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2001 Annual History Facts |
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World Series Champions |
Arizona Diamondbacks |
Superbowl XXXV Champions |
Baltimore Ravens |
National Basketball Association Champions |
Los Angeles Lakers |
NHL Stanley Cup Champions |
Colorado Avalanche |
US Open Golf |
Retief Goosen |
US Open Tennis (Men Ladies) |
Lleyton Hewitt/Venus Williams |
Wimbledon (Men/Women) |
Goran Ivanisevic/Venus Williams |
NCAA Football Champions |
Miami |
NCAA Basketball Champions |
Duke |
Bowl Games |
Orange Bowl: January 3, 2001 – Oklahoma over Florida State Rose Bowl: January 1, 2001 – Washington over Purdue Sugar Bowl: January 2, 2001 – Miami over Florida |
Kentucky Derby |
Monarchos |
Westminster Kennel Best in Show Dog |
Special Times Just Right |
Time Magazine’s Man of the Year |
Rudolph Giuliani |
Miss America |
Angela Perez BaBaraquio (Honolulu, HI) |
Miss USA |
Kandace Krueger (Texas) |
Fashion Icons and Movie Stars |
Aaliyah, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Alba, Krista Allen, Gillian Anderson, Victoria Beckham, Kate Beckinsale, Monica Bellucci, Elsa Benitez, Beyonce, Thora Birch, Jordana Brewster, Gisele Bundchen, Brooke Burke, Rachael Leigh Cook, Penélope Cruz, Rosario Dawson, Amanda Detmer, Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku, Shannon Elizabeth, Nelly Furtado, Carla Gugino, Kate Hudson, Jaime King, Mia Kirshner, Heidi Klum, Mila Kunis, Ali Larter, Adriana Lima, Drea de Matteo, Mandy Moore, Anna Paquin, Amanda Peet, Natalie Portman, Monica Potter, Laura Prepon, Tara Reid, Michelle Rodriguez, Roselyn Sanchez, Xenia Seeberg, Victoria Silvstedt, Jessica Simpson, Molly Sims, Kim Smith, Lee Lee Sobieski, Shannyn Sossamon, Britney Spears, Julia Stiles, Mena Suvari, Sofia Vergara, Estella Warren, Rachelle Weisz, Reese Witherspoon, Alicia Witt, Sarah Wynter |
2001 Pop Culture History |
CC, short for Carbon Copy or Copy Cat (depending on who you ask), was the world’s first cloned cat, born December 22, 2001. Upon his retirement from GE, Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric, received a severance payment of $417 million, the most significant severance payment ever made. Phoenix is the only city ever to have a complete “sports equinox” when all four major sports teams from a city play on the same day. On November 4th, 2001, the Cardinals (NFL), the Coyotes (NHL), and the Suns (NBA) all lost, while the Diamondbacks (MLB) won game 7 of the World Series. Stanley Kubrick asked journalists to refer to “2001: A Space Odyssey” as “two thousand and one” instead of “twenty-oh-one,” hoping it would influence the pronunciation of that year. The first song featured on the very first Kidz Bop album was All Star by Smash Mouth. In 1986, nurse Sandra Clarke could not stay with a patient who asked her to stay. When she returned, the patient had died alone. In 2001, she was key in starting No One Dies Alone, a program where volunteers sit with terminal patients who have no one else. The program is now world-wide. In 2001, Neopets was the fourth most trafficked website on the internet, eight spots ahead of fast-growing search engine giant Google. The Vatican publicly approved Pokémon in April 2001, claiming that the game was based on “intense ties of friendship” and lacked “any harmful moral side effects.” On the 2001 New Zealand census, 53,715 people listed their religion as ‘Jedi’. A ten-year-old named Laura Buxton released a balloon with her name and address, hoping to find a pen pal. The balloon traveled 140 miles before coming down and was found by an almost-ten-year-old also named Laura Buxton. They share several other similarities. “Tree Lobsters” are giant stick insects thought to have been extinct since 1920. In 2001, a few specimens were found on a single shrub on a