January 2001

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Events

• January 1 - A White monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall appears in Seattle's Magnuson Park, placed by an anonymous artist in reference to the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• January 4 - Runescape Classic was released.
• January 6 - The United States Congress, presided over by Vice President Al Gore as President of the Senate, certifies George Walker Bush's Electoral College victory and thus as the winner of the 2000 presidential election.
• January 9 - Shenzhou 2, an unmanned Chinese spacecraft, was launched.
• January 10 - Apple introduce their iTunes digital media player application at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco
• January 11 - The Federal Trade Commission approved the merger of AOL and Time Warner to form AOL Time Warner.
• January 15 - Wikipedia, a Wiki free content encyclopedia, goes online.
• January 20 - George Walker Bush succeeds Bill Clinton as President of the United States after prevailing over Al Gore in the disputed U.S. presidential election, 2000.
• January 22 - Four of the "Texas 7" are caught at a convenience store in Woodland Park, Colorado and a fifth killed himself inside a motor home.
• January 24 - The last two of the "Texas 7" are taken into custody in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
• January 26 - A 50-year-old DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24.
• January 26 - An earthquake hits Gujarat, India. More than 20,000 deaths.
• January 29 - Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
• January 31 - In the Netherlands a Scottish court convicts a Libyan and acquits another for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.

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