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2001

The year 2001 became the international year of volunteers. This year saw the release of the first of the Harry Porter Series, The Lord of the Rings, Ocean’s trilogy, Shrek and The Fast and the Furious.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was the highest grossing film followed by The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. According to Billboard chart, Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory was the best-selling album of the year.

George W. Bush took the oath of office on January 10, 2001. On a bright morning of September 11 a Tuesday, an American Airlines Boeing 767 full of 20,000 gallons of jet fuel flew into the World Trade Center's Northern Tower in New York City. President Bush on October 7 announced that the USA was going to war in Afghanistan and on the 26 of October signed the Patriot Act, an anti-terrorism law, following the September 11 attacks on the Pentagon and the world trade center.

During a soccer match on May 2001, in Accra Stadium in Ghana, over 126 fans lost their lives after an encounter with police and rowdy fans. The Accra Hearts of Oak was the home team and was leading against their arch rivals Asante Kotoko of Kumasi. The Kotoko fans started reaping seats and throwing them into the field. The police responded by launching tear gas into the crowd of fans leading to one of the biggest sports disasters in Africa’s history at the time.

December 15, 2001, saw the reopening of Italy’s Leaning Tower of Pisa. This was after a team mostly made up of experts spent 11 years and $27 million to fortify the 12th-century tower without eliminating the infamous lean. The Italian authorities closed the tower in 1990 after it leaned an extraordinary 15 feet from the perpendicular. It is a miracle it didn’t topple over.

This was a great year for science when Robert Tools received the world’s first self-contained heart. The infamous 2001 anthrax letters were the new form of terror that left five people dead and 17 others infected.

Discover how the world looked like in 2001

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Oscar Winners

All Academy Awards Prize winners of the 74th edition of the Oscar ceremony

Best picture

A Beautiful Mind

Best director

Ron Howard

Best actor

Denzel Washington

Best actress

Halle Berry

Best supporting actor

Jim Broadbent

Best supporting actress

Jennifer Connelly

Time Person of the Year

Who was the person of the year of 2001?

Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani was Mayor of New York City at the time of the September 11 attacks in 2001, was selected as a symbol of America's response to the attacks.

Books

Which were the most popular books released in 2001 ?
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Nobel Prizes

All Nobel Prize winners of 2001

Peace Prize

United Nations
Kofi Annan

Literature

V. S. Naipaul

Physics

Eric Allin Cornell
Wolfgang Ketterle
Carl Wieman

Economic Sciences

George Akerlof
Michael Spence
Joseph Stiglitz

Chemistry

William Standish Knowles
Ryōji Noyori
Karl Barry Sharpless

Physiology or Medicine

Leland H. Hartwell
Tim Hunt
Paul Nurse

Music charts

Which were the top hits of 2001?

Top #1 songs in the USA

Lifehouse - Hanging By A Moment
Alicia Keys - Fallin'
Jennifer Lopez - I'm Real
Eve - Let Me Blow Ya Mind
Blu Cantrell - Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops!)
Usher - U Remind Me
Mary J. Blige - Family Affair
Joe - Stutter
Shaggy - Angel
Janet - All For You

Top #1 songs in the UK

DJ Otzi - Hey Baby
Robbie Williams - Eternity / The Road To Mandalay
Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head
Shaggy featuring Rikrok - It Wasn't Me
Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag
Five - Let's Dance
Afroman - Because I Got High
Atomic Kitten - Whole Again
S Club 7 - Don't Stop Movin'
City High - What Would You Do

Movies

Which were the most popular Movies released in those months?
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Popular names

Which were the top popular names given to babies born in 2001 in the USA ?

Top #10 male names

Top #10 female names

World Population

Demographic statistics of the year 2001

Population statistics

Total population: 6.2 billion (6,222,626,606 to be precise!)
Urban population: 2.9 billion, that is 47.0% of the total population of 2001 lives in cities
Yearly change: +79.3 million, corresponding to a percentage increase of +1.29%
Average density: 42.0 persons per km²

Historical Events

Which were the important events of 2001?

