Month April 2001 Calendar

About Month of April Calendar

• April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, the fifth in the early Julian and one of four months with a length of 30 days. April is commonly associated with the season of spring in parts of the Northern hemisphere and autumn in parts of the Southern hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equivalent to October in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.
  
  April symbols: The birthstone for April is the diamond. The birth flower is typically listed as either the Daisy (Bellis perennis) or the Sweet Pea. The zodiac signs for the month of April are Aries (until April 20) and Taurus (April 21 onwards).

Historical Events for April, 2001

• Day of Week 1st » Former President of Yugoslavia called President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.
• 1st » Same-sex marriage in the Netherlands called Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the Timeline of same-sex marriage named first contemporary country to allow it.
• Day of Week 7th » Mars Odyssey is launched.
• Day of Week 11th » The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that Hainan Island incident called landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a Shenyang J-8 or J-8 fighter, is released.
• Day of Week 16th » India and Bangladesh begin a 2001 Indian–Bangladeshi border conflict known as five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about India–Bangladesh border or their border.
• Day of Week 25th » Michele Alboreto is killed while testing an Audi R8 (race car) known as Audi R8 at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz known as Lausitzring in Germany.

Famous Birthdays on April in 2001

• 3rd » Sophie Delezio, Australian medical patient

Famous Deaths for April 2001

• 1st » Olivia Barclay, English astrologer (b. 1919)
• 1st » Jo-Jo Moore, American baseball player (b. 1908)
• 1st » Trinh Cong Son, Vietnamese guitarist and composer (b. 1939)
• 2nd » Charles Daudelin, Canadian sculptor and painter (b. 1920)
• 2nd » Jennifer Syme, American actress (b. 1972)
• 4th » Ed Roth, American illustrator (b. 1932)
• 4th » Maury Van Vliet, American-Canadian academic (b. 1913)
• 5th » Brother Theodore, German-American comedian and actor (b. 1906)
• 6th » Charles Pettigrew, American singer-songwriter (Charles & Eddie) (b. 1963)
• 7th » David Graf, American actor (b. 1950)
• 7th » Beatrice Straight, American actress (b. 1914)
• 9th » Willie Stargell, American baseball player (b. 1940)
• 11th » Sandy Bull, American singer and guitarist (b. 1941)
• 11th » Harry Secombe, Welsh-English actor and singer (b. 1921)
• 12th » Harvey Ball, American illustrator, created the smiley (b. 1921)
• 13th » Jimmy Logan, Scottish actor, director, and producer (b. 1928)
• 13th » Robert Moon (postal inspector) called Robert Moon, American postal inspector, created the ZIP code (b. 1917)
• 14th » Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (b. 1939)
• 14th » Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
• 15th » Joey Ramone, American singer-songwriter (Ramones and Sniper (American band) or Sniper) (b. 1951)
• 16th » Michael Ritchie (film director) named Michael Ritchie, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
• 16th » Alec Stock, English footballer and manager (b. 1917)
• 19th » Meldrim Thomson, Jr.. American politician, 73rd Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1912)
• 20th » Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1946)
• 24th » Al Hibbler, American singer (b. 1915)
• 24th » Leon Sullivan, American minister and activist (b. 1922)
• 25th » Michele Alboreto, Italian race car driver (b. 1956)
• 29th » Arthur B. C. Walker, Jr., American physicist and academic (b. 1936)

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