November 2001 calendar

Events

• 02 Nov 2001 Microsoft, the US Department of Justice, and nine US States reach an agreement in their antitrust case. Microsoft will license Windows uniformly and can't make exclusive agreements that force companies to stop using certain software products.
• 04 Nov 2001 Establishment of the Police Service of Northern Ireland
• 06 Nov 2001 Twentieth Century Fox's antiterrorist drama series ''24'' premieres.
• 11 Nov 2001 Journalists Johanne Sutton, Pierre Billaud and Volker Handloik were killed in Afghanistan in an attack on their convoy.
• 12 Nov 2001 American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 on route to the Dominican Republic from New York City, crashed shortly after takeoff at John F. Kennedy International Airport. It killed all 260 passengers on board as well as five crew members.
• 13 Nov 2001 The first such act since World War II was signed by President George W. Bush. It allows military tribunals to be established against foreigners suspected of being connected to terrorist acts or planning acts against the United States.
• 15 Nov 2001 Microsoft launches the Xbox video gaming system in North America. The price is US$299. The system comes with four controller ports and one controller. It has a 733 MHz Intel main CPU, 250 MHz NVidia XGP graphic processor, 64 MB RAM and 3D audio support. There is also an Ethernet port. Dual-layer DVD-ROM discs can store up to 9 GB of data. It can also play DVD movies. In the first seven days, 500,000 units were sold; 1.5 million units in the first month.
• 16 Nov 2001 The first Harry Potter film, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", is released. It grosses US$ 62 million and becomes the second highest grossing film worldwide, after "Titanic".
• 17 Nov 2001 Cartoon Network America premieres the animated Justice League cartoon.
• 18 Nov 2001 At Survivor Series in Greensboro (North Carolina), the World Wrestling Federation beat the ECW/WCW alliance
• 19 Nov 2001 It's now 50!
• 20 Nov 2001 Washington, D.C. - President George W. Bush dedicates United States Department of Justice Headquarters Building as the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, in honor of Robert F. Kennedy's 76th birthday.
• 21 Nov 2001 Production of Disney's beloved animated series, "Recess", is finished.
• 23 Nov 2001 Budapest, Hungary: The Convention on Cybercrime has been signed.
• 24 Nov 2001 Melanie Thornton, a German/American Pop singer and former member of La Bouche, is killed in a plane accident on her way to Zurich, Switzerland. She was also with Maria Serreno–Serreno, Nathaly Van Ende, of the German dance group Passion Fruit (band).
• 27 Nov 2001 The Hubble Space Telescope discovers a hydrogen atmosphere on Osiris, an extrasolar world. This is the first detection of an atmosphere on an extrasolar globe.
• 29 Nov 2001 George Harrison, the Beatle, dies in Hollywood, California at the age 58. He was suffering from lung cancer.
• 30 Nov 2001 Gary Ridgway, aka The Green River Killer, is being held in Renton, Washington, United States.

Famous Birthday

• Prince Abdullah

  bin Al Ghazi of Jordan.

• Samantha Bailey

  American actress.

• Esme Fox

  American noted family, the fourth child and daughter of Michael J. Fox, 40 and his wife, Tracy Pollan, 41, weighing in at 7 lbs, 6 oz.

• Armstrong Twins

  American twin daughters born to disgraced seven-time Tour de France Champion Lance Armstrong and his wife, Kristen.

• Dylan Delgado

  Skateboarder.

• Bredia Santoro

  Pop Singer.

• Grae Fernandez

  Pop Singer.

• Will Robertson

  Reality Star.

• Chloe Lang

  TV Actress.

• Matilda Ramsay

  Family Member.

• Reece Buttery

  TV Actor.

• Eleonora Gaggero

  TV Actress.

• Molly Jackson

  TV Actress.

• Nathan Odom

  Chef.

• Sean Lew

  Dancer.

• Alexander Bain

  Soap Opera Actor.

• Charlize Glass

  Dancer.

• Jaylyn Caylen

  Family Member.

• Sawyer Nunes

  Stage Actor.

• Noah Lomax

  Movie Actor.

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Famous Deaths

• Melanie Thornton

  American-German singer (La Bouche) (d. 2001).

• Milton William Cooper

  American writer, shortwave broadcaster (Born 1943).

• Charlotte Coleman

  British actress (Born 1968).

• Kal Mann

  American songwriter (d. 2001).

• Ernst Gombrich

  OM / FBA / director (Warburg Institute).

• Albert Hague

  German-born American actor and songwriter (Born 1920).

• Anthony Shaffer

  British playwright, the author of "Sleuth," a brilliant double-cross mystery thriller that won a Tony in 1971 and was made into a film.

• Peggy Mount

  English actress (Born 1915).

• Mary Kay Ash

  American entrepreneur (Born 1915).

• William Reid

  Scottish born guitarist for "The Jesus and Mary Chain", a feedback-driven guitar band he co-founded with his brother Jim in 1983.

• Mary Whitehouse

  British social activist (Born 1910).

• Barry Horne

  British animal activist (Born 1952).

• Juan Carlos Lorenzo

  Argentine footballer (Born 1922).

• Tommy Flanagan

  American jazz pianist (Born 1930).

• Roy Boulting

  English director producer and screenwriter (d. 2001).

• Norman Granz

  American jazz impresario and recording industry executive (Born 1918).

• Marcelle Ferron

  Quebec painter and stained glass artist (Born 1924).

• King Salahuddin

  of Malaysia (Born 1926).

• Bo Belinsky

  American baseball player (Born 1936).

• OC Smith

  American singer (Born 1932).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Mary J. Blige - Family Affair
2. Jennifer Lopez - I'm Real
3. Usher - U Got It Bad
4. Alicia Keys - Fallin'
5. Enrique Iglesias - Hero

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Afroman - Because I Got High
2. Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This
3. Westlife - Queen Of My Heart
4. S Club 7 - Have You Ever
5. Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head