2001

2001 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	2001; MMI
Ab urbe condita	2754
Armenian calendar	1450; ԹՎ ՌՆԾ
Assyrian calendar	6751
Bahá'í calendar	157–158
Balinese saka calendar	1922–1923
Bengali calendar	1408
Berber calendar	2951
British Regnal year	49 Eliz. 2 – 50 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2545
Burmese calendar	1363
Byzantine calendar	7509–7510
Chinese calendar	庚辰年 (Metal Dragon); 4697 or 4637; — to —; 辛巳年 (Metal Snake); 4698 or 4638
Coptic calendar	1717–1718
Discordian calendar	3167
Ethiopian calendar	1993–1994
Hebrew calendar	5761–5762
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2057–2058
- Shaka Samvat	1922–1923
- Kali Yuga	5101–5102
Holocene calendar	12001
Igbo calendar	1001–1002
Iranian calendar	1379–1380
Islamic calendar	1421–1422
Japanese calendar	Heisei 13; (平成１３年)
Javanese calendar	1933–1934
Juche calendar	90
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4334
Minguo calendar	ROC 90; 民國90年
Nanakshahi calendar	533
Thai solar calendar	2544
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་; (male Iron-Dragon); 2127 or 1746 or 974; — to —; ལྕགས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་; (female Iron-Snake); 2128 or 1747 or 975
Unix time	978307200 – 1009843199

2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar. It was the first year of the 3rd millennium and 21st century.

Events

January

January 1 –
- The 3rd millennium and 21st century begin on this day according to the Gregorian calendar. But popular culture holds these distinctions to January 1, 2000.
- A nine foot tall rock was placed by an artist in Seattle's Magnuson Park, like the one in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
January 13 – A strong earthquake hits El Salvador, killing at least 800 (See also February 13).
January 15 – Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia, goes online.
January 20 – Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo becomes the 14th President of the Philippines, replacing Joseph Estrada.
January 20 – George W. Bush replaces Bill Clinton and becomes the 43rd President of the United States.
January 22 – Four of the "Texas 7" are caught at a store in Woodland Park, Colorado and a fifth kills himself.
January 24 – The last two of the "Texas 7" are caught by police in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
January 26 – A 50-year-old DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela and kills 24 people.
January 26 – An earthquake happens in Gujarat, India; more than 20,000 die.
January 29 – Thousands of students in Indonesia tell President Abdurrahman Wahid that he should give up his job because he was caught doing something bad.
January 31 – A court finds one Libyan guilty and another innocent in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crashed in Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.

February

February 5 – Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman announced that they are not together anymore.
February 6 – Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon wins election as Prime Minister of Israel.
February 9 – American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally hits and sinks Japanese fishing ship Ehime-Maru.
February 12 – NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lands on 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
February 13 – An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
February 16 – Iraq disarmament crisis: British and U.S. forces carry out bombing raids attempting to destroy Iraq's air defense network.
February 16 – Baghdad suburb bombed by US and UK war planes, killing 3 people.
February 18 – During the Daytona 500 race, NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt is killed in a car crash.
February 18 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for being a spy.
February 19 – An Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.
February 26 – Treaty of Nice was signed.

March

March 24 – Apple Computer's Mac OS X version 10.0 is released.

April

April 1 – An American EP-3E spyplane collides with a Chinese F-8 fighter jet and is forced to make an emergency landing in Hainan, China. The U.S. crew was jailed for 10 days and the Chinese pilot, Wang Wei, went missing and thought to be dead.
April 1 – Former president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on charges of war crimes.
April 16 — Bangladesh launches a short invasion of Pyrdiwah, India.
April 26 – Junichiro Koizumi becomes Prime Minister of Japan.
April 28 – American Dennis Tito becomes the first space tourist.

May

May 1 – The Japanese cities of Urawa, Omiya, and Yono become one to form the city of Saitama.
May 10 – In Ghana, a sudden rush at a soccer game kills over 120.
May 24 – Mountain climbing: Sherpa Temba Tsheri, 16, becomes the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
May 25 – Mountain climbing: Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the top of Mount Everest. A 64-year old Sherman Bull, of New Canaan, Connecticut, becomes the oldest person to reach the top.

June

June 5-9 – Houston, Texas is devastated by flooding when Tropical Storm Allison hits the city. Texas Medical Center lost years of research and data and thousands of lab animals. Twenty-two people die; damage exceeds five billion American dollars.
June 7 – Tony Blair's Labour Party were selected for second term in UK General Election
June 11 – Timothy McVeigh is executed for the Oklahoma City bombing.
June 19 – An American missile hits a soccer field in northern Iraq, killing 23 people and wounding 11.
June 20 – Andrea Yates drowns her children in a bathtub and confesses to her crime. She would get life in prison for it.
June 21 – Total solar eclipse.
June 23 – An earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale, hits the south of Peru.

