The Year 2001, what else happened!
Here is a look at the news events before 911 in the world. I have been meaning to look back for a year or two, for I remember so many stories that left me hanging when the world faded away and only New York and Afganistan was left. Kind of like Daffy Duck and Marvin the Martian left hanging on to a blown up Planet X.
So here is a timeline of what was going on before and after. Some has nothing to do with 911, others build up to it.
Well here is the roller coaster ride of 2001. Solar eclipses (2), Douglas Adams dies, Civilians take control of Nuclear subs, Japanese sink Fishing boats, Chinese and American pilots play chicken, Tic for tac Russian and American spy arrests, Sloban trial, Kissinger wanted at Hague, Us backs out of ICC and UN meeting in support of Israel on human rights, and Chandra Levy. All this and more mostly taken from the wikipedia timeline of 2001.
January 8 - US angry as Chile asks Kissinger about death. The Chilean order came less than two months after French detectives delivered a court summons to Dr Kissinger, who was visiting Paris, asking him to testify about the disappearance of French nationals in Chile.
January 13 - Major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 hits all El Salvador.
January 26 - A 50-year-old DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24.Confirmation needed
January 26 - An earthquake hits Gujarat, India. More than 20,000 deaths and most of the historical city is destroyed.
January 27 - A plane crashes 40 miles east of Denver, Colorado, killing two players of the Oklahoma State University basketball team, six team staffers, and the crew of two people.
January 31 - The Scottish Court in the Netherlands convicts a Libyan and acquits another for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crashed in Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
February - Iraq disarmament crisis: British and U.S. forces carry out bombing raids attempting to disable Iraq's air defense network.
February 6 - Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon wins election as Prime Minister of Israel.
February 9- The nine victims, including four students, are missing presumed dead after the submarine U.S.S. Greeneville collided with and sank the Japanese training vessel, the Ehime Maru on February 9 off the coast of Hawaii. A Civilian was at the Helm. John M. Hall, director of the Fossil Bay Resources Ltd. of Dallas, was controlling the ballast blow, while another civilian was at the helm.
February 20 - FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested and charged with spying for Russia for 15 years.
February 20 - 2001 UK foot and mouth crisis begins.
February 28 - An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 hits the Nisqually Valley area of Washington. There was one reported death, an elderly woman who suffered a heart attack.
March 23 - Russian space stations Mir re-enters the atmosphere near Nadi, Fiji, and falls into the Pacific Ocean
March 24 - Apple Computer's Mac OS X v10.0 is released.
April 1 - An EP-3E American spyplane collides with a Chinese fighter jet and is forced to make an emergency landing in Hainan, China. The U.S. crew was detained for 10 days and the F-8 Chinese pilot, Wang Wei, went missing and presumed dead.
April 5 - CNN.com - Software, hydraulics blamed in Osprey crash.
May 1 - Police declare the disappearance of Chandra Levy. Her remains were discovered a year later.
May 7 - In Banja Luka, the second largest city in Bosnia, an attempt is made to reconstruct the Ferhadija mosque. However, the ceremony resulted in mass riots by Serb nationalists that beat and stone three hundred elderly Bosnian Muslims.
May 11 - Comedy sci-fi author Douglas Adams of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fame, dies from a heart attack, aged 49.
May 13 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (b. 1906)
May 22 - Large trans-Neptunian object 28978 Ixion found during the Deep Ecliptic Survey.
Mayy 31- Kissinger shuns new summons
June 1 - Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal kills his father, the king, his mother and other members of the royal family with an assault rifle and then shoots himself. He dies June 4. King Gyanendra acceeds to the throne. Maoist Rebels blame CIA in murder. Nepal has some of the world’s Largest Natural gas supplies.
June 1 - Hamas suicide bomber kills 21, mostly teenagers, in the Dolphinarium disco in Tel Aviv, Israel.
June 5 - Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican party, an act which changes control of the United States Senate from the Republican party to the Democratic party
June 7 - Tony Blair's Labour Party elected for second term in UK General Election
June 11 - The United States executes Timothy James McVeigh for the Oklahoma City Bombing.
June 19 - 23 people killed and 11 wounded by an American missile hitting a soccer field in northern Iraq, Tel Afr County.
