January 1
Happy Real New Millennium!
January 20
George W. Bush is sworn in as 43rd US President.
January 26
An earthquake hits Gujarat, India. More than 20,000 are killed.
January 31
In the Netherlands a Scottish court convicts one Libyan and acquits another
for their roles in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which crashed at
Lockerbie, Scotland thirteen years earlier.
February
British and US forces carry out bombing raids attempting to disable Iraq's
air defense network
February 18
NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, (left) is killed during the Daytona 500 race.
February 20
An FBI agent, Robert Hanssen, is arrested and charged with spying for the
former USSR for 15 years.
April 1
Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic surrenders to police, to be
tried for war crimes.
May 19
China’s "one child" policy is taken to extremes when a woman is put to death
by government officials because she refuses to be sterilized.
May 25
A 32-year old blind man, Erik Weihenmayer, of Colorado, is the first blind
person to reach Mount Everest’s summit. That same day, 64-year old Sherman
Bull, of Connecticut becomes the oldest person to reach the summit of
Everest.
June 5
Tropical Storm Allison dumps 36 inches of rain on the Houston, Texas.
Twenty-two people die; damage exceeds five billion dollars.
June 7
In the UK general elections, Tony Blair and his Labour party are returned to
office for second term.
June 11
Timothy McVeigh, 33, (left) convicted murderer and Oklahoma City bombing terrorist is executed by
the US
government.
July 2
The world's first self-contained artificial heart is successfully implanted.
July 14
Bejing is selected as the host city for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
August 9
President George W. Bush announces support for funding of limited research
on embryonic stem cells.
September 5
Peru files homicide charges against its ex-President, Alberto Fujimori.
September 9
Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, rebelling against
the ruling Taliban, is assassinated in Afghanistan. The killer is an
agent of the Taliban, posing as journalist conducting an interview.
September 11
Coordinated terrorist attacks in the United States by hijacked commercial
aircraft used as flying bombs. The
World Trade Center's twin towers are destroyed by jet fuel fires after two planes,
minutes apart,
slam into upper and middle floors. The Pentagon is also attacked; and a fourth
commercial airliner crashes in rural Pennsylvania (believed to be en route to
Washington, D.C.) following a death struggle between the terrorists and
pasengers. Al Qaeda (translated from the Arabic as "The Base") terrorists associated with the Taliban regime in
Afghanistan are believed to be behind the attacks. In all, more than 3,000
innocent men, women and children are murdered this day. Al Qaeda leader,
Osama bin
Laden, congratulates the attackers from a hidden location. |
 
 
   
President George W. Bush is briefed on the WTC attack
during a visit to a school in Florida. By noon a pall of smoke fills
the sky where the towers once stood. Bush and Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld inspect the damage at the Pentagon on September 14.
Photo courtesy of the US Department of Defense. |
Hundreds and thousands of New York City-based amateur and professional
photographers capture the horror of the moment -- and its devastating
aftermath -- on film. In the following weeks and months, a temporary
storefront gallery is opened in the city's Soho neighborhood, offering
individual prints of photos for sale. A book of photos is also published.
All of the proceeds will go to benefit the Children's Aid Society for
children orphaned by the cowardly attacks. In addition, a traveling gallery
will tour parts of the US and foreign cities. To visit the online "Here
is New York" photo exhibition or to purchase a copy of the book, click
on the link. Please note, the gallery is now closed and individual prints
are no longer available.
September 12
President Bush declares a war on terror.
October 4
Antrax virus attack is announced by federal officials after a person working
in a magazine mailroom is infected and dies in Florida.
October 11
Air strikes are launched against select targets in Afghanistan. In the
ensuing weeks, a ground force of Allied soldiers quickly defeat the Taliban
and Al Qaeda fighters in the field. Osama bin Laden and his followers flee
to a secret redoubt.
October 15
NASA's spacecraft, Galileo, passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
November 7
Concorde flies again; 15 months after the Paris disaster.
November 12
American Airlines Flight 587 crashes minutes after takeoff from John F.
Kennedy International Airport, in New York, killing all 260 aboard.
Terrorism is ruled out.
November 14
Northern Alliance troops occupy Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. Taliban
leaders flee several days earlier.
November 29
ALL THINGS MUST PASS
George Harrison, 58, musician and former member of the fantastically
successful Beatles pop group, dies in the presence of his loving family at
the home of a friend, in California, after a
long struggle with brain and throat cancer. Harrison, known as "The Quiet
Beatle" had blossomed as a solo artist after the band's 1969 split,
revealing songwriting and musical talents long overshadowed by the dominance
of Lennon-McCartney within the Fab Four. Apart from his successful solo
career, George was also a founding member of The Traveling Wilburys, an
ad-hoc band including Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty (and the late Roy
Orbison, who died in 1988).
