Plane Incident]]: A Chinese fighter jet bumps into a U.S. [[EP-3E]] surveillance aircraft which is forced to make an emergency landing in [[Hainan]], [[People's Republic of China|China]]. The U.S. crew is detained for 10 days and the [[Shenyang J-8|F-8]] Chinese pilot, [[Wang Wei (pilot)|Wang Wei]], goes missing and is presumed dead.
* [[April 1]] - Former [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] President [[Slobodan Milošević]] surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on charges of [[war crime]]s.
* [[April 1]] - In the [[Netherlands]], the [[Same-sex marriage in the Netherlands|Act on the Opening up of Marriage]] goes into effect. The Act allows [[Same-sex marriage|same-sex couples]] to marry legally for the first time in the world since the reign of [[Nero]].
* [[April 7]] - [[Timothy Thomas]], a 19-year-old African-American, is shot by a police officer in [[Cincinnati]], sparking riots in downtown Cincinnati from [[April 10]] to [[April 12]].
* [[April 21]] - The small [[Kansas]] town of [[Hoisington]] is hit by a F-4 tornado destroying 1/3 of the city and killing 1.
* [[April 26]] - [[Junichiro Koizumi]] becomes [[Prime Minister of Japan]].
* [[April 28]] - ''[[Soyuz TM-32]]'' lifts off from the [[Baikonur]] Cosmodrome, carrying the first space tourist, American [[Dennis Tito]].
* [[April 29]] - The [[UK Census]] is conducted in the United Kingdom.
* [[April 30]] - [[Blanche Barton]], High Priestess of the [[Church of Satan]], steps down and gives her position to [[Peter H. Gilmore]] and [[Peggy Nadramia]].
===[[May 2001|May]]===
{{Month3|5|1|0}}
* [[May 1]] - The [[Japan]]ese cities of Urawa, Omiya, and Yono merge to form the city of [[Saitama, Saitama|Saitama]].
* [[May 1]] - [[Washington, DC]] police declare [[Chandra Levy]] missing (her remains are discovered a year later).
* [[May 6]] - Space tourist [[Dennis Tito]] returns to Earth aboard ''[[Soyuz TM-31]]''. (''[[Soyuz TM-32]]'' is left docked at the [[International Space Station]] as a new lifeboat.)
* [[May 7]] - In [[Banja Luka]], [[Bosnia-Herzegovina]], an attempt is made to reconstruct the [[Ferhadija mosque]]. However, the ceremony results in mass riots by [[Serb]] nationalists that beat and stone 300 elderly [[Bosnian Muslims]].
* [[May 10]] - A [[soccer]] game stampede in [[Ghana]] kills over 120.
* [[May 13]] - [[Silvio Berlusconi]] and the [[Italy|Italian]] House of the Liberties coalition win [[Italian general election, 2001|general elections]].
* [[May 22]] - A large [[trans-Neptunian object]] ([[28978 Ixion]]) is found during the [[Deep Ecliptic Survey]].
* [[May 22]]-[[May 23]] - The Bahá'í Terraces officially open on [[Mount Carmel, Israel|Mount Carmel]] in [[Haifa]], Israel (site of the [[Shrine of the Báb]] and the [[Bahá'í World Centre]]).
* [[May 23]] - [[Bayern München]] wins the [[UEFA Champions League]].
* [[May 24]] - Sherpa [[Temba Tsheri]], 16, becomes the youngest person to conquer [[Mount Everest]].
* [[May 24]] - The [[Versailles wedding hall disaster]] kills 23 in [[Jerusalem]], [[Israel]].
===[[June 2001|June]]===
{{Month3|6|4|0}}
* [[June 1]] - Crown Prince [[Dipendra of Nepal]] kills his father, the king, his mother and other members of the royal family with an assault rifle and then shoots himself in the [[Nepalese royal massacre]]. Dipendra dies [[June 4]], as King of Nepal. His uncle [[Gyanendra]] accedes to the throne.
* [[June 1]] - A [[Hamas]] suicide bomber kills 21, mostly teenagers, in the Dolphinarium disco in [[Tel Aviv]], [[Israel]].
* [[June 5]]-[[June 9]] - [[Tropical Storm Allison]] produces 36 inches (900 mm) of [[rain]] in [[Houston, Texas]], killing 22, damaging the [[Texas Medical Center]], and causing more than 5 billion [[United States dollar|American dollars]] of damage overall.
