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2001 Calendar

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•  January 24, 2001 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Snake in Chinese astrology.
•  February 13, 2001 – An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
•  March 23, 2001 – The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
•  April 1, 2001 – Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first country to allow it.
•  September 21, 2001 – Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly.
•  October 4, 2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: a Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed.
•  October 15, 2001 – NASA’s Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter’s moon Io.
•  October 26, 2001 – The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
•  November 30, 2001 – In Renton, Washington, United States, Gary Ridgway aka The Green River Killer is arrested.
•  December 29, 2001 – A fire at the Mesa Redonda shopping center in Lima, Peru, kills at least 291.

•  January 2, 2001 – Christopher Barrios Jr., American murder victim (d. 2007)
•  March 6, 2001 – Aryana Engineer, Canadian actress
•  June 21, 2001 – Alexandra Obolentseva, Russian chess player
•  July 8, 2001 – Yang Peiyi, Chinese singer
•  August 4, 2001 – Seishiro Kato, Japanese actor
•  August 23, 2001 – Zaijian Jaranilla, Filipino actor
•  October 7, 2001 – Princess Senate Seeiso, daughter of King Letsie III of Lesotho
•  October 18, 2001 – Annelise Manojlovic, English actress
•  November 21, 2001 – Samantha Bailey, American actress
•  December 1, 2001 – Aiko, Princess Toshi, Japanese royalty