September 2001

September 2001: January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December

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Events

September 1, 2001

• The German national football team lose a World Cup qualifier for only the second time at home in their history (including as West Germany) by a heavy 1-5 margin to an England team managed by Sven-Göran Eriksson in the Olympic Stadium in Munchen (Munich), ending a significant run of England losses to Germany.

September 4, 2001

• Google is awarded U.S. Patent 6,285,999, for the PageRank search algorithm used in the Google search engine.

September 5, 2001

• Peru's attorney general files homicide charges against ex-President Alberto Fujimori.

September 6, 2001

• United States v. Microsoft: The United States Justice Department announces that it was no longer seeking to break-up software maker Microsoft and will instead seek a lesser antitrust penalty.

September 7, 2001

• Film: The Musketeer starring Mena Suvari, Rock Star starring Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston, Soul Survivors starring Melissa Sagemiller and Casey Affleck, Two Can Play That Game starring Vivica A. Fox and Morris Chestnut.

September 9, 2001

• Michael Jackson performs 30th anniversary (of his career) concert.
• Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan.
• The Country Bears concert known as the Country Bear Jamboree closed its doors in Disneyland for the last time. The show continues in Walt Disney World and Tokyo Disneyland.
• At exactly 01:46:40 UTC, one billion seconds since the Unix epoch (January 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC) pass and the Unix billenium is reached.

September 10, 2001

• Norwegian parliamentary election, 2001.
• Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.

September 11, 2001

• The September 11 terrorist attacks take place in New York City, The Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania, killing 2,977 people.
• Music: Ben Folds releases his album entitled Rockin' the Suburbs.

• Music: Bob Dylan releases his album entitled Love and Theft.

• Music: The Microphones release their album entitled The Glow, Part 2..

• Music: P.O.D. release their album entitled Satellite.

September 14, 2001

• The Nintendo GameCube is released in Japan.
• Film: Hardball starring Keanu Reeves, The Glass House starring Leelee Sobieski

September 15, 2001

• The Queen Isabella Causeway in Texas collapses after being hit by a tugboat, killing 8.

September 17, 2001

• The New York Stock Exchange reopens following the terrorist attacks in New York.
• The default date used by git format patch for email output.

September 18, 2001

• The 2001 anthrax attacks commence as anthrax letters are mailed from Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, to ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the New York Post, and the National Enquirer.

September 20, 2001

• Address of President Bush to a joint session of Congress: Freedom at War with Fear.

September 21, 2001

• The AZF fertiliser factory in Toulouse, France, explodes, killing 31 and injuring over 2000. Later, a terrorist group take up the name "AZF" when threatening to bomb French railways.
• Film: Training Day starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke

September 28, 2001

• Film: Don't Say a Word starring Michael Douglas, Zoolander starring Ben Stiller