World Events of 2001
Ariel Sharon became Israel's fifth Prime Minister in five years amid continuing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Ethnic Albanians created violence in Macedonia seeking an autonomous area within Macedonia.
A UN war crimes trial began against form yugoslav President Slobodan Milosovec.
Neither Australia nor the US signed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate change although 1768 other nations did.
Terrorists belonging to al-Qaeda hijacked commercial airliners in the US and flew them into the World Trade Centre towers and the Pentagon. Passengers fought with terrorists on another plane forcing it to crash short of its destination. Many thousands of people were killed.
The United States and Britain launched attacks on the Taliban and al-Qaeda terorist camps in Afghanistan. Islamic militant, Osama bin Laden, escaped. bin Laden was believed to be the mastermind behind the US plane hijackings and subsequent deaths.
Several US postal workers died as letters laced with the poison Anthrax weres ent to govetrnment and media outlets in the US.
The Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) began dismantling its stockpile of weapons.
Hamid Karzai was elected head of a transitional government in Afghanistan after the defeat of the Taliban.
The main movies were Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, The Fellowship of the Ring, Bridget Jones's Diary, pearl Harbour and Shrek.
Scientists become concerned about defects in cloned animals.
Human activity was blamed by scientists for global warming.
Debate arose around the continued research into the use of stem cells to treat human ailmenst.
The world's heart transplant pioneer, Christian Barnard, died.
Former Beatle, George Harrison, died.
Actor, Jack Lemmon, died.
Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma bomber, was executed.
Ethnic Albanians created violence in Macedonia seeking an autonomous area within Macedonia.
A UN war crimes trial began against form yugoslav President Slobodan Milosovec.
Neither Australia nor the US signed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate change although 1768 other nations did.
Terrorists belonging to al-Qaeda hijacked commercial airliners in the US and flew them into the World Trade Centre towers and the Pentagon. Passengers fought with terrorists on another plane forcing it to crash short of its destination. Many thousands of people were killed.
The United States and Britain launched attacks on the Taliban and al-Qaeda terorist camps in Afghanistan. Islamic militant, Osama bin Laden, escaped. bin Laden was believed to be the mastermind behind the US plane hijackings and subsequent deaths.
Several US postal workers died as letters laced with the poison Anthrax weres ent to govetrnment and media outlets in the US.
The Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) began dismantling its stockpile of weapons.
Hamid Karzai was elected head of a transitional government in Afghanistan after the defeat of the Taliban.
The main movies were Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, The Fellowship of the Ring, Bridget Jones's Diary, pearl Harbour and Shrek.
Scientists become concerned about defects in cloned animals.
Human activity was blamed by scientists for global warming.
Debate arose around the continued research into the use of stem cells to treat human ailmenst.
The world's heart transplant pioneer, Christian Barnard, died.
Former Beatle, George Harrison, died.
Actor, Jack Lemmon, died.
Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma bomber, was executed.
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