Following the signing of Treaties of Nice in May 2001, which made Brussels the de facto capital of the European Union, the then President of the European Commission, Romano Prodi and the Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt invited Koolhaas to discuss the necessities and requirements of a European capital.

Following the signing of Treaties of Nice in May 2001, which made Brussels the official capital of Europe, the then President of the European Commission, Romano Prodi and the Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt invited Koolhaas to discuss the necessities and requirements of a European capital.

Connes was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982, the Crafoord Prize in 2001 and the gold medal of the CNRS in 2004.

Popularity of the song increased greatly following the September 11, 2001 attacks ; at some sporting events it was sung in addition to the traditional singing of the national anthem.

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.

The Economy of Angola is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, with the Economist asserting that for 2001 to 2010, Angolas ' Annual average GDP growth was 11. 1 percent.

A second German edition was published in 1913, containing theologically significant revisions and expansions: but this revised edition did not appear in English until 2001.

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

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

Science fiction set in what was the future but is now the past, like Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey or Nineteen Eighty-Four, are not alternate history because the author has not made the conscious choice to change the past.

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.

In 2001, the population of the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor was 2. 15 million ( 72 % of Alberta's population ).

It was a four-time winner of the Charles Roberts / Origins Award, winning " Best Amateur Adventure Gaming Magazine " in 1984, " Best Amateur Game Magazine " in 1999, and " Best Amateur Game Periodical " in 2000 and 2001.

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.

By 2001, the population had jumped to 206, 073, and it was 217, 988, in 48, 061 families, according to 2006 census.

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.

Ernest Pletch pled guilty and was sentenced to life in prison, where he died in June 2001.

In the 2001 NFL Draft, the Falcons orchestrated a trade with the San Diego Chargers, acquiring the first overall pick ( which was used on quarterback Michael Vick ) in exchange for wide receiver / return specialist Tim Dwight and the fifth overall pick ( used on running back LaDainian Tomlinson ).

Vick, who saw minimal playing time in 2001, playing backup and learning the system under then-starting quarterback Chris Chandler, was designated starting quarterback for the 2002 season.

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

Ahmad Shah Massoud ( Aḥmad Šāh Mas ' ūd ; September 2, 1953 – September 9, 2001 ) was a political and military leader in Afghanistan.

He was assassinated on September 9, 2001.

He was assassinated, probably at the instigation of al-Qaeda, in a suicide bombing on September 9, 2001, just two days before the September 11 attacks that finally caused the US and NATO to intervene in Afghanistan, allying themselves with Massoud's forces.

An airport security guard and Imam, Abdulaziz al-Omari (,, also transliterated as Alomari or al-Umari ) ( May 28, 1979 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11 as part of the September 11 attacks.

In 2001, the Professional Affairs Board of the British Psychological Society ( BPS ) commissioned a working party of expert psychologists to publish a report entitled The Nature of Hypnosis.

The sculpture was commissioned by Roderick MacKinnon based on the molecule's atomic coordinates that were determined by MacKinnon's group in 2001.

" In 1996, the state legislature commissioned a report, completed in 2001, to establish the historical record.

A landmark report by the RAND Corporation was commissioned by the Senate Committee on Rules in 2001 when a bill authorizing court-ordered outpatient treatment was being debated in California ( subsequently passed and known as " Laura's Law " for Laura Wilcox ).

In 1998 the French aircraft carrier Clemenceau ( R98 ) was decommissioned after 37 years of service, and another aircraft carrier was decommissioned two years later after 37 years of service, leaving the French Navy with no aircraft carrier until 2001, when Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier was commissioned.

In a July 2001 report commissioned by the DoD, the " DoD-critical products " were stated as vaccines against anthrax ( AVA and Next Generation ), smallpox, plague, tularemia, botulinum, ricin, and equine encephalitis.

Instead of Mirrorball, a new series of Absolutely Fabulous was proposed to the BBC, who later commissioned the fourth series in 2001.

In 2001, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( MFA ) commissioned Waage to produce an official, comprehensive history of the Norwegian-mediated back channel negotiations.

In his first subscription week he led the world premiere of John Adams ' On the Transmigration of Souls commissioned in memory of those who died on September 11, 2001.

* Washington D. C .' s Different Drummers ( DCDD ) and the Lesbian and Gay Chorus of Washington ( LGCW ) commissioned Quilt Panels from composer Robert Maggio in 2001.

* 2001, From The Diary Of Sally Hemings, with a text by author and professor Sandra Seaton, is a song cycle by the American composer William Bolcom ; it was premiered at the Library of Congress, one of several institutional sponsors that commissioned the new work.

In 2001 a total of 20 units were commissioned for use on the Dresden – Munich line, but these class 605 ( ICE-TD ) units experienced trouble from the start.

The plant was commissioned on 4 January 2000 and later sold on to United Utilities in 2001.

In 2001, author Melvin Burgess was commissioned to write the novelisation of the film based on Lee Hall's screenplay.

Nine episodes were commissioned for the second series, which was broadcast on Monday evenings in Autumn 2001.

In 2001, the editors of Britannica commissioned an article on Britney Spears that deconstructs her bare midriff.

For the New York Philharmonic he composed his Vocalise ( 1999 ), Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra ( 1977 ) and Fantasia on an Ostinato ( 1986 ); for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, he wrote Poem in October ( 1970 ); for the New York State Council on the Arts he composed the Oboe Concerto ( 1975 ); for flutist James Galway he composed his Promenade Overture ( 1981 ), as well as the Symphony No. 2 ( 2001 ); the National Symphony Orchestra commissioned the evening-length A Dylan Thomas Trilogy ( 1960, rev.

Ice Field, for large orchestral groups and organ, was commissioned by Other Minds for a December 2001 premiere by the San Francisco Symphony.

A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Brant was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Music for Ice Field ( 2001 ), commissioned by Other Minds and premiered by the San Francisco Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas.

From there they were commissioned to BBC Two to host the style series, What Not to Wear, from 2001 to 2005.

They were then commissioned by the BBC to host What Not to Wear in 2001.

Between 1999 and 2001, she was a co-host with Jamie Theakston on the Wednesday night chat / music show The Priory, which was commissioned by Chris Evans's then production company Ginger Productions.

The BBC's answer to the show, Auntie's Bloomers, presented by Terry Wogan ( and its spin-off sporting-mistakes show, Auntie's Sporting Bloomers, also presented by Wogan ), ran until approximately 2001, and was replaced by Outtake TV, which began as a series of one-off specials in 2002, hosted by Paul O ' Grady, before a series was commissioned and subsequently broadcast on BBC One in 2004, but this time hosted by Anne Robinson.

After projects at public buildings such as the Deutsche Bundesbank ( 1997 ), the Parliament House, Stockholm ( 1998 ), and the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region ( 1999 ), Kosuth was commissioned to design a floor installation of texts by Ricarda Huch and Thomas Mann for the newly renovated Bundestag in 2001.