2001

From top to left, in the sense of clock needles: Wikipedia is founded; Enron is dissolved after the Enron Scandal; a sign that warns not to leave the way during the period of the [. Fiebre aftosa of 2001; U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom; citizens examining ruins of buildings after the Guyarat Earthquake of 2001; the Apple company creates the IPod; U.S. President George W. Bush declares committing to defend the freedom of the United States and initiating the War against Terrorism; the World Trade Center is Attacked on September 11, 2001.

2001 (MMI) was a common year beginning on a Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. It was also number 2001 A. D. or of the Christian Era designation, second of the 2000s, first year of the 21st century, and first to mark the start of the third millennium.

The September 11 attacks on the United States by the terrorist group Al-Qaeda, which killed some 3,000 people and instigated the global war on terror, was an event that not only marks this year but also the beginning XXI century in general. The United States led a multinational coalition in a war in Afghanistan after the Taliban government failed to extradite al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

It was declared:

• International Year of Volunteers.
• International Year of Dialogue among Civilizations.
• Year of the Serpent, according to the Chinese horoscope

Events

January

He takes possession of George W. Bush as 43 president of the United States.

• 1 January:
  • First day of the twenty-first century and the third millennium.
  • Greece is incorporated into the Eurosystem.
• 2 January:
  • In Puerto Rico, Sila Calderón assumes the position of governor of the island for the period 2001-2005. It's the first time a woman has access to that position in that country.
  • American scientists present the first genetically modified primate.
  • In El Salvador, the government of Francisco Flores decides to adopt the US dollar as a national currency.
• January 6: Pope John Paul II publishes the letter Novo Millennio Ineunte at the beginning of the new millennium.
• January 10: In the United States, Wikipedia's precedent Nupedia is released.
• 13 January:
  • In Vitoria, Spain, 50 000 people attend the demonstration called by the Basque Church against the terrorism of the ETA band.
  • In El Salvador, an earthquake of 7.9 leaves 944 dead and economic losses estimated at US$ 1255.4 million.
• January 15: In the United States, Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger create Wikipedia.
• 17 January: in Colombia, the AUC (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia) perpetrated a massacre in the correction of Chenge, municipality of Ovejas, department of Sucre, to the north-west of the country. 27 people are killed.
• January 20: In the United States he takes office as President George W. Bush.
• January 26: an earthquake of 7.9 degrees on the Richter scale isolating Guyarat's Indian state. 20,000 people die and 200,000 are injured.
• January 31: They crash in full flight, a Boeing 747 and a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 from the Japan Airlines: 99 injured occupants (9 of them serious), survive all the occupants of both aircraft.

February

• February 4: Herbert Vianna, leader of the Brazilian rock band Os Paralamas, suffers an accident in Mangaratiba, the state of Rio de Janeiro as his plane falls. He's paraplegic and awake after 44 days in a coma.
• February 5: Endesa and Iberdrola power companies announce the break-up of the merger process, which began in October 2000.
• February 6: the leader of the Likud, Ariel Sharon, defeats the Labourman Ehud Barak and becomes the prime minister of Israel.
• 7 February:
  • In Ecuador, President Gustavo Noboa and Antonio Vargas signed an agreement.
  • In Israel, the ultra-conservative leader of the Likud, Ariel Sharón, is invested prime minister with the support of 73 of the 120 congressional deputies.
• February 10: An American nuclear submarine mistakenly sinks a Japanese school ship.
• 11 February:
  • In the United States, the analysis of the genome confirms that the human being has little more than 30,000 genes.
  • In Spain, seven technicians from the Lyric Company die in a traffic accident.
• 13 February:
  • In El Salvador, a second earthquake of 6.6 adds 315 dead and more economic losses to the earthquake just a month earlier.
  • Javier Bardem becomes the first Spanish actor to run the Oscars for his performance in the film by Julian Schnabel Before dark.
• 14 February: In Israel, seven soldiers and an Israeli civilian are killed by a bus run by a Palestinian driver, in an attack claimed by the Islamic fundamentalist Hamas movement.
• February 15: Peruvian football club Alianza Lima celebrates a hundred years of institutional life.
• February 16: In Iraq, U.S. aviation bombs the country's capital city of Baghdad.
• 17 February:
  • In Lahti, the German Spanish skier Johann Mühlegg achieves the silver medal in the 20-kilometre background test of the Nordic World Ski Championships, which represents the first podium of Spanish history in this competition.
  • In Ambato (Ecuador), 50 years of the Feast of Fruit and Flowers were celebrated.
• 18 February:
  • In the United States, FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested on charges of spying for Russia for 15 years.
  • In the United States, Dale Earnhardt dies on the last round of the 500 miles of Daytona.
  • In Berlin, 2001, the French production of director Patrice Chérau gets the Golden Bear of the LI edition of the Berlin Film Festival.
• 22 February:
  • In San Sebastian, Basque Country, the terrorist group ETA carried out a car bomb attack that killed two Elektra employees.
  • By legislative decree, the Prayer to the Salvadoran Flag is officially recognized as a patriotic symbol of El Salvador.
• February 28: An earthquake of 6.8 shakes the Pacific Northwest leaving 1 dead, about 400 wounded and between 1 and 4 billion dollars in damage.

March

• March 1: In Afghanistan, the Taliban (Islamic fundamentalists) destroy ancient Buddha statues.
• March 3: The event will be held at the Aztec Stadium United for peace.
• 4 March: the collapse of the Hintze Ribeiro bridge in northern Portugal, causing the death of 59 people.
• March 10: the Great Brother Argentina begins – which has already been carried out in Germany, Spain and the Netherlands – led by the actress Soledad Silveyra.
• March 15: Two explosions on the Petrobras 36 oil platform kill 11 people and cause the sinking of that platform five days later.
• 22 March: Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski announced his Government’s goal of “neutralizing and eliminating Albanian extremists” who, weeks ago, had launched an offensive against the country’s army and threatened to unleash a new war conflict in the Balkans.
• 23 March: the Russian Mir space station reenters the Earth's atmosphere and disintegrates before touching the Earth's surface.
• March 24: U.S. company Apple launches Mac OS X operating system to market.

