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This article covers breaking news and events in September 2001.

Daily events

Sunday September 2, 2001

• Victoria / Seychelles : France-Albert René , who has ruled since 1977, is confirmed as President of the Seychelles in a popular election . 54% of the electorate vote René.

Saturday 8th September 2001

• Venice / Italy : At the 58th  Venice International Film Festival , the film Monsoon Wedding by the Indian director Mira Nair is awarded the Leone d'Oro .

Sunday 9th September 2001

• New York / United States : The Australian tennis player Lleyton Hewitt wins at the US Open in 2001 , the final in the men's singles against American Pete Sampras in straight sets.

Monday September 10, 2001

• Oslo / Norway : The parliamentary election ends for the Labor Party with a loss of almost 11% of the vote compared to 1997 . With 24.3%, their lead over the Right Party , which this time becomes the second strongest force, is only 3.1%.

Tuesday September 11, 2001

Burning towers of the World Trade Center

United Airlines Boeing 757 crashing into Shanksville

Extinguishing work on the Pentagon

• Manhattan, New York , Arlington County near Washington and Shanksville (between Pittsburgh and Washington) / United States : during the terrorist attacks (September 11, 2001) one of five hijackers controls a Boeing 767 on American Airlines flight 11 at 8:46 a.m. local time in the north facade of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan , New York. The aviation fuel explodes and the high-rise building fires, which can not be extinguished even by the fire brigade's immediate rescue work . About 1.5 hours later, this building was the second to collapse. Another five hijackers take another Boeing 767 on United Airlines Flight 175 in the morning . One of them directs you into the south facade of the south tower of the World Trade Center. There, too, after an explosion, the aviation fuel leads to fires and the collapse of the high-rise building. The terrorist attacks kill 2,776 people in NYC. One of the five hijackers controls a Boeing 757 on American Airlines Flight 77 at 9:37 a.m. at the United States Department of Defense (Pentagon) near Washington, DC. The plane explodes inside the building. In the fourth hijacked Boeing 757 of United Airlines Flight 93 passengers try from 9:57 in the cockpit penetrate. One of the hijackers deliberately crashed the machine at 10:03 a.m. It crashes in Shanksville township. The 19 perpetrators who also die killed a total of 2,981 people. The exact number of victims and the details of the perpetrators are only determined a few days later.
• Lima / Peru : The General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) adopts the Inter-American Democratic Charter . It is intended to make a contribution to strengthening the democratic organs in the OAS member states.
• Los Angeles / United States : The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences cancels the award of the Emmy television award on Saturday.

Wednesday September 12, 2001

Scene in New York City, United States

• Berlin / Germany : Regarding the terrorist acts on September 11th in the United States , Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder explains : "It is [...] about the fact that Germany is firmly on the side of the United States and [...] shows unreserved solidarity."
• New York / United States : After 7:00 a.m. local time, rescue workers found Port Authority policeman John McLoughlin, who survived in a tunnel between the two high-rise towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) that collapsed yesterday . Around 12.30 p.m. local time, Genelle Guzman-McMillan was the last person alive to be rescued from the ruins of the WTC.

Thursday September 13, 2001

• United States : Two days after the terrorist attacks , air traffic in the United States resumes under restrictions. At the two largest airports in New York City, the authorities are preventing at least eight travelers from boarding a plane as a precautionary measure .

Friday September 14, 2001

• The day is celebrated in the USA as "The National Day of Prayer and Remembrance".
• In many places around the world, there are also minutes of silence and the first commemorations.
• The United States Department of Defense publishes a list of missing persons. 125 people are missing: 74 Army, 42 Navy, 9 Defense agency members.
• The Pentagon also reports that both flight recorders from Flight AA 77 were found in the rubble.
• US President George W. Bush visits New York City. He Considers the later so-called speech "Bullhorn Address" ( German  " megaphone approach " ) to the rescue team on site, in what he says. "The people who brought these buildings to collapse will soon hear from us"

Saturday 15th September 2001

• Mesa / United States : Frank Silva Roque, angry four days earlier by the terrorist attacks, is running amok. He falsely identifies a Sikh named Balbir Singh Sodhi as a Muslim and shoots him.

Monday 17th September 2001

• New York / United States : NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani announces the following figures: 5,422 people are missing, 201 dead were recovered, of which 135 were identified.
• New York / United States : The terrorist attacks of September 11th are followed by a collapse in stock exchange prices. The Dow Jones Industrial Average share index lost 684.81 points, more points than ever before on a trading day. In relation to the total volume, this is a loss of 7.1%. That is far less than the last stock market crash on October 19, 1987 .

Friday September 21, 2001

• Tallinn / Estonia : The Electoral Committee elects Arnold Rüütel from the Rural People's Party as the new President of the Republic . From 1991 to 1992 Rüütel was head of state of Estonia.