Events

01 Jan 2001 A monolith black measuring approximately ten feet tall, known as the Seattle Monolith, was found in Seattle's Magnuson Park. It was placed by an unknown artist to reference the film '2001: A Space Odyssey'.
02 Jan 2001 Sila Calderon is elected the first female Governor for Puerto Rico
03 Jan 2001 The 107th United States Congress is sworn in, including incoming freshmen Senators Bill Nelson (Democrat-Florida), Tom Carper (Democrat-Delaware), Debbie Stabenow (Democrat-Michigan), John Ensign (Republican-Nevada), George Allen (Republican-Virginia), Maria Cantwell (Democrat-Washington), Ben Nelson (Democrat-Nebraska), Hillary Clinton (Democrat-New York), Jon Corzine (Democrat-New Jersey), Jean Carnahan (Democrat-Missouri), and Mark Dayton (Democrat-Minnesota).
06 Jan 2001 The United States Congress presided over Vice President Al Gore, President of the Senate. This certifies George Walker Bush's victory in the Electoral College and makes him the winner of 2000 presidential election.
09 Jan 2001 Shenzhou 2, a Chinese unmanned spacecraft, was launched.
10 Jan 2001 Apple will unveil their iTunes digital media player app at the Macworld Expo San Francisco.
11 Jan 2001 The merger of America Online & Time Warner is approved by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to create AOL Time Warner.
12 Jan 2001 Downtown Disney opens in Disneyland Resort. It is located between Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure. This 300,000-square-foot site includes restaurants, nightclubs and shops as well as movie theaters.
13 Jan 2001 More than 800 people are killed in an earthquake that struck El Salvador.
15 Jan 2001 Wikipedia, a Wiki content encyclopedia for free, is now online.
16 Jan 2001 Former US President Theodore Roosevelt receives a Medal of Honor posthumously from President Bill Clinton for his service in the Spanish-American War. Eleven Roosevelt's descendants accepted the honor on his behalf.
17 Jan 2001 U.S. President Bill Clinton posthumously raises Meriwether's rank from Lieutenant to Capt.
20 Jan 2001 In a peaceful 4-day revolution, Joseph Estrada of the Philippines is defeated and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is elected president.
22 Jan 2001 Four of the ampquotTexas7ampquot were caught in a convenience store near Woodland Park, Colorado. A fifth victim committed suicide inside a motorhome.
23 Jan 2001 January 25, 2015 - Del Ponte, United Nations war crimes prosecutor, demands that Slobodan Milosevic be handed over to Serbia
24 Jan 2001 Colorado Springs, Colorado takes the last two ampquotTexas 7ampquot into custody.
26 Jan 2001 More than 20,000 people are killed in an earthquake that struck Gujarat, India.
27 Jan 2001 Two players from the Oklahoma State University basketball team were killed in a plane crash 40 miles east of Denver. Six other staff members and the two-person crew were also hurt.
28 Jan 2001 Super Bowl XXXV, Tampa, Florida: The Baltimore Ravens defeats New York Giants 34-7
29 Jan 2001 Indonesian student protestors gathered to storm parliament demanding that President Abdurrahman Wahid be removed from office for his alleged involvement with corruption scandals.
31 Jan 2001 A Scottish court in the Netherlands convicts Libyan Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988.
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
02 Mar 2001 The Taliban begin to destroy the Bamiyan Buddhas.
03 Mar 2001 Jackie Martling's last day on Howard Stern Show.
04 Mar 2001 Disaster at Hintze Ribeiro: Up to 70 people are killed when a bridge collapses in northern Portugal.
07 Mar 2001 Nickelodeon airs the ''SpongeBob squarePants You Wish' tv special. The episode of Dragonball Z, The Doomsday Broadcast, was almost banned by government officials, but it still had viewers.
08 Mar 2001 Died: Ninette De Valoisnbsp - founder of Royal Ballet London
09 Mar 2001 Superior Galleries, Salt Lake City, Utah sells a US 1913 Liberty Head 5-cent Coin to Dwight Manley at a auction for US$1.84 Million.
12 Mar 2001 The US Mint has released the North Carolina quarter-dollar for circulation.
14 Mar 2001 At 3:49:28, this day marks the 686th term in the Leibniz series. The terms in these two sequences are respectively 0.785033732 & 3.140134928.
18 Mar 2001 John Phillipsnbsp - Singer and songwriter
22 Mar 2001 William Hannanbsp- director, animator, producer and co-founder Hanna-Barbera Productions
23 Mar 2001 Russian Mir space station is destroyed. It breaks up in the atmosphere and then falls into the Pacific Ocean, near Fiji.
24 Mar 2001 Apple Computer launches Mac OS X 10.0
29 Mar 2001 18 people were killed when a chartered Gulfstream III jet crashed into a hillside on approach to Aspen, Colorado.