• 28 March
  • Takes from the Rectorate of the Central University of Venezuela: Left students who violently appropriated the building for 36 days, until expelled by the student community.
  • In Mexico in the Chamber of Deputies in San Lazaro, the EZLN Command Esther makes a speech for peace in Chiapas, the Chamber ends up singing the National Anthem.
• March 30: The animated series, The Magic Godfathers created by Butch Hartman, is premiered in Nickelodeon, who came from the shorts of Oh Yeah! Cartoons to become the most successful channel series along with Sponge Bob.

April

• 1 April:
  • Slobodan Milošević enters prison on charges of embezzlement.
• 2 April: the Israeli army attacked Mohamed Abdel Al, a leading leader of the fundamentalist movement of the Islamic Jihad.
• April 7: In Spain, the PASOC agrees to leave the United Left.
• April 11: In a historic match the football selection of Australia will go for 31-0 to American Samoa.
• 13 April: In Paraguay, the child Héctor Maciel (16) died during compulsory military service. He is the army victim n.o 106 since the overthrow of the dictator Alfredo Stroessner in 1989.
• April 20: in the Peruvian Amazon, about 60 km from the city of Iquitos, the Peruvian Air Force—with information from the U.S. CIA—returns a plane believing it was a drug dealer. Upon falling, a family of American evangelists is identified: the wife (Veronica Bowers, 35) and her adopted baby (Charity, 7 months) die instantly by the machine-making, while the husband (Jim Bowers, 37), his son (Cory, 6) and the pilot (into both legs) survive.
• 20-22 April: The Third Summit of the Americas is held in Quebec City, Canada during the presidential appointment anti-globalization protests take place on the outskirts of the city, there are hundreds of detainees and wounded and looting private and public property
• April 23: Madrid is chosen World Capital of the Book.
• 25 April: in the circuit of Lausitzring, near Dresden, Germany, the Michele Alboreto pilot died in accident.

May

• May 1st: Mexico closes the ECO news channel.
• May 12: The 46th edition of the Eurovision Song Festival is held at Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, winning for the first time a country in Eastern Europe, Estonia.
• 13 May: autonomous elections are held in the Basque Country (Spain). Great triumph of the coalition formed by EAJ-PNV/EA, which manages to form government for the next four years, with Juan José Ibarretxe as lehendakari of the Basque Government.
• May 15: In the United States, the CSX 8888 railway incident did occur and did not leave fatalities.
• 20 May:
  • starts Wikipedia in Spanish.
  • Santos Laguna gets his second league title against Pachuca in the Summer 2001 Tournament, being the first Mexican football champion in the 21st Century and the 3rd Millennium.
• May 25: centenary of the Argentinean football club River Plate.
• 30 May: the start of the fifth edition of the FIFA Confederations Cup 2001, for the first time in two countries: South Korea and Japan.

June

• June 1st: the actual massacre took place in Nepal. King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aishwarya are killed at the Narayanhity Royal Palace.
• June 3: in Peru, Alejandro Toledo is elected new president.
• 5 June:
  • In the United States, singer and songwriter Alicia Keys, released her debut studio album entitled Songs in A Minor.
  • Mexican singer Cristian Castro launches his seventh studio album titled Blue.
• 6 June: a jury in Los Angeles (California) condemns Philip Morris (Marlboro cigarette maker) to pay $3,000 million to a 56-year-old smoker with irreversible lung cancer. This is the most onerous case in a court case about cigarettes and possibly the greatest of an individual against an American company.
• 7 June: Parliamentary elections are held in the United Kingdom.
• 10 June:
  • In Argentina, San Lorenzo de Almagro stands with the Closing Tournament 2001.
  • In Yokohama, Japan, the FIFA Confederations Cup ends where the French team is a champion of the FIFA Confederations Cup when defeating the local Japan for 0-1
• 11 June:
  • In the U.S., criminal Timothy McVeigh is executed for his intervention in the Oklahoma attack.
  • In Italy, Silvio Berlusconi swears as Prime Minister for the second time.
• 12 June: video game published in the United States Half-Life: Blue Shift.
• 14 June: the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, an intergovernmental organization founded by the leaders of the People ' s Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, was born in China, and countries which, with the exception of Uzbekistan, had previously been known as the Five from Shanghai.
• 16 June:
  • In Pisa, Italy, the Pisa Tower is reopened after ten years of work.
  • In Mexico, the national team loses for the first time a party at the Aztec Stadium of Global Options this time to Korea-Japan 2002 was defeated by Costa Rica for 2 goals to 1
• June 17: The 13th Begins Edition of the 2001 Sub-20 World Cup for the first time in South America on this occasion in Argentina.
• June 18: the party of former Simeon wins the legislative elections in Bulgaria.
• 23 June: In southern Peru, an earthquake of magnitude 8.4 occurred on the Richter scale, affecting the Peruvian departments of Arequipa, Moquegua and Tacna, leaving a number of 102 people dead, of which 26 died as a result of the subsequent tsunami, which also caused the disappearance of 70 people. The earthquake also affected part of northern Chile
• June 25: In Venezuela the exaggerant of Fujimori Vladimiro Montesinos is captured after 10 months in flight and after the famous Vladivideos who involved several Peruvian politicians and personalities with government bribes in complicity with fujimorism, Hugo Chávez announced at the Andean summit in Valencia, Venezuela
• June 28: Boca Juniors is the champion of the Copa Libertadores 2001 for having won the Blue Cross of Mexico for criminal purposes.

