2001
Centuries: Year in Review 21st Century (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:
- February 6 - Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon was elected Prime Minister of the State 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
- 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
- George W. Bush succeeds Bill Clinton as President of the United States of America in a controversial, close election. See American Political Scandals.
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
- March 12 - Morton Downey, Jr. - television personality
- March 12 - Robert Ludlum, author of spy novels
- 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 11 - Harry Secombe, 79, actor, 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, author (heart attack)
- May 12 - Perry Como, 87, singer
- June 1 - Hank Ketcham, 81, creator of Dennis the Menace
- 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 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
- 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 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.
Sport
- January 28 - Super Bowl XXXV Baltimore Ravens (34) def. New York Giants (7)
Baseball news:
- 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 Scotts Gladiator took the Best Picture.
- Best Supporting Actress and Actor were won by *Marcia Gay Harden for Pollock and Benicio del Toro for *Traffic which also won its director, Steven Soderbergh the Directing statue.