2001

Other Meanings of 2001:

2001: A Space Odyssey

Centuries: 20th century - 21st century - 22nd century

Decades: 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s - 2000s - 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s 2050s

Years: 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 - 2001 - 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

The International Year of the Volunteer

Events:

January 20 - George W. Bush succeeds Bill Clinton as President of the United States of America after winning the U.S. presidential election, 2000.
February 6 - Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon was elected Prime Minister of Israel
February 16 - Baghdad suburb bombed by US and UK war planes, 3 people killed
June 19 - 23 people killed and 11 wounded by an american missile hitting a soccer field in northern Iraq, county of Tel Afr
June 21 - Total solar eclipse
July 2 - World's first self-contained artificial heart implanted in Robert Tools.
September 11 - September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack on World Trade Center in New York City and Pentagon
October 4 - First case of anthrax in the US (attack) is announced by federal officials.
October 7 - 2001 U.S. Attack on Afghanistan begins
December 14 - Annular solar eclipse

Births

Deaths

February 4 - Iannis Xenakis, 78, Greek/French composer
February 18 - Balthus, 92, French painter
February 18 - Dale Earnhardt - NASCAR race car driver
February 19 - Stanley Kramer, 87, American movie director
February 25 - Sir Donald Bradman, cricketer
March 4 - Glenn Hughes -- leather dude Popular Music group The Village People
March 12 - Morton Downey, Jr. - television personality
March 12 - Robert Ludlum, author of spy novels
March 15 - Ann Sothern - actress
March 21 - Norma Macmillan, voice
March 18 - John Phillips, cofounder of Popular Music group The Mamas and the Papas
March 22 - William Hanna, cofounder (with Joseph Barbera) of famous Hanna-Barbera animation studio
April 10 - Willie Stargell - baseball player, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
April 11 - Harry Secombe, 79, actor, comedian, member of The Goon Show (prostate cancer)
April 15 - Joey Ramone, lead singer for The Ramones
May 5 - Cliff Hillegass, 83, creator of Cliff Notes (stroke)
May 11 - Douglas Adams, 49 (heart attack), author, works included Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Gently, Doctor Who
May 12 - Perry Como, 87, singer
May 28 - Francisco Varela, 54, biologist and philosopher
June 1 - Hank Ketcham, 81, cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace
June 1, King Birendra and Queen Aiswarya of Nepal, (shot, possibly murdered)
June 3 - Anthony Quinn, 86, actor
June 11 - Timothy McVeigh, 33, terrorist (executed by U.S. government)
June 21 - John Lee Hooker, 83, Blues musician
June 21 - Carroll O'Connor, 76, actor
June 28 - Jack Lemmon, 76, actor
June 28 - Joan Sims, 71, actress
June 30 - Chet Atkins, 77, country musician
July 5 - Hannelore Kohl, 68, wife of ex-chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl (suicide)
July 11 - Herman Brood, 54, Dutch rock musician, painter and publicity freak (suicide)
July 18 - Fabio Taglioni, automotive engineer
July 27 - Leon Wilkeson, 49, Bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd
July 29 - Henryk Jablonski, president of Poland (1972-1985)
July 29 - Wau Holland, 49, German hacker, founder of the CCC (heart attack)
August 1 - Poul Anderson - fantasy / sci-fi author
August 6 - Jorge Amado, 88, Brazilian writer
August 20 - Fred Hoyle, Astronomer and science fiction writer
August 25 - Aaliyah, 22, American singer and actress
September 2 - Christiaan Barnard, 78, South African heart surgeon, first to perform a human-to-human heart transplant
September 3 - Pauline Kael, 82, American movie critic
September 11 - Barbara K. Olson, 45, American conservative commentator, died in terrorist attack on Pentagon
September 22 - Isaac Stern, 81, violinist
November 10 - Ken Kesey, 66, author.
November 29 - George Harrison, 58, musician and former member of The Beatles.
November 30 - Robert Tools, first recipient of a self-contained artificial heart, at age 59 after 151 days without a living heart.
December 5 - Franco Rasetti, physicist

Sport

American football
- January 28 - Super Bowl XXXV Baltimore Ravens (34) def. New York Giants (7)
Baseball
- World Series: Arizona Diamondbacks defeat New York Yankees, four games to three, Co-MVPs Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling, Arizona.
- MVPs: National League: Barry Bonds, San Francisco Giants. American League: Ichiro Suzuki, Seattle Mariners.
- Rookies of the Year: National League: Albert Pujols, Saint Louis Cardinals. American League: Ichiro Suzuki, Seattle.
- Cy Young Award: National League: Randy Johnson, Arizona. American League: Roger Clemens, New York.

Film

The annual Academy Awards served out gongs for Best Actor in Gladiator to Russell Crowe.
Ridley Scott's Gladiator took the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Best Supporting Actress and Actor were won by Marcia Gay Harden for Pollock and Benicio del Toro for their roles in Traffic which also won its director, Steven Soderbergh the Directing statue.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, directed by Peter Jackson.

Nobel Prizes