What Happened In June 2001 In History

Historical Events for June, 2001

• 1st » Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother, King Birendra of Nepal and Queen Aiswarya.
• 4th » Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal, ascends to the throne after the massacre in the Royal Palace.
• 5th » Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm causes $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
• 11th » Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
• 20th » Andrea Yates, in an attempt to save her young children from Satan, drowns all five of them in a bathtub in Houston, Texas.
• 21st » A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
• 28th » Slobodan Milošević is deported to ICTY to stand trial.

Famous Birthdays on June in 2001

• 12th » John Bigelow IV, Filipino-American golfer
• 21st » Alexandra Obolentseva, Russian chess player
• 21st » Eleanor Worthington Cox, English actress

Famous Deaths for June 2001

• 1st » Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist, created 'Dennis the Menace (U.S. comics) called Dennis the Menace' (b. 1920)
• 1st » Aishwarya of Nepal (b. 1949)
• 1st » Birendra of Nepal (b. 1945)
• 2nd » Imogene Coca, American actress (b. 1908)
• 2nd » Joey Maxim, American boxer (b. 1922)
• 3rd » Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor and producer (b. 1915)
• 4th » John Hartford, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (b. 1937)
• 4th » Dipendra of Nepal (b. 1971)
• 5th » Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spanish medical researcher (b. 1908)
• 7th » Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician, 52nd President of Bolivia (b. 1907)
• 7th » Carole Fredericks, American singer (Fredericks Goldman Jones) (b. 1952)
• 7th » Betty Neels, English author (b. 1910)
• 8th » Alex de Renzy, American director and producer (b. 1935)
• 10th » Mike Mentzer, American bodybuilder (b. 1951)
• 10th » Leila Pahlavi, Iranian daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (b. 1970)
• 11th » Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist, conducted the Oklahoma City bombing (b. 1968)
• 11th » Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer and actress (b. 1923)
• 15th » Henri Alekan, French cinematographer (b. 1909)
• 15th » Maria Foka, Greek-English actress (b. 1917)
• 15th » Jay Moriarity, American surfer (b. 1978)
• 17th » Donald J. Cram, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry known as Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)
• 17th » Thomas Winning, Scottish cardinal (b. 1925)
• 19th » John Heyer, Australian director and producer (b. 1916)
• 19th » Steve Sheppard-Brodie, American voice actor (b. 1950)
• 20th » Gina Cigna, French-Italian soprano (b. 1900)
• 21st » John Lee Hooker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1916)
• 21st » Soad Hosny, Egyptian actress (b. 1942)
• 23rd » Yvonne Dionne, Canadian quintuplet (b. 1934)
• 26th » Soccer (dog) known as Soccer, American acting dog (b. 1988)
• 27th » Tove Jansson, Finnish author (b. 1914)
• 27th » Jack Lemmon, American actor and singer (b. 1925)
• 28th » Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher and author (b. 1902)
• 28th » Joan Sims, English actress (b. 1930)
• 30th » Chet Atkins, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1924)
• 30th » Joe Henderson, American saxophonist (b. 1937)

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