WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO NOVEMBER 2001
Find out what all happened August to November 2001

First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks. (18. September 2001)

Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi became the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack. (17. October 2001)

At exactly 01:46:40 UTC, the Unix billenium is reached, marking the beginning of the use of 10-digit decimal Unix timestamps. (9. September 2001)

Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks. (13. September 2001)

In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 en route to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground. (12. November 2001)

The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. (21. August 2001)

The Real IRA detonates a car bomb in Ealing, London, England, United Kingdom injuring seven people. (3. August 2001)

Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. (10. September 2001)

Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital. (14. September 2001)

The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary. (23. November 2001)

In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror". (20. September 2001)

SIEV-X, an Indonesian fishing boat en route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people. (19. October 2001)

A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet. (27. November 2001)

Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview. (9. September 2001)

Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: a Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed. (4. October 2001)

The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection. (11. October 2001)

Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly. (21. September 2001)

NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. (4. October 2001)

The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law. (26. October 2001)

Two hijacked aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, while a third smashes into The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in a series of coordinated suicide attacks by 19 members of Al-Qaeda. Altogether, 2,996 people are killed. (11. September 2001)