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.   

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.   

Jan 16   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   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.   

Jan 18   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   

Jan 20   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   

Jan 26   Gujarat earthquake in India killing 20085 people   

Jan 31   The Montreal Canadians Hockey team is sold by Molsons to an American   

Feb 02   Former President Clinton and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton say they will pay for $US86000 worth of White House gifts they'd chosen to keep.   

Mar 07   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.   

Mar 15   AUSTRALIA'S dollar plunged to a historic low of US49.84c last night   

Mar 17   AUSTRALIA has its inaugural woman police chief, with Christine Nixon today appointed Victoria's new police commissioner   

Apr 13   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   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.   

Apr 28   Dennis Tito, a millionaire, is recorded as becoming the inaugural space tourist   

May 07   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   

May 11   Kurt Schachner turned 40 YEARS OLD. And boy does he show it   

Jun 05   Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spanish writer, medical and humanist   

Jul 01   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.   

Sep 11   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   

Sep 11   10 10 a.m. A portion of the Pentagon collapses   

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

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   

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

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.   

Sep 11   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 in the year 2001.   

Jan 05   Nancy Parsons, American actress (b. 1942) died in the year 2001.   

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

Jan 11   In the year 2001 death of sir Denys Lasdun, English architect (b. 1914)   

Jan 12   In the year 2001 death of affirmed, American racehorse (b. 1975)   

Jan 13   On this day in history death of michael Cuccione, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1985)