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2001 In Spain
Events in the year 2001 in Spain. Incumbents * Monarch: Juan Carlos I * Prime Minister: José María Aznar López Events February * 5: Endesa and Iberdrola, two electrical companies announce that the merger process that began in October 2000 has stopped and will not be finalized. * 11: 7 Technicians of the Compañía Lírica die in a traffic accident. * 13: Javier Bardem is nominated for an Academy Award for his role in Julian Schnabel's film Before Night Falls, being the first Spanish actor to do so. * 22: Terrorist group ETA execute a car bombing that kills two employees of the company Elektra in San Sebastián. April * 7: The Partido de Acción Socialista (PASOC) agrees to abandon its federal congress within the United and Alternative Left. * 23: Madrid is chosen to be a World Book Capital May 13: The EAJ-PNV/EA coalition (Basque Nationalist Party and Eusko Alkartasuna) attains a great victory during the Basque regional elections, forming a government for the next four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanistan after the Taliban government did not extradite Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. The invasion ended in December following a transfer of power to the Afghan Interim Administration led by Hamid Karzai. Internal conflicts, political or otherwise, caused shifts in leadership in multiple countries, which included the assassination of Laurent-Désiré Kabila in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Second EDSA Revolution in the Philippines, the massacre of the royal family by the crown prince in Nepal, and civil unrest in Argentina. Other notable political events were an e |