July

July 2 – The world's first self-contained artificial heart is implanted in Robert Tools.
July 16 – The FBI arrests Dmitry Sklyarov at a meeting in Las Vegas for violating a condition of the DMCA.
July 18 – In Baltimore, Maryland a 60-car train derails in a tunnel, causing a fire that last for days and virtually shuts down downtown Baltimore.
July 19 – UK politician and novelist Jeffrey Archer is sentenced to four years in prison for perjury and perverting the course of justice.
July 23 – Megawati Sukarnoputri becomes the new President of Indonesia, replacing Abdurrahman Wahid.

August

August 9 – US President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic stem cells.
August 9 – In the Comoros, the military seizes power in the island of Anjouan that had declared independence. They plan to rejoin the Comoros.
August 31 – PBS airs the final episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood with host Fred Rogers retiring

September

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 was no longer seeking to break-up software maker Microsoft and will instead seek a lesser antitrust penalty.
September 9 – Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan.
September 11 – Almost 3,000 people are killed in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and rural Pennsylvania.
September 12 – U.S. President George W. Bush addresses the nation from the White House following the September 11 attacks and vows to enact revenge against those responsible for the attacks earlier in the day.
September 14 – The Nintendo GameCube is released in Japan.
September 15 – President George W. Bush says that the United States is at war against terror.

October

October 4 – The first case of anthrax in the U.S. is announced by federal officials.
October 7 – The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins.
October 10 – War on Terrorism: US President George W. Bush presents a list of 22 most wanted terrorists.
October 15 – NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
October 23 – Apple Inc. releases the iPod.
October 25 – Microsoft releases Windows XP.

November

November – The Doha Declaration relaxes the international intellectual property law by a bit.
November 4 –
- Hurricane Michelle hits Cuba, destroying crops and thousands of homes.
- The Arizona Diamondbacks defeat the New York Yankees in seven games to win the 2001 World Series.
November 7 – The supersonic commercial aircraft Concorde starts flying again after a 15-month break.
November 10 – The People's Republic of China became a member of the World Trade Organization.
November 12 – In New York City, American Airlines flight 587 crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board.
November 12 – U.S. Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces leave Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, as the Northern Alliance troops are coming (Northern Alliance fighters took Kabul on November 14).
November 13 – Doha Round: The World Trade Organization ends a four-day conference in Doha, Qatar.
November 13 – War on Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against any foreigners suspected of having connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.
November 16 – The first Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, is released, earning US $975.8 million, becoming the second highest earning movie around the world of all time, behind Titanic.
November 24 - Melanie Thornton, the German-American Pop singer, also the former member of La Bouche, dies in a plane crash going to Zürich, Switzerland, along with Maria Serreno-Serreno and Nathaly Van Het Ende of the German dance band Passion Fruit.
November 29 - George Harrison, former lead guitarist of The Beatles, dies of lung cancer at the age of 58.

December

December 2 – Enron scandal: Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection five days after Dynegy canceled a US$8.4 billion buyout bid (At the time this was the largest bankruptcy in the history of the United States).
December 13 – The United States withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
December 13 – Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, Raja of Perlis becomes the 12th King of Malaysia.
December 14 – Annular solar eclipse.
December 22 – 2001 U.S. Attack on Afghanistan: Hamid Karzai became head of the interim government in Afghanistan.
December 27 – The People's Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade status with the United States.

Births

January 2 – Christopher Barrios Jr., American murder victim (d. 2007)
January 17 – Enzo Fernández, Argentine footballer
February 19 – David Mazouz, American actor
March 3 – Inde Navarrette, American actress
March 6 – Milo Manheim, American actor
April 10 – Angelina Mango, Italian singer-songwriter
April 14 – Jalen Williams, American basketball player
May 3 – Rachel Zegler, American actress and singer
May 22 – Emma Chamberlain, American YouTuber
May 31 – Iga Świątek, Polish tennis player
August 12 – Dixie D'Amelio, American social media personality
September 2 – Ella Rubin, American actress
September 3 – Kaia Gerber, American model and actress
September 5 – Bukayo Saka, English footballer
October 13 – Caleb McLaughlin, American actor
October 14 – Rowan Blanchard, American actress
October 25 – Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant, daughter and Heiress Apparent of Philippe, King of the Belgians
December 1 – Aiko, Princess Toshi of Japan
December 18 – Billie Eilish, American singer-songwriter
December 28 – Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Canadian actress

Deaths

January

January 27 – Marie-José of Belgium, Queen of Italy (b. 1906)

February

February 18 – Dale Earnhardt, American racing driver (b. 1951)
February 25 – Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (b. 1908)

March

March 12 – Robert Ludlum, American writer (b. 1927)
March 15 – Ann Sothern, American actress (b. 1909)
March 22 – William Hanna, American animator and studio founder (b. 1910)

April

April 15 – Joey Ramone, American musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1951)

May

May 11 – Douglas Adams, English writer (b. 1952)