July

• 8 July: in Buenos Aires (Argentina) the World Championship is finished sub-20 where for the fourth time the world champion of this category is consecrated by the host Argentina in defeating Ghana for 3-0.
• July 11: the 40th edition of the Copa América 2001 for the first time in Colombia begins as its headquarters, despite the threats of the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and the Paramilitaries to destabilize the realization of the football event.
• July 20: In protests at the G-8 summit, Carlo Giuliani was killed by the Carabineros body in Italy.
• July 28: Alejandro Toledo Manrique becomes the 57th president of Peru after winning the second round last June, after swearing in Congress he moves to the burning headquarters of the Bank of the Nation to remind those who fought against the dictatorial presidency of Fujimori.
• July 29: in Bogotá the Americas Cup ends, where the selection of Colombia wins its first America Cup after winning for the minimum difference of a goal by zero to the selection of Mexico with goal of Iván Ramiro Córdoba.
• 30 July: in Panama there is a 6.5 earthquake that leaves several wounded and some homes destroyed.

August

• August 1st: in Spain the super gasoline, the only one with lead, begins to withdraw from the gas stations.
• August 6: in Bolivia, Hugo Bánzer resigns as president of Bolivia for health problems.
• 7 August: in Bolivia, Vice President Jorge Quiroga, swears as president of Bolivia until August 6, 2002.
• 10 August: the space shuttle Discovery part of Cabo Kennedy to the International Space Station (ISS) with the third permanent crew.
• August 12: Michael Schumacher achieves his fourth world title of Formula 1 after imposing himself at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
• August 14: In the United States, a NASA pilot plane, the Helios, fueled by photovoltaic solar energy, hits the world record of flight height, reaching 29,520 m (commercial planes fly to 10,000).
• 16 August:
  • Emilio Botín becomes the sole president of Banco Santander.
  • In Madrid the police stop the narco-trafficking Galician Sito Miñanco.
  • Marcelo Salas becomes the most expensive transfer made by a Chilean footballer at the time when it is signed by the Juventus of Turin for € 25,000.000, thus exceeding its own record.
• August 23: A French citizen flying in paragliding was stuck in the torch of the Statue of Liberty in New York.
• 24 August:
  • Air Transat flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (on route to Lisbon from Toronto) and carries out an emergency landing in the Azores. The 306 passengers survive.
  • The singer Joaquín Sabina suffers from a slight stroke.
• 25 August:
  • The British atonement and founder Ken Tyrrell dies.
  • U.S. singer and actress Aaliyah died as the avionete carrying her in the Bahamas fell.
• August 27: the Peruvian congress approves the lifting of the constitutional immunity of former President Alberto Fujimori in order to formally accuse him of crimes against humanity.
• 31 August:
  • In Spain, the General Directorate of Pharmacy decrees the precautionary immobilization of a dialectist marketed by the multinational Baxter, after the death of twelve patients subjected to hemodialysis in Valencia, Madrid and Barcelona.
  • In Tokyo, Japan, at least 44 people die and dozens are injured as a result of a strong explosion in a leisure area in the city centre.

September

• September 1st: YTV premieres Gadget and Gadgetinis.
• 5 September: Bolivia conducts the population and housing census of 2001, after 9 years with respect to the previous census of 1992.
• September 7-10: Michael Jackson performs a series of concerts celebrating his 30 years as soloist (1971).
• 9 September:
  • The last victory of Universidad de Chile to Colo Colo in the Monumental Stadium David Arellano.
  • In Khvajeh Ba Odin, Ahmad Sah Masud (the leader of the Jamiati Islami Army) was killed by a suicide bomber perpetrated by Al-Qaeda.
• 11 September:

The Twin Towers burning

• • Simultaneous attacks against the Twin Towers (in New York) and the Pentagon (in Virginia) occur. Perpetrated apparently by Islamic extremists belonging to the Al Qaeda network and whose leader Osama bin Laden was attributed to the authorship of the attacks. The attacks caused more than 6000 injuries, the death of 2996 people and the 19 terrorists were killed.
  • In Lima, Peru, the OAS Assembly approves the Inter-American Democratic Charter.
• 14 September: in Lima (Peru) the 350 years of devotion to the Lord of the Miracles are celebrated.
• September 18: A series of anthrax attacks are launched in the USA. America, which will last until October 9.
• September 20: In a speech to a joint session of the Congress and the American people, President George W. Bush declared a "war on terrorism."

October

The war of Afghanistan begins.

• October 7: Afghanistan is invaded by the United States and its allies.
• October 12: In the United States, the television program "America's Most Wanted" presents at the request of President Bush the photos of the 22 most wanted terrorists in the world.
• 16-19 October: the second International Congress of the Spanish Language is held in the city of Valladolid.
• 23 October:
  • iPod players are created.
  • It changes to Megavision by name MEGA in Chile.
• October 25: launches to the Windows XP market.
• October 26: In Iran, despite the war, the Muslim Women's Games were inaugurated, with the presence of more than 200 women athletes of Muslim origin, including Afghans and Americans.
• October 26: In the U.S., President George W. Bush signed the "Patriotic Law" resolution, which provides unlimited "powers" to the police, the CIA and the FBI.
• October 27: in Quito, the University Sports League of Quito achieves the promotion to the highest category of Ecuadorian football, after being 356 days militating in Serie B.
• October 30: In the United States, musician Michael Jackson releases his last album in life, Invincible.