30 Mar 2001 Release of the PC game "Tribes 2"
31 Mar 2001 Premiere of animated television series "Invader Zim"
01 Apr 2001 A US Navy EP-3E surveillance aircraft collides into a Chinese People's Liberation Army Shenyang J-8 fighter plane. The Navy crew made an emergency landing in Hainan (People's Republic of China) and was taken into custody.
06 Apr 2001 Film: ''Along Came a Spider’' starring Morgan Freeman
07 Apr 2001 Timothy Thomas, a 19 year-old African-American is shot in Cincinnati by a Cincinnati police officer. This incident sparked riots in downtown Cincinnati between April 10 and April 12.
08 Apr 2001 Tiger Woods wins 2001 Masters Tournament. This completes the "Tiger Slam", Woods becoming the first player to have all four major professional titles at once, having previously won the U.S Open, Open Championship and PGA Championship in 2000.
11 Apr 2001 Film: "Joe Dirt" starring David Spade
15 Apr 2001 Easter Day (not again until 2063).
16 Apr 2001 India and Bangladesh start a five-day border dispute, but they are unable to settle the issues about their border.
20 Apr 2001 Anti-globalization activists hold a People's Summit, large protest marches and some are even forcibly stopped by police against the FTAA summit at Quebec City, Quebec.
21 Apr 2001 The 12th Annual Thunder Over Louisville will be held in Louisville, Kentucky.
22 Apr 2001 Michelle Stevens and Gentry Underwood are married in Carmel Valley (California).
28 Apr 2001 SoyuzTM-32 takes off from Baikonur Cosmodrome carrying Dennis Tito, the first American space tourist.
30 Apr 2001 Dennis Tito, the first space tourist, takes off in a Russian rocket bound for the International Space Station.
01 May 2001 Philippine President Gloria Macapagal - Arroyo declares the existence ''a state rebellion'' hours after thousands of supporters of Joseph Estrada were arrested and stormed towards the presidential palace during the height of the EDSA III revolt.
03 May 2001 The United States is losing its seat at the U.N. Human Rights Commission, for the first time since 1947 when the commission was established.
04 May 2001 The Milwaukee Art Museum's addition is the first Santiago Calatrava-designed structure to open in the United States.
06 May 2001 Pope John Paul II enters a mosque as the first pope during a trip to Syria.
09 May 2001 Accra Sports Stadium Disaster, which saw the deaths of 129 Ghanaian football fans, was a tragedy that became well-known in Ghana. After a controversial referee's decision, a stampede that saw teargas fired at stadium police officers caused the deaths.
11 May 2001 Douglas Adams, the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy, a cult science-fiction comedy, has died at the age 49.
12 May 2001 Perry Como, a singer, has died at the age of just 89.
15 May 2001 The first album by American female rock band The Go-Go's in 17 years after the release of 'Talk Show' (1984)
19 May 2001 First Apple Store opens.
21 May 2001 The 2001 Rhode Island quarter-dollar is now in circulation thanks to the US Mint.
22 May 2001 Sherpa Temba, 16 years old, becomes the youngest person ever to climb Mount Everest.
24 May 2001 Mountain climbing: Sherpa Temba, 15, becomes the youngest person ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
25 May 2001 Erik Weihenmayer (32 years old), from Boulder, Colorado becomes the first blind person on Mount Everest.
27 May 2001 After a series of events that created tension between Asian and White communities, the Oldham riots occur in Oldham, UK. This lasted until May 28, 2001.
29 May 2001 After posing as being over 21 at a Texas drinking establishment, Jenna and Barbara Bush were charged with under-age drinking.
01 Jun 2001 Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra, the Crown Prince of Nepal, shoots and kills several family members including his father and mother King Birendra of Nepal (and Queen Aiswarya).
04 Jun 2001 After the massacre at the Royal Palace, Gyanendra, the last King, ascends to his throne.
05 Jun 2001 From June 9 through 9, Houston, Texas, is devastated by flooding from Tropical Storm Allison (900mm) that brings 36 inches of rain. The Texas Medical Center and downtown are particularly hard hit, as they lose years of research data and thousands upon thousands of laboratory animals. Twenty-two people die; damage exceeds US$5 billion.
07 Jun 2001 Tony Blair's Labour Party was elected to a second term in the UK general election.
10 Jun 2001 Pope John Paul II canonizes Saint Rafqa, Lebanon's first female saint.
11 Jun 2001 Nintendo announces the Game Boy Advance portable gaming system in the USA.
