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Major Events of 2001
- Milosevic Ousted
- Chinese Jet Collides with US Spy Plane
- New Prime Minister of Japan
- Royal Family of Nepal Slain
- Israeli History Suicide Bombers
- World Trade Center Attacked
Sports
Sports
- MLB 2001: World Series
Arizona Diamondbacks win 4-3 against New York Yankees
-Oct 27... Yankees 1 at Diamondbacks 9
-Oct 28... Yankees 0 at Diamondbacks 4
-Oct 30...Diamondbacks 1 at Yankees 2
-Oct 31...Diamondbacks 3 at Yankees 4
-Nov 1... Diamondbacks 2 at Yankees 3
-Nov 3...Yankees 2 at Diamondbacks 15
-Nov 4...Yankees 2 at Diamondbacks 3 - NFL
Super Bowl XXXV
Baltimore Ravens win 34-7 against New York Giants
-Super Bowl Box Score
Baltimore.... 7 3 14 10- 34
New York... 0 0 7 0- 7 - Professional Golf
Men's Major Winners
-The Masters: Tiger Woods...-16 to par
-US Open: Retief Goosen...playoff
-British Open: David Duval
-PGA Championship: David Toms...-15 to par
Women's Major Winners
-Kraft Nabisco Championship: Annika Sorenstam...-7 to par
-US Women's Open: Karrie Webb...-7 to par
-LPGA Championship: Annika Sorenstam
-Weetabix Women's British Open: Se Ri Pak...-11 to par
Popular Songs
Popular Movies
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- Donnie Darko
- Amelie
- Spirited Away
- Blow
- Ocean's Eleven
- A Beautiful Mind
- Shrek
- Black Hawk Down
- Best Picture: A Beautiful Mind
- Best Director: Ron Howard for A Beautiful Mind
- Best Actor: Denzel Washington for Training Day
- Best Actress: Halle Berry for Monster's Ball
- Best Supporting Actor: Jim Broadbent for Iris
- Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Connelly for A Beautiful Mind
Grammy Awards
- Record of the Year: "Beautiful Day"- U2
- Song of the Year: "Beautiful Day"- U2
- Album of the Year: "Two Against Nature"- Steely Dan
- Best New Artist: Shelby Lynne
Nobel Prizes
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- Peace: Kofi Annan and the United Nations "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world".
- Physiology or Medicine: Leland Hartwell, Tim Hunt, and Sir Paul M. Nurse "for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle".
- Economic Sciences: George Akerlog, A. Michael Spence, and Joseph Stiglitz "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information".
- Chemistry: William Knowles and Ryoji Noyori "for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions" and to K. Barry Sharpless "for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions".
- Physics: Eric Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, and Carl Wieman "for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates".
- Literature: V.S. Naipaul "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories".
Pulitzer Prizes
- Public Service: The Oregonian
- National Reporting: Staff of The New York Times
- International Reporting: Ian Johnson, The Wall Street Journal
- Editorial Writing: David Moats, The Rutland Herald
- Editorial Cartooning: Ann Telnaes, The Los Angeles Times Syndicate
- Breaking News Photography: Alan Diaz, The Associated Press
- Feature Photography: Matt Rainey, The Star Ledger
- Commentary: Dorothy Rabinowitz, The Wall Street Journal
- Criticism: Gail Caldwell, The Boston Globe
- Feature Writing: Tom Hallman Jr., The Chicago Tribune
- Beat Reporting: David Cay Johnson, The New York Times
- Explanatory Reporting: The Chicago Tribune, Staff
- Investigative Reporting: David William, Los Angeles Times
- Breaking News: The Miami Herald Staff
- Fiction: Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- Drama: David Auburn, Proff
- Biography/Autobiography: David Levering Lewis, W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963.
- History: Joseph Ellis, The Revolutionary Generation
- Poetry: Stephen Dunn, Different Hours
- General Nonfiction: Herbert P. Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
- Music: John Corigliano, Symphony no. 2 for String Orchestra- Premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra
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