* [[June 5]] - U.S. Senator [[Jim Jeffords]] leaves the [[United States Republican Party|Republican party]], an act which changes control of the [[United States Senate]] from the Republican party to the [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic party]].
* [[June 7]] - [[Tony Blair]]'s [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] wins the [[United Kingdom general election, 2001|United Kingdom general election]].
* [[June 8]] - [[Mamoru Takuma]] murders 8 first and second grade students and wounds 15 others in [[Osaka]], Japan.
* [[June 11]] - In [[Terre Haute]], [[Indiana]], [[Timothy McVeigh]] is executed for the [[Oklahoma City Bombing]].
* [[June 19]] - An American [[missile]] hits a [[soccer]] field in northern [[Iraq]] (Tel Afr County), killing 23 and wounding 11.
* [[June 20]] - [[Pervez Musharraf]] becomes [[President of Pakistan]] after the resignation of [[Muhammad Rafiq Tarar]].
* [[June 20]] - [[Andrea Yates]] drowns her children in a bathtub and confesses to her crime. She is sentenced to life in prison.
* [[June 21]] - The world's longest train was set up by BHP Iron ore and was recorded going between Newman and Port Headland in Western Australia. A distance of 275km (170 miles) and the train consisted of 682 loaded iron ore wagons and 8 GE AC6000 locomotives giving a gross weight of almost 100,000 tonnes and moved 82,262 tonnes of ore, the train was 7.353 km (4.568 miles) long.
* [[June 23]] - An earthquake with 7.9 on the [[Richter magnitude scale|Richter scale]], hits the south of [[Peru]].
===[[July 2001|July]]===
{{Month3|7|6|0}}
*[[July 2]] - The world's first self-contained [[artificial heart]] is implanted in [[Robert Tools]].
*[[July 3]] - A Vladivostokavia [[Tupolev Tu-154]] jetliner crashes on approach to landing at [[Irkutsk, Russia]], killing 145.
*[[July 13]] - [[Beijing]] wins the bid to host the [[2008 Summer Olympics]]
*[[July 16]] - The [[People's Republic of China]] and the [[Russia|Russian Federation]] sign the [[2001 Sino-Russian Treaty of Friendship|Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation]].
*[[July 16]] - The [[FBI]] arrests [[Dmitry Sklyarov]] at a convention in [[Las Vegas, Nevada]], for violating a provision of the [[DMCA]].
*[[July 17]] - Inauguration of the [[Altamira (cave)|Altamira caves]]'s replica created by [[Manuel Franquelo]] and Sven Nebel.
*[[July 18]] - In [[Baltimore, Maryland]], a 60-car train derailment occurs in a tunnel, sparking a fire that lasts days and virtually shuts down downtown Baltimore.
*[[July 19]] - [[United Kingdom|UK]] politician and novelist [[Jeffrey Archer]] is sentenced to 4 years in prison for [[perjury]] and perverting the course of justice.
*[[July 20]] - Vanessa Legget is found in contempt by a Federal Court for refusing to release notes made for her book on the [[Doris Angleton]] murder.
*[[July 20]]-[[July 22]] - The [[27th G8 summit]] takes place in [[Genoa]], [[Italy]]. Massive demonstrations are held against the meeting by [[anti-globalisation]] groups. One demonstrator, [[Carlo Giuliani]], is shot dead by a [[carabinieri|carabiniere]]. Several others are badly injured during a police attack on a school used by the protesters as their headquarters.
*[[July 24]] - [[Tamil Tigers]] attack Bandaranaika International Airport in [[Sri Lanka]], causing an estimated $500 million of damages.
*[[July 28]] - [[Alejandro Toledo]] is sworn in as the new president of [[Peru]], 8 months after a vote of no-confidence in former President [[Alberto Fujimori]].
===[[August 2001|August]]===
{{Month3|8|2|0}}
*[[August 1]] - Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice [[Roy Moore]] has a 2½ ton monument of the [[Ten Commandments]] installed in the Rotunda of the Judiciary Building. He is later [[Glassroth v. Moore|sued]] to have it removed, and eventually removed from office.
* [[August 2]] - [[Robert Mueller]] is confirmed as the new [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] director.
* [[August 9]] - U.S. President [[George W. Bush]] announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic [[stem cell]]s.
* [[August 9]] - In the [[Comoros]], the "Military Committee" of Major Mohamad Bacar seizes power in the island of [[Anjouan]], which had declared independence. They plan to rejoin the Comoros.
* [[August 24]] - The [[Heino murders]] in [[Finland]]: four teenagers assassinate businessman Martti Heino and his wife Elise Heino.
