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2001

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2001 (MMI) was a common year that started on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar.

In the Gregorian Calendar, 2001 is also the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium. Popular culture, however, confusedly views the year 2000 as holding this distinction.

Events

January

  • January 8 – Noah, a gaur, is born, the first individual of an endangered species to be cloned.
  • January 29 – Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.

February

March

April

  • April 1Hainan Island incident: A Chinese fighter jet bumps into a U.S. EP-3E surveillance aircraft, which is forced to make an emergency landing in Hainan, China. The U.S. crew is detained for 10 days and the F-8 Chinese pilot, Wang Wei, goes missing and is presumed dead.

May

  • May 1 – The Japanese cities of Urawa, Omiya, and Yono merge to form the city of Saitama.

June

  • June 19 – An American missile hits a soccer field in northern Iraq (Tel Afr County), killing 23 and wounding 11. According to U.S. officials, it was actually an Iraqi missile that malfunctioned.
  • June 21 – The world's longest train is set up by BHP Iron Ore and is recorded going between Newman and Port Headland in Western Australia (a distance of 275 km, or 170 miles) and the train consists of 682 loaded iron ore wagons and 8 GE AC6000CW locomotives, giving a gross weight of almost 100,000 tonnes and moves 82,262 tonnes of ore; the train is 7.353 km (4.568 miles) long.

July

  • 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 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.

August

  • 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 sued to have it removed, and eventually removed from office.
  • August 9 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces his limited support for federal funding of research on embryonic stem cells.
  • 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.

September

September 11, 2001 attacks
September 11, 2001 attacks

October

November

Soldiers board a Chinook helicopter.
Soldiers board a Chinook helicopter.

December

Births

Deaths

thumb|120px|Herbert Simon
thumb|120px|Stanley Kramer

thumb|120px|Birendra of Nepal
thumb|120px|Víctor Paz Estenssoro
thumb|120px|George Harrison

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Nobel Prizes

Templeton Prize



 
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