February 2001 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 2001 Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise announced their separation.
• 05 Feb 2001 Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise announced their separation.
• 08 Feb 2001 Disney's California Adventure is now open in Anaheim, California. It is located next to Disneyland. Three areas are included on the 55-acre site: Paradise Pier and Hollywood Pictures Backlot. The Golden State is also part of it. It cost US$1.4billion to build the theme park. Adult admission costs are US$43, while children's admission is US$33
• 09 Feb 2001 Inadvertently, the USS Greeneville strikes and sinks Ehime-Maru (a Japanese training vessel owned by the Uwajima Fishery High School).
• 11 Feb 2001 Three Rivers Stadium is being demolished, the 30-year-old home of Pittsburgh Pirates.
• 13 Feb 2001 El Salvador is struck by an earthquake measuring 6.6 on Richter Scale, killing at most 400 people.
• 15 Feb 2001 Nature publishes the first draft of the human genome.
• 16 Feb 2001 British and U.S. forces bomb Iraqi air defense networks with bombing raids. Three people are killed in a suburb of Baghdad.
• 17 Feb 2001 Disarmament crisis in Iraq: Baghdad is bombarded by US- and UK warplans, killing three.
• 18 Feb 2001 Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent, is arrested for spying on behalf of the Soviet Union. He is eventually convicted and sentenced for life imprisonment
• 19 Feb 2001 Oklahoma City National Memorial is the home of the Oklahoma City Bombing Museum.
• 26 Feb 2001 Treaty of Nice
• 28 Feb 2001 A magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes Washington state. About 400 people injured and major damage in the Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia area. Estimated damage between US$1 billion and $4 billion

Famous Birthday

• David Mazouz

  American actor.

• David Mazouz

  American actor.

• Eliott Sarrey

  French-Lorraine young prodigy, he won the first prize of the Google science fair (10000 dollars) for having invented a robot gardener, aged...

• Connor Gibbs

  TV Actor.

• Brooklyn Elbert

  Pop Singer.

• Jordyn Yarker

  Pop Singer.

• Juan Labajo

  World Music Singer.

• Suede Brooks

  YouTube Star.

• Dara Yu

  Chef.

• Gavin Pecson

  Dancer.

• Haley Tju

  TV Actress.

• Isyraf Danish

  Instagram Star.

• Gabe Guzman

  Dancer.

• Sierra Whitesides

  Family Member.

• Isabella Acres

  American actress.

• Jagger Eaton

  Skateboarder.

• Ramona Marquez

  Movie Actress.

• Brynklie Brown

  Dancer.

• Leah Roga

  Dancer.

• Ashley Adee

  Family Member.

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Famous Deaths

• Balthus

  Polish-French artist, the son of Polish painter and art historian Erick Klossowski and painter Elisabeth Dorothee Spiro, encouraged with his...

• Iannis Xenakis

  Braila, Romania -- Composer / architect / mathematician.

• Tiberio Mitri

  Italian boxer, a dramatic and exciting grand champion.

• Robert Enrico

  Italian-French film editor and director, noted family as the son of a champion cyclist.

• Eddie Mathews

  American baseball star with the Milwaukee Braves, giving them a "fearsome home run punch.

• Bob Geary

  Canadian football player and manager (Born 1933).

• Les Medley

  English footballer (Born1920).

• Ivo Caprino

  Norwegian film director and writer, best known for his puppet films.

• Dale Earnhardt

  American race car driver, the son of champion driver Dale Earnhardt who was killed on the track at Talladega, Fl on 2/18/2001.

• Arturo Uslar Pietri

  Venezuelan intellectual, lawyer, journalist, writer, television producer and politician.

• Donella Meadows

  American environmentalist author and academic (d. 2001).

• Pankaj Roy

  Indian cricketer (Born 1928).

• Barry Burman

  English painter and academic (d. 2001).

• Fulgence Charpentier

  Canadian journalist and publisher (d. 2001).

• Theodore Marier

  American composer and educator founded the Boston Archdiocesan Choir School (d. 2001).

• William Masters

  American physician and researcher in the field of human sexuality, a pioneer who changed the way that American looked at sex.

• J J Johnson

  American jazz trombonist and composer (Born 1924).

• Rosemary DeCamp

  American actress who became known as the "Yankee Doodle" actress after she portrayed James Cagney’s mother in "Yankee Doodle Dandy," 1942.

• Claude E Shannon

  American information theorist (Born 1916).

• Andre D'Allemagne

  Quebec teacher, political observer and essayist (Born 1929).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Shaggy - It Wasn't Me
2. OutKast - Ms. Jackson
3. Joe - Stutter
4. Destiny's Child - Independent Women Part I
5. Jennifer Lopez - Love Don't Cost A Thing

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Atomic Kitten - Whole Again
2. Limp Bizkit - Rollin'
3. Shaggy featuring Rikrok - It Wasn't Me
4. Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag
5. Westlife - Uptown Girl