June

June 1 – King Birendra of Nepal (b. 1945)
June 2 – Imogene Coca, American comic actress (b. 1908)
June 3 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor (b. 1915)
June 4 – King Dipendra of Nepal (b. 1971)
June 7 – Víctor Paz Estenssoro, 45th President of Bolivia (b. 1907)
June 11 – Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (b. 1968)
June 21 - John Lee Hooker, American blues musician (b. 1916)
June 21 – Carroll O'Connor, American actor (b. 1924)
June 27 – Jack Lemmon, American actor and movie director (b. 1925)
June 27 – Tove Jansson, Finnish writer of the Moomin books (b. 1914)

July

July 5 – Hannelore Kohl, wife of Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl (b. 1933)
July 10 – Álvaro Magaña, President of El Salvador (b. 1925)
July 29 – Edward Gierek, 4th First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party (b. 1913)
July 31 – Poul Anderson, American science fiction writer (b. 1926)

August

August 6 – Jorge Amado, Brazilian writer (b. 1912)
August 24 – Jane Greer, American actress (b. 1924)
August 25 – Aaliyah, American singer (b. 1979)

September

September 2 – Christiaan Barnard, South African cardiac surgeon (b. 1922)
September 11 – People killed in the September 11 attacks, including:
- David Angell, American sitcom creator (b. 1946)
- Berry Berenson, widow of the actor Anthony Perkins (b. 1948)
- Daniel M. Lewin, American technician (b. 1970)
- Mychal Judge, American priest (b. 1933)
- Garnet Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1948)
- Carolyn Beug, American movie maker (b. 1953)
- Charles Burlingame, American pilot (b. 1949)
- William M. Feeham, American firefighter (b. 1929)
- Peter J. Ganci, American firefighter (b. 1946)
- Timothy Maude, American military officer (b. 1947)
- Barbara Olson, American political commentator (b. 1955)
- Mohamed Atta, Egyptian terrorist (b. 1968)
- Wail al-Shehri, Saudi terrorist (b. 1973)
- Nawaf al-Hazmi, Saudi terrorist (b. 1973)
- Majed Moqed, Saudi terrorist (b. 1977)
- Abdulaziz al-Omari, Saudi terrorist (b. 1979)
September 29 – Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, 2nd President of South Vietnam (b. 1923)

Nobel prize winners

Chemistry – William S. Knowles, Ryoji Noyori, K. Barry Sharpless
Economics – George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence, Joseph E. Stiglitz
Literature – V. S. Naipaul
Medicine – Leland H. Hartwell, Tim Hunt, Sir Paul Nurse
Peace – United Nations, Kofi Annan
Physics – Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, Carl E. Wieman

Fictional references to the year

Arthur C. Clarke set the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey in this year, the first year of the 21st century.

Other websites

2001 Year-End Google Zeitgeist – Google's Yearly List of Major Events and Top Searches for 2001
Nisqually Earthquake Clearinghouse Archived 2004-04-28 at the Wayback Machine – Information on the February 28th earthquake from the University of Washington

References

↑ Joyce, Elijah (2024). "The Invasion of Pyrdiwah (2001) — Modern History Summarized" (Historical analysis). Medium. Archived from the original on 26 February 2024. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
↑ "E. Fernández". soccerway.com.
↑ "Members of the Economic Advisory Panel - New Climate Economy - Commission on the Economy and Climate". newclimateeconomy.net. Archived from the original on 2015-06-20. Retrieved 2015-06-22.

[1] Joyce, Elijah (2024). "The Invasion of Pyrdiwah (2001) — Modern History Summarized" (Historical analysis). Medium. Archived from the original on 26 February 2024. Retrieved 26 February 2024.

[2] "E. Fernández". soccerway.com.

[3] "Members of the Economic Advisory Panel - New Climate Economy - Commission on the Economy and Climate". newclimateeconomy.net. Archived from the original on 2015-06-20. Retrieved 2015-06-22.

Gregorian calendar	2001 MMI
Ab urbe condita	2754
Armenian calendar	1450 ԹՎ ՌՆԾ
Assyrian calendar	6751
Bahá'í calendar	157–158
Balinese saka calendar	1922–1923
Bengali calendar	1408
Berber calendar	2951
British Regnal year	49 Eliz. 2 – 50 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2545
Burmese calendar	1363
Byzantine calendar	7509–7510
Chinese calendar	庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 4697 or 4637 — to — 辛巳年 (Metal Snake) 4698 or 4638
Coptic calendar	1717–1718
Discordian calendar	3167
Ethiopian calendar	1993–1994
Hebrew calendar	5761–5762
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2057–2058
- Shaka Samvat	1922–1923
- Kali Yuga	5101–5102
Holocene calendar	12001
Igbo calendar	1001–1002
Iranian calendar	1379–1380
Islamic calendar	1421–1422
Japanese calendar	Heisei 13 (平成１３年)
Javanese calendar	1933–1934
Juche calendar	90
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4334
Minguo calendar	ROC 90 民國90年
Nanakshahi calendar	533
Thai solar calendar	2544
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Iron-Dragon) 2127 or 1746 or 974 — to — ལྕགས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Iron-Snake) 2128 or 1747 or 975
Unix time	978307200 – 1009843199

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