Historical Events In 2001

Jan 07   A general practitioner in Manchester, England may have killed more than 200 patients over almost 24 years, says a new clinical study of his medical practice. Dr Harold Shipman is currently serving 15 life sentences for the deaths of 15 patients in the year 2001.   

Jan 16   Environmental activists and local authorities in a town in El Salvador where a mountainside buried an entire neighbourhood say deforestation and greed contributed to the earthquake disaster on this day in history.   

Jan 16   On this day in history president Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo was shot to death, reportedly by one of his bodyguards, who in turn was killed by other bodyguards.   

Jan 17   On this day in history jewish Holocaust survivors win compensation deal from Austria for assets stripped from them when Austria was part of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.   

Jan 17   Parts of California were plunged into darkness after utility companies failed to deliver enough electrical power. The rolling blackouts affected as many as 2 million people in the year 2001.   

Jan 18   In the year 2001 civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson admitted he had fathered a daughter born out of wedlock in 1999 to an employee of his Rainbow/PUSH coalition.   

Jan 19   President Clinton announced he had made a deal with the independent prosecutor that would prevent him from being indicted after he left office on this day in history.   

Jan 20   On this day in history george W. Bush was inaugurated as the 43rd president of the United States.   

Jan 20   Just hours before leaving office, President Clinton issued 176 pardons -- a number of them controversial in the year 2001.   

Jan 26   Gujarat earthquake in India killing 20,085 people in the year 2001.   

Jan 31   The Montreal Canadians Hockey team is sold by Molsons to an American on this day in history.   

Feb 02   On this day in history former President Clinton and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton say they will pay for $US86,000 worth of White House gifts they'd chosen to keep.   

Mar 07   On this day in history bradley Dillion Blahay was born May 7, 2001 at 5 29 PM 4.4 lbs. at MetroHealth - Cleveland, Ohio   

Mar 07   Bradley Dillion Blahay was born May 7, 2001 at 5:29 PM 4.4 lbs. at MetroHealth - Cleveland, Ohio in the year 2001.   

Mar 15   In the year 2001 aUSTRALIA'S dollar plunged to a historic low of US49.84c last night.   

Mar 17   AUSTRALIA has its first woman police chief, with Christine Nixon today appointed Victoria's new police commissioner in the year 2001.   

Apr 13   In the year 2001 at 8 20 p.m. MDT. A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck 50 km to the northeast of Dawson Creek, BC and about 100 km north of Grand Prairie, Alberta   

Apr 13   On this day in history at 8:20 p.m. MDT. A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck 50 km to the northeast of Dawson Creek, BC and about 100 km north of Grand Prairie, Alberta   

Apr 15   Natalie Rasmussen gets a new car from her parents in Yorba Linda in the year 2001.   

Apr 28   In the year 2001 dennis Tito, a millionaire, becomes the first space tourist.   

May 07   On this day in history bradley Dillion Blahay was born May 7, 2001 at 5 29 PM 4.4 lbs. at MetroHealth - Cleveland, Ohio   

May 07   Bradley Dillion Blahay was born May 7, 2001 at 5:29 PM 4.4 lbs. at MetroHealth - Cleveland, Ohio on this day in history.   

May 11   On this day in history kurt Schachner turned 40 YEARS OLD. And boy does he show it.   

Jun 05   Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spanish writer, medical and humanist on this day in history.   

Jul 01   In the year 2001 cholera in South Africa   

Sep 11   1 04 p.m. Bush, speaking from Barksdale Air Force Base, says that all appropriate security measures are being taken, including putting the U.S. military on high alert worldwide in the year 2001.   

Sep 11   In the year 2001 1 48 p.m. President Bush leaves Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana aboard Air Force One and flies to Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska.   

Sep 11   10 05 a.m. The south tower of the World Trade Center collapses, plummeting into the streets below. A massive cloud of dust and debris forms and slowly drifts away from the building in the year 2001.   

Sep 11   10 10 a.m. A portion of the Pentagon collapses on this day in history.   

Sep 11   10 10 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93 crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, southeast of Pittsburgh in the year 2001.   

Sep 11   10 28 a.m. The World Trade Center's north tower collapses from the top down as if it were being peeled apart, releasing a tremendous cloud of debris and smoke in the year 2001.   

Sep 11   10 45 a.m. All federal office buildings in Washington are evacuated in the year 2001.   

Sep 11   10:05 a.m.: The south tower of the World Trade Center collapses, plummeting into the streets below. A massive cloud of dust and debris forms and slowly drifts away from the building in the year 2001.   

Sep 11   On this day in history 10:10 a.m.: A portion of the Pentagon collapses.   

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Jan 01   Ray Walston, American actor (b. 1914) died in the year 2001.   

Jan 02   William P. Rogers, American politician (b. 1913) died on this day in history.   

Jan 04   Les Brown, American bandleader (b. 1912) died on this day in history.   

Jan 05   In the year 2001 death of nancy Parsons, American actress (b. 1942)   

Jan 09   On this day in history death of maurice Prather, American photographer (b. 1926)   

Jan 11   Sir Denys Lasdun, English architect (b. 1914) died on this day in history.   

Jan 12   Affirmed, American racehorse (b. 1975) died on this day in history.   

Jan 13   Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1985) died in the year 2001.