November

• 1 November: Former President Juan Bosch died in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic).
• November 3: In Alaska there is a strong earthquake of 7.9, feeling as far as Seattle, leaving several wounded and damaged houses.
• November 4: Enrique Bolaños is elected president of Nicaragua.
• 4 November: The first film by Harry Potter and the Philosophical Stone by author J. K. Rowling in London, England is released.
• 7 November: In the Atahualpa Olympic Stadium, Ecuador’s football team ranks its first FIFA World Cup when it comes 1 to 1 with the Uruguay Soccer Team.
• 9 November: the Kodak Theatre opens.
• 12 November: An American Airlines Airbus A300 aircraft is crashed in the Belle Harbor district in the New York neighborhood of Queens. 260 people die (See American Airlines flight 587).
• November 14: An earthquake of 8.0 shakes China.
• 17 November: in Mexico there will be changes of marking of Long distance National and International
• 25 November: in Honduras, Ricardo Maduro is elected new president.
• November 28: Fall bankrupt Enron.
• November 29: In Los Angeles, California, ex-beatle George Harrison died because of lung cancer.
• November 29: The film of Harry Potter and the Philosopheric Stone

December

• 1 December: on the road leading from Sogamoso to Yopal (Colombia), a group of paramilitaries stops a bus with 18 passengers, separates two children and an old woman and shoots the other 15 men and women and the closing of Trans World Airlines Twa
• December 5: In Chile, Eduardo Miño burns in front of the Palacio de la Moneda.
• 7 and 8 December: in Mexico, the Teleton raised 207.4 million pesos, and the inauguration of the Teleton Children's Rehabilitation Center in Oaxaca
• December 10: In Venezuela, entrepreneurs make a employers' strike in protest over the 49 enabling laws.
• 11 December: China enters the World Trade Organization.
• December 15: The FC Pachuca is the Winter Tournament Champion beat the UANL Tigers 2-0.
• December 19: in Argentina tens of thousands of people looted shops and supermarkets in the Gran Buenos Aires. President De la Rúa decrees the state of siege throughout the country. Minister of Economy Domingo Cavallo resigns.
• December 20: in Buenos Aires, following the protests during almost the whole day with police repression and 39 protesters killed by the police, President Fernando de la Rúa resigns.
• 22 December: in front of the Amami Islands (Japan), the Japan Coast Guard, sinking a North Korean spy ship. The 15 North Korean crew members die.
• 23 December:
  • In Buenos Aires he assumes Adolfo Rodríguez Saá as interim president.
  • In the Comoros Islands, peace agreements between the Government and the separatist guerrillas allow the adoption of the Constitution.
• December 27: at the Sarsfield Vélez Stadium, Racing kicks 1 to 1 with the visitor adjoining tournament champion Opening 2001 and getting a local title after 35 years.
• 29 December: in Lima, Peru, a mega-incendant is produced that destroys much of the commercial area known as Mesa Redonda, causing about 300 dead and 180 disappeared.
• December 30: in Buenos Aires the provisional president of Argentina, Adolfo Rodríguez Saá resigns. The office falls to the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Eduardo Camaño.
• December 31st: Windows 1.0-95 technical support ends.

Births

January

• January 1st: Angourie Rice, Australian actress.
• January 2: Christopher Barrios, Jr., American child (f. 2007).
• January 9: Rodrygo Goes, Brazilian footballer.
• January 9: Eric García, Spanish footballer.
• January 15: Jorge Prado García, a Spanish motocross pilot.
• January 17: Angie Vázquez, Mexican singer.
• January 17: Enzo Fernández, Argentine footballer.
• January 18: Felix Mambimbi, Swiss footballer.
• January 19: Alex Timossi Andersson, Swedish footballer.
• January 24: Margarita López, Argentinean actress and singer.
• 25 January: Michela Pace, Maltese singer.
• January 25: Saraí Meza, Mexican actress and singer.
• January 30: Heidi González, Mexican footballer.

February

Maria Makino

• 2 February: Maria Makino, ♪ Japanese.
• February 5: Juan Karlos Labajo, Filipino singer.
• February 7: Pedro de la Vega, Argentine soccer player.
• February 8: I.N, member of the South Korean band Stray Kids.
• February 15: Haley Tju, American actress.

David Mazouz

• February 19: David Mazouz, American actor.
• February 21: Isabella Acres, American actress.

March

• 2 March: Fernando Báez Sosa, an Argentine student of Paraguayan descent. (f. 2020)
• March 6: Milo Manheim, American actor.
• March 9: Jeon So-mi, Canadian singer of South Korean descent.
• 13 March: Beomgyu, singer, rapper, model, dancer, member TXT
• March 13: Michał Karbownik, Polish footballer.
• March 17: Jade Alleyne, actress, dancer and American singer.
• 17 March: Pietro Pellegri, Italian footballer.
• March 28: María Vicente, Spanish athlete.
• March 30: Sandra Escacena, Spanish actress.
• March 30: Anastasia Potapova, Russian tennis player.
• March 30: Anderson Contreras, Venezuelan footballer.
• March 30: Jeyhun Nuriyev, Azerbaijani footballer.

April

• April 3: Alessio Riccardi, Italian footballer.
• April 11: Meshal Al-Sebyani, Saudi footballer.
• April 11: Simon Sohm, Swiss footballer.
• April 11: Manuel Ugarte, Uruguayan footballer.
• April 17: Ryujin, South Korean rapper and dancer, member of Itzy.
• April 19: Ramón Enríquez Rodríguez, Spanish footballer.
• April 26: Thiago Almada, Argentine footballer.
• April 28: María Parrado, Spanish singer.
• April 30: Sofia Acevedo, Argentine basketball.

May

• May 12: Fátima Arellano, Mexican footballer.
• May 16: Carlota Boza, Spanish actress.
• May 18: Teresita Commentz, Chilean actress.
• May 24: Darren Espanto, Filipino singer of Canadian descent.
• May 25: Chloe Lukasiak, American actress and model.
• May 26: Megan Charpentier, Canadian actress.
• May 30: Martina Cariddi, actress italoespañola.

June

• June 1st: Ed Oxenbould, Australian actor.
• June 1st: Daiki Matsuoka, Japanese footballer.
• June 5: Chaeryeong, singer, rapper and South Korean dancer, member of Itzy.
• June 9: Xolo Maridueña, an American film and television actor of Cuban, Mexican and Ecuadorian descent.
• June 14: Cora Jade, American professional fighter.
• June 17: Jurriën Timber, Dutch footballer.
• June 18: Gabriel Martinelli, Brazilian footballer.
• June 21: Eleanor Worthington Cox, British actress.
• June 27: Curtis Harris, American actor.