June 20 - Pervez Musharraf becomes President of Pakistan after the resignation of Rafiq Tarar.
June 20 - Andrea Yates drowns her children in a bathtub and confesses to her crime. She would get life in prison for it.
June 30 - Chet Atkins, American musician (b. 1924)
June 21 - Total solar eclipse
July 2 - World's first self-contained artificial heart implanted in Robert Tools.
July 3 - A Vladivostokavia Tupolev Tu-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145
July 16 - The FBI arrests Dmitry Sklyarov at a convention in Las Vegas for violating a provision of the DMCA.
July 20-22 - The 27th G8 summit takes place in Genoa, Italy. Massive demonstrations against the meeting by anti-globalisation groups. One demonstrator, Carlo Giuliani, is shot dead by a carabiniere and several others are badly injured during an attack by the police on a school which the protesters were using as their headquarters. One of many WTO protests this year.
July- Sworn as the new president of Peru, eight months after the vote of no-confidence of former President Alberto Fujimori. Peru looks for Japan to extradite, but Japan declares him a natural citizen. Which leaves Peru in surprise having elected a foriegn born national.
August 1 - Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a 2 1/2 ton monument of the Ten Commandments surreptitiously installed in the rotunda of the judiciary building. He would later be sued to have it removed. Later, he would be removed from office.
August- Just seven weeks before the terrorist attacks, the authority reached a deal with Silverstein Properties and Westfield America, which agreed to lease the towers and other authority-owned facilities in the area for $3.2 billion (over 99 years), with $616 million paid up front. Also insurance on the buildings were raised. Chubb Corp., Swiss Reinsurance Co., Lloyd's of London, German Alliance Corp., ACE Ltd and XL Capital Ltd are liable for 7.2 Billion to Silverstein and Not the port Authority who owned the building. There is also the complication of the fact that while the leasehold was signed months before the 9/11 attacks, the insurance contracts had not been formally written. Link 1 and Link 2.
August 2 - Robert Mueller confirmed as the new FBI director.
August 24- Gary Condit accused of having affair with woman Chandra Levy who was found dead in May 2002 at Rock Creek Park washington D.C. Condit lost his rebid for the Californian Congressional seat that year, even though he was never an official suspect of the FBI. He was the senior member of House Select Committee on Intelligence. He was our expert on the Middle East. His predecesor Democrat wip Thomas Wilkes also stepped down in controversy.
August 25 - A Cessna 402 aircraft carrying 9 people, including R&B singer Aaliyah crashes in the Bahamas killing all 9 people aboard.
September 5 - Peru's attorney general files homicide charges against ex President Alberto Fujimori.
September 6 - United States v. Microsoft: The United States Justice Department announces that it was no longer seeking to break-up software maker Microsoft and will instead seek a lesser antitrust penalty.
September 6 - Closed Hearing: Mark-up Committe on Intelligence in the Senate.
September 7- Trading with Sales-Options for United Airlines and American Airlines multiplied in the last three days before the attack.
September 8- UN acknowledges injustice of slavery and the ‘plight’ of Palestinians. Pull out.
September 10- US Postal Service Board of Governors to Meet in Washington, DC, September 10-11.
September 10 - President and Australian PM Commemorate 50 Year Military Alliance
September 10- US pulls out of UN talks in support of Israel who pulled out the day earlier. (Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser, today criticized the conference for being too focused on the past and said that a debate about reparations was best avoided...Though some have criticized the Bush administration's decision to walk out of the conference as a pretext to avoid the reparations issue, she defended the move. "This conference spent far too much time in trying to condemn Israel and single it out," she said. "I think the United States made the right decision to leave."
September 10 - U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld holds a press conference to disclose that over $2,000,000,000,000 in Pentagon funds cannot be accounted for. Rumsfeld states: "According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions."
Setember 10-11 - Suicide bomber wounds Ahmed Shah Massoud, military commander of Northern Alliance in Afghanistan. He dies September 14.