magnificent volcanic sea stack between Australia and New Zealand. The insects have been bred in captivity and now have a stable population. Bobby Bonilla will receive close to $1.2 million from the Mets once a year until 2035. He hasn’t played in the majors since 2001. After Bill Murray’s character in the 2001 film Osmosis, Jones mentioned a fictitious “National Chicken Wing Festival” in Buffalo, New York; the city created a genuine version of the festival and has held it every year since then. The voice of Boo from Monsters, Inc., Mary Gibbs, was just a toddler during production. The crew couldn’t get her to sit still and read her lines, so they had her play in the studio while following her around with a mic. Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria ruled from 1943 to 1946 as a child and was overthrown after WWII. He was later elected Prime Minister of Bulgaria in 2001. He is the only monarch to become the head of government through democratic elections in European history. Cowboy Bebop was the first anime to play on Adult Swim. Although “Madison” was the second most popular girl in 2001, it was virtually unheard of before the 1984 movie Splash, where a mermaid adopts it as her human name after seeing a street sign for Madison Avenue. To this, Tom Hanks’s character initially protests: “But Madison isn’t a name!” Barry Bond’s record-breaking 73 Home Run season in 2001 is the only season in his career where he hit over 50.* Pizza Hut made a delivery to the International Space Station in 2001. They paid the Russians $1 million to transport the Pizza. Cost of a Superbowl ad in 2001: $2,100,000 Ben Sliney, the man who ordered the grounding of all aircraft in the US on September 11, 2001, was on his first day of the job. In the 1999 movie The Matrix, Neo’s passport expires on September 11, 2001. |
War on Terror |
Number of Deaths on the 9/11 attack:
American Airlines Flight 11 (hit the North Tower, NYC) United Airlines Flight 175 (hit the South Tower, NYC) Total World Trade Center United Airlines Flight 90 (Crashed near Shanksville, PA) American Airlines Flight 77 (hit the Pentagon) Henryk Siwiak, a Polish immigrant, was murdered on September 11, 2001, and is widely described as “the last person killed in New York on 9/11”. Officer John Perry of the NYPD went to headquarters to file retirement paperwork. When he heard the explosion at the World Trade Center, he immediately responded and was later killed when one of the towers collapsed. He was the only off-duty officer killed on 9/11. Clear Channel banned many rock and pop songs after the attack. Seth MacFarlane (of Family Guy, American Dad, and Ted fame) missed boarding American Airlines Flight 11 by fifteen minutes on September 11, 2001. He was reportedly late because of a hangover. Synth-pop band “I Am the World Trade Center” released their debut album “Out of the Loop” in July 2001, with the 11th track of the album being “September”. A live album from the band Dream Theater was released on 9/11/2001, with the skyline of NYC (with the World Trade Center) in flames on its album art. The album was recalled and re-released a short time later, but the incident remains one of the most bizarre coincidences in music. The pilot episode of The Lone Gunmen was about a conspiracy of the US government to hijack an airline and fly it into the World Trade Center to start a profit-making war. It aired on March 4, 2001. In August 2001, actor James Woods reported four suspicious males on his flight to authorities. Those males were the 9/11 hijackers on a dry run. The name of the ‘USA Patriot Act’ is an acronym; “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001.” |
RIP, Scandals, Sad and Odd News |
Angelina Jolie gave a passionate, open-mouth kiss to her brother, James, which made many people almost forget Bjork’s goose dress.