Sunday 23rd September 2001

• Hamburg / Germany : The voters of the red-green coalition under Ortwin Runde reject the citizenship election . The SPD remains the strongest force with 36.5%, followed by the CDU with 26.2%. The populist Ronald Schill with his party of the rule of law offensive received 19.4% of the vote.
• Warsaw / Poland : In the parliamentary elections , the strongest political force to date, the electoral action Solidarność of the Right (AWS), loses all mandates. In the run-up to the election, the civil platform (PO) and Law and Justice (PiS) parties , which are in second and fourth place in the electoral favor , were separated from the AWS . The winner of the election is the Alliance of the Democratic Left (SLD) with 41% of the vote.

Thursday September 27, 2001

• Brussels / Belgium : The NATO - Operation Amber Fox ( German  Operation Platinum Fox ) in Macedonia begins. 300 soldiers from NATO member states are currently deployed there to monitor the overcoming of the ethnic conflict between Macedonians and Albanians . With Amber Fox, the number of soldiers will increase to around 1,000.
• Zug / Switzerland : Friedrich Leibacher murdered 14 politicians with a sports rifle in an attack in the parliament building. Immediately afterwards, he kills himself.

Friday September 28, 2001

• Washington, DC / United States : US President George W. Bush signs the free trade agreement between the United States and Jordan . The Jordanian parliament ratified the treaty back in May.

Sunday September 30, 2001

• Berlin / Germany : The Japanese Naoko Takahashi sets a new world record in the women's marathon . In the Berlin Marathon , she completed the 42.195 km in 2 hours 19 minutes 46 seconds, undercutting Tegla Loroupe's 1999 best by 57 seconds. Takahashi is the first Asian marathon world record holder since statistics were introduced in 1926.

See also

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

Web links

Virginia in September 2001

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ France-Albert René remporte la presidentielle aux Seychelles. In: lesechos.fr . September 4, 2001, accessed February 10, 2018 (French). 
2. ↑ Golden Lion for Best Film. In: carnivalofvenice.com, Portale di Venezia . Retrieved September 8, 2017 . 
3. ^ Players remember events of Sept. 11. In: espn.com . September 9, 2011, accessed on May 12, 2017 (English): "Lleyton Hewitt of Australia won the men's title two days earlier" 
4. ^ Franz Walter , Felix Butzlaff , Matthias Micus (eds.): Comrades in the crisis? Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-525-38000-0 , p. 112 .
5. ^ The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States . WW Norton & Company , New York City 2016.
6. ↑ Thomas Jäger (Ed.): The world after 9/11: Effects of terrorism on the world of states and society . VS Verlag , Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-18420-3 ( uni-giessen.de - ZfAS ).
7. ^ Inter-American Democratic Charter. In: oas.org . September 11, 2001, accessed July 12, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Emmys postponed, Latin Grammys canceled due to attacks. In: cnn.com . September 12, 2001, accessed April 26, 2017 . 
9. ↑ "Unrestricted Solidarity". In: fr.de . November 28, 2002, accessed September 19, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Last Man Out. In: cbsnews.com . November 23, 2004, accessed September 23, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Time : A Miracle's Cost ( Memento from February 12, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
12. ↑ Flights resume, but the situation remains tense. In: cnn.com . January 14, 2009, accessed October 28, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Bullhorn Address to Ground Zero Rescue Workers. In: americanrhetoric.com. September 14, 2001, accessed September 26, 2018 . 
14. ↑ Sikh Owner Of Gas Station Is Fatally Shot In Rampage. In: nytimes.com . September 17, 2001, accessed April 26, 2017 . 
15. ↑ Biggest 1-day drops for the Dow Jones industrial average. In: cnbc.com . February 5, 2018, accessed February 10, 2018 . 
16. ^ Arnold Rüütel elected the new Estonian President. In: derstandard.at . September 21, 2001. Retrieved July 12, 2018 . 
17. ^ Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg: Landesstimmen. In: Wahlen-in-deutschland.de, Valentin Schröder. Retrieved November 2, 2016 . 
18. ↑ The results of the parliamentary elections in Poland on 23 September 2001. In: kas.de . September 25, 2001. Retrieved April 26, 2017 . 
19. ^ Operation Amber Fox. In: nato.int . September 27, 2001, accessed January 17, 2018 . 
20. ^ The attack in Zug from the perspective of forensic technology. In: nzz.ch . March 2, 2004, accessed April 26, 2017 . 
21. ↑ United States-Jordan. In: oas.org . Retrieved July 13, 2018 . 
22. ↑ Mother Mikitenko is once again hunting for records. In: morgenpost.de . September 27, 2013, accessed August 6, 2017 .