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2001 Timeline
© St. Petersburg Times published December 30, 2001
- Jan. 13 -- 840 die in El Salvador earthquake.
- Jan. 20 -- George Walker Bush becomes America’s 43rd president.
- Jan. 26 -- 20,000 die in Indian earthquake.
- Jan. 29 -- Super Bowl XXXV at Raymond James Stadium.
- Jan. 31 -- Scottish court convicts one Libyan, acquits a second, in bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
- Feb. 3 -- Suncoast Parkway opens.
- Feb. 6 -- Ariel Sharon elected Israeli prime minister.
- Feb. 9 -- Navy sub collides with Japanese fishing boat; nine die.
- Feb. 17 -- Wildfires close I-4.
- Feb. 18 -- Dale Earnhardt dies in Daytona 500 crash.
- Charges dropped against parents of baby Sabrina Aisenberg.
- Feb. 21 -- Hillsborough Chief Judge F. Dennis Alvarez resigns amid courthouse scandals. March 1
- March 27 -- Census shows Hispanics are Florida’s largest minority group.
- March 29 -- Bubba the Love Sponge charged with animal cruelty after a boar is killed on his radio show.
- March 31 -- Yugoslavia’s President Slobodan Milosevic arrested for war crimes.
- April 1 -- U.S. Navy surveillance plane collides with Chinese fighter jet, makes emergency landing.
- April 10 -- Tiger Woods wins the Masters for fourth straight major title. April 8 Netherlands legalizes mercy killings and assisted suicide.
- April 19 -- St. Petersburg police Chief Goliath Davis named deputy mayor,
- April 20 -- Child missing seven years from Hernando County family is found,
- April 25 -- Judge ends 30 years of busing and court oversight of Hillsborough schools,
- May 1 -- Ex-Klansman convicted of murder in 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed four black girls.
- May 4 -- Florida Legislature passes election reforms, outlaws punch card ballots,
- May 6 -- Robert and Susan Levy call Washington police to report their daughter Chandra missing.
- May 16 -- Fourteen-year-old Lake Worth boy convicted of second-degree murder in shooting death of teacher.
- May 22 -- John McHale Jr. named Tampa Bay Devil Rays chief operating officer.
- May 23 -- Senate passes 11-year, $1.35-trillion tax cut bill.
- May 24 -- Seminole tribal leaders suspend Chief James E. Billie for misconduct,
- May 25 -- Teenage fugitive Scott Lang arrested following slaying of Clearwater man,
- May 29 -- Disabled golfer Casey Martin wins right to use cart on PGA tour.
- June 1 -- King, queen and seven other members of Nepal’s royal family slain by crown prince in palace shooting.
- June 6 -- Gov. Jeb Bush names leaders for revamped state education system; St. Petersburg Junior College becomes St. Petersburg College.
- June 11 -- Timothy McVeigh executed.
- June 21 -- Two indicted in death of Pasco’s Sharra Ferger,
- June 30 -- Vice President Dick Cheney gets pacemaker.
- July 2 -- Robert Tools receives world’s first self-contained artificial heart.
- July 6 -- Tampa police Officer Lois Marrero killed by a bank robber who later kills himself.
- July 6 -- Jesse Arbogast, 8, badly injured in shark attack off Florida coast.
- Aug. 3 -- First human case of West Nile Virus in Florida. July 23Wachovia Bank agrees to $4.3-billion First Union takeover.
- Aug. 9 -- President Bush approves federal funding only for existing lines of embryonic stem cells.
- Aug. 23 -- Rep. Gary Condit interviewed on ABC, denies any involvement in Chandra Levy’s disappearance.
- Sept. 5 -- Janet Reno enters Florida governor’s race.
- Sept. 6 -- Justice Department no longer seeks breakup of Microsoft.
- Sept. 7 -- Mack Vines named St. Petersburg police chief.
- Sept. 11 -- Suicide hijackers crash two planes into World Trade Center. Another plane crashes into Pentagon, and a fourth outside Pittsburgh. Some 3,000 killed in all.
- Sept. 14 -- $200-million International Plaza mall opens in Tampa.
- Sept. 17 -- Stock exhanges reopen; Dow plummets more than 684 points.
- Sept. 20 -- Bush names Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge to head new Office of Homeland Security.
- Sept. 27 -- George Trofimoff sentenced to life for spying for the Soviets during the Cold War.
- Sept. 28 -- USF suspends professor Sami Al-Arian after appearance on Bill O’Reilly show.
- ept. 29 -- National Guard deploys at airports to bolster security. S
- Oct. 1 -- Supreme Court suspends former President Clinton from practicing before the high court.
- Oct. 5 -- Tabloid photo editor Bob Stevens dies from inhaled anthrax,
- Oct. 7 -- United States and Britain launch military strikes in Afghanistan.
- Oct. 9 -- Letters postmarked in Trenton, N.J., are sent to Sens. Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy; the letters later test positive for anthrax.
- Oct. 12 -- United Nations and Secretary-General Kofi Annan win Nobel Peace Prize.
- Oct. 12 -- State House opens impeachment inquiry against Pinellas Judge Charles Cope and Hillsborough Judge Robert Bonanno; Steve Spratt chosen Pinellas County Administrator.
- Oct. 18 -- Four defendants convicted in New York of roles in 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.
- Oct. 22 -- Tampa housing chief Steve LaBrake takes leave from job amid growing scandal.
- Oct. 26 -- Tampa doesn’t make cut of cities to bid on 2012 Olympics,
- Nov. 2 -- U.S. unemployment rate soars to 5.4 percent.
- Nov. 4 -- Arizona Diamondbacks win World Series.
- Nov. 21 -- AmerDesalination plant on Tampa Bay gets final state permit.
- Nov. 24 -- Mazan Al-Najjar jailed again.
- Nov. 25 -- Scientists claim to have cloned first early human embryo.
- Nov. 26 -- Bureau of Economic Research declares U.S. recession began in March.
- Nov. 30 -- First recipient of fully self-contained artificial heart dies after 151 days.
- Dec. 2 -- Energy company Enron Corp. collapses.
- Dec. 1-2 -- Three suicide bombs kill 25 Israelis.
- Dec. 2-3 -- Israeli warplanes strike Palestinian security targets and Yasser Arafat’s offices in response to suicide bombings.
- Dec. 5 -- Leases sold for oil and gas drilling off Florida Panhandle,
- Dec. 6 -- Legislators cut $1-billion from state budget,
- Dec. 11 -- Federal grand jury issues first indictment directly related to Sept. 11 attacks.
- Dec. 17 -- Fed cuts interest rates for 11th time.
- Dec. 18 -- St. Petersburg police Chief Mack Vines fired.
- Dec. 22 -- Man on Paris to Miami flight tries to ignite explosive in his sneaker.
- Dec. 27 -- Hillsborough Judge Robert Bonanno resigns.
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