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12.30.2001 00:07
Year's news: Sept. 10 seems like a long time ago
Remember Levy and McVeigh, Napster and Almonte?
JANUARY
Jan. 9:
Linda Chavez withdraws bid to be labor secretary because of controversy over illegal immigrant who lived with her.
Jan. 11:
Army acknowledges that U.S. soldiers killed "unknown number" of South Korean refugees early in Korean War at No Gun Ri. FCC approves merger of America Online and Time Warner.
Jan. 17:
California electricity regulators order rolling blackouts.
Jan. 18:
Civil-rights leader Jesse Jackson reveals extramarital affair that resulted in birth of a daughter. Commander of Marines' Osprey squadron relieved of command for directing subordinates to lie.
Jan. 20:
George Walker Bush becomes America's 43rd president.
Jan. 24:
Six Texas prison escapees captured, 42 days after breakout; a seventh commits suicide. Lucent Technologies says it will eliminate up to 16,000 jobs.
Jan. 28:
Two professors murdered at Dartmouth College. Two teenagers later charged with the killings.
FEBRUARY
Feb. 6:
Ariel Sharon elected Israeli prime minister in landslide win over Ehud Barak.
Feb. 7:
Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as Haiti's president. Senate votes to pay $582 million in back dues to United Nations.
Feb. 8:
Congress begins hearings on Bill Clinton's pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich.
Feb. 9:
Navy submarine collides with Japanese fishing boat carrying high school students; nine aboard boat die.
Feb. 12:
Federal appeals court says Napster must prevent users from swapping copyrighted music without charge. Computer virus masked as photo of tennis star Anna Kournikova overwhelms e-mail servers in Europe and North America.
MARCH
March 14:
Man recently fired from PPG Industries in North Carolina attacks employees in parking lot, killing one.
March 15:
Employee opens fire at furniture plant in Pennsylvania after workplace dispute, killing floor manager, then killing himself.
March 19:
California officials declare power alert, order rolling blackouts.
March 23:
After 15 years in operation, Russian spacecraft Mir plunges into South Pacific.
March 27: California commission approves electricity rate hikes of up to 46 percent.
March 31:
Police arrest Slobodan Milosevic, former president of Yugoslavia, in advance of handing him over to U.N. tribunal for war crimes trial.
APRIL
April 1:
U.S. Navy surveillance plane collides with Chinese fighter over South China Sea, makes emergency landing at military airfield on China's Hainan island.
April 6:
Pacific Gas and Electric files for bankruptcy in offshoot of California energy crisis.
April 11:
China agrees to free 24-member crew of U.S. spy plane. Cincinnati Mayor Charles Luken declares state of emergency, imposes curfew to halt riots.
April 17:
Mississippi votes to keep Confederate emblem on state flag.
April 25:
Ousted Philippine President Joseph Estrada arrested for alleged corruption.
April 30:
Russian spacecraft carrying first space tourist docks with international space station. Intern Chandra Levy is last seen at health club near her apartment in Washington, D.C.
MAY
May 1:
Ex-Klansman convicted of murder in 1963 church bombing that killed four black girls in Birmingham, Ala.
May 4:
Pope John Paul II apologizes for "sins of action and omission" by Roman Catholics against Orthodox Christians.
May 16:
Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen indicted on charges of spying for Moscow for 15 years.
May 23:
Senate passes 11-year, $1.35-trillion tax cut bill.
May 24:
China, United States agree to have spy plane disassembled and shipped home. Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont says he will leave Republican Party to become independent, tilting Senate control to Democrats.
May 25:
Federal appeals court lifts injunction on publication of
The Wind Done Gone
, retelling of
Gone With The Wind
from blacks' viewpoint.
JUNE
June 1:
Suicide bomber attacks Tel Aviv nightclub, killing himself and 16 Israelis. King, queen and seven other members of Nepal's royal family slain by crown prince in palace shooting.
June 6: Jury awards cancer-stricken smoker more than $3 billion from Philip Morris.
June 7: Tony Blair's Labor Party wins British elections.
June 8:
Knife-wielding man kills eight children at Japanese elementary school.
June 11:
Timothy McVeigh executed at federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind., for Oklahoma City bombing.
June 28: Appeals court reverses breakup of Microsoft. Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic handed over to U.N. war crimes tribunal.
June 30:
Doctors implant dual-purpose pacemaker in Vice President Dick Cheney's chest.
JULY
July 2:
Robert Tools receives world's first self-contained artificial heart in Louisville, Ky.
July 6:
Jesse Arbogast, 8, badly injured in shark attack off Florida coast.
July 12: Abner Louima, tortured in New York City police station, agrees to $8.7-million settlement.
AUGUST
Aug. 9:
President Bush approves federal funding only for existing lines of embryonic stem cells.
Aug. 13:
Ford Motor Co. agrees to settle for $1 billion a lawsuit that alleges its cars and trucks stall because of defective ignition switches.
SEPTEMBER
Sept. 1:
Little League officials strip Bronx team of third-place trophy after determining that pitcher Danny Almonte is 14, not 12.
Sept. 4:
Hewlett-Packard agrees to buy Compaq for $25 billion.
Sept. 6:
Justice Department says it will no longer seek breakup of Microsoft.
Sept. 9:
Afghan opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massood fatally wounded in suicide attack by assassins posing as journalists.
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