* [[August 25]] - A [[Cessna 402]] aircraft carrying 9 people, including [[R&B]] singer [[Aaliyah]], crashes in the [[Bahamas]], killing all aboard.
===[[September 2001|September]]===
{{Month3|9|5|0}}
* [[September 1]] - The libertarian [[Free State Project]] is founded at [[Yale University]].
* [[September 4]] - [[Google]] is awarded a [[United States Patent and Trademark Office|patent]], number 6,285,999, for the [[PageRank]] [[search algorithm]] used in the [[Google]] [[Web search engine|search engine]].
* [[September 5]] - [[Peru]]'s attorney general files [[homicide]] charges against ex-President [[Alberto Fujimori]].
* [[September 6]] - [[United States v. Microsoft]]: The [[United States Justice Department]] announces that it no longer seeks to break up [[software]] maker [[Microsoft]], and will instead seek a lesser [[antitrust]] penalty.
* [[September 9]] - 68 people die in [[Estonia]] after drinking bootleg alcohol that contained [[methanol]].
* [[September 9]] - A suicide bomber kills [[Ahmed Shah Massoud]], military commander of the [[Afghan Northern Alliance]].
* [[September 10]] - [[Norwegian parliamentary election, 2001]]: [[Kjell Magne Bondevik]] returns to power as head of a conservative coalition.
[[Image:National Park Service 9-11 Statue of Liberty and WTC fire.jpg|thumb|250px|September 11, 2001 attacks]]
* [[September 11]] - Almost 3,000 are killed in the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] at the [[World Trade Center]] in [[New York City]], [[The Pentagon]] in [[Arlington, Virginia]], and in rural [[Shanksville, Pennsylvania]] after [[American Airlines Flight 11]] and [[United Airlines Flight 175]] crash into the [[World Trade Center|The Twin Towers]], [[American Airlines Flight 77]] crashes into the Pentagon, and [[United Airlines Flight 93]] crashes into a grassland in [[Pennsylvania]].
* [[September 11]] - [[Ansett Australia]], one of the oldest airlines in the world and the second-largest in [[Australia]] goes under administration with [[KordaMentha]] due to major financial struggles.
* [[September 12]] - [[Jericho, West Bank]], Israel sends tanks into the West Bank town of Jericho at the start of a military operation.
* [[September 15]] - The [[Queen Isabella Causeway]] in [[Texas]] collapses after being hit by a tugboat, killing 8.
* [[September 17]] - The [[New York Stock Exchange]] reopens following the attacks in New York.
* [[September 18]] - The [[2001 anthrax attacks]] commence as letters containing anthrax spores are mailed from [[Princeton, New Jersey]] to [[ABC News]], [[CBS News]], [[NBC News]], the ''[[New York Post]]'', and the ''[[National Enquirer]]''.
*[[September 21]] - Sports return to New York for the first time since the attacks with the [[New York Mets]]/[[Atlanta Braves]] game at [[Shea Stadium]].
*[[September 21]] - The [[America: A Tribute to Heroes]] benefit concert, for victims of the September 11th attacks and their families, occurs.
*[[September 21]] - The [[AZF|AZote Fertilisant]] chemical factory in [[Toulouse]], [[France]] explodes, killing 29 and seriously wounding over 2500.
===[[October 2001|October]]===
{{Month3|10|0|0}}
* [[October 4]] - Federal officials announce the first [[2001 anthrax attacks|anthrax attack]] in the U.S.
* [[October 4]] - [[Siberia Airlines Flight 1812]] crashes over the Black Sea en route from [[Tel Aviv]], [[Israel]] to [[Novosibirsk]], [[Russia]]; 78 are killed.
* [[October 5]] - [[Tom Ridge]] resigns as [[Governor of Pennsylvania]] to become the first director of the newly created [[United States Office of Homeland Security]].
* [[October 5]] - [[Barry Bonds]] of the [[San Francisco Giants]] breaks the single season home run record with his 71st and 72nd home runs of the year.
* [[October 7]] - The [[United States]] invades [[Afghanistan]], with participation from other nations participating in [[Operation Enduring Freedom]].
* [[October 8]] - [[Linate Airport disaster|Flight SK686]] of [[Scandinavian Airline Systems|SAS]] collides first with a private plane and then a building in [[Milano]] Airport; 100 are killed.
* [[October 9]] - The [[2001 anthrax attacks]] continue as contaminated letters are mailed from [[Princeton, New Jersey]], to U.S. Senators [[Tom Daschle]] of [[South Dakota]] and [[Patrick Leahy]] of [[Vermont]].
