2001

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Events edit

January 16 - Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his bodyguards. His son Joseph Kabila succeeds him as President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
January 20 - Joseph Estrada is ousted as President of the Philippines by the Second EDSA Revolution.
January 22 - The National Liberation Army, a militant group comprised of Macedonian Albanians, launches an insurgency against the government of Macedonia in an attempt to assert greater control over the country.
February 9 - Chuan Leekpai's second term as Prime Minister of Thailand comes to an end.
February 23 - Isla Vista killings
February 24 - Brian Lunn Field confesses to the 1968 kidnapping and murder of 14-year old Roy Tutill.
March 2 to 18 - The Destruction of Buddhas of Bamiyan by Taliban.
March 5 - Santana High School shooting
March 7 - Ariel Sharon is elected Prime Minister of Israel.
March 9 - Armin Meiwes kills and cannibalizes Bernd Jürgen Brandes, who willingly allowed himself to be killed and cannibalized after answering an ad put up by Meiwes on the website The Cannibal Cafe.
April 10 - Robert William Fisher murders his wife and two children, sets their house on fire, and goes on the run. He remains at large to present day.
April 25 to May 1 - EDSA 3 riot which was caused by the arrest of deposed Philippines President Joseph Estrada.
May 12 - Inderjit Kainth murders 16 year old Rosie Ross while she sunbathed with her friend, Sarah Elstob.
June 1 - The Nepalese royal massacre
June 13 - Law and Justice is founded by twin brothers Jarosław and Lech Kaczyński.
June 20 - Andrea Yates murders her children by drowning each of them in the bathtub.
June 20 - Pervez Musharraf is named President of Pakistan after two years of military rule.
July 10 - Sef Gonzales, kills his parents and sister, over his car being taken away.
August 6 - Hugo Banzer is forced to resign as President of Bolivia due to lung cancer.
August 14 - The Justice and Development Party is founded by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
September 11 - Islamic terrorists affiliated with Al-Qaeda hijack four planes and crash them into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The Twin Towers are destroyed completely and the Pentagon is partially damaged. The fourth plane was targeting either the White House or the Capitol Building, but was brought down by the passengers before it could reach its destination.
September 18 - Anthrax is sent to various U.S. politicians, being sent in letters containing anthrax spores; these letters were mailed to several news media offices and two Democratic U.S. Senators (Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy), killing 5 people and infecting 17 others.
October 7 - The United States invades Afghanistan and overthrows the Taliban-controlled government, beginning the War in Afghanistan. Taliban leader Mohammed Omar goes into hiding.
November 5 - Andrew Bagby was killed by his wife
November 8 - Katherine Knight becomes the first woman in Australian history to receive a life sentence without parole after being found guilty of murdering and cannibalizing her partner, John Price.
November 12 - The insurgency in Macedonia comes to an end. This marks the end of the Yugoslav Wars.
November 28 - Christopher Pittman murders his grandparents, Joe and Joy Pittman, and burns down their house.
November 30 - Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer, is apprehended and arrested as he was leaving the Renton, Washington Kenworth Truck factory where he worked.
December 1 - United Russia is founded.

Births edit

Villain births edit

January 2 - Federico Guevara Elizondo
January 9 - Brittany Johnson
July 2 - Jose Reyes
July 5 - Guilherme Taucci Monteiro
August 30 - Brandon Scott Hole
September 11 - Ilnaz Galyaviev
October 10 - Caleb Sharpe
November 10 - Anissa Weier
November 30 - Jonathan Sapirman
Unknown - Linda Wenzel
Unknown - Bailey O'Neill's Murderers

Victim births edit

January 2 - Christopher Barrios Jr
January 6 - Autumn Lynn Short
January 19 - Helena Ramsay
January 29 - Katelynn Bennett
February 21 - Carmen Schentrup
February 27 - Marina Sabatier
March 2 - Bailey O'Neill
March 7 - Sabrina De Vito
March 8 - Sandra Cantu
March 10 - Daniel Garcia
March 14 - Kendrick Castillo
March 31 - Riley Fox
April 17 - LaTania Carwell
May 11 - Tessa Majors
May 17 - Marissa Emkens
June 2 - Hanna Mack
July 5 - Samaria Blackwell
July 28 - Elijah Al-Amin
August 9 - Anthony Barajas
August 25 - Larissa Beilby
September 11 - Christina Taylor Green
October 2 - Bianca Devins
November 28 - Olivia Campbell Hardy
November 29 - Lorenzo Gonzalez Cacho
December 9 - Ronnie Paris
December 17 - Luke & Austin Riggi

Deaths edit

Villain deaths edit

January 10 - Jesse Fear
January 16 - Laurent-Désiré Kabila
January 21 - Byron De La Beckwith
March 12 - Henry Lee Lucas
April 3 - Jason Massey
May 7 - Joseph Maskell
June 4 - Dipendra of Nepal
June 11 - Timothy McVeigh
August 5 - Robert Spangler
September 11 - Hijackers of the September 11 attacks:
September 20 - Marcos Pérez Jiménez
September 27 - Friedrich Leibacher
October 8 - Javed Iqbal Mughal
November 14 - Mohammed Atef
November 17 - Harrison A. Williams
December 28 - Lawrence Singleton

Victim deaths edit

February 23 - Nicholas Bourdakis, Christopher Divis, Elie Israel, and Ruth Levy.
February 25 - Paul Shealey
March 9 - Bernd Jürgen Brandes
March 14 - Leung Shing-yan
April 10 - Mary, Brittney, & Bobby Fisher
May 2 - Faith and Liberty Battaglia
May 12 - Rosie Ross
June 1 - Prince Nirajan of Nepal
June 20 - Noah, John, Paul, Luke & Mary Yates
July 10 - Teodoro "Teddy" Gonzales, Mary Loiva Josephine Claridades Gonzales & Clodine Gonzales
September 11 - Victims of the September 11 attacks.
September 28 - Martin O'Hagan
November 5 - Andrew Bagby
November 28 - Joe and Joy Pittman
December 5 - Zafar Iqbal Khan