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This article covers breaking news and events in October 2001.
Daily events
Monday October 1, 2001
- Erfurt , Kiel , Mainz , Munich / Germany : With the introduction of four military area commands of changing the course of the reorganization of the Bundeswehr , the defense of the territorial protection by a field army to a bundled defense by Army , Air Force and Navy .
- Dhaka / Bangladesh : The parliamentary election in Bangladesh is won by the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
Tuesday October 2, 2001
- Zurich / Switzerland : The airline Swissair is discontinuing its entire flight operations for the foreseeable future due to liquidity problems.
Thursday October 4th 2001
- Brussels / Belgium : The North Atlantic Council of the NATO military alliance follows the request of the United States and, because of the terrorist attacks on September 11, declares the alliance case under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty . All alliance members are obliged to stand by the country that has been militarily attacked on their own territory. The alliance parties are required to use armed force if this serves the "security of the North Atlantic area", according to the wording in the treaty. It is the first case of an alliance in NATO history.
Friday 5th October 2001
- Cologne / Germany : In a judgment on websites , the regional court decides that the owner is liable in any case for the web content that third parties publish on his website. In the specific case, a member of an online community published defamatory photo montages by the tennis player Steffi Graf .
Saturday 6th October 2001
- Kailua-Kona / United States : Natascha Badmann from Switzerland wins the women's competition at the Ironman Hawaii triathlon for the second time in a row and for the third time in her career . In the men's race, the American Tim DeBoom completed the fastest route.
Sunday 7th October 2001
- Chicago / United States : The world record set a week ago in the women's marathon is broken again at the Chicago Marathon when the Kenyan Catherine Ndereba reaches the finish line after 2 hours 18 minutes 47 seconds and is almost a minute faster than the previous world record holder Naoko Takahashi .
- Washington, DC / United States : US President George W. Bush describes the entry of Western troops into Afghanistan and thus the start of Operation Enduring Freedom as a reaction to the 9/11 attacks : "Now the Taliban will pay the price."
Monday 8th October 2001
- Stockholm / Sweden : The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine will be awarded this year to the American Leland H. Hartwell and the British Tim Hunt and Paul Nurse for their research into cellular circulation .
Tuesday October 9, 2001
- Stockholm / Sweden : The Nobel Prize in Physics will be awarded this year to the Americans Eric Allin Cornell and Carl Edwin Wieman and the German Wolfgang Ketterle for their services to the Bose-Einstein condensate .
Wednesday October 10, 2001
- Stockholm / Sweden : The Americans William S. Knowles and Barry Sharpless as well as the Japanese Ryōji Noyori will receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year . The foundation honors her work in the study of catalysis using water and oxygen . The Americans George A. Akerlof , A. Michael Spence and Joseph E. Stiglitz will receive the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics “for their analysis of markets with asymmetrical information” this year .
Thursday October 11, 2001
- Berlin / Germany : King Abdullah II of Jordan visits the Federal Republic. The German government regards it as a stability factor in the Middle East .
- Stockholm / Sweden : The Briton V. S. Naipaul , born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1932 , received the Nobel Prize for Literature this year . One of his most famous works is The Mystical Masseur .
Friday October 12, 2001
- Oslo / Norway : The intergovernmental organization United Nations and its Secretary General Kofi Annan will each receive half of this year's Nobel Peace Prize . The committee wants to recognize her for her role as mediator in international conflicts.
Sunday October 14, 2001
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The author of the moral-philosophical text collection The Philosophical Discourse of Modernism Jürgen Habermas from Germany receives the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade .
Monday October 15, 2001
- Seoul / South Korea : In a park in the South Korean capital, Japan's Prime Minister Jun'ichirō asked Koizumi with a wreath-laying wreath to apologize for the atrocities perpetrated by his people during the Japanese rule over Korea between 1910 and 1945.
Friday October 19, 2001
- Oslo / Norway : King Harald V appoints Kjell Magne Bondevik from the Christian People's Party as the new Prime Minister .
Sunday October 21, 2001
- Berlin / Germany : In the early elections to the House of Representatives, those entitled to vote will finally transfer Mayor Klaus Wowereit ( SPD ), who has been ruling temporarily since June, into office. While the CDU lost 17% compared to 1999 , the SPD became the strongest force for the first time since 1971.
