What Happened In January 2001 In History

Historical Events for January, 2001

• 12th » Downtown Disney (Disneyland Resort) known as Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
• 13th » An 2001 El Salvador earthquakes The January 13 earthquake known as earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
• 15th » Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
• 16th » Democratic Republic of the Congo called Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
• 16th » President of the United States or US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
• 17th » U.S. President Bill Clinton posthumously promotes William Clark (explorer) named William Clark from Lieutenant to Captain (U.S. Army) called Captain.
• 20th » Philippines Philippine President of the Philippines president Joseph Estrada is ousted in a EDSA Revolution of 2001 nonviolent 4-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
• 26th » An earthquake hits 2001 Gujarat earthquake e.g Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.
• 29th » Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President of Indonesia or President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
• 31st » In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.

Famous Birthdays on January in 2001

• 2nd » Christopher Barrios, Jr., American murder victim (d. 2007)
• 21st » Jackson Brundage, American actor

Famous Deaths for January 2001

• 1st » Ray Walston, American actor (b. 1914)
• 2nd » William P. Rogers, American politician, 55th United States Secretary of State (b. 1913)
• 4th » Les Brown (bandleader) or Les Brown, American bandleader and composer (b. 1912)
• 4th » Yoshika Yuhnagi, Japanese model (b. 1983)
• 5th » Nancy Parsons, American actress (b. 1942)
• 7th » James Carr (musician) e.g James Carr, American singer (b. 1942)
• 9th » Maurice Prather, American photographer (b. 1926)
• 12th » Affirmed, American race horse (b. 1975)
• 12th » Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer (b. 1922)
• 12th » William Redington Hewlett, American engineer and businessman, co-founded Hewlett-Packard (b. 1913)
• 13th » Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor and singer (2ge+her) (b. 1985)
• 14th » Burkhard Heim, German physicist (b. 1925)
• 14th » Kostas Rigopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1930)
• 15th » Ted Mann, American businessman (b. 1916)
• 15th » Leo Marks, English cryptographer, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• 16th » Auberon Waugh, English author and journalist (b. 1939)
• 17th » Gregory Corso, American poet (b. 1930)
• 18th » Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Congolese politician, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1939)
• 18th » Al Waxman, Canadian actor (b. 1935)
• 19th » Dario Vittori, Argentinian actor (b. 1921)
• 21st » Byron De La Beckwith, American assassin of Medgar Evers (b. 1921)
• 22nd » Tommie Agee, American baseball player (b. 1942)
• 22nd » Roy Brown (clown) e.g Roy Brown, American clown and puppeteer (b. 1932)
• 26th » Al McGuire, American basketball player and coach (b. 1928)
• 28th » Curt Blefary, American baseball player (b. 1943)
• 30th » Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (b. 1911)
• 30th » Johnnie Johnson (RAF officer) named Johnnie Johnson, English pilot and air marshal (b. 1915)
• 30th » Joseph Ransohoff, American surgeon (b. 1915)
• 31st » Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian-American author (b. 1923)

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