Date: May 9, 2001
Space Shuttle program: The Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-105 to the International Space Station, carrying the astronauts of Expedition 3 to replace the crew of Expedition 2. Date: August 10, 2001 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 10 📅 Events on this day in 2001 📅 On This Day…
A twin engine Cessna and a Scandinavian Airlines System jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy, killing 118 people. Date: October 8, 2001 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 8 📅 Events on this day in 2001 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 2001Belfast Protestant Loyalists…
The Aviation and Transportation Security Act is enacted by the 107th United States Congress in the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The Act created the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Date: November 19, 2001 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 19 📅 Events on this day in 2001 📅…
The Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision takes place, killing nine of the thirty-five people on board the Japanese fishery high-school training ship Ehime Maru, leaving the USS Greeneville (SSN-772) with US $2 million in repairs, at Pearl Harbor. Date: February 9, 2001 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 9 📅…
The 2001 Nisqually earthquake, having a moment magnitude of 6.8, with epicenter in southern Puget Sound, damages the Seattle metropolitan area. Date: February 28, 2001 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 28 📅 Events on this day in 2001 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 2001China Joins World Trade…
A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen. Date: June 21, 2001 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 21 📅 Events on this day in 2001 📅 On This Day…