- Shanghai / China : At the thirteenth summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Community APEC, a declaration on counter-terrorism is issued for the first time . The long-term goal of the members has been a free trade area since 1989 , but elementary steps towards this are not taken at the summit.
Tuesday October 23, 2001
- The Hague / Netherlands : In the appeal proceedings for the judgment of January 14, 2000, the International Criminal Court for the Former Yugoslavia acquitted three of the five convicted of the Ahmići massacre and reduced the sentences of the other two to 12 and 18 years respectively.
Friday October 26, 2001
- Washington, DC / United States : US President George W. Bush endorses the law to unite and strengthen America by providing suitable instruments to stop and block terrorism ( USA Patriot Act for short ) with his signature. The law extends the powers of national intelligence services and other authorities investigating terrorists .
Saturday October 27, 2001
- Darmstadt / Germany : The German Academy for Language and Poetry awards the Georg Büchner Prize to the Austrian Friederike Mayröcker .
Monday October 29, 2001
- Luxembourg / Luxembourg : The Stabilization and Association Agreement between Croatia and the European Communities and their member states is signed.
Wednesday October 31, 2001
- Hamburg / Germany : The Hamburg parliament elects Ole von Beust ( CDU ) as first mayor .
See also
- Nekrolog October 2001 for deaths that month
- List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in October
- Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in October
Web links
Commons : October 2001 - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ 14th legislative term - 217th session. In: bundestag.de . February 20, 2002, accessed May 19, 2017 .
- ↑ The last day of Swissair. In: nzz.ch . October 2, 2016, accessed October 5, 2016 .
- ^ The North Atlantic Treaty. In: nato.int . April 4, 1949. Retrieved September 23, 2017 .
- ↑ Statement to the Press by NATO Secretary General, Lord Robertson, on the North Atlantic Council Decision On Implementation Of Article 5 of the Washington Treaty following the 11 September Attacks against the United States. In: nato.int . October 4, 2001, accessed on September 23, 2017 .
- ↑ "Steffi Graf Photos". In: beck.de . Retrieved May 19, 2017 .
- ^ Ironman Hawaii. In: tri226.de. Retrieved October 27, 2019 .
- ↑ trinews.at, Stefan Leitner: Gentlemen ( Memento from March 1, 2020 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Biography of Catherine Ndereba. In: munzinger.de . Retrieved August 6, 2017 .
- ↑ "Now the Taliban will pay the price". In: faz.net . October 7, 2001. Retrieved September 23, 2017 .
- ↑ 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In: nobelprize.org . October 8, 2001, accessed December 9, 2016 .
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001. In: nobelprize.org . October 9, 2001, accessed November 27, 2016 .
- ↑ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001. In: nobelprize.org . October 10, 2001, accessed November 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Prize for Economics 2001. In: nobelprize.org . October 10, 2001, accessed November 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Jordanian King in Berlin. In: n-tv.de . October 11, 2001, accessed June 6, 2017 .
- ^ The 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature. In: nobelprize.org . October 11, 2001, accessed December 19, 2016 .
- ^ The Nobel Peace Prize for 2001. In: nobelprize.org . October 12, 2001, accessed December 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Jürgen Habermas. In: friedenspreis-des-deutschen-buchhandels.de . 2001, accessed March 16, 2018 .
- ↑ 'Heartfelt remorse' for Korean suffering. In: cnn.com . October 15, 2001, accessed September 16, 2016 .
- ↑ Biography of Kjell Magne Bondevik. In: snl.no . Retrieved February 7, 2018 (Norwegian).
- ^ State of Berlin: second votes. In: Wahlen-in-deutschland.de, Valentin Schröder. July 16, 2016, accessed October 7, 2016 .
- ^ History. In: apec.org . Retrieved November 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Prosecutor v Zoran Kupre, Mirjan Kupre, Vlatko Kupre, Drago Josipovij, Vladimir Santic. In: icty.org . October 23, 2001, accessed October 5, 2016 .
- ↑ George W. Bush : Remarks on Signing the USA Patriot Act of 2001. In: gpo.gov . Retrieved November 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Friederike Mayröcker. In: deutscheakademie.de . October 27, 2001, accessed August 18, 2019 .
- ↑ europa.eu : Protocol to the Stabilization and Association Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, on the one hand, and the Republic of Croatia, on the other ( Memento of December 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Von Beust is the new mayor. In: n-tv.de . October 31, 2001, accessed October 20, 2017 .