* [[October 10]] - U.S. President [[George W. Bush]] presents a list of [[FBI Most Wanted Terrorists|22 most wanted terrorists]].
* [[October 14]] - [[Michael Schumacher]] wins the 52nd [[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile|FIA]] [[List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|Formula One World championship]], with a record margin of 58 points.
* [[October 15]] - [[NASA]]'s [[Galileo spacecraft]] passes within 112 miles of [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]]'s moon [[Io (moon)|Io]].
* [[October 19]] - [[SIEV-X]] sinks en route to [[Christmas Island]].
* [[October 20]] - [[The Concert for New York City]], "a celebration of the strength, resilience, and pride of New York and America," is held.
* [[October 21]] - The [[United We Stand: What More Can I Give]] benefit concert is held in [[Washington D.C.]].
* [[October 23]] - [[Principal Financial Group]] files its [[IPO|initial public offering]] on the [[NYSE|New York Stock Exchange]].
* [[October 23]] - [[Apple Inc.]] releases the [[iPod]].
* [[October 26]] - U.S. president [[George W. Bush]] signs the [[USA PATRIOT Act]] into law.
===[[November 2001|November]]===
{{Month3|11|3|0}}
[[Image:US 10th Mountain Division soldiers in Afghanistan.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Soldiers board a Chinook helicopter.]]
* November - [[The Doha Declaration]] relaxes the grip of international [[intellectual property]] law.
* [[November 2]] - The [[Glocal Forum]], leading international organization in the field of city-to-city cooperation, is established by Ambassador [[Uri Savir]].
* [[November 4]] - [[Hurricane Michelle]] hits [[Cuba]], destroying crops and thousands of homes.
* [[November 4]] - The [[Police Service of Northern Ireland]] is established, replacing the controversial [[Royal Ulster Constabulary]].
* [[November 4]] - The [[Arizona Diamondbacks]] beat the [[New York Yankees]] to win their first-ever World Series.
* [[November 10]] - The [[People's Republic of China]] is admitted to the [[World Trade Organization]] after 15 years of negotiations.
* [[November 10]] - [[Australia]]n Prime Minister [[John Howard]] is elected to a third term.
* [[November 10]] - Heavy rains and [[mudflow|mudslides]] in [[Algeria]] kill more than 900.
* [[November 12]] - In [[New York City]], [[American Airlines Flight 587]], headed to the [[Dominican Republic]], crashes in [[Queens, New York]] minutes after takeoff from [[John F. Kennedy International Airport]], killing all 260 on board.
* [[November 12]] - [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|2001 Attack on Afghanistan]]: [[Taliban]] forces abandon [[Kabul]], the capital of [[Afghanistan]], ahead of advancing [[Afghan Northern Alliance]] troops, who take the city on [[November 14]].
* [[November 13]] - [[Doha Round]]: The [[World Trade Organization]] ends a 4-day ministerial conference in [[Doha]], [[Qatar]].
* [[November 13]] - [[Symbionese Liberation Army]] member [[Kathleen Soliah]] (Sara Jane Olsen) withdraws her previous guilty plea.
* [[November 13]] - In the first such act since [[World War II]], U.S. President [[George W. Bush]] signs an executive order allowing [[military tribunal]]s against any foreigners suspected of having connections to terrorist acts or planned acts against the [[United States]].
* [[November 22]] - [[Pope John Paul II]] sends the first papal e-mail from a laptop in his office.
===[[December 2001|December]]===
{{Month3|12|5|0}}
* [[December 2]] - [[Enron]] files for [[Chapter 11 bankruptcy]] protection 5 days after [[Dynegy]] cancels a US$8.4 billion buyout bid. At the time this is the largest [[bankruptcy]] in U.S. history.
* [[December 3]] - Officials announce that one of the [[Taliban]] prisoners captured after the prison uprising at [[Mazari Sharif]], [[Afghanistan]] is [[John Walker Lindh]], an American citizen.
* [[December 11]] - The United States government indicts [[Zacarias Moussaoui]] for involvement in the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]].
* [[December 11]] - Law enforcement raid members of [[DrinkOrDie]] in [[Operation Buccaneer]].
* [[December 12]] - [[Roy Whiting]] is found guilty of murdering [[Sarah Payne]] at [[Lewes]] Crown Court. The trial judge recommends that Whiting should never be released.