July

• July 1st: Chosen Jacobs, American actor, singer and musician.

Isabela Moner

• July 10: Isabela Moner, an American actress and singer of Peruvian origin.

She Ballentine

• July 18: Ella Ballentine, Canadian actress.
• July 21: Paola Guanche, Mexican singer of Cuban origin.
• July 22: María José Vargas, Colombian actress.

August

• August 1st: Anatoli Trubin, Ukrainian footballer.
• August 6, Ty Simpkins, American actor.
• August 12: Claudia Pina, Spanish footballer.
• August 13: Devid Eugene Bouah, Italian footballer.
• August 14: Katherin Echandía, Venezuelan halterophile.
• August 14: Piero Quispe, Peruvian footballer.
• August 16: Luis de la Rosa, Mexican actor and presenter
• August 19: Briggitte Bozzo. Venezuelan actress and model.
• August 22: LaMelo Ball, American basketball player.

September

Talitha Bateman

• September 4th: Talitha Bateman, American actress.

Freya Allan

• September 6: Freya Allan, British actress.
• September 10: Ajna Késely, Hungarian swimmer.
• September 11: Mackenzie Aladjem, American actress.

October

• October 5: Dalila Bela, Canadian actress with Latin roots.
• October 9: Louis Hynes, British actor.
• October 11: Anthony Hernández, Costa Rican footballer
• October 11: Kacper Skibicki, Polish footballer.
• October 12: Raymond Ochoa, American actor.

Caleb McLaughlin

• October 13: Caleb McLaughlin, American actor.

Rowan Blanchard

• October 14: Rowan Blanchard, American actress.
• October 19: Art Parkinson, Irish actor.

Isabel de Brabante

• 25 October: Isabel de Brabante, daughter and apparent heir to Philip of Belgium, king of the Belgians.
• October 25: Reyna Reyes, Mexican-American footballer
• October 30: Cezary Miszta, Polish footballer.
• October 30: Mohammed Diomande, Ivorian footballer.

November

Chenle

• November 3: Robbe Quirynen, Belgian footballer.
• 5 November: Roxanne Perez, American professional fighter.
• 7 November: Amybeth McNulty, Irish actress.
• November 21: Samantha Bailey, American actress.
• November 22: Zhong Chenle, Chinese singer, member of the NCT group, and his NCT Dream subunit.
• November 28: Max Park, American speedcuber.

December

• 1 December: Aiko, Princess Toshi of Japan.
• December 10: Agus Padilla, Uruguayan singer.
• December 14: Joshua Rush, American actor.

Billie Eilish

• December 17: Ez Abde, Moroccan footballer.
• December 18: Billie Eilish, American singer.
• December 18: Stefani Flores, model and Venezuelan trader.
• December 20: Sepp van den Berg, Dutch footballer.
• December 21: Paula Arcos, Spanish basketball player.
• December 22: María Camila Osorio, Colombian tennis player.
• December 25: Alexandre Jankewitz, Swiss footballer.

Deaths

Art and literature

• January 6: Fernando Marias gets the Nadal Award for his novel The Colonel's boy.
• 19 June: published American Gods.
• October 30: Michael Jackson publishes his latest album Invincible.
• Arturo Pérez-Reverte: In the spirit of offense (recollection of articles).
• Dan Brown: The conspiracy.

Science and technology

• American scientists present the first genetically modified primate.
• Tony Fadell with Apple Inc. launches iPod for sale.
• Microsoft launches Microsoft Windows XP operating system.

Astronautics

• July 12: launch of the European experimental communications satellite Artemis.
• August 8: launch of the American Genesis probe with the mission of studying the solar wind.
• October 18: launch of the commercial QuickBird remote sensing satellite.
• 22 October: launch of the German Earth Observation Satellite BIRD.
• December 7: launch of the artificial TIMED satellite, dedicated to the study of the upper layers of the atmosphere.

Internet

• Wikipedia creation.
• Creation of Managerzone (which currently operates from Karlskrona).

Consoles and video games

Xbox

Nintendo GameCube

• Nintendo takes out its new portable console, the Game Boy Advance.
• Nintendo brings out its new table console, the Nintendo GameCube in Japan and the United States.
• SEGA announces the discontinuation of the Dreamcast console and that they will no longer produce more video game consoles, now they will only focus on making video games for other platforms, yet they will continue to launch games with already very advanced production for the console until 2002 in the United States and Europe, and 2006 in Japan.
• Microsoft brings out its first console in the United States, Xbox. It was also launched in 2002 in Europe and Japan.
• October 29: Traveller's Tales and Universal Interactive Studios premiered Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex in the United States for PlayStation 2.
• November 15: Microsoft and Bungie release the video game Halo: Combat Evolved for the Xbox.
• November 15: Playmore and Eolith launch the video game The King of Fighters 2001 for the Arcade Neo Geo system.
• December 4: Naughty Dog and Sony premiered Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy for PlayStation 2 in the United States.
• PopCap Games Takes For Sale Your game Bejeweled.
• Nintendo and Rare Takes Out The game Conker's Bad Fur Day for Nintendo 64.
• Nintendo Takes Out The game Dr. Mario 64For Nintendo 64.
• Nintendo and Hudson Soft out for sale Mario Party 3For Nintendo 64.
• Nintendo Takes Out The game Super Smash Bros. MeleeFor Nintendo GameCube.
• Nintendo Takes Out The game Luigi's MansionFor Nintendo GameCube.
• Capcom launches to the market Devil May Cry.
• Rockstar Games launches Grand Theft Auto III for PlayStation 2, the first free action video game and 3D franchise.
• Konami releases the arcades Dance Dance Revolution 5thMIX and DDRMAX -Dance Dance Revolution 6thMIX-.
• Hideo Kojima and Konami launch Metal Gear Solid 2 in the United States and Japan.
• SEGA Takes Out The Game Sonic Adventure 2 in Dreamcast, months later it would be ported for Nintendo GameCube.
• SEGA and THQ together with Dimps launch the game Sonic Advance for Game Boy Advance, first time that a video game from the franchise of Sonic appeared on a Nintendo console.
• Valve spear Half-Life Blue Shift for PC.
• Squaresoft gets out for PlayStation 2, Final Fantasy X the tenth title of the saga, which introduces for the first time dialogue by voice in the game.