September 10 - Potentially even more damaging to the ICC are attempts by the Republican far-right, led by veteran Senator Jesse Helms, to pass legislation, the American Service members Protection Act, which would direct the President to refuse to cooperate with the ICC in any way. The bill would ban US troops from serving on UN peacekeeping missions unless given immunity from ICC jurisdiction, would prevent any US government agency from helping the court in any way and would block military aid to any non-NATO state which ratifies the treaty. The ASPA even goes so far as to authorise the President to send in the marines to free any American soldier or official taken into ICC custody -- leading international jurists to dub it the
Hague Invasion Act.
September 10 -vote on US payment of its UN dues and to a September 26 bill on defense department appropriations both failed. Helms' attempts to have the bill passed as amendments to . The vote on Un payments is put off to 11th, but is delayed because of attacks. A deal was thought to be in the works for payment.
September 10- The Senate adopts an amendment (SA 1537) offered by Senator Larry Craig (R-ID), to the FY 2002 Commerce, Justice, State and the Judiciary Appropriations Act (H.R. 2500) that would prohibit the U.S. from cooperating with the ICC in any way and could also bar U.S. participation in negotiations about the Court.
Sptember 10 - NEWSWEEK has learned, a group of top Pentagon officials suddenly canceled travel plans for the next morning, apparently because of security concerns. September 24, 2001 article.
September 11- George Herbert walker Bush meets Shafig bin Laden for a breakfast meeting, in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Washington, on the morning of 9/11 for a Cralyle Group meeting. (Side note Omar Awad bin Laden had lived with Abdullah bin Laden, a nephew of Osama bin Laden who was involved in forming the U.S. branch of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth in Alexandria.)
September 11 - Almost 3,000 killed in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
September 11 - Augusto Pinochet's September 11, 1973 coup. German born Kissinger is implicated by the Hague and ICC recently.
September 11 - Anniversary of Washington capital burning during the 1812 war.
September 11 - David Angell, American television producer ("Frasier," "Cheers," "Wings") (plane crash into the World Trade Center) (b. 1946)
Sptember 11 - The Condit media craze ended abruptly on September 11th. However, Dominick Dunne's interest in Condit continued.
September 18 - The 2001 anthrax attacks commence as anthrax letters are mailed from Princeton, New Jersey to ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the New York Post, and the National Enquirer.
October 4 - First case of anthrax in the US (attack) is announced by federal officials. Later the strand was to be traced back to Fort Dietrich Maryland.
October 4 - Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes over the Black Sea en route from Tel Aviv Israel to Novosibirsk Russia - 78 dead.
October 5 - Tom Ridge resigns as Governor of Pennsylvania to become the first director of the newly created United States Office of Homeland Security.
October 7 - The American attack on Afghanistan begins. The United Kingdom participates.
October 8 - MD-87 of SAS collides first with a private plane and then a building in Milano airport - 100 dead.
October 9 - The 2001 anthrax attacks continue as anthrax letters are mailed from Princeton, New Jersey to Senators Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont.
October 10 - War on Terrorism: US President George W. Bush presents a list of 22 most wanted terrorists.
November 10 - The People's Republic of China is admitted to the World Trade Organization after 15 years of negotiations.
November 10 - John Howard, prime minister of Australia, is elected to a third term.
November 12 - In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587 crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on-board.
November 12 - 2001 Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Northern Alliance troops (Northern Alliance fighters took Kabul on November 14).
November 13 - Doha Round: The World Trade Organization ends a four-day ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar.
November 13 - War on Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against any foreigners suspected of having connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.
December 2 - Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection five days after Dynegy canceled a US$8.4 billion buyout bid. At the time this was the largest bankruptcy in the history of the United States.
December 13 - The Indian Parliament is attacked by terrorists, killing 14 people. This brings India and Pakistan to the brink of war.
December 13 - U.S. President George W. Bush announces the United States' withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Proposes Bunker Nukes.
December 14 - Annular solar eclipse
December 19 - Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was released into theaters.
December 22 - Hamid Karzai is sworn in as head of the interim government in Afghanistan.
December 22 - A Paris-Miami flight is diverted to Boston after passenger Richard Reid attempts to light his shoe, filled with explosives, on fire.
December 24- Japan sinks ‘suspicious’ Chinese fishing boat.
December 27 - The People's Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade status with the United States.
2002
May 6 - US pulls out of last minute ratification of ICC by Clinton.
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