February 2001

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This article covers breaking news and events in February 2001.

Daily events

Thursday February 1, 2001

• Praia / Cape Verde : José Maria Neves becomes the new Prime Minister of the archipelago. He is chairman of the African Party for Cape Verdean Independence .

Sunday February 4, 2001

• Paris / France : The host's national team becomes world champion in handball with a 28:25 victory in the final of the 17th  Men's World Cup against defending champions Sweden .

Tuesday February 6, 2001

• Berlin / Germany : Günther Jauch is awarded the Golden Camera for his moderation and entertainment .

Wednesday February 7, 2001

Ariel Sharon

• Berlin / Germany : The 51st Berlin International Film Festival opens with the film Duell - Enemy at the Gates by director Jean-Jacques Annaud .
• Jerusalem / Israel : Ariel Sharon becomes Prime Minister.

Sunday February 11, 2001

• Vaduz / Liechtenstein : In the state elections , the Christian-conservative Progressive Citizens' Party (FBP) overtook the social-conservative Patriotic Union (VU) in favor of the voters and replaced it as the governing party.

Monday February 12, 2001

Eros, photographed by NEAR

• Eros : With the NEAR space probe ( NASA mission ), a missile lands on the surface of an asteroid for the first time in space history after a year in orbit of the asteroid Eros .

Thursday February 15, 2001

• Alameda / United States : As part of the human genome project , a preliminary working version of the entire human genome is presented.

Friday February 16, 2001

• Baghdad / Iraq : US and British warplanes bomb targets near Baghdad because Iraq has violated the flight ban.

Sunday February 18, 2001

• Berlin / Germany : The jury of the 51st Berlin International Film Festival honored the film Intimacy by director Patrice Chéreau as the best contribution of the festival with the Golden Bear .
• Virginia / United States : FBI agent Robert Hanssen loses documents on a public street exposing his 15 years of espionage for the Soviet Union and Russia . Hanssen is finally tracked down and arrested in a park.

Tuesday February 20, 2001

• Sanaa / Yemen : First national local elections.

Wednesday February 21, 2001

Jamaican Bob Marley died almost 20 years ago

• Los Angeles / United States : At the 43rd Grammy Awards , u. a. the late reggae musician Bob Marley and the rock bands The Beach Boys and The Who awards for their life's work.

Friday February 23, 2001

• Germany , Mexico : The investment protection treaty between the two countries comes into force.

Sunday February 25, 2001

• Chișinău / Moldova : parliamentary elections.
• Praia / Cape Verde : Pedro Pires becomes President.

Monday February 26, 2001

• Nice / France : The Treaty of Nice , which includes EU enlargement , is signed. It should come into force in 2003 .

Tuesday February 27, 2001

• Neustadt an der Weinstrasse / Germany : The heads of government of Germany, France and Poland are meeting for the third time in the context of the so-called “ Weimar Triangle ”. The German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder describes the three states as the “hard core” of “ Europe in the process of being built ”.

Wednesday February 28, 2001

• Selby District / United Kingdom : In a train accident in the community of Great Heck, an express train drives into an off-road vehicle with a trailer and derails. A freight train then drives to the scene of the accident. At least 13 people are killed and 82 others are seriously injured.

See also

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

Web links

Canton of Bern in February 2001

Commons : February 2001  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ José Maria Neves. In: caboverde-info.com. Retrieved September 15, 2018 (Portuguese). 
2. ^ "L'équipe de France ne trahit personne quand elle perd". In: lexpress.fr . January 11, 2017, accessed June 16, 2019 (French). 
3. ↑ 36th award. In: goldenekamera.de . Retrieved March 21, 2018 . 
4. ↑ 51st Berlin International Film Festival. In: berlinale.de . Retrieved March 9, 2017 . 
5. ↑ state elections in 2001. In: landtagswahlen.li . Retrieved February 10, 2017 . 
6. ↑ NEAR Shoemaker is the first probe to land on an asteroid. In: heise.de . February 12, 2016. Retrieved April 21, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Europe's golden bears. In: weltexpresso.de, Hans Utech. Retrieved March 10, 2017 . 
8. ↑ FBI agent charged as spy who aided Russia 15 years. In: nytimes.com . February 21, 2001, accessed February 28, 2017 . 
9. ^ Beach Boys, Bennett, Marley to receive lifetime achievement Grammys. In: cnn.com . December 13, 2000, accessed October 17, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Investment protection in bilateral trade agreements between the Federal Republic of Germany and developing and emerging countries. In: bmwi.de . March 27, 2015, accessed November 20, 2018 . 
11. ^ Treaty of Nice , accessed September 18, 2016 . In: EUR-Lex .
12. ↑ Summit encounters in the Weimar Triangle. In: weimarer-dreieck.eu, Committee for the Promotion of German-French-Polish Cooperation e. V. Accessed January 20, 2018 . 
13. ↑ The mutual relations between Germany, France and Poland since the removal of the “Iron Curtain” with special consideration of the “Weimar Triangle” initiative. In: bundestag.de . 2016, accessed January 20, 2018 . 
14. ↑ At least 13 dead in a railway accident in northern England. In: faz.net . February 28, 2001, accessed October 1, 2016 .