Sports

Basketball

• Euroliga: Maccabi Tel Aviv.
• Korac Cup: Campeón Unicaja Málaga.
• ACB: Champion F. C. Barcelona.
• NBA: Los Angeles Lakers Champion.
• EurobasketSerbia.

Baseball

• Great Baseball Leagues: Cascabeles of Arizona, World Series champions.

Football

• Copa America: Colombia, champion.
• Confederations Cup: France, champion.
• UNCAF 2001: Guatemala champion
• Champions League: Bayern Munich, champion. Valencia CF subfield.
• Intercontinental Cup: Bayern Munich, champion. Boca Juniors subfield.
• UEFA Cup: Liverpool FC champion. Deportivo Alavés subcampeón.
• European Super Cup: Liverpool FC, champion.
• Copa Libertadores de América: Boca Juniors champion. Blue Cross subfield.
• Mercosur Cup: San Lorenzo de Almagro champion. Flamengo subfield.
• Copa Merconorte: Millionaire champion. Emelec subfield.
• Spanish Football League: Real Madrid, champion.
• English League: Manchester United, champion.
• Italian League: AS Roma, champion.
• German League: Bayern Munich, champion.
• League of Brazil: Vasco de Gama, champion.
• League Argentina:
  • Closure: San Lorenzo de Almagro.
  • Opening: Racing Club (after 35 years without local titles).
• Chilean League: Santiago Wanderers, champion.
• Uruguay Soccer Championship: National, champion.
• Professional Colombian Football: America of Cali, champion.
• Ecuadorian Football ChampionshipEmelec, champ.
• Peruvian Football League: Alianza Lima, champion.
• Mexican League: Club Santos Laguna, champion. Club Soccer Pachuca, champion.
• First Division of Venezuela: Caracas FC, champion.
• Golden Ball: The Englishman Michael Owen, proclaimed best footballer in the world of 2001, according to France Football magazine.
• Sub-20: Argentina champion, triumphing before Ghana for 3-0 in the final, contested at the stadium of the Club Atlético Vélez Sarsfield.

Handball

• Copa de Europa de Balonmano: SC Magdeburg(Germany), champion.
• Recopa de Europa de Balonmano: CB Ciudad Real (Spain), champion.
• EHF Cup: THW Kiel, champion.
• ASOBAL League(Spain): Portland San Antonio, champion.

Athletics

• World Athletic Championship: In August the eighth edition is held in Edmonton, Canada.

Tennis

• Open from Australia: Men: Andre Agassi to Arnaud Clément. Women: Jennifer Capriati to Martina Hingis.
• Roland Garros: Men: Gustavo Kuerten a Àlex Corretja. Women: Jennifer Capriati to Kim Clijsters.
• Wimbledon: Men: Goran Ivanišević to Patrick Rafter. Women: Venus Williams to Justine Henin.
• US Open: Men: Lleyton Hewitt to Pete Sampras. Women: Venus Williams to Serena Williams.
• Masters: Lleyton Hewitt (men) and Serena Williams (women).
• Davis Cup: France, champion.
• Copa: Belgium, champion.

Golfing

• Masters of AugustaTiger Woods, champ.
• United States Golf Open: Refief Goosen, champion.
• Open British Golf: David Duval, champion.
• PGA Championship: David Toms, champion.
• PGA Grand Slam GolfTiger Woods, champ.

Motor Racing

• Formula 1: Michael Schumacher conquers his fourth title of Formula 1 World Champion.
• World Rally Championship: Richard Burns, champion.
• Paris-Dakar Rally: Jutta Kleinschmidt (Germany), champion.
• 500 Miles from Indianapolis: Helio Castroneves, Penske.
• 24 Hours of Le Mans: Frank Biela, Tom Kristensen, Emanuele Pirro. Audi R8 LMP.
• Cart: Gil de Ferran Penske.

Motorcycling

• World Motocycling Championship:
  • 500 cc: Valentino Rossi, champion.
  • 250 cc: Daijiro Katoh, champion.
  • 125 cc: Manuel Poggiali, champion.
• Paris-Dakar Rally: Fabrizio Meoni (Italy), champion.

Cycling

• Tour de France: Lance Armstrong wins his third consecutive Tour de France, title retired in 2012.
• Return to Spain: Angel Casero is proclaimed victor.
• Giro de Italia: Gilberto Simoni, Italian, winner.
• World Cycling Championship: Óscar Freire (Spain), champion.

Chilean Rodeo

• National Rodeo Championship: Juan Carlos Loaiza and Luis Eduardo Cortés, champions of Chile.

Other sports

• The FC Barcelona, champion of the European Hockey Cup on skates.

Wrestling

• The American company World Wrestling Federation (WWF) buys the World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and also the Extreme Championship Wrestling.