Recordings revealed that Enron shut down a power station in California and created an artificial power shortage, deliberately aggravating the 2001 California Energy Crisis so they could raise prices and cost residents billions in surcharges. Enron’s accounting scandal cost investors something close to $60 Billion, and their accounting firm, Arthur Anderson, went out of business. Earning short-term cash, Enron cost the state of California as much as $40 billion by causing artificial rolling blackouts in 2000 and 2001. Continuum, a magazine devoted to the idea that AIDS is a conspiracy, went out of print in 2001 after all the editors died of AIDS. Gary Condit, a Democrat California congressman, had an affair with his intern, Chandra Levy, which was alleged may have also led to her murder. It didn’t – Ingmar Guandique, a Salvadoran immigrant, had killed her. Mattel sold a Harry Potter ‘Nimbus 2000’ flying broom that vibrated when kids rode it. They pulled it from stores after adult stores began selling the toy. Nascar Driver Death: Dale Earnhart Airplane Celebrity Death: Aaliyah Splitsville: Of Note: At the MTV’s Music Video Awards, millions watched Britney Spears dance with a python. |
Firsts and the Biggest Christmas Gifts |
Microsoft Xbox, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, iPod, Harry Potter toys, K’NEX BattleTech/MechWarrior, Bob the Builder toys, Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec video game Mental Floss Magazine (2001-2016) Rosie Magazine (2001-2002) People StyleWatch began publication |
The Habits |
iPod was released in October 2001. The X-Box came out in November 2001 Reading Desecration by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye …Everybody else was watching SpongeBob Squarepants |
2001/2 Biggest Television Shows |
according to Nielsen TV Research) 1. Friends (NBC) 2. CSI (CBS) 3. ER (NBC) 4. Everybody Loves Raymond (CBS) 5. Law & Order (NBC) 6. Survivor(CBS) 7. Monday Night Football (ABC) 8. The West Wing (NBC) 9. Will & Grace (NBC) 10. Leap of Faith (NBC) |
Popular Music Artists |
The Biggest Pop Artists of 2001 include Alicia Keyes, Mariah Carey, Case, Christina Aguilera, Destiny’s Child, Dido, Faith Hill, Ginuwine, Incubus, Jagged Edge, Janet Jackson, Ja Rule, Jay-Z, Ja Rule, Jennifer Lopez, Joe, Lifehouse, Lil Kim, Ludacris, Mary J. Blige, Michelle Branch, Missy ‘Misdemeanor’ Elliott, Mya, Nelly, Nelly Fortado, Nickleback, 112, Outkast, Pink, R. Kelly, Shaggy, Toby Keith, Uncle Kracker, Usher (Data is compiled from charts, including Billboard’s Pop, Rock, Airplay, R&B/Dance, and Singles Charts. The Hot 100 is the primary chart used for this list.) |
Number One Hits of 2001 |
November 18, 2000 – February 2, 2001: Destiny’s Child – Independent Women
February 3, 2001 – February 16, 2001: Shaggy featuring Ricardo ‘Rikrok’ Ducent – It Wasn’t Me February 17, 2001 – February 23, 2001: Outkast – Ms. Jackson February 24, 2001 – March 23, 2001: Joe featuring Mystikal – Stutter March 24, 2001 – March 30, 2001: Crazy Town – Butterfly March 31, 2001 – April 13, 2001: Shaggy featuring Rayvon – Angel April 14, 2001 – June 1, 2001: Janet Jackson – All For You June 2, 2001 – July 6, 2001: Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, Mýa and Pink – Lady Marmalade July 7, 2001 – August 3, 2001: Usher – U Remind Me August 4, 2001 – August 17, 2001: Destiny’s Child – Bootylicious August 18, 2001 – September 7, 2001: Alicia Keys – Fallin’ September 8, 2001 – November 2, 2001: Jennifer Lopez featuring Ja Rule – I’m Real November 3, 2001 – December 14, 2001: Mary J. Blige – Family Affair December 15, 2001 – December 21, 2001: Usher – U Got It Bad December 22, 2001 – February 22, 2002: Nickelback – How You Remind Me |
Popular Movies |
(according to boxofficemojo) A Beautiful Mind, American Pie 2, Black Hawk Down, Donnie Darko, Dr. Dolittle 2, The Fast and the Furious, Hannibal, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Jurassic Park III, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Legally Blonde, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Monsters Inc., Moulin Rouge!, The Mummy Returns, Ocean’s Eleven, The Others, Pearl Harbor, Planet of the Apes, The Princess Diaries, Rat Race, Rush Hour 2, Shrek, Spy Kids, Vanilla Sky |