2001 in the United States
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Events from the year 2001 in the United States.
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[edit] Political incumbents
- President - George Walker Bush
- Vice President - Dick Cheney
- Senate Majority Leader - Tom Daschle
- Secretary of State - Colin Powell
- Secretary of Defense - Donald Rumsfeld
- Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives - Dennis Hastert
[edit] Events
- January 2 - Sila Calderón becomes the first female Governor of Puerto Rico.
- January 20 - George W. Bush sworn in as 43rd President of the United States.
- March 28 - The Bush administration withdraws U.S. support for the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on the reduction of greenhouse gases.[1]
- April 1 - Hainan Island incident: A Chinese fighter jet bumps into a U.S. EP-3E surveillance aircraft which is forced to make an emergency landing in Hainan, China. The U.S. crew is detained for 10 days and the F-8 Chinese pilot, Wang Wei, goes missing and is presumed dead.
- July 10 - Thirtymile fire bursted in the Okanogan County, Washington, the second deadliest fire in the Washington state history.
- August 2 - The House of Representatives approves oil exploration in the Alaskan Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.[1]
- September 11 - Almost 3,000 people are killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City, The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and in rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania.[1]
- September 18 - A series of 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 7 - The United States invades Afghanistan, with participation from other nations participating in Operation Enduring Freedom.[1]
- December 2 - Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection 5 days after Dynegy cancels a US$8.4 billion buyout bid. At the time this is the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.[1]
[edit] Deaths
- March 12 - Robert Ludlum, author (born 1927)
- March 22 - William Hanna, animation studio executive (born 1910)
- March 31 - Clifford Shull, physicist and Nobel laureate (born 1915)
- May 12 - Perry Como, singer (born 1912)
- June 3 - Anthony Quinn, actor (born 1915)
- June 11 - Timothy McVeigh, perpetrator of the Oklahoma City bombing (born 1968)
- June 17 - Donald J. Cram, chemist and Novel laureate (born 1919)
- June 27 - Jack Lemmon, actor (born 1925)
- July 31 - Poul Anderson, science fiction author (born 1926)
