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2001 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2029. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

2001 Calendar

Historical Events Of 2001

• January 20, 2001 – President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
• January 24, 2001 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Snake in Chinese astrology.
• February 15, 2001 – The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.
• February 18, 2001 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
• April 1, 2001 – Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.
• May 9, 2001 – In Ghana, 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
• July 2, 2001 – The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted.
• July 17, 2001 – Concorde is brought back in to service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.
• October 26, 2001 – The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
• November 27, 2001 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.

Who Were Born On 2001?

• February 5, 2001 – Juan Karlos Labajo, Filipino-German singer and actor
• February 19, 2001 – David Mazouz, American actor
• February 24, 2001 – Ramona Marquez, English actress
• March 6, 2001 – Aryana Engineer, Canadian actress
• June 21, 2001 – Eleanor Worthington Cox, English actress and singer
• August 6, 2001 – Ty Simpkins, American actor
• August 23, 2001 – Zaijian Jaranilla, Filipino actor
• September 24, 2001 – Clare Foley, American actress
• October 14, 2001 – Rowan Blanchard, American actress and singer
• December 28, 2001 – Madison De La Garza, American actress