In 2001 Märkischer Kreis entered a twinning arrangement with Racibórz ( Ratibor ), a county in Poland, which was formerly part of Silesia, Germany.

In 2001, the Association of Baptist Churches established a " twinning " agreement with the Baptist Union of Great Britain, which is promoted by the organizations as " a means to support each other in prayer, developing ministry, mutual benefit from the experience of the other, fellowship and encouragement.

On December 6, 2001, Arthur M. Blank, the co-founder and retired co-chairman of Atlanta-based Home Depot, reached a preliminary agreement with the Falcons ’ Taylor Smith to purchase the team.

However, with an agreement in 2001 between the UUA and CUC, from July 2002 onwards most services have been provided by the CUC to its own member congregations.

Following the completion of a one-year stand-by program with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) in December 2001, Ecuador successfully negotiated a new $ 205 million stand-by agreement with the IMF in March 2003.

In 2001, the United States firm CMS Energy entered into an exploration agreement with Eritrea for exploration in the Dismin Block in northeastern Eritrea.

In 2000 it joined Honduras and El Salvador in signing a free trade agreement with Mexico, which went into effect in 2001.

In 2001, his book Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism led to Dupuis being investigated by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a department of the Roman Curia, which noted ambiguities regarding agreement between what he called a " Christian theology of religious pluralism " and the teaching of the Second Vatican Council and the popes of the council and later.

This agreement was a success, and in August 2001 3, 500 NATO soldiers conducted " Operations Essential Harvest " to retrieve the arms.

The conflict was resolved by the adoption of the Ohrid Framework agreement in August 2001.

It is still the only copy known to survive, and it was purchased by the Library of Congress in May 2003, after reaching an agreement in 2001.

On 7 November 2001, Northrop Grumman entered an agreement to purchase Newport News Shipbuilding for a total of $ 2. 6 billion.

A peace agreement between the Government and ex-combatants was signed in August 2001.

An agreement rescheduling the country's $ 4. 5 billion Paris Club government debts was concluded in November 2001 ; it will write off 66 % of the debt ; a similar debt relief agreement on its $ 2. 8 billion London Club commercial debt has been reached in July 2004 ; 62 % of the debt had been written off.

Negotiations with the Government of Guyana brokered by the Jamaican Prime Minister in 2000 did not produce an agreement but the countries agreed to restart talks after Guyanese national elections in 2001.

Because the attacks on the United States were judged to be within the parameters of its charter, NATO declared that Article 5 of the NATO agreement was satisfied on September 12, 2001, making the US war on terrorism the first time since its inception that NATO would actually participate in a " hot " war.

On October 3, 2001, the NFL announced its intentions to hold the game on February 3, even though no agreement had been reached with NADA.

In October 2001, the CCM and the CUF parties signed a reconciliation agreement which called for electoral reforms and set up a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the deaths that occurred in January 2001 on Pemba.

The agreement was non-operational until June 2001 when MERCOSUR invited the U. S. to discuss the feasibility of market access negotiations.

Although the United States and Vietnam reached a landmark bilateral agreement in December 2001, which helped increase Vietnam ’ s exports to the United States, disagreements over textile and catfish exports are hindering full implementation of the agreement.

Zambia was active in the Congolese peace effort after the signing of a cease-fire agreement in Lusaka in July and August 1999, although activity diminished considerably after the Joint Military Commission tasked with implementing the ceasefire relocated to Kinshasa in September 2001.

In 2001, they reached an agreement to end reliance on nuclear power in Germany, and agreed to remain in coalition and support the government of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in the 2001 Afghan War.

The MOA-AD is the last of several agenda items under the 2001 agreement of the GRP-MILF.

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.