* [[December 13]] - The [[Parliament of India]] is attacked, killing 14. This brings India and Pakistan to the brink of war.{{Fact|date=May 2008}}
* [[December 13]] - U.S. President [[George W. Bush]] announces the United States' withdrawal from the 1972 [[Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty]].
* [[December 19]] - A new world-record high [[barometric pressure]] of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded in [[Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl|Tosontsengel]], [[Khövsgöl Province]], [[Mongolia]].
* [[December 22]] - [[Hamid Karzai]] is sworn in as head of the interim government in [[Afghanistan]].
* [[December 22]] - A [[Paris]]-[[Miami, Florida]] flight is diverted to [[Boston, Massachusetts]] after passenger [[Richard Reid (terrorist)|Richard Reid]] attempts to set his shoe, filled with explosives, on fire.
* [[December 27]] - The [[People's Republic of China]] is granted permanent [[Most favoured nation|normal trade]] status with the [[United States]].
* [[December 27]] - [[Typhoon Vamei]] forms within 1.5 degrees of the equator. No other [[tropical cyclone]] in recorded history has come as close to the equator.
===Undated===
* [[India]] becomes the second nation in the world to register one billion people in its population. The first was [[China]] in [[1979]].
===Ongoing===
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==Births==
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* [[October 7]] - [[Princess Senate Seeiso]], daughter of King [[Letsie III of Lesotho]]
* [[October 18]] - [[Annelise Manojlovic]], English actress
* [[October 25]] - [[Princess Elisabeth of Belgium]], daughter of [[Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant]]
* [[December 1]] - [[Aiko, Princess Toshi]] of [[Japan]]
==Deaths==
'''For more deaths see: [[Deaths in 2001]]'''
===January-June===
*[[January 1]] - [[Ray Walston]], American actor (b. [[1914]])
*[[January 2]] - [[Teri Diver]], American actress (b. [[1971]])
*[[January 3]] - [[José Greco]], Italian-born flamenco dancer (b. [[1918]])
*[[January 5]] - [[Nancy Parsons]], American actress (b. [[1942]])
*[[January 9]] - [[Maurice Prather]], American motion picture and still photographer (b. [[1926]])
*[[January 12]] - [[William Reddington Hewlett]], American businessman (b. [[1913]])
*[[January 12]] - [[Vladimir Semichastny]], Soviet former head of the [[KGB]] (b. [[1924]])
*[[January 16]] - [[Laurent-Désiré Kabila]], president of the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] (b. [[1939]])
*[[January 19]] - [[Dario Vittori]], Argentinean actor (b. [[1921]])
*[[January 27]] - [[Marie-José of Belgium]], last Queen of Italy (b. [[1906]])
*[[January 28]] - [[Curt Blefary]], American baseball player (b. [[1943]])
*[[January 30]] - [[Jean-Pierre Aumont]], French actor (b. [[1911]])
*[[January 30]] - [[Johnnie Johnson (pilot)|Johnnie Johnson]], English pilot (b. [[1915]])
*[[January 31]] - [[Gordon R. Dickson]], Canadian writer (b. [[1923]])
*[[February 4]] - [[Iannis Xenakis]], Greek composer (b. [[1922]])
*[[February 6]] - [[Filemon Lagman]], Filipino Communist revolutionary (b. [[1953]])
*[[February 7]] - [[Dale Evans]], American actress and singer (b. [[1912]])
*[[February 7]] - [[Anne Morrow Lindbergh]], American author and aviator (b. [[1906]])
*[[February 9]] - [[Herbert Simon]], American economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1916]])
*[[February 10]] - [[Abraham Beame]], American [[mayor of New York City]] (b.[[1906]])
*[[February 12]] - [[Kristina Söderbaum]], German actress and photographer (b. [[1912]])
*[[February 16]] - [[Bob Buhl]], American baseball player (b. [[1928]])
*[[february 17]] - [[Khalid Abdul Muhammad]], American [[Black Nationalist]] leader (b. [[1948]])
*[[February 18]] - [[Balthus]], French painter (b. [[1908]])