12 Jun 2001 Robert Edward Dyer was sentenced to 16 Years in Prison for trying to extort money through a letter bombing campaign from a British supermarket chain.
14 Jun 2001 All soldiers in the United States Army are required to wear the black beret as their standard headgear.
18 Jun 2001 Manipur protests the extension of ceasefire between Naga rebels and the government.
19 Jun 2001 23 people were killed and 11 injured when an American missile struck a soccer field in northern Iraq's county of Tel Afr
20 Jun 2001 Andrea Yates, a mother of five, drowns her children in a bathtub. She then confesses to her crimes.
21 Jun 2001 Alexandria, Virginia: A federal grand jury indicts 13 Saudis, and one Lebanese for the 1996 bombing at the Khobar Towers, Saudi Arabia, which resulted in the deaths of 19 American servicemen.
23 Jun 2001 The south of Peru is struck by an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale.
28 Jun 2001 Slobodan Milosevic is deported to ICTY in order to stand trial.
29 Jun 2001 Mary Barnes, artist and writer, dies at the age of 78.
01 Jul 2001 Alliant International University was formed from the fusion of United States International University (USA) and...
02 Jul 2001 The first AbioCor self-contained artificial heart was implanted.
03 Jul 2001 A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev Tu-154 Russian jetliner crashes as it approaches Irkutsk. It killed 145 people.
04 Jul 2001 The film Cats & Dogs has been released.
06 Jul 2001 Release of the film Kiss of the Dragon
07 Jul 2001 Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the Pepsi 400 at the Daytona International Speedway in the first NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series event since the death Dale Earnhardt. Michael Waltrip, his teammate, finished second, blocking for Jr. in a race that was almost identical to the Daytona 500, where Jr. blocked for Waltrip on his way to his first '500 victory.
09 Jul 2001 Goran Ivanisevic won Wimbledon tennis tournament, becoming the first and only wildcard to do so.
10 Jul 2001 Sony CEA launches Gran Turismo 3 A-spec for the PlayStation 2 in America. In the first week, over one million copies were shipped.
13 Jul 2001 The Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation is signed by the People's Republic of China and Russia Federation.
18 Jul 2001 Baltimore, Maryland: A 60-car train derailed in a tunnel, sparking a fire which will last for days and almost shut down the city. (See Howard Street Tunnel fire).
20 Jul 2001 Federal Court finds Vanessa Leggett in contempt for refusing to release notes for her book about the Doris Angleton Murder.
21 Jul 2001 Accident at the pedestrian bridge in Akashi: After a fireworks display in Okura Beach, Hyogo Japan, 11 people are killed, and more than 120 are hurt when the pedestrian footbridge linking the beach to JR Asagiri station collapses. People who have left the event are thrown off the bridge in a domino effect.
23 Jul 2001 Brazil defeats Honduras in a soccer match with a final score of 2-0.
24 Jul 2001 14 commandos from the Tamil Tigers carried out an attack on Bandaranaike Airport. All of them died during this attack. The attack involved 11 aircraft (mostly military), and 15 civilians were also damaged. The incident caused a slowdown in the economy of Sri Lanka.
26 Jul 2001 US Senate confirms Henrietta Holsman Fore as US Mint director.
27 Jul 2001 The movie Planet of the Apes has been released.
28 Jul 2001 Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe wins six gold medals at the World Championships.
31 Jul 2001 Died: Poul Anderson
01 Aug 2001 Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore installed a 2.5-ton monument of Ten Commandments, nicknamed by detractors and media as 'Roy's Rock'. It was hidden in the Rotunda of The Judiciary Building.
02 Aug 2001 Robert Mueller has been confirmed as the new FBI Director.
03 Aug 2001 Seven people are injured when the Real IRA explodes a car bomb at Ealing in London, UK.
04 Aug 2001 Windy Bay, a Seattle-based fishing vessel, strikes a rock in Prince William Sound 65km southwest Valdez, Alaska. The sheen of 133,000 litres diesel fuel covers 10 km. About 36,800 litres are recovered.
06 Aug 2001 Death: Dick Rehbein, a second-year quarterbacks coach with the New England Patriots in NFL, has died at 45 from heart failure.
09 Aug 2001 U.S. President George W. Bush announced his support for federal funding for limited research on embryonic and stem cells.
10 Aug 2001 Film: Osmosis Jones starring Bill Murray, played by Chris Rock
16 Aug 2001 Rosario Marin is elected 41st Treasurer for the United States.
20 Aug 2001 TV series: Oswald
