About the day » Sunday June 24, 2001Calender converter

• Evi Maria Nieboer († 2007)

• Adriana Tas (80)
• Cletus Bernard WILKER (80)
• Adriana (Sjaan) Veth (88), Rotterdam
• Appolonia Cecilia Warmerdam (86), Hillegom
• Alie Jans Pinkster (58), Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland
• Cornelia de Kok (96), Sliedrecht
• Adriana Veth (88), Rotterdam
• Annechien Klasen (76), Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland
• Apolonia Cornelia Warmerdam (86), Hillegom, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arthur C. Graves (55), Verenigde Statn

• 1987 » Lionel Messi, Argentinian footballer
• 1987 » Simona Dobrá, Czech tennis player
• 1988 » Micah Richards, English footballer
• 1989 » Teklemariam Medhin, Eritrean runner
• 1990 » Michael Del Zotto, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 » Richard Sukuta-Pasu, German footballer
• 1991 » Aidan Sezer, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Yasmin Paige, English actress
• 1992 » David Alaba, Austrian footballer
• 1996 » Duki, Argentinian rapper

• 1995 » Andrew J. Transue, American politician and attorney Morissette v. United States (b. 1903)
• 1997 » Brian Keith, American actor (b. 1921)
• 2000 » David Tomlinson, English actor and comedian (b. 1917)
• 2000 » Rodrigo Bueno, Argentine cuarteto singer (b. 1973)
• 2000 » Vera Atkins, British intelligence officer (b. 1908)
• 2002 » Pierre Werner, Luxembourgian banker and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1913)
• 2004 » Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter and author (b. 1957)
• 2005 » Paul Winchell, American actor, voice artist, and ventriloquist (b. 1922)
• 2007 » Chris Benoit, Canadian wrestler (b. 1967)
• 2007 » Natasja Saad, Danish rapper and reggae singer (b. 1974)

• 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.
• July 21 » At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri Station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.
• July 28 » Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championship meeting.
• August 25 » American singer Aaliyah and several members of her record company are killed as their overloaded aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport, Bahamas.
• September 11 » The September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated suicide attacks killing 2,977 people using four aircraft hijacked by 19 members of al-Qaeda. Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third crashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
• September 14 » Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.
• November 23 » The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.

The temperature on June 24, 2001 was between 9.6 °C and 24.2 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.