*[[February 18]] - [[Dale Earnhardt]], American race car driver (b. [[1951]])
*[[February 18]] - [[Eddie Mathews]], American baseball player (b. [[1931]])
*[[February 19]] - [[Priscilla Davis]], American socialite (b. [[1942]])
*[[February 19]] - [[Stanley Kramer]], American film director (b. [[1913]])
*[[February 19]] - [[Charles Trenet]], French singer (b. [[1913]])
*[[February 24]] - [[Claude Elwood Shannon]], American mathematician (b. [[1916]])
*[[February 25]] - Sir [[Donald Bradman]], Australian cricketer (b. [[1908]])
*[[February 26]] - [[Stan Cullis]], English footballer and manager (b. [[1915]])
*[[March 4]] - [[Harold Stassen]], American politician (b. [[1907]])
*[[March 4]] - [[Fred Lasswell]], American cartoonist (b. [[1916]])
*[[March 4]] - [[Glenn Hughes (singer)|Glenn Hughes]], American singer (b. [[1950]])
*[[March 12]] - [[Morton Downey Jr.]], American television personality (b. [[1932]])
*[[March 12]] - [[Robert Ludlum]], American author (b. [[1927]])
*[[March 12]] - [[Ann Sothern]], American actress (b. [[1909]])
*[[March 13]] - [[Encarnacion Alzona]], Filipino historian (b. [[1895]])
*[[March 18]] - [[John Phillips (musician)|John Phillips]], American singer (b. [[1935]])
*[[March 21]] - [[Norma Macmillan]], Canadian voice actress (b. [[1921]])
*[[March 22]] - [[William Hanna]], American animation studio executive (b. [[1910]])
*[[March 23]] - [[Sully Boyar]], American actor (b. [[1923]])
*[[March 28]] - [[Vulo Radev]], Bulgarian film director (b. [[1923]])
*[[March 31]] - [[Clifford Shull]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1915]])
*[[March 31]] - [[David Rocastle]], English footballer (b. [[1967]])
*[[April 7]] - [[David Graf]], American actor (b. [[1950]])
*[[April 7]] - [[Beatrice Straight]], American actress (b. [[1914]])
*[[April 10]] - [[Willie Stargell]], American baseball player (b. [[1940]])
*[[April 11]] - [[Graciela Naranjo]], Venezuelan singer and actress (b. [[1916]])
*[[April 11]] - [[Harry Secombe]], Welsh entertainer (b. [[1921]])
*[[April 12]] - [[Harvey Ball]], American designer (b. [[1921]])
*[[April 14]] - [[Hiroshi Teshigahara]], Japanese director (b. [[1927]])
*[[April 15]] - [[Joey Ramone]], American musician and singer (b. [[1951]])
*[[April 20]] - [[Giuseppe Sinopoli]], Italian conductor and composer (b. [[1946]])
*[[April 20]] - [[Bert Sutcliffe]], New Zealand cricketer (b. [[1923]])
*[[May 2]] - [[Ted Rogers (comedian)|Ted Rogers]], British comedian (b. [[1935]])
*[[May 2]] - [[Gina Mastrogiacomo]], American actress (b. [[1961]])
*[[May 5]] - [[Clifton Hillegass]], American businessman and publisher (b. [[1918]])
*[[May 9]] - [[James E. Myers]], American songwriter (b. [[1919]])
*[[May 11]] - [[Douglas Adams]], English author (b. [[1952]])
*[[May 12]] - [[Perry Como]], American singer (b. [[1912]])
*[[May 13]] - [[R.K. Narayan]], Indian novelist (b. [[1906]])
*[[May 20]] - [[Renato Carosone]], Italian musician and singer (b. [[1920]])
*[[May 24]] - [[Javier Urruticoechea]], Spanish footballer (b. [[1952]])
*[[May 27]] - [[Ramon Bieri]], American actor (b. [[1929]])
*[[May 28]] - [[Francisco Varela]], Chilean biologist and philosopher (b. [[1946]])
*[[June 1]] - [[Hank Ketcham]], American cartoonist (b. [[1920]])
*[[June 1]] - Queen [[Aiswarya]] of Nepal (b. [[1949]])
*[[June 1]] - King [[Birendra of Nepal]] (b. [[1945]])
*[[June 2]] - [[Imogene Coca]], American actress (b. [[1908]])
*[[June 2]] - [[Joey Maxim]], American boxer (b. [[1922]])
*[[June 3]] - [[Anthony Quinn]], Mexican actor (b. [[1915]])
*[[June 4]] - King [[Dipendra of Nepal]] (b. [[1971]])
*[[June 4]] - [[John Hartford]], American musician and composer (b. [[1937]])
*[[June 7]] - [[Víctor Paz Estenssoro]], President of Bolivia (b. [[1907]])
*[[June 10]] - [[Princess Leila of Iran]] (b. [[1970]])
*[[June 11]] - [[Timothy McVeigh]], American terrorist (b. [[1968]])
*[[June 13]] - [[Marcelo Fromer]], Brazilian musician (b. [[1961]])