December 2
Energy giant Enron Corporation files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
December
The Philadelphia Orchestra moves to its new home at the Kimmel Center for
the Performing Arts on Center City Philadelphia’s South Broad Street (aka
Avenue of the Arts). The orchestra had played at the grand old Academy of
Music (opened in 1857) since its inception in 1900. The Academy, while
architecturally magnificent, was built to accommodate a much smaller
theatre-going population midway through the 19th Century. The Kimmel Center
is more spacious and has far better acoustical design, which can be altered
for
every type of musical ensemble, from intimate jazz trios to a full
symphony orchestra.
ALSO IN 2001:
That's Show Biz
In Film: Gladiator is named Best Picture at the Academy
Awards. Popular films at the box office in 2001 include Pollock, Traffic,
Moulin Rouge, The Lord of the Rings/Fellowship of the Rings, Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone.
Australian-American beauty Nicole Kidman adds a large dollop of class, sass
and savoir faire inher role as Satine in Moulin Rouge, the
hip, offbeat Australian-made musical, set in the Paris district of
Montmartre, circa 1900.
Deaths
Over 3,000 men women and children at the site of the World Trade Center in
New York City, at The Pentagon, and in a field in rural Pennsylvania die as a
result of a series of coordinated terrorist attacks.
Other Deaths:
Perry Como, (top right) relaxed singer and 1950s star (Catch a Falling
Star)
William Hewlett, cofounder of Hewlett-Packard
Dale Evans, actress, singer, wife of Roy Rogers, "The King of the Cowboys"
Stanley Kramer, American movie director
Harold Stassen, politician
Ann Sothern, actress
John Phillips, cofounder of the 1960s vocal group, The Mamas and the Papas
Katherine Graham, Publisher (The Washington Post)
William Hanna, cofounder Hanna-Barbera animation studio
Willie Stargell, baseball great
Joey Ramone, lead singer for punk band The Ramones
Hank Ketcham, cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace
Anthony Quinn, actor and artist
John Lee Hooker, blues musician
Carroll O'Connor, actor (TV’s Archie Bunker)
Chet Atkins, country musician
Aaliyah, up and coming American singer and actress
Christiaan Barnard, heart surgeon, first to perform a human-to-human heart
transplant
Isaac Stern, classical violinist
Ken Kesey, author (The Electric Koolaid Acid Test)
Jack Lemmon, (right) brilliant comedic-dramatic actor (The Apartment,
Mister Roberts, The Fortune Cookie, Irma La Duce, The China Syndrome,
Missing )
The year begins on a high note as
H&M's Network Cabling Solutions group is involved in a prestigious, high
profile and mammoth communications renovation project at the Pentagon
(left) ... Three Vice Presidents are named this year:
Denis J. Palermo, Vice President and Division Manager for the
Atlantic Division is headquartered in Burlington, N.J.; Edward W.
Campbell, Vice President and Division Manager for Southwest Division, is
based in Lewisville, Texas; and James A. Duffy, Vice President and
Director of Corporate Marketing and Sales works from Corporate Headquarters
in Blue Bell… Henkels & McCoy assists in the removal and relocation of the childhood home
of former astronaut and senator John H. Glenn, Jr. in March. The house is
transported to the campus of nearby Muskingham College in New Concord,
Illinois where it will be part of the John and Annie Glenn Foundation's
museum. Glenn and the former Ann Margaret Castor were childhood neighbors
and sweethearts and married in 1943. Henkels & McCoy temporarily removed
telephone poles and overhead wire and guaranteed uninterrupted service
throughout the relocation process. The house was transported atop a huge
flatbed truck... H&M's Network Systems & Solutions Division (NSS) updates
the cable network system for Wyeth-Ayerst's world headquarters in
Collegeville, Pennsylvania. The protracted nine-month schedule calls for
installation of three million feet of Category 6 cable to 39 telecomm
closets as well as 16,000 feet of multimode and 10,000 feet of single mode
optical fiber cable, 4,000 feet of high pair count twisted pair and 190
relay racks... H&M installs replacement gas main at Argonne National
Laboratory to approximately 20 buildings spread over the facility's 1,700
wooded acres outside Chicago, Illinois, including one and one-half miles of
polyethylene pipe via horizontal bore and replacement of sixteen services to
buildings, with new meters, regulators and piping.