Cinema

Premieres

• 19 January: Donnie DarkoRichard Kelly.
• 31 January: Thomas is in lovePierre-Paul Renders.
• 9 March: The son's roomNanni Moretti.
• 21 April: Shin Chan: Adults counterattack!Keiichi Hara.
• 11 May: The arms tradeErmanno Olmi.
• April 25: "Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain", by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
• 14 May: The pianist. (The pianist/The piano teacherMichael Haneke.
• 18 May: ShrekAndrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson.
• June 1st: Moulin Rouge!, by Baz Lurhmann.
• 15 June: The OneJames Wong's.
• 15 June: Atlantis: The Lost EmpireGary Trousdale and Kirk Wise.
• 15 June: 13 ghostsSteve Beck.
• 16 June: Ghost WorldTerry Zwigoff and John Malkovich.
• June 22: Fast and Furious Rob Cohen
• 4 July: Scary Movie 2Keenen Ivory Wayans.
• 13 July: BullyLarry Clark.
• 13 July: Snake: The filmRene Cardona III.
• 18 July: Jurassic Park IIIJoe Johnston.
• 27 July: Atletico San Panchoby Gustavo Loza.
• 30 July: Buzz Lightyear, Star Command: Adventure beginsTad Stones.
• 2 August: The planet of apesTim Burton.
• August 10: Osmosis Jones of Tom Sito
• 7 September: The othersof Alexander Amenábar.
• 21 October: Looking for a wild kissEric Bross.
• 2 November: Monsters Inc.Peter Docter.
• 16 November: Harry Potter and Philosopher StoneChris Columbus.
• 22 November: Nothing x LoserQuique Aguilar.
• 19 December: The Lord of the Rings: the Ring CommunityPeter Jackson.
• 21 December: Jimmy Neutron: The genius boyJohn A. Davis.

All dates belong to the official premieres of their countries of origin, unless otherwise indicated.

Other events

• Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: Odyssey in Space is based on fictitious events that would occur this year.

