On September 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaeda Islamic extremists hijacked American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175, American Airlines Flight 77, and United Airlines Flight 93 and crashed them into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, the southwestern side of the Pentagon building, and Stonycreek Township near Shanksville, Pennsylvania in a terrorist attack.

American Media's corporate headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida, figured prominently in news headlines in late 2001, after an anthrax attack was perpetrated on the company.

Its New York offices were on the 92nd and 98th – 105th floors of the South Tower of the World Trade Center at the time of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.

In the summer of 2001, age 54, he died suddenly of a heart attack while traveling in Russia.

The strain used in the 2001 anthrax attack was identical to the strain used by the USAMRIID.

Since the beginning of the second Intifada the DFLP has carried out a number of shooting attacks against Israeli targets, such as the 25 August 2001 attack on a military base in Gaza that killed three Israeli soldiers and wounded seven others.

Beginning on 7 October 2001, the US again commenced military operations from Diego Garcia using B-1, B-2, and B-52 bombers to attack enemy targets in Afghanistan following the attacks on New York City and the Pentagon.

After the September 11, 2001 attacks, Hezbollah condemned Al Qaeda for targeting the civilian World Trade Center, but remained silent on the attack on The Pentagon.

* 2001 – Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos, all died in this attack.

* 2001 – Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.

In addition, the NTSB has assisted the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in its investigations of both the Challenger and the Columbia space shuttle disasters, assisted the Department of Justice during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack investigations, and assisted the U. S. military in its investigation of the aircraft that crashed in the former Yugoslavia that took the lives of more than 30 Americans, including Commerce Secretary Ron Brown.

* 2001 – Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze ' evi became the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.

* 2001 – Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.

* 2001 – America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $ 200 million for the September 11 attack victims.

* The release date of several motion pictures was held back, including Big Trouble, which depicted an attempted terrorist attack and was originally scheduled to be released on September 21, 2001.

Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery for victims of the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon.

The last of the regular Sturgeon attack boats, L. Mendel Rivers was decommissioned in 2001, and Parche, a highly modified Sturgeon, was decommissioned in 2004.

On September 9, 2001, Massoud, then aged 48, was the target of a suicide attack by two Arabs posing as journalists at Khwaja Bahauddin, in the Takhar Province of Afghanistan.

The assassination of Massoud is believed to have a connection to the September 11, 2001 attacks on U. S. soil, which killed nearly 3000 people, and which appeared to be the terrorist attack that Massoud had warned against in his speech to the European Parliament several months earlier.

Franks was the U. S. general leading the attack on the Taliban in Afghanistan in response to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon in 2001.

On April 26, 2001, he wrote a letter to Fox News, I Explain Herein Why I Bombed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which explicitly laid out his reasons for the attack.

In June 2001, an al-Qaeda recruitment video featuring Osama bin Laden boasted about the attack and encouraged similar attacks.

On September 13, 2001, the Redskins announced the establishment of the Redskins Relief Fund to help families of the victims of the attack at the Pentagon.

An all-star version of " America the Beautiful " performed by country singers Trace Adkins, Billy Dean, Vince Gill, Carolyn Dawn Johnson, Toby Keith, Brenda Lee, Lonestar, Martina McBride, Jamie O ' Neal, Kenny Rogers and Keith Urban reached number 58 in July 2001.

The working principle of a yupana is unknown, but in 2001 an explanation of the mathematical basis of these instruments was proposed by Italian mathematician Nicolino De Pasquale.

* Animal ( 2001 film ), Argentine film by Sergio Bizzio with Carlos Roffé

* The Animal, 2001 US film by Luke Greenfield with Rob Schneider

* Anna Kournikova by Susan Holden ( 2001 ) ( ISBN 978-1-84222-416-8 / ISBN 978-1-84222-416-8 )

* Anna Kournikova ( Women Who Win ) by Connie Berman ( 2001 ) ( ISBN 978-0-7910-6529-7 / ISBN 978-0-7910-6529-7 )

Since 2001, the economic activity in the country is regulated by the Ministry of Economic Development of Azerbaijan Republic.

According to estimates by the National Statistical Survey, the rate of labor emigration was twice as higher in 2001 and 2002.

U. S. Secretary of State Colin Powell launched the talks on April 3, 2001, and the negotiations continued with mediation by the U. S., Russia, and France until April 6, 2001.

After re-establishing its credibility in 1989, Australia underlined its superiority with victories in the 1990 – 91, 1993, 1994 – 95, 1997, 1998 – 99, 2001 and 2002 – 03 series, all by convincing margins.

The wicketkeeper-batsman position was held by Ian Healy for most of the 1990s and by Adam Gilchrist from 2001 to 2006 – 07.

In the United States, AES was announced by the NIST as U. S. FIPS PUB 197 ( FIPS 197 ) on November 26, 2001.

This episode was taken up by the modern Turkish writer Nedim Gürsel and made into the setting of his 2001 novel Le voyage de Candide à Istanbul.

Using Nevado Mismi, which in 2001 was labeled by the National Geographic Society as the Amazon's source, these scientists made new calculations of the Amazon's length.

American Airlines Flight 77 was a passenger flight which was hijacked by five al-Qaeda terrorists on September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks.

In 2001, an article by four doctors in Kidney International, the official journal of the International Society of Nephrology, noted that although to date there had been no controlled studies performed in patients with autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease with refractory pain, their personal observation in isolated cases indicated that the Alexander Technique helped relieve patients ' pain, particularly when accompanied with whirlpool treatments and massage therapy.

* Alexander, FM The Use of the Self, E. P. Dutton ( New York, 1932 ), republished by Orion Publishing, 2001, ISBN 0-7528-4391, ISBN 978-0-7528-4391-9

In the Australian Capital Territory, the Act of Settlement was, on 11 May 1989, converted, from an act of the Parliament of England into an ACT enactment, by section 34 ( 4 ) of the Australian Capital Territory ( Self-Government ) Act 1988 ( Cwlth ), and then renamed The Act of Settlement 1700 by the Legislation Act 2001.

Before the September 11, 2001 attacks, most hijackings involved the plane landing at a certain destination, followed by the hijackers making negotiable demands.

In a lecture in 2001, Stephen Hawking stated " The reason most scientists don't believe in astrology is because it is not consistent with our theories that have been tested by experiment.

In 2001, the team was led by two of the most dominant pitchers in all of baseball: Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling.

A History of African Americans, by John Hope Franklin, Alfred Moss, McGraw-Hill Education 2001, standard work, first edition in 1947.