About the day » Thursday April 5, 2001Calender converter
April 4, 2001Died on Thursday April 5, 2001
- Albert Gnodde (79)
- Alberta Hendrika Duits (76), Ermelo
- Cornelis Frans HARTOG, den (80), Strijen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Anna Henderijntje Margaretha Blanken (96), Amsterdam, NH Nederland
- Antonius Cornelis Maria Spooren (66), Duizel
- Alida Stam (76), Egmond aan Zee (gem. Bergen, NH)
- Cornelia Adriana Biesbrouck (96), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
- Berend Jager (71)
- Cornelia Anna Kleverlaan (91), Beverwijk
- Agatha Johanna Wilhelmina van Blokland (73), Amstelveen
Born on April 5
- 1995 » Sei Muroya, Japanese footballer
- 1995 » Viliame Kikau, Fijian rugby league player
- 1996 » Nicolas Beer, Danish race car driver
- 1996 » Raouf Benguit, Algerian footballer
- 1997 » Borja Mayoral, Spanish footballer
- 1998 » Jeremy Olson
- 1999 » Andrea Buwalda
- 2000 » Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Indian actor
- 2001 » Thylane Blondeau, French model and actress
- 2002 » Elian Kerrniqi, Amore HEKSIII
Died on April 5
- 1998 » Cozy Powell, English drummer (b. 1947)
- 1998 » Frederick Charles Frank, British theoretical physicist (b. 1911)
- 1999 » Giulio Einaudi, Italian book publisher (b. 1912)
- 2000 » Heinrich Müller, Austrian footballer (b. 1909)
- 2000 » Lee Petty, American race car driver (b. 1914)
- 2001 » Aldo Olivieri, Italian footballer (b. 1910)
- 2002 » Kim Won-gyun, North Korean composer and politician (b. 1917)
- 2002 » Layne Staley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1967)
- 2003 » Keizo Morishita, Japanese painter (b. 1944)
- 2004 » Fernand Goyvaerts, Belgian footballer (b. 1938)
Names that were popular for boys in 2001
- Thomas
- Jan
- Lucas
- Robin
- Daan
- Lars
- Max
- Tim
- Bram
- Ruben
- Jasper
- Thijs
- Jacob
- Sander
- Niels
- Stijn
Names that were popular for girls in 2001
- Emma
- Britt
- Femke
- Julia
- Ilse
- Sophie
- Sanne
- Amber
- Anna
- Laura
- Lisa
- Fleur
- Charlotte
- Anne
- Maria
- Anastasia
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 2001
- Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
- The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
- March 16 » A series of bomb blasts that took place in the city of Shijiazhuang, China killed 108 people and injured 38 others, was the biggest mass murder in China in decades.
- June 5 » Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm causes $5.5billion in damages, making Allison the second costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
- August 10 » The 2001 Angola train attack occurred, causing 252 deaths.
- September 4 » Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.
- October 26 » The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
- November 14 » A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes a remote part of the Tibetan plateau. It had the longest known surface rupture recorded on land (~400km) and is the best documented example of a supershear earthquake.
Weather April 5, 2001
The temperature on April 5, 2001 was between 4.8 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 10.2 mm of rain during 7.3 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.