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

After taking the first two games at home against the Cubs, in the National League Division Series, they took the series to Wrigley Field, where they completed their sweep, earning their first berth in the National League Championship Series since 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.

On September 10, 2001, Mohamed Atta picked up Omari from the Milner Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, and the two drove their rented Nissan to a Comfort Inn in South Portland, Maine, where they spent the night in room 232.

The Genoa Group of Eight Summit protest from July 18 to July 22, 2001 was one of the bloodiest protests in Western Europe's recent history, as evidenced by the wounding of hundreds of policemen and civilians forced to lock themselves inside of their homes and the death of a young Genoese anarchist named Carlo Giuliani — who was shot in the face while trying to throw a fire extinguisher on a police car — during two days of violence and rioting by fringe groups supported by the nonchalance of more consistent and peaceful masses of protesters, and the hospitalisation of several of those peaceful demonstrators just mentioned.

The club suffered relegation from the Welsh Football League in 2001 and has since slipped down through the next two divisions into its current position, although the future is now looking brighter.

The oldest known physical representations identified as symbols for abstract concepts are abstract engravings found on two pieces of ochre in Blombos Cave, South Africa, in 2001.

On 21 December 2001, a major reorganisation of the Ground Forces produced two operational-territorial commands, formed from two former corps headquarters.

In 2001 Lara was named the Man of the Carlton Series in Australia with an average of 46. 50, the highest average by a West Indian in that series, scoring two half centuries and one century, 116 against Australia.

After a dramatic conclusion of the 2001 World Series, less than 48 hours later, Selig held a vote on contracting two teams, reportedly the Minnesota Twins and Montreal Expos.

The show aired for two seasons, from 2000 to 2001.

Before November 2001 The World Factbook website was updated yearly ; from 2004 to 2010 it was updated every two weeks ; since 2010 it has been updated weekly.

( 1957, 1970, 2001, 2007 ) The Heavens ( 1970 ), Cartographic Division of the National Geographic Society ( NGS ), Washington, D. C., U. S. A., two sided large map chart depicting the constellations of the heavens ; as special supplement to the August 1970 issue of National Geographic.

The CRTC finally granted a license to Milestone in 2000, after a cabinet order-in-council directed the commission to license two new radio stations that reflected the cultural diversity of the Toronto market, and CFXJ-FM launched in 2001.

Grady Sizemore, who had a. 995 fielding percentage and only two errors in 405 chances, won the Gold Glove award, Cleveland's first since 2001.

The CWC has been held every two years since 2001, and to date the competition has been held in Japan, the United Kingdom, Finland, Germany and Hong Kong.

Several enumerations have occurred since then, with the most recent two being carried out by Statistics South Africa in 1996 and 2001.

Neil Finn released two solo studio albums, Try Whistling This ( 1998 ) and One Nil ( 2001 ), as well as two live albums, Sessions at West 54th ( 2000 ) and 7 Worlds Collide ( 2001 ).

Another notable honorable mention was given to the two men who attempted to burgle the home of footballer Duncan Ferguson ( who had four convictions for assault and had served six months in Glasgow's Barlinnie prison ) in 2001, with one burglar requiring three days ' hospitalization after being confronted by the player.

Years later, as his fame grew, his non-Disney work was published by the Norwegian publisher Gazette Bok in 2001, in the two hard-cover " Don Rosa Archives " volumes, The Pertwillaby Papers and The Adventures of Captain Kentucky.

The largest section comprising approximately two thirds of the centre hull was raised on 8 March 2001.

The 2001 census recorded 10 % of the local population spoke the language, a five fold increase over ten years from the figure of 2 % recorded in 1991.

Steady growth in tourism receipts and a boom in construction of new hotels, resorts, and residences had led to solid GDP growth in recent years, but the slowdown in the US economy and the attacks of September 11, 2001 held back growth in these sectors in 2001-03.

There have been five censuses after the independence of Botswana, each occurring every ten years in the year ending in 1 ( i. e. 1971, 1981, 1991, 2001, and 2011 ).

These results represent an increase on previous years ( 29. 5 % in 2001, 27. 7 % in 1996 and 24. 1 % in 1991 ).

These results represent another decrease on previous years ( 24. 8 % in 2001 and 26. 4 in 1996 ).

These results represent a slight increase on previous years ( 10. 3 % in 2001, 9. 6 % in 1996 and 9. 5 % in 1991 ).

The award has drawn criticism in recent years because several players with experience in Nippon Professional Baseball ( NPB ) have won the award, such as Hideo Nomo in 1995, Kazuhiro Sasaki in 2000, and Ichiro Suzuki in 2001.

Average rolling-stock age — a rough indicator of passenger comfort — fell slightly from the third quarter of 2001 – 2 to the third quarter of 2003 – 4, from 20. 7 years old to 19. 3 years old.

For the next five years he and the Northern Alliance were busy fighting the Taliban until the 2001 US-led Operation Enduring Freedom in which the Taliban government was toppled.

* On stephansmap. org — The CIA World Factbook accessible by location and date range ; covers the years 2001 — 2007.

The country achieved notable economic growth during these years, while the unemployment rate would continue to rise until 2001 when it finally started falling.

* 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.

The Indians finished with a 96 – 66 record tied with the Red Sox for best in baseball, their seventh Central Division title in 13 years and their first post-season trip since 2001.

The journal Pediatrics has reportedly said that the number of cheerleaders suffering from broken bones, concussions, and sprains has increased by over 100 percent between the years of 1990 and 2002, and that in 2001 there were 25, 000 hospital visits reported for cheerleading injuries dealing with the shoulder, ankle, head, and neck.

The first post-Soviet Ukrainian Census was carried out by State Statistics Committee of Ukraine in 2001, 12 years after the last All-Union census in 1989.

The market order has been invoked during six crop years: 1962 ( 12 %), 1963 ( 5 %), 1970 ( 10 %), 1971 ( 12 %), 2000 ( 15 %), and 2001 ( 35 %).

Compaq struggled as a result of the collapse of the Dot-com bubble bust, which hurt sales of their high-end systems in 2001 and 2002, and they managed only a small profit in a few quarters during these years.

In recent years the armed force has downsized and with the peace accord with the FRUD in 2001, the armed forces are expected to continue its downsizing.

* 2001 – The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $ 27, 000, 000 to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean.

* 2001 – Captain Bill Compton brings Trans World Airlines Flight 220, an MD-83, into St. Louis International Airport bringing to an end 76 years of TWA operations following TWA's purchase by American Airlines.

As such Egypt was not directly involved in the Sudan Peace Process that was hosted in Kenya under the auspices of IGAD and that gave the peoples of south Sudan the right to secede and form an independent state in 2001 after the long and brutal Sudanese civil war that cumulatively lasted more than 40 years and claimed over 2 million lives.

However, a planned referendum on a roadmap towards independence in 2001 was called off following Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen saying that Danish money grants would be phased out within four years if there was a ' yes ' vote.

In the last years of the PNDC, Jerry Rawlings assumed civilian status ; he was elected as a civilian President in 1993 and continued in power until 2001.