21 Aug 2001 Red Cross warns of famine in Tajikistan and asks for international financial assistance for Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
24 Aug 2001 Film: Bubble Boy
25 Aug 2001 At 22 years old, Aaliyah, a contemporary R&B and pop artist, is killed in a plane accident.
27 Aug 2001 Intel announces the 2-GHz Pentium4 processor.
31 Aug 2001 September 1, 2001 - Vancouver TV realignment takes place in British Columbia, Canada.
01 Sep 2001 German football's national team lost a World Cup qualifier to England for the second time in their history (including as West Germany), by a narrow margin of 1-5 to the England team managed Sven-Goran Ericsson at the Olympic Stadium Munchen (Munich). This ends a long run of England losses to Germany.
03 Sep 2001 Because they feel the Zionism issue is too important, the United States, Canada, and Israel have withdrawn from the U.N. Conference on Racism.
04 Sep 2001 Hewlett-Packard announces that it will acquire Compaq Computer through a stock swap in the amount of US$25 billion.
07 Sep 2001 Michael Jackson's 30th Anniversary (of his career) concert takes place in New York City.
09 Sep 2001 Two al Qaeda assassins claim to be Arab journalists who wanted an interview with Ahmed Shah Massoud (leader of the Northern Alliance) and assassinate him in Afghanistan.
10 Sep 2001 Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense, calls a meeting of hundreds Pentagon senior staff members and gives a speech in which he called the Pentagon bureaucracy an enemy to security. He declares "... that we are declaring war on the bureaucracy.
11 Sep 2001 The United States is the site of the September 11 attacks. The hijacking of planes results in the destruction of New York's World Trade Center, the damage to Arlington's Pentagon, Virginia, as well as the crash of a passenger aircraft near Shanksville in Pennsylvania.
12 Sep 2001 Ansett Australia, Australia’s first interstate commercial airline, is forced to close due to increasing pressure on the international aviation industry. This leaves 10,000 people without jobs.
13 Sep 2001 Major League Baseball has postponed all of its games until September 17 due to terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center.
14 Sep 2001 George W Bush, the US President, stands alongside firefighters and rescue workers at Ground Zero in New York.
15 Sep 2001 George W. Bush, President of the United States of America, stated that America is currently at war with terror.
17 Sep 2001 After the September 11 Attacks, New York Stock Exchange is reopened for trading. This was the longest closing since the Great Depression.
18 Sep 2001 First anthrax letter was sent from Trenton, New Jersey during the 2001 anthrax attacks.
19 Sep 2001 The German Bundestag has voted full support for the USA in the wake of the terrorist attack on New York City. This includes military support.
20 Sep 2001 U.S. President George W. Bush addresses a joint session Congress and the American people. He declares a "war on terror".
21 Sep 2001 Deep Space 1 flew within 2200 km of Comet Borrelly.
22 Sep 2001 A barge and a ship collide at Barbour's Cut, Texas, USA. The channel was flooded with about 137,000 litres fuel oil.
25 Sep 2001 The national satellite radio service XM was launched.
26 Sep 2001 UPN debuts Enterprise, the fifth Star Trek television series.
27 Sep 2001 Zug massacre: Friedrich Leibacher, a Swiss gunman, shoots 18 people, kills 14 others, and then commits suicide.
28 Sep 2001 Film: "Don't Say A Word" starring Michael Douglas and "Zoolander" starring Ben Stiller
29 Sep 2001 The Syracuse Herald-Journal, an American newspaper that dates back to 1839 has ceased publication.
02 Oct 2001 NATO backs the U.S. military strike after 9/11.
04 Oct 2001 A hunter blows a hole through the trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline, which causes a leakage of 1.1 Million Liters of oil in the wilderness.
05 Oct 2001 Tom Ridge, the Governor of Pennsylvania, resigns to become the first director of United States Office of Homeland Security.
07 Oct 2001 With participation from the United Kingdom, the United States invades Afghanistan with its armed forces.
08 Oct 2001 118 people were killed when a twin-engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System jetliner (SAS), collided in heavy fog while taking off from Milan, Italy.
09 Oct 2001 Anthrax letters continue to be mailed from Princeton (New Jersey) to the U.S. Senators Tom Daschle from South Dakota and Patrick Leahy from Vermont.
10 Oct 2001 The 22 most wanted terrorists are listed by President George W. Bush.
11 Oct 2001 The Polaroid Corporation applies for federal bankruptcy protection.