Music

• ABBA: The Definitive Collection
• A.B. Quintanilla and Kumbia Kings: Shhh!
• Adriana Lucía: From Heart to Heart
• Aerosmith: Just Push Play
• Alberto Plaza: One more day
• Alejandro Sanz: MTV Unplugged
• Álex Ubago: What are you asking for?
• Alexandre Pires: Alexandre Pires
• Alice in Chains: Greatest Hits
• Ana Bethlehem: City fish
• A-Teens: Teen Spirit
• Anastacia: Freak of Nature
• Ana Torroja: Ana Torroja
• Andrés Cepeda: The carpenter
• Arch Enemy: "Wages of Sin"
• Axel: My way of loving
• Babasónicos: Jessico
• Backyard Babies: Making Enemies Is Good
• Backstreet Boys: "Greast Hits: Chapter one"
• Bandana: Bandana
• Bee Gees: This Is Where I Came In, Their Greatest Hits: The Record
• Benny Ibarra: Everything or nothing
• Berri Txarrak: Eskuak-Ukabilak
• Gold Binomial of America: Making history
• Björk: Vespertine
• Blink-182: Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
• Blondie: Reissue Blondie, Plastic Letters, Parallel Lines, Eat to The Beat, AutoAmerican and The Hunter
• Bob Dylan: "Love and Theft"
• Bobby Pulido: I'm always thinking about you.
• Bon Jovi: One Wild Night
• Bow Wow: Doggy Bag
• Britney Spears: Britney
• Café Chorale: To the point
• Carlos Vives: Let me in. (6 November)
• Streetrs: Sed
• Celia Cruz: The Black One has Tomb
• Cristian Castro: Blue
• Sky Razzo: Good.
• Cher: Living Proof
• Christina Rosenvinge: Frozen Pool
• Collective Soul: 7even Year Itch
• Converge:
  • Deeper the Wound (23 April)
  • Jane Doe (4 September)
• Creed: Weathered.
• Daddy Yankee: Cartel II
• Daft Punk:
  • Discovery () March 3rd)
  • Alive 1997 (1 October)
• Invisible Dance: Personal effects
• David Civera: Tell her I love her.
• Depeche Mode: Exciter
• Public disorder: All your successes (recollection)
• Diskoteka Avariya: I'm sorry.
• Diskoteka Avariya: OLD
• Diskoteka Avariya: Маньяки
• Do As Infinity: Deep Forest (19 September)
• Dover: I was dead for seven weeks in the city of angels
• Do As Infinity: New World (21 February)
• Drowning Pool: Sinner
• Edith Marquez: Extravite
• Eighteen Visions: The Best Of Eighteen Visions.
• The Great Combo: New Millennium: Mismo Sabor
• Elvis Presley: Dixieland Rocks
• Elvis Presley: It's Midnight
• Elvis Presley: Memphis Sessions
• Elvis Presley: Silver Screen Stereo
• Enrique Bunbury: Little Maxi-singles
• Enrique Iglesias: Escape
• Erick Rubín: Quadrasonic
• Erick Sermon: Music (25 September)
• Stope: Destrangis
• Fangoria: Dead nature
• Fear Factory: Digimortal
• Feeder: Echo Park
• Faithless: Outrospective
• Faithless: Back to Mine
• Fischerspooner: #1
• Glass Tiger: Premium Gold Collection
• GLAY: ONE LOVE
• Gorillaz: Gorillaz.
• Green Day: International Superhits!
• Grupo Pesado Todo Tuyo
• Gustavo Cerati: 11 symphonic episodes
• Speaking in Silver: In cold blood
• HIM: Deep Shadows & Brilliant Highlights
• Hoobastank: Hoobastank
• Ill Niño: Revolution
• Ivan Villazón: Legendary Players Vol. 1
• Jaguares: When the blood gallops (11 March).
• Jamiroquai: A Funk Odyssey
• Jeans: Four by four.
• Jennifer Lopez: J.Lo
• Jesus Manuel Estrada: Piel without soul
• Jimmy Eat World: Bleed American
• John Frusciante: To Record Only Water for Ten Days.
• José: Tenampa
• Jorge Celedón: Take me in your dreams
• Juan Gabriel: By the Centuries
• Julio Iglesias: A donna pùo change the vita
• Julio Iglesias: Ao meu Brazil
• Kittie: Oracle
• Katy Perry: Katy Hudson
• Kylie Minogue: Fever
• The Law: The Unplugged MTV Act
• La Mosca Tsé-Tsé: Good Boys
• Lacrimosa: Fassade
• Laïs & Gabriel Yacoub: Le grand vent
• Laïs: Dorothea ltd. ed. (12 October)
• LAPM: Looking for Problems
• Laura Pausini: The best thing about Laura Pausini: I'll come back with you.
• La Vela Puerca: De Bichos y Flores.
• Lenny Kravitz: Lenny
• Limp Bizkit: New Old Songs
• The Bunkers: The Bunkers
• Los Chiches del Vallenato: The other half
• The Devils: Anointing hearts
• Los Inquietos del Vallenato: Dreams of Colombia
• The Pirates: Ultrasonic+ Lost Sessions
• The Northern Tigers: Uniendo Fronteras
• The Chichos: Thief of love
• Lostprophets: Thefakesoundofprogress.
• Luis Mateus: Inimitable
• Luis Miguel: My romances
• Lynda: Polen
• Madonna: GHV2
• Mandy Moore: "Mandy Moore"
• Malice Mizer:
  • Gardenia (30 May)
  • Beast of Blood (21 June)
  • Mayonaka and Kawashita Yakusoku (30 October)
  • Garnet ~Kindan no Sono e~ (30 November)
• Manolo García: Never time is lost
• Mariah Carey: Glitter
• Mariah Carey: Greatest Hits
• Megadeth: The World Needs a Hero
• Melody: Black paw (17 June).
• Michael Jackson: Invincible
• Michelle Branch: The Spirit Room
• Monchy & Alexandra: Sheet in White (reissue)
• Monica Orange: Bad Girls
• Mœnia: Lent.
• Muse: Origin Of Symmetry
• Nacho Cano: Nacho Cano
• N-Sync: Celebrity
• New Order: Get ready
• Nickelback: Silver Side Up
• Nicky Jam: Making Escante
• Nargaroth: Black Metal ist Krieg - A Dedication Monument
• NMSO4: You are Just a Mistake
• OV7: 7 beats
• Oomph! Ego
• Opeth: Blackwater Park
• Orchestra Salserín: Impregnated from You
• Ozzy Osbourne: Down to Earth
• P.O.D.: Satelite
• Pablo Ruiz: Ever.
• Paul McCartney:Wingspan: Hits and History
• Paulina Rubio: Top hits'
• Paulina Rubio: I'm So in Love
• Pedro Suárez-Vértiz: The best of Pedro Suárez-Vértiz vol. 2
• Pedro Guerra: Offernda
• Pink: M!ssundaztood.
• Pink Floyd: Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd
• Radiohead: Amnesiac
• Rammstein: Mutter
• Rhapsody of Fire: Rain of a Thousand Flames
• Ricardo Montaner: Repeated dream
• Rise Against: The Unraveling
• Roberto Carlos: Acoustic
• Rocío Dúrcal: Between tangos and mariachi
• Rosendo: Canciones paranormal y mero dementes
• Rosana: Rosana
• Rosario: Many flowers
• Roxette: Room Service
• Ryan Cabrera: Elm St.
• Jumping: Jumping with animals (13 August)
• Shakira: Laundry Service
• Simple Minds: Neon Lights
• Safri Duo: Played a Live
• No Flag: No Flag
• Total sinister: The golden age of the Spanish pop
• Slayer: God Hates Us All
• Slipknot: Iowa
• Smash Mouth: Smash Mouth
• Sôber: Synthesis
• Soil: Scars
• Pastorutti Soledad: Free
• Sonata Arctica: Silence
• Soulja Slim: Streets Made Me (7 August)
• Mr. Chinarro: The first opera packed into the void
• Mr. Chinarro: Say goodbye to the lake
• Staind: "Break the Cycle"
• Static-X: Machine
• Stephen Malkmus: Stephen Malkmus
• Sticky Fingaz: Blacktrash: The Autobiography of Kirk Jones (22 May)
• Stone Temple Pilots: Shangri-La Dee Da
• System Of A Down: Toxicity
• t.A.T.u.: 200 По Встречной
• Taking Back Sunday: Tell All Your Friends.
• Tarkan: Karma
• Holy Land: When Earth plays Heaven
• Tiësto: In my Memory
• The Calling: Camino Palmero
• The Cranberries: "Wake up and Smell the Coffee"
• The Fall: Are you are missing winner
• The Rasmus: Into
• The Shins: Oh, Inverted World
• The Strokes: Is This It (27 August)
• Thalía: Thalía with Band: Great Successes
• Thursday: Full Collapse
• Tiziano Ferro: Relative red
• Tommy Torres: Tommy Torres (19 June)
• Tom Waits: Used Songs
• Tool: Lateralus
• Travis: The Invisible Band
• Trotsky will come: Sleeping outside
• Some Panas there: A Little Mammoth
• Verse violators: Vicios and Virtudes
• Verse violators " Kase-O: Shit.
• Voz Veis: Virao, First Edition
• Weezer: The Green Album
• Westlife: World of our Own
• Zucchero: Shake

Television

Nobel Prize

• Physics: Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle and Carl E. Wieman.
• Chemistry: K. Barry Sharpless, William S. Knowles and Ryoji Noyor.
• Medicine: Leland H. Hartwell, R. Timothy Hunt and Paul M. Nurse.
• Literature: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul.
• Peace: United Nations Organization and Kofi Annan.
• Economy: George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz.

Prince of Asturias Awards

• Arts: Krzysztof Penderecki.
• Social Sciences: The College of Mexico and Juan Iglesias Santos.
• Communication and Humanities: George Steiner.
• Concordia: World Biosphere Reserve Network.
• International cooperation: International Space Station.
• Sports: Manuel Estiarte.
• Scientific and Technical Research: Craig Venter, Francis Collins, John Sulston, Hamilton Smith and Jean Weissenbach.
• Letters: Doris Lessing.

Cervantes Award

• Álvaro Mutis