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.

* 2001 – Erwadi fire incident, 28 mentally ill persons tied to chain were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.

Inmates of the " Intensive Management Unit " at Washington State Penitentiary who are adherents of Ásatrú in 2001 were deprived of their Thor's Hammer medallions.

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 ).

The Duffy Statue and the square were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

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.

He was one of four hijackers believed to be staying at a Kandahar guest house in March 2001, where they were seen by Mohammed Jabarah.

Banking reform accelerated in 2001 as all the Communist-era payments bureaus were shut down ; foreign banks, primarily from Western Europe, now control most of the banking sector.

As of 2001, there were zero AM radio broadcast stations, four FM stations, and one shortwave one.

When the Apple II, PET 2001 and TRS-80 were all released in 1977, all three had BASIC as their primary programming language and operating environment.

It has been suggested by United States government officials that " box-cutter knives " were used in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States, though the exact design of the knives actually used is unclear.

Regarding the shape of the breast, the study The Evolution of the Human Beast ( 2001 ) proposed that the rounded shape of a woman's breast evolved to prevent the sucking infant offspring from suffocating while feeding at the teat ; that is, because of the human infant's small jaw, which did not project from the face to reach the nipple, he or she might block the nostrils against the mother's breast if it were of a flatter form ( cf.

In 2001, Bt176 varieties were voluntarily withdrawn from the list of approved varieties by the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) when it was found to have little or no Bt expression in the ears and was not found to be effective against second generation corn borers.

During the Labor Day weekend in 1952, The Saddlemen were renamed Bill Haley with Haley's Comets ( inspired by a popular mispronunciation of Halley's Comet ), and in 1953, Haley's recording of " Crazy Man, Crazy " ( co-written by Haley and his bass player, Marshall Lytle although Lytle would not receive credit until 2001 ) became the first rock and roll song to hit the American charts, peaking at no. 15 on Billboard and no. 11 on Cash Box.

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.

In 2001 Bombardier acquired Adtranz ( DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems ), a manufacturer of trains which were widely used throughout Germany and Great Britain.

In autumn 2001 the eight million objects forming the Museum's permanent collection were further expanded by the addition of six million objects from the Wendorf Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Prehistory.

BeOS PE and BeIA proved to be too little too late, and in 2001 Be's copyrights were sold to Palm, Inc. for some $ 11 million.

Previously, solid ink printers were manufactured by Tektronix, but Tek sold the printing business to Xerox in 2001.

Déby won a flawed 63 % first-round victory in May 2001 presidential elections after legislative elections were postponed until spring 2002.

In May 2001, there was an unsuccessful coup attempt by Kolingba and once again Patassé had to turn to friends abroad for support, this time Libya and DR Congo were helpful.

In 2004 there were only 17 attacks against the Caño Limón – Puerto Coveñas pipeline, down from 170 in 2001.

From 1989 through 2001, Gauss's portrait, a normal distribution curve and some prominent Göttingen buildings were featured on the German ten-mark banknote.

General elections were held in 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1987, 1990, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2008 and 2012.

In 2001, all graduates of the Ziegler School were formally admitted as members of the Rabbinical Assembly.