2001 in the United States
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Events from the year 2001 in the United States.
=Political incumbents=
*President - George Walker Bush
*Vice President - Dick Cheney
*Senate Majority Leader - Tom Daschle
*Secretary of State - Colin Powell
*Secretary of Defense - Donald Rumsfeld
*Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives - Dennis Hastert
Events
* January 2 - Sila Calderón becomes the first female Governor of Puerto Rico.
* January 20 - George W. Bush sworn in as 43rd President of the United States.
* March 28 - The Bush administration withdraws U.S. support for the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on the reduction of greenhouse gases.[cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=650–652] ]
* April 1 - U.S.-China Spy Plane Incident: A Chinese fighter jet bumps into a U.S. EP-3E surveillance aircraft which is forced to make an emergency landing in Hainan, China. The U.S. crew is detained for 10 days and the F-8 Chinese pilot, Wang Wei, goes missing and is presumed dead.
* August 2 - The House of Representatives approves oil exploration in the Alaskan Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
* September 11 - Almost 3,000 people are killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City, The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and in rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
* September 18 - A series of anthrax attacks commence as anthrax letters are mailed from Princeton, New Jersey to ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the "New York Post", and the "National Enquirer".
* October 7 - The United States invades Afghanistan, with participation from other nations participating in Operation Enduring Freedom.
* December 2 - Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection 5 days after Dynegy cancels a US$8.4 billion buyout bid. At the time this is the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.Deaths
* March 12 - Robert Ludlum, author (born 1927)
* March 22 - William Hanna, animation studio executive (born 1910)
* March 31 - Clifford Shull, physicist and Nobel laureate (born 1915)
* May 12 - Perry Como, singer (born 1912)
* June 3 - Anthony Quinn, actor (born 1915)
* June 11 - Timothy McVeigh, perpetrator of the Oklahoma City bombing (born 1968)
* June 17 - Donald J. Cram, chemist and Novel laureate (born 1919)
* June 27 - Jack Lemmon, actor (born 1925)
* July 31 - Poul Anderson, science fiction acuthor (born 1926)
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