15 Oct 2001 NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes close to Jupiter's moon Io at 112 miles.
19 Oct 2001 SIEV-X, an Indonesian fishing vessel en-route from Christmas Island carrying more than 400 asylum seekers, sinks at sea with 353 people.
20 Oct 2001 The Concert for New York City is "a celebration of strength, resilience and pride of New York City and America". It features performances by The Who and Backstreet Boys, Paul McCartney and Eric Clapton.
21 Oct 2001 The What More Can You Give benefit concert was held in Washington D.C. and featured performances by Aerosmith, Mariah Carey (Michael Jackson), Al Green, Carole King. Also, there were performances from the Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync and P!nk.
23 Oct 2001 Apple Computer unveils the iPod portable music player. It has a 5 GB hard drive and FireWire ports. The price is US$399.
25 Oct 2001 Microsoft has launched Windows XP in the USA. It is based on Windows NT, Windows 2000 and includes a Compatibility mode that allows software written for older Windows versions of Windows to work correctly. The prices for the Home Edition are US$199 and US$299 respectively.
26 Oct 2001 The USA PATRIOT Act is now law.
30 Oct 2001 Died: Famous Arab encyclopedist M. A. Benyounis died.
31 Oct 2001 Two-thirds of $230 million worth of gold and silver were recovered from vaults of Bank of Nova Scotia, amongst rubble of the World Trade Center that was destroyed in New York City.
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.
01 Dec 2001 Captain Bill Compton brought Trans World Airlines Flight 220 (an MD-83) into St. Louis International Airport, bringing an end to 76 years of TWA operations after American Airlines purchased TWA.
02 Dec 2001 Enron Corporation, located in Houston, Texas files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection before a New York court. This is five days after Dynegy's cancellation of a US$8.4 million buyout offer. This is the largest U.S. bankruptcy at the time.
03 Dec 2001 Officials have announced that John Walker Lindh is an American citizen who was one of the Taliban prisoners taken prisoner after the uprising at Mazari Sharif in Afghanistan.
04 Dec 2001 Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj, Sultan of Selangor and 11th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia dies in office.
06 Dec 2001 Newfoundland and Labrador, the Canadian province of Newfoundland, is now Newfoundland and Labrador.
11 Dec 2001 United States Government indicts Zacarias Moussi for his involvement in September 11, 2001 attacks.
13 Dec 2001 U.S. President George W. Bush announced the United States' withdrawal of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
14 Dec 2001 Annular solar eclipse
16 Dec 2001 Battle of Tora Bora was fought between Coalition Forces & Terrorist Allies. Osama bin Laden and remaining Taliban forces escaped by mule from Pakistan, as reported by Dalton Fury, a former Delta Force commander.
18 Dec 2001 Ahmed Agiza, and Muhammad al-Zery are secretly deported from Sweden to Egypt by the United States. This is thought to be a CIA-led operation.
20 Dec 2001 In the midst of violence and rioting, President Fernando De la Rua's Argentine government collapses. See also December 2001 riots
22 Dec 2001 After Richard Reid, a passenger, attempts to light his shoe filled with explosives on fire, a flight departing from Paris, France, is diverted to Boston Massachusetts.
27 Dec 2001 Permanent normal trade relations are granted to the People's Republic of China with the United States.
29 Dec 2001 At least 291 people are killed in a fire at the Mesa Redonda shopping centre in Lima, Peru.

2001

Your place in the Universe on 2001

Find out more about your Moon Sign

Oscar Winners

Best picture

A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind

Best director

Ron Howard

A Beautiful Mind

Best actor

Denzel Washington

Training Day

Best actress

Halle Berry

Monster's Ball

Best supporting actor

Jim Broadbent

Iris

Best supporting actress

Jennifer Connelly

A Beautiful Mind

Time Person of the Year

Books

Cane River

Ghost Soldiers

John Adams

A Painted House

The Prayer of Jabez

2001 Chinese Zodiac and Horoscope

Nobel Prizes

Peace Prize

Literature

Physics

Economic Sciences

Chemistry

Physiology or Medicine

Music charts

Top #1 songs in the USA

Top #1 songs in the UK

Movies

Hell in the Pacific

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Six Feet Under

Spirited Away

Justice League

Popular names

Top #10 male names

Top #10 female names

World Population

Population statistics

Historical Events

Events