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This article covers breaking news and events in April 2001.

Daily events

Sunday April 1, 2001

• Amsterdam / Netherlands : Almost six months after same-sex marriage was legalized in the Netherlands, the first four homosexual couples are celebrating their civil marriage . Since September 2000, the Netherlands has been the only country in the world that equates marriages between heterosexual and homosexual partners .
• Hainan / China : The collision with a Shenyang J-8 fighter aircraft of the Air Force of the PR China forces a Lockheed P-3 of the US Air Force on an espionage mission to make an emergency landing on the island of Hainan. The pilot of the Chinese plane is killed in the accident. 24 members of the US Army are arrested after the emergency landing.

Wednesday April 4, 2001

• Chișinău / Moldova : Parliament elects Vladimir Voronin from the Communist Party of the Republic of Moldova as the new president .
• Wellington / New Zealand : The judge Silvia Cartwright is sworn in as Governor General and is thus the new representative of Elizabeth II , the monarch of the Commonwealth Realm New Zealand. Cartwright's office is roughly equivalent to that of a head of state .

Thursday April 5, 2001

• Vaduz / Liechtenstein : The state parliament elects Otmar Hasler from the Progressive Citizens' Party as the country's new head of government .

Saturday April 7, 2001

• Vienna / Austria : At the 12th presentation of the Romy TV Prize , director Wolfgang Murnberger received the prize for the most successful feature film of the year for his work Come, Sweet Death .

Wednesday April 11, 2001

• Hainan / China : In the case of the 24 members of the US Air Force arrested by the Chinese side after the plane collision near Hainan , the People's Republic of China and the United States agree to release the soldiers after they apologized for the incident.

Thursday April 12, 2001

• Cincinnati / United States : On the fourth day in a row, which was marked by riots in the streets, the city imposed a curfew . The race riot began when police officers shot and killed Timothy Thomas , an African American .

Tuesday April 17, 2001

Bookcrossing

• Sandpoint / United States : The website bookcrossing.com based on an idea by Ron Hornbaker goes online.

Saturday April 21, 2001

• Potsdam / Germany : The 2001 Federal Horticultural Show opens on the main site in the Volkspark Potsdam .
• Quebec City / Canada : Partly deliberately violent protests by anti- globalization opponents and anti-capitalists accompany the summit of the All-American Free Trade Area FTAA . The police react with uncompromising severity. The peaceful protest of other demonstrators is marginalized.

Monday April 23, 2001

• Nuremberg / Germany : The German railway brings diesel -betriebene ICE trains on the rail to distances without electrification be able to drive with high-speed trains.

Thursday April 26, 2001

Jun'ichirō Koizumi

• Tokyo / Japan : The House of Commons elects Jun'ichirō Koizumi from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) as the country's new Prime Minister . He replaces Yoshirō Mori in this office , whose successor at the party leadership of the LDP Koizumi was elected on April 24th.

Saturday April 28, 2001

• Baikonur / Kazakhstan : The American Dennis Tito is starting the international space station as the first self-paying space tourist in history . His only predecessor as a space tourist is the Japanese journalist Toyohiro Akiyama . Therefore, Tito is considered to be the first space traveler who only flies into space following a personal inclination and is also willing to pay for it.
• Polog / Macedonia : Around 20 insurgent Albanians shoot police officers and soldiers of the Macedonian armed forces from an ambush near the village of Vejce . Then mutilate KLA - militiamen , some of the bodies.

Sunday April 29, 2001

• Dakar / Senegal : Early elections to the National Assembly are taking place in Senegal after President Abdoulaye Wade , who has been in office since March 2000, dissolved parliament. Compared to the 1998 election, the Parti Socialiste fell in favor of the voters by around 32% and landed at 17.4%. The “Sopi Coalition” ( German  coalition for change ) is now in first place with 49.6% of the votes.

See also

• Nekrolog April 2001 for deaths that month
• List of annually recurring days of remembrance and action in April
• Category for commemorative days, public holidays or days of action in April

Web links

Copenhagen in April 2001

Commons : April 2001  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Clouds over the rainbow. In: zeit.de . April 1, 2011, accessed June 28, 2017 . 
2. ↑ The Netherlands enhances marriage of homosexuals. In: rp-online.de . September 12, 2000, accessed June 28, 2017 . 
3. ↑ cnn.com : US chides China for holding spy plane crew ( Memento from May 9, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
4. ^ Ian Jeffries: The Countries of the Former Soviet Union at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century . Routledge , London 2004, ISBN 0-415-25230-X , pp. 339 .
5. ^ Silvia Cartwright is sworn in as governor-general. In: teara.govt.nz . Retrieved May 23, 2017 (English). 
6. ↑ Landtag protocol of April 5, 2001. In: landtag.li . Retrieved February 24, 2019 . 
7. ↑ The head of government of the Principality of Liechtenstein elected by the Landtag is then appointed by the Prince.
8. ^ Romy Gala, Austria. In: imdb.com . Retrieved September 22, 2017 (English). 
9. ↑ US crew released from China. In: cnn.com . April 11, 2001, accessed May 23, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Cincy under curfew amid 'rampant' riots. In: nypost.com . April 13, 2001, accessed November 20, 2018 . 
11. ↑ The team. In: bookcrossing.com . Retrieved April 15, 2017 . 
12. ^ BUGA Potsdam 2001. In: bundesgartenschau.de, Deutsche Bundesgartenschau-Gesellschaft mbH. Retrieved April 17, 2017 . 
13. ↑ infoshop.org: Protest Against the FTAA - Quebec City ( Memento of October 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
14. ^ Police fire water cannon, tear gas in Quebec City. In: cbc.ca . April 22, 2001, accessed October 20, 2016 . 
15. ^ ICE-TD of the Deutsche Bahn AG. In: hochzahlszuege.com, André Werske. June 30, 2011, accessed September 18, 2016 . 
16. ↑ Japan. In: g8.utoronto.ca, University of Toronto . 2001, accessed on September 23, 2018 (English): "On April 26, 2001, Koizumi was inaugurated as Prime Minister" 
17. ↑ Dennis Anthony Tito. In: spacefacts.de, Joachim Becker. June 25, 2014, accessed September 18, 2016 . 
18. ^ The last chance for peace. In: essex.ac.uk . June 20, 2001, accessed April 28, 2017 . 
19. ↑ Senegal, Parliamentary Chamber: Assemblée nationale, elections held in 2001. In: ipu.org . Accessed October 1, 2017 .