What Happened In March 2001 In History

Historical Events for March, 2001

• 4th » 4 March 2001 BBC bombing: a massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring one person. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
• 4th » Hintze Ribeiro disaster: A bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
• 23rd » The Russian 'Mir' space station is Deorbit of Mir known as disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.

Famous Birthdays on March in 2001

• 6th » Aryana Engineer, Canadian actress
• 8th » Azamour, Irish race horse (d. 2014)

Famous Deaths for March 2001

• 1st » Henry Wade, American lawyer (b. 1914)
• 2nd » François Abadie, French politician (b. 1930)
• 2nd » John Diamond (journalist) called John Diamond, English journalist (b. 1953)
• 3rd » Louis Edmonds, American actor (b. 1923)
• 3rd » Eugene Sledge, American author (b. 1923)
• 4th » Gerardo Barbero, Argentinian chess player (b. 1961)
• 4th » Jean René Bazaine, French painter and author (b. 1904)
• 4th » Glenn Hughes (Village People) known as Glenn Hughes, American singer and actor (The Village People) (b. 1950)
• 4th » Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (b. 1916)
• 4th » Jim Rhodes, American politician, 61st Governor of Ohio (b. 1909)
• 4th » Harold Stassen, American educator and politician, 25th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1907)
• 4th » Martin Wright (bioengineer) e.g Martin Wright, English biologist and engineer (b. 1912)
• 6th » Balla Moussa Keïta, Malian actor (b. 1934)
• 6th » Kim Walker (actress) or Kim Walker, American actress (b. 1968)
• 7th » Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
• 8th » Edward Winter (actor) or Edward Winter, American actor (b. 1937)
• 9th » Louiza Podimata, Russian-Greek actress (b. 1920)
• 10th » Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer, Sri Lanka-Australian mathematician and academic (b. 1918)
• 10th » Nicholas Georgiadis, Greek painter and costume designer (b. 1923)
• 10th » Massimo Morsello, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1958)
• 10th » Mati Nuude, Estonian weightlifter and singer (Apelsin) (b. 1941)
• 12th » Morton Downey, Jr., American singer-songwriter and talk show host (b. 1933)
• 12th » Robert Ludlum, American author (b. 1927)
• 12th » Victor Westhoff, Dutch botanist (b. 1916)
• 13th » Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian and educator (b. 1895)
• 15th » Gaetano Cozzi, Italian historian (b. 1922)
• 15th » Ann Sothern, American actress and singer (b. 1909)
• 16th » Norma MacMillan, Canadian voice actress (b. 1921)
• 16th » Bob Wollek, French race car driver (b. 1943)
• 18th » Viktor Masing, Estonian botanist and ecologist (b. 1925)
• 18th » John Phillips (musician) known as John Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Mamas & the Papas) (b. 1935)
• 19th » Charles K. Johnson, American activist (b. 1924)
• 20th » Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican baseball player (b. 1949)
• 21st » Chung Ju-yung, South Korean businessman, founded Hyundai (b. 1915)
• 21st » Anthony Steel (actor) known as Anthony Steel, English actor and singer (b. 1920)
• 22nd » Stepas Butautas, Lithuanian basketball player and coach (b. 1925)
• 22nd » Sabiha Gökçen, Turkish pilot (b. 1913)
• 22nd » William Hanna, American animator, director, producer, and voice actor, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (b. 1910)
• 22nd » Robert Fletcher Shaw, Canadian businessman, academic, and civil servant (b. 1910)
• 23rd » Rowland Evans, American journalist (b. 1921)
• 23rd » Robert Laxalt, American author (b. 1923)
• 23rd » David McTaggart, Canadian environmentalist (b. 1932)
• 24th » Muriel Young, English television host and producer (b. 1928)
• 25th » Brian Trubshaw, English cricketer and pilot (b. 1924)
• 28th » Moe Koffman, Canadian flute player, saxophonist, and composer (b. 1928)
• 29th » Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (b. 1899)
• 29th » John Lewis (pianist) known as John Lewis, American pianist and composer (Modern Jazz Quartet) (b. 1920)
• 31st » David Rocastle, English footballer (b. 1967)
• 31st » Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics or Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)

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