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.

Also known as the D-Backs, Arizona has one World Series title, in 2001, becoming the fastest expansion team in the majors to win a championship, doing it in only the fourth season since their expansion in 1998.

By this time Colangelo and the other partners were embroiled in a dispute over the financial health and direction of the Diamondbacks ( and notably including over $ 150 million in deferred compensation to many players who were key members of the 2001 World Series winning team and others ).

Lara scored 688 runs ( 42 % of team output, a record for a series of three or more Tests, and the second highest aggregate runs in history for a three-Test series ) in the 2001 – 02 tour of Sri Lanka.

The first female Blue Angel flight surgeon was LT Tamara Schnurr, as a member of the 2001 team.

The second study lasted 411 days in 2000 – 2001, in Ahmedabad, India, under the direction of a 21 member team of medical doctors and scientists led by doctors Sudhir Shah and K. K. Shah, a past President of the Indian Medical Association and current Chairman of the Jainist Doctors ' Federation ( the latter group aims to " Promote scientific research and medical education based on principles of Jainism ").

* Fulham were the last team to have standing accommodation in the Premier League, as Craven Cottage included terraces in the 2001 – 02 season – eight years after the Taylor Report outlawed terraces at this level.

In 2001, Detroit, the league's second-best team in the regular season, were upset in the playoffs by the Los Angeles Kings.

Sven-Göran Eriksson took charge of the team between 2001 and 2006 and was the first non-English manager of England.

The other two wins were against eventual runners-up Sydney ( in a match where Matthew Lloyd flaunted with the Sydney defence, kicking eight goals ( six of which came in the opening quarter ) and being awarded best-on-ground in a game Essendon rightfully deserved to win ) and against the team that denied them the 2001 Premiership, the Brisbane Lions ( who also were in a rebuilding phrase ).

And in 2001 a team lead by Michel Brunet discovered the skull of Sahelanthropus tchadensis which was dated as, and which Brunet argued was a bipedal, and therefore a hominin.

Between May 2001 and August 2005, the team has studied the excitation function of the 3n, 4n, and 5n evaporation channels leading to < sup > 269 </ sup > Hs, < sup > 270 </ sup > Hs, and < sup > 271 </ sup > Hs .< ref >" Decay properties of < sup > 269 </ sup > Hs and evidence for the new nuclide < sup > 270 </ sup > Hs ", Turler et al., GSI Annual Report 2001.

The 2000 and 2001 Colts teams were considerably less successful compared to the 1999 team and pressure began to mount on team administration and the coaching staff following a 6 – 10 season in 2001.

For example, a positive relationship between the team-level traits of agreeableness and conscientiousness and the team performance has been shown to exist ( Van Vianen & De Dreu, 2001 ).

Joyce Reynolds served as part of the editorial team of the Request For Comments series from 1987 to 2006, and also performed the IANA function with Jon Postel until this was transferred to ICANN, and worked with ICANN in this role until 2001, while remaining an employee of ISI.

After the loss of Preki to the Miami Fusion, the team struggled to defend their championship in 2001, making the playoffs as the 8th seed with a record of 11 – 13 – 3.

Following the tension of Game Six, the Cardinals pitching and defense came undone in Game 7 and their offense was shut down by Saberhagen leading to the lowest batting average to date (. 188 by the Cardinals, later broken by 2001 Yankees ) and fewest runs ( 13 for the Cardinals, still stands ) of any team in a 7 game series, and the Royals won 11 – 0 to clinch the franchise's only World Series title.

Alt-rock band The Cooper Temple Clause formed a kabbadi team in 2001 and were, at one stage, ranked seventh in the British domestic standings.

The national team has been less successful in such limited-overs matches at the ground, including a five year stint between 1996 and 2001, when they failed to win any matches.

In 2001, a research team at Stanford invented a new technique which came to be called " Prepolarized MRI " or PMRI.

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.

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.