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| 2001 |
| | | Sylvio Berlusconi returns as Italy's prime minister with the electoral success of his right-wing House of Liberties coalition | |
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| 2001 |
| | | Shrek, by DreamWorks Animation, is the first winner of a new Oscar category - Best Animated Feature | |
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| 2001 |
| | | Crown Prince Dipendra kills nine members of his own royal family at the court of Nepal | |
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| 2001 |
| | | Tony Blair leads Britain's Labour party in a second successive election victory, with a majority only marginally reduced from 179 to 167 | |
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| 2001 |
| | | Laurent Kabila, the president of the Congo, is assassinated in a failed coup attempt | |
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| 2001 |
| | | The former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic is handed over to the war crimes tribunal in the Hague | |
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| 2001 |
| | | Peter Jackson directs the first of his trilogy of films The Lord of the Rings, based on the cult novel by English academic J.R.R. Tolkien | |
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| 2001 |
| | | Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, is fatally wounded in an attack by two suicide bombers | |
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| 2001 |
| | | Four hijacked planes are used in a massive September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington | |
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| 2001 |
| | | Anthrax attacks, in the form of letters carrying the bacteria posted to journalists and politicians, begin in the USA | |
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