The temperature on January 16, 2001 was between -6.4 °C and 1.9 °C and averaged -3.1 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (87%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
May 6 » During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
May 27 » Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
June 8 » Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.
September 2 » The adult-oriented television block Adult Swim debuts on Cartoon Network.
November 27 » A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
December 2 » Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Day of burial January 22, 2001
The temperature on January 22, 2001 was between 0.6 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 16 » Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
May 6 » During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
September 9 » Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al-Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
September 27 » In Switzerland, a gunman shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then himself.
October 7 » The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
October 15 » NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
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