*[[June 15]] - [[Henri Alekan]], French cinematographer (b. [[1909]])
*[[June 17]] - [[Donald J. Cram]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1919]])
*[[June 17]] - [[Thomas Winning]], Scottish cardinal (b. [[1925]])
*[[June 19]] - [[John Heyer]], Australian documentary filmmaker (b. [[1916]])
*[[June 21]] - [[John Lee Hooker]], American musician (b. [[1917]])
*[[June 21]] - [[Carroll O'Connor]], American actor (b. [[1924]])
*[[June 21]] - [[Souad Hosni]], Egyptian actress (b. [[1942]])
*[[June 26]] - [[Peter von Zahn]], German journalist (b. [[1913]])
*[[June 27]] - [[Tove Jansson]], Finnish author (b. [[1914]])
*[[June 27]] - [[Jack Lemmon]], American actor and director (b. [[1925]])
*[[June 28]] - [[Mortimer Adler]], American philosopher (b. [[1902]])
*[[June 28]] - [[Joan Sims]], British actress (b. [[1930]])
*[[June 30]] - [[Chet Atkins]], American country guitar player and producer (b. [[1924]])
===July-December===
*[[July 1]] - [[Nikolay Basov]], Russian physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1922]])
*[[July 5]] - [[Hannelore Kohl]], wife of German chancellor [[Helmut Kohl]] (b. [[1933]])
*[[July 7]] - [[Fred Neil]], American singer-songwriter (b. [[1936]])
*[[July 11]] - [[Herman Brood]], Dutch musician and painter (b. [[1946]])
*[[July 12]] - [[Paul Magloire]], President of Haiti (b. [[1907]])
*[[July 18]] - [[Fabio Taglioni]], Italian automotive engineer (b. [[1920]])
*[[July 20]] - [[Milt Gabler]], American record producer (b. [[1911]])
*[[July 22]] - [[Miss Frances|Frances Horwich]] American television show host (b. [[1907]])
*[[July 27]] - [[Leon Wilkeson]], American musician (b. [[1952]])
*[[July 29]] - [[Edward Gierek]], Polish politician (b. [[1913]])
*[[July 29]] - [[Wau Holland]], German hacker (b. [[1951]])
*[[August 1]] - [[Poul Anderson]], American author (b. [[1926]])
*[[August 1]] - [[Korey Stringer]], American football player (b. [[1974]])
*[[August 3]] - [[Christopher Hewett]], British actor (b. [[1922]])
*[[August 6]] - [[Jorge Amado]], Brazilian writer (b. [[1912]])
*[[August 15]] - [[Richard Chelimo]], Kenyan athlete (b. [[1972]])
*[[August 19]] - [[Les Sealey]], English footballer (b. [[1957]])
*[[August 20]] - [[Fred Hoyle]], British astronomer and writer (b. [[1915]])
*[[August 21]] - [[Calum MacKay]], Canadian hockey player (b. [[1927]])
*[[August 25]] - [[Aaliyah]], American singer and actress ((b. [[1979]])
*[[August 30]] - [[Ivor Spencer-Thomas]], English entrepreneur and inventor (b. [[1907]])
*[[September 1]] - [[Bobby Evans]], Scottish football player (b. [[1927]])
*[[September 2]] - [[Christiaan Barnard]], South African surgeon (b. [[1922]])
*[[September 3]] - [[Pauline Kael]], American film critic (b. [[1919]])
*[[September 3]] - [[Thuy Trang]], Vietnamese-American actress (b. [[1973]])
*[[September 4]] - [[Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf]], American radio personality and actor (b. [[1962]])
*[[September 7]] - [[Spede Pasanen]], Finnish television personality (b. [[1930]])
*[[September 9]] - [[Ahmed Shah Massoud]], Afghan military commander (b. [[1953]])
*[[September 11]] - [[David Angell]], American television producer (b. [[1946]])
*[[September 11]] - [[Garnet Bailey]], Canadian ice hockey player and scout (b. [[1948]])
*[[September 11]] - [[Todd Beamer]], American passenger on Flight 93 (b. [[1968]])
*[[September 11]] - [[Berry Berenson]], American actress and photographer (b. [[1948]])
*[[September 11]] - [[Mark Bingham]], American passenger on Flight 93 (b. [[1970]])
*[[September 11]] - [[Tom Burnett]], American passenger on Flight 93 (b. [[1963]])
*[[September 11]] - [[Jeremy Glick (Flight 93 hero)|Jeremy Glick]], American passenger on Flight 93 (b. [[1970]])
*[[September 11]] - [[Barbara Olson]], American television commentator (b. [[1955]])
