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The 21st Century Almanac · The 2000s

2001

Major Events · Sports · Music · Screen · Prizes

Hijacked airliners destroyed the World Trade Center towers and struck the Pentagon on September 11th, killing nearly 3,000 and launching the War on Terror, as U.S. forces invaded Afghanistan and anthrax letters spread fresh fear through the mail.

A Year in Review
Best Picture
A Beautiful Mind
Nobel · Literature
V.S. Naipaul "For Having United Percepti
World Series
No. 1 Song
Top TV
Academy · Actor
Denzel Washington for Training Day

Major Events of 2001

6 events
Milosevic OustedChinese Jet Collides with US Spy PlaneNew Prime Minister of JapanRoyal Family of Nepal SlainIsraeli History Suicide BombersWorld Trade Center Attacked

Sports Highlights

Champions of 2001

Champions

MLB2001: World Series Arizona Diamondbacks win 4-3 against New York Yankees -Oct 27... Yankees 1 at Diamondbacks 9 -Oct 28... Yankees 0 at Diamondbacks 4 -Oct 30...Diamondbacks 1 at Yankees 2 -Oct 31...Diamondbacks 3 at Yankees 4 -Nov 1... Diamondbacks 2 at Yankees 3 -Nov 3...Yankees 2 at Diamondbacks 15 -Nov 4...Yankees 2 at Diamondbacks 3 NFL Super Bowl XXXV Baltimore Ravens win 34-7 against New York Giants -Super Bowl Box Score Baltimore.... 7 3 14 10- 34 New York... 0 0 7 0- 7 Professional Golf Men's Major Winners -The Masters: Tiger Woods...-16 to par -
US OpenRetief Goosen...playoff -British Open: David Duval -PGA Championship: David Toms...-15 to par Women's Major Winners -Kraft Nabisco Championship: Annika Sorenstam...-7 to par -US Women's Open: Karrie Webb...-7 to par -LPGA Championship: Annika Sorenstam -Weetabix Women's British Open: Se Ri Pak...-11 to par

Top Music of 2001

The year on the charts

Grammy Awards

Record of the Year
"Beautiful Day"- U2
Song of the Year
"Beautiful Day"- U2
Album of the Year
"Two Against Nature"- Steely Dan
Best New Artist
Shelby Lynne

Screen & Television

At the box office & on the air

Top Movies

  1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Donnie Darko Amelie Spirited Away Blow Ocean's Eleven A Beautiful Mind Shrek Black Hawk Down

Academy Awards

Honoring 2001
Best Picture
A Beautiful Mind
Best Director
Ron Howard for A Beautiful Mind
Best Actor
Denzel Washington for Training Day
Best Actress
Halle Berry for Monster's Ball Best Supporting Actor: Jim Broadbent for Iris Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Connelly for A Beautiful Mind

Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes

The year in letters & science

Nobel Prizes

Peace
Kofi Annan and the United Nations "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world"
Physiology or Medicine
Leland Hartwell, Tim Hunt, and Sir Paul M. Nurse "for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle". Economic Sciences: George Akerlog, A. Michael Spence, and Joseph Stiglitz "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric informati
Chemistry
William Knowles and Ryoji Noyori "for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions" and to K. Barry Sharpless "for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions"
Physics
Eric Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, and Carl Wieman "for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates"
Literature
V.S. Naipaul "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories"

Pulitzer Prizes

Public Service
The Oregonian National Reporting: Staff of The New York Times International Reporting: Ian Johnson , The Wall Street Journal Editorial Writing: David Moats, The Rutland Herald Editorial Cartooning: Ann Telnaes , The Los Angeles Times Syndicate Breaking News Photography: Alan Diaz, The Associated Press Feature Photography: Matt Rainey, The Star Ledger Commentary: Dorothy Rabinowitz, The Wall Street Journal Criticism: Gail Caldwell, The Boston Globe Feature Writing: Tom Hallman Jr., The Chicago Tribune Beat Reporting: David Cay Johnson, The New York Times Explanatory Reporting: The Chicago Tribune, Staff Investigative Reporting: David William, Los Angeles Times Breaking News: The Miami Herald Staff
Fiction
Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Drama
David Auburn, Proff Biography/Auto
biography
David Levering Lewis, W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963
History
Joseph Ellis, The Revolutionary Generation
Poetry
Stephen Dunn, Different Hours
General Nonfiction
Herbert P. Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Music
John Corigliano, Symphony no. 2 for String Orchestra - Premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1429421741137-1'); }); (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); © 1996-2022