What Happened In August 2001 In History

Historical Events for August, 2001

• 1st » Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a Glassroth v. Moore or lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
• 10th » 2001 Angola train attack, 252 deaths.
• 21st » NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia called Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
• 21st » The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement known as Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
• 24th » Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (en route to Lisbon from Toronto) and makes an emergency landing in the Azores.

Famous Birthdays on August in 2001

• 4th » Seishiro Kato, Japanese actor
• 6th » Ty Simpkins, American actor
• 23rd » Zaijian Jaranilla, Filipino actor

Famous Deaths for August 2001

• 1st » Korey Stringer, American football player (b. 1974)
• 2nd » Ronald Townson, American singer and actor (The 5th Dimension) (b. 1933)
• 3rd » Christopher Hewett, English-American actor (b. 1922)
• 4th » Lorenzo Music, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• 5th » Otema Allimadi, Ugandan politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Uganda (b. 1929)
• 5th » Christopher Skase, Australian-Spanish businessman (b. 1948)
• 6th » Jorge Amado, Brazilian poet and author (b. 1912)
• 6th » Wilhelm Mohnke, German SS officer (b. 1911)
• 6th » Shan Ratnam, Sri Lankan physician and academic (b. 1928)
• 6th » Dorothy Tutin, English actress (b. 1930)
• 7th » Algirdas Lauritėnas, Lithuanian basketball player (b. 1932)
• 10th » Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
• 11th » Percy Stallard, English cyclist (b. 1909)
• 13th » Otto Stuppacher, Austrian race car driver (b. 1947)
• 13th » Jim Hughes (1950s pitcher) or Jim Hughes, American baseball player (b. 1923)
• 14th » Earl Anthony, American bowler (b. 1938)
• 15th » Richard Chelimo, Kenyan runner (b. 1972)
• 18th » David Peakall, English toxicologist (b. 1931)
• 19th » Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (b. 1939)
• 19th » Donald Woods, South African journalist and activist (b. 1933)
• 20th » Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and author (b. 1915)
• 20th » Kim Stanley, American actress (b. 1925)
• 23rd » Kathleen Freeman, American actress (b. 1919)
• 23rd » Peter Maas, American author (b. 1929)
• 24th » Jane Greer, American actress and singer (b. 1924)
• 24th » Roman Matsov, Estonian violinist, pianist, and conductor (b. 1917)
• 25th » Aaliyah, American singer, dancer, and actress (b. 1979)
• 25th » Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)
• 25th » Philippe Léotard, French actor and singer (b. 1940)
• 25th » Ken Tyrrell, English race car driver (b. 1924)
• 26th » Louis Muhlstock, Polish-Canadian painter (b. 1904)
• 26th » Marita Petersen, Faroese educator and politician, 8th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1940)
• 27th » Michael Dertouzos, Greek-American computer scientist and academic (b. 1936)
• 27th » Abu Ali Mustafa, Palestinian politician (b. 1938)
• 29th » Graeme Strachan, Australian singer-songwriter (Skyhooks (band) e.g Skyhooks) (b. 1952)
• 29th » Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1926)

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