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A series of bomb blasts in the city of Shijiazhuang, China kill 108 people and injure 38 others, the biggest mass murder in China in decades. Date: March 16, 2001 Read more on Wikipedia โ ๐ Other events on March 16 ๐ Events on this day in 2001 ๐ On This Day (Today) More events…
Erik Weihenmayer becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, with Dr. Sherman Bull. Date: May 25, 2001 Read more on Wikipedia โ ๐ Other events on May 25 ๐ Events on this day in 2001 ๐ On This Day (Today) More events from 2001Space Shuttle Discovery Launches…
Members of Abu Sayyaf, an Islamist separatist group, seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002. Date: May 27, 2001 Read more on Wikipedia โ ๐ Other events on May 27 ๐ Events on this day in 2001 ๐ On…
Loganair Flight 670A crashes while attempting to make a water landing in the Firth of Forth in Scotland. Date: February 27, 2001 Read more on Wikipedia โ ๐ Other events on February 27 ๐ Events on this day in 2001 ๐ On This Day (Today) More events from 2001Slobodan Miloลกeviฤ Surrenders to Police on War…
Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Chinese Communist Party to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution. Date: January 23, 2001 Read more on Wikipedia โ ๐ Other events on January 23 ๐ Events on this day…
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 โ ๐ Other events on June 21 ๐ Events on this day in 2001 ๐ On This Day…