Explore 2493 historical events from 2000–2009.
Peter Maas was an American journalist and author. He was born in New York City and attended Duke University. Maas had Dutch and Irish ancestry.
Peter Maas, American journalist and author (born 1929)
Jane Greer was an American film and television actress best known for her role as femme fatale Kathie Moffat in the 1947 film noir Out of the Past. In 2009, The Guardian named her …
Jane Greer, American actress (born 1924)
Roman Voldemarovich Matsov was a Soviet and Estonian violinist, pianist, and conductor.
Roman Matsov, Estonian violinist, pianist, and conductor (born 1917)
Aaliyah Dana Haughton was an American singer, actress, dancer, and model. Known as the "Princess of R&B" and "Queen of Urban Pop", she is credited with helping to redefine contempo…
Aaliyah, American singer and actress (born 1979)
Carl Thomas Brewer was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. Brewer attended De La Salle College and Riverdale Collegiate Institute prior to his hockey career.
Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1938)
Üzeyir Garih was a Jewish Turkish engineer, businessman, writer and investor.
Üzeyir Garih, Turkish engineer and businessman, co-founded Alarko Holding (born 1929)
Robert Kenneth Tyrrell was a British Formula Two racing driver and the founder of the Tyrrell Formula One constructor.
Ken Tyrrell, English race car driver and businessman, founded Tyrrell Racing (born 1924)
Louis Muhlstock, LL.D. was a Canadian painter best known for his depictions of the Great Depression and for landscapes and urban scenes in and around Montreal.
Louis Muhlstock, Polish-Canadian painter and educator (born 1904)
Michael Leonidas Dertouzos was a professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Director of the M…
Michael Dertouzos, Greek-American computer scientist and academic (born 1936)
Mustafa Ali Zabri, better known by his kunya Abu Ali Mustafa and also known as Mustafa Alhaj, was a Palestinian militant who served as the General Secretary of the Popular Front fo…
Abu Ali Mustafa, Palestinian politician (born 1938)
Marita Petersen was the first and to date only female Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands and the first female speaker of the Løgting (Parliament). She was elected to the Løgting i…
Marita Petersen, Faroese educator and politician, 8th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (born 1940)
The 2001 Bangladesh–India border skirmishes were a series of armed clashes between India and Bangladesh in April 2001. The clashes took place between troops of the Bangladesh Rifle…
India and Bangladesh began a six-day conflict over their disputed border, which ended in a stalemate
The Accra Sports Stadium, formerly named the Ohene Djan Stadium, is a multi-use stadium located in Accra, Ghana, mostly used for association football matches. It is also used for r…
Police at the Ohene Djan Stadium in Accra, Ghana, fired tear gas to quell unrest at a football match, leading to a stamp
The Dos Palmas kidnappings was a hostage crisis in southern Philippines that began with the seizing of twenty hostages from the affluent Dos Palmas Resort on a private island in Ho…
Twenty tourists were kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf militants in Palawan, Philippines, triggering a hostage crisis that lasted
The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas, is a Sunni Islamist Palestinian nationalist political organisation with a military wing known as the al-Qassam Brigades. It has …
A Hamas-affiliated Islamist militant blew himself up outside a nightclub in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 21 people, most of
Tropical Storm Allison was a tropical cyclone that devastated southeast Texas in June 2001. An arguable example of the "brown ocean effect", Allison lasted unusually long for a Jun…
Tropical Storm Allison, the costliest Atlantic tropical cyclone that was never a hurricane, made landfall in Texas, caus
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is a Eurasian political, economic and international security organisation of ten member states. It focuses on political, economic, secur…
Leaders of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
The 2001 World Aquatics Championships or the 9th FINA World Swimming Championships were held in Fukuoka, Japan between 16 July and 29 July 2001.
At the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, Australian Ian Thorpe became the first swimmer to win six gold…
Timothy James McVeigh was an American domestic terrorist who masterminded and perpetrated the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995. The bombing itself killed 167 or 168 people, …
Timothy McVeigh, detonator of a truck bomb in front of the Oklahoma federal building, was executed by lethal injection f
The Tesco bomb campaign was an attempted extortion against the British supermarket chain Tesco which started in Bournemouth, England, in August 2000 and led to one of the largest a…
Robert Edward Dyer was sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment for conducting a six-month-long letter-bomb campaign against
Carlo Giuliani was an Italian anti-globalization protester who was shot dead while attacking a Carabinieri van with a fire extinguisher, by an officer who was inside the van, durin…
Twenty-three-year-old Italian anti-globalist Carlo Giuliani was shot dead by a police officer while protesting outside…
Diah Permata Megawati Setiawati Sukarnoputri is an Indonesian politician who served as the fifth president of Indonesia from 2001 to 2004 and the eighth vice president under Presid…
Megawati Sukarnoputri was sworn in (pictured) as the first female president of Indonesia following her predecessor's…
Phoolan Devi, popularly known as the Bandit Queen, was an Indian dacoit (bandit) who became a politician, serving as a member of parliament until her assassination. She was a woman…
Phoolan Devi, a serving Indian member of Parliament, was shot outside her house in New Delhi, India.
The Second Intifada, also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada, was a major uprising by Palestinians against Israel and its occupation from 2000. Initially sparked by civilian protests in…
Second Intifada: A suicide bomber attacked a pizza restaurant in Jerusalem, killing 15 people and wounding 130 others.