*[[September 11]] - [[Alice Stewart Trillin]], American author and film producer (b. [[1938]])
*[[September 12]] - [[Victor Wong]], American actor (b. [[1927]])
*[[September 22]] - [[Isaac Stern]], Ukrainian violinist (b. [[1920]])
*[[October 7]] - [[Chris Adams (wrestler)|Chris Adams]], American judoka and professional wrestler (b. [[1955]])
*[[October 12]] - [[Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone]], British lawyer and politician (b. [[1907]])
*[[October 15]] - [[Zhang Xueliang]], Chinese military figure (b. [[1901]])
*[[October 23]] - [[Daniel Wildenstein]], French art dealer and racehorse owner (b. [[1917]])
*[[October 26]] - [[Josh Kirby]], British artist (b. [[1928]])
*[[October 26]] - [[Charlie van Gelderen]], South African politician (b. [[1913]])
* [[November 7]] - [[Nida Blanca]], Philippine actress (b. [[1936]])
*[[November 9]] - [[Niels Jannasch]], Canadian historian and museum curator (b. [[1924]])
* [[November 10]] - [[Ken Kesey]], American author (b. [[1935]])
* [[November 12]] - [[Tony Miles]], English chess player (b. [[1955]])
* [[November 12]] - [[Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami]], American-born Hindu guru (b. [[1927]])
* [[November 17]] - [[Michael Karoli]], German guitarist ([[Can (band)|Can]]) (b. [[1948]])
* [[November 21]] - [[Salahuddin of Malaysia]], King of Malaysia (b. [[1926]])
* [[November 24]] - [[Melanie Thornton]], American-born singer (b. [[1967]])
*[[November 25]] - [[Gohar Shahi]], Pakistani spiritual leader (b. [[1941]])
* [[November 28]] - [[William Kienzle]], American author (b. [[1928]])
* [[November 29]] - [[George Harrison]], English musician (b. [[1943]])
* [[November 29]] - [[John Knowles]], American author (b. [[1926]])
* [[December 5]] - Sir [[Peter Blake (yachtsman)|Peter Blake]], New Zealand sailor and environmentalist (b. [[1948]])
* [[December 5]] - [[Franco Rasetti]], Italian physicist (b. [[1901]])
* [[December 6]] - [[Charles McClendon]], American football coach (b. [[1923]])
* [[December 8]] - [[Don Tennant]], American advertising executive (b. [[1922]])
* [[December 8]] - [[Betty Holberton]], American programmer (b. [[1917]])
* [[December 12]] - [[Josef Bican]], Austrian footballer (b. [[1913]]
* [[December 13]] - [[Chuck Schuldiner]], American singer and guitarist (b. [[1967]])
* [[December 15]] - [[Rufus Thomas]], American singer (b. [[1917]])
* [[December 15]] - [[Russ Haas]], American professional wrestler (b. [[1974]])
* [[December 16]] - [[Stuart Adamson]], British musician (b. [[1958]])
* [[December 20]] - [[Foster Brooks]], American actor and comedian (b. [[1912]])
* [[December 20]] - [[Léopold Sédar Senghor]], First president of Senegal (b. [[1906]])
* [[December 26]] - [[Nigel Hawthorne]], British actor (b. [[1929]])
* [[December 29]] - [[Takashi Asahina]], Japanese conductor (b. [[1908]])
* [[December 29]] - [[Florian Fricke]], German musician (b. [[1944]])
* [[December 29]] - [[Cassia Eller]], Brazilian singer (b. [[1962]])
* [[December 30]] - [[Eileen Heckart]], American actress (b. [[1919]])
==Nobel prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Eric Allin Cornell]], [[Wolfgang Ketterle]], [[Carl Edwin Wieman]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[William S. Knowles]], [[Ryoji Noyori]], [[K. Barry Sharpless]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] - [[Leland H. Hartwell]], [[R. Timothy Hunt]], [[Paul M. Nurse]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[V.S. Naipaul]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[United Nations]], [[Kofi Annan]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel]] - [[George A. Akerlof]], [[Michael Spence]], [[Joseph E. Stiglitz]]
==[[Templeton Prize]]==
* [[Arthur Peacocke|Rev. Canon Dr. Arthur Peacocke]]
==See also==
* [[21st century]]
* [[2001: A Space Odyssey]]
* [[2001 (album)]]
==Notes==
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