This page relates to the year 2001 of the Gregorian Calendrier.

2001 is the first Année and 21e century. The Attentats of September 11th constitute the big event of the year and even ten last years. These attacks are sometimes regarded as the starting point of the Guerre against terrorism and put in parallel with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 which marked the end of the Cold war.

World

Africa

  • August 10th  : In Angola, a ambush carried out by the rebels of UNITA against a train transporting approximately 500 refugees makes 252 dead, of which children and elderly.
  • November 10th: Flood S and flow mud kill more than 900 people in Algérie.

Americas

September 18th  : Beginning of the bacteriological attacks with the carbuncle, by contaminated letters, aiming at personalities of the media or the policy. They continue until November and kill five people.
  • October 4th  : The American authorities officialize the first case of attack by letter contaminated with the carbuncle.
  • October 5th  : The governor of the Pennsylvania, Tom Ridge, becomes the first secretary with the Internal security of the United States.
  • October 10th  : FBI publishes its list of the 22 most required Terroriste S.
  • October 26th  : George W. Bush sign the Patriot Act.
  • November 13rd  : George W. Bush authorizes the military tribunals to consider the foreign nationals suspected of bonds with terrorism.
  • December 11th  : Inculpation, with the the United States, of the French Zacarias Moussaoui, for its implication in the Attacks of September 11th which reduced the wtc to the state dust.
  • December 12th: Adoption by the Heads of State or government of the countries of the Association of the States of Caribbean (AEC), joined together on the island of Margarita, with the Venezuela of the Declaration of Margarita , “recognizing the Caribbean Sea like common inheritance of the area, and a priceless credit”.
  • December 13rd: George W. Bush announces that the the United States withdraw Traité ABM (anti-missile ballistics) signed with the Soviet in 1972.
  • December 20th  : In Argentinian, the repression of demonstrations, with Buenos Aires, against the governmental management of the economic crisis, causes the death of 26 participants.
  • December 21st  : The Argentinian president Fernando of Rúa resigns.
  • December 22nd  : On board a flight Paris - Miami, a passenger, Richard Reid, tries without success to explode its shoes. It is stopped at the time of the arrival to the the United States.

Asia

Europe

Germany

  • February 12th: Publication of the book of Edwin Black, IBM and the holocaust , on the collaboration of the company with the Nazi Germany.

Belgium

  • August 28th: Spectacular jacking maneuver (eight hours) of the Turn of the Millenium, turn of observation built since March on the territory of the commune of Gedinne, on the plate of the Cross-Scaille, in the the Belgian Ardennes.

Spain

France

Greece

  • January 1st: Greece integrates the Euro area.

Italy

Poland

  • January 10th: The Parliament names the former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Economy Leszek Balcerowicz - the principal architect of the deep change of Poland during the years 1990 - at the position of president of the national Banque of Poland.

the United Kingdom

Swiss

  • the year 2001 in Switzerland

Ex- Yugoslavia

The Middle East

  • February 6th  : Ariel Sharon becomes Prime Minister of Israel after the electoral success of the Likoud.
  • March 1st  : Afghanistan, beginning of the dynamiting of the statues of the Buddhas of Bâmiyân, which is completed at the end of the month.
  • March 6th  : Publication in the Egyptian daily newspaper El Midan of an interview granted by the writer Egyptian woman Nawal El-Saadaoui, following the prohibition of several of its works to the international exhibition of the book of the Cairo, in which she says that the pilgrimage with Mecque (where 35 pilgrims died in scuffles the day before) and to embrace the black Pierre concerned paganism.
  • March 27th  : The Large Mufti of Egypt, Nasr Farid Wassel, requires that the writer Nawal el Saadawi disavows the reported remarks by the newspaper El Midan about the pilgrimage with Mecque, which it will do on its return in Egypt towards mid-May.
  • June 1st: A Attack-suicide in a discotheque with Tel Aviv, asserted by the Hamas, costs the life 21 young Israelis.
  • September 9th  : The commander Ahmed Shah Massoud is assassinated by two kamikazes in Afghanistan. He had, as a guest with the the European Parliament, informed dangers which the Occident because of the integrism of the area would run.
  • October 17th: Assassination of the Israeli general Rehavam Zeevi, Minister for tourism in the government of Ariel Sharon, by PFLP, during the the Second Intifada.

Chronologies sets of themes

Art S & Culture S

See also: 2001 with the cinema, 2001 in music, 2001 in literature, 2001 with the theater, 2001 as a cartoon, 2001 on television, 2001 structures

of it

Bullfighting

Economy and Trade

Science S and Technical

  • March 23rd  : The orbit station Mir disintegrates in the atmosphere above the Pacifique South, not far from the archipelago of the Fiji.
  • April  : Discovered role the Hepcidine like the principal hormone of the regulation of the homeostasis of iron in the organization by a research team of the Institute Cochin in collaboration with researchers of Unité Inserm 409 (Hospital Bichat) succitant a new hope like preventive medication of the Hémochromatose.
  • April 28th  : The American millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the first tourist of space, on board the Soyuz TM-32. He goes down again on ground the May 6th.
  • June 30th  : Launching of the American space probe WMAP intended for the study of the Anisotropy of the cosmological thermal Radiation.
  • : Israeli scientists announce to have succeeded in for the first time manufacturing cardiac cells starting from a human Embryon.
  • October 15th  : The space probe Galileo launched by NASA approaches with 180 kilometers the satellite Jupiter Io.

Transport

Aeronautical

See also: 2001 in aeronautics

Railroads

See also: 2001 in the railroads

Sport

See also: 2001 in sport

Football

See also: 2001 in football

Nobel Prize

Births in 2001

October

  • October 25th  : The Elisabeth princess in Belgium. Its godfather is the prince Amédéo of Belgium, wire of the Astrid princess. Its godmother is the countess Helene d' Udekem d' Acoz, sister of the Mathilde princess.

Death in 2001

First quarter

Second quarters

Third quarters

Fourth quarters

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