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Billie Lou Watt was an American actress. She was best known as the original English dub voice of the title characters of the 1960s anime series Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion, …
Billie Lou Watt, American actress and voice artist (born 1924)
Alice Stewart Trillin was an American educator, author, film producer and longtime muse to her husband, author Calvin Trillin. Diagnosed with lung cancer in the 1970s, she wrote ab…
Alice Stewart Trillin, American author and educator (born 1938)
John Thomas Alexis Craig, was an American comic book artist notable for his work with the EC Comics line of the 1950s. He sometimes used the pseudonyms Jay Taycee and F. C. Aljohn.
Johnny Craig, American sailor and illustrator (born 1926)
Dorothy Hackett McGuire was an American actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Gentleman's Agreement (1947) and won the National Board of Review Awar…
Dorothy McGuire, American actress (born 1916)
Stelios Kazantzidis was one of the most prominent Greek singers. His roots were from Pontus and Asia Minor. A top artist of Greek music, or Laïkó, he collaborated with many of Gree…
Stelios Kazantzidis, Greek singer and guitarist (born 1931)
William Edwin Ricker, was a Canadian entomologist and important founder of fisheries science. He is best known for the Ricker model, which he developed in his studies of stock and …
Bill Ricker, Canadian entomologist and author (born 1908)
Ahmad Shah Massoud was an Afghan military leader and politician. Known as the "Lion of Panjshir", he was the foremost commander of the Afghan mujahideen against Soviet occupation d…
Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan commander and politician, Afghan Minister of Defense (born 1953)
The September 11 attacks were the deadliest terrorist attacks in human history, causing the deaths of 2,996 people, including 19 hijackers who committed murder–suicide and 2,977 vi…
Casualties of the September 11 attacks: see Category:Victims of the September 11 attacks
Jaroslav Drobný was a world No. 1 amateur tennis and ice hockey champion. He left Czechoslovakia in 1949 and travelled as an Egyptian citizen before becoming a citizen of the Unite…
Jaroslav Drobný, Czech-English ice hockey player and tennis player (born 1921)
June Marie Salter was an Australian actress and author prominent in theatre and television. She is best known for her character roles, in particular as schoolteacher Elizabeth McKe…
June Salter, Australian actress and author (born 1932)
Samuel Zachary Arkoff was an American film producer, known as the co-founder of American International Pictures.
Samuel Z. Arkoff, American producer (born 1918)
Ernest Arthur Coombs, CM was an American-Canadian children's entertainer who starred in the Canadian television series Mr. Dressup (1967–1996).
Ernie Coombs, American-Canadian television host (born 1927)
Rhys Maengwyn Jones was a Welsh-Australian archeologist.
Rhys Jones, Welsh-Australian archaeologist and academic (born 1941)
The Accra Sports Stadium, formerly named the Ohene Djan Stadium, is a multi-use stadium located in Accra, Ghana, mostly used for association football matches. It is also used for r…
Police at the Ohene Djan Stadium in Accra, Ghana, fired tear gas to quell unrest at a football match, leading to a stamp
The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas, is a Sunni Islamist Palestinian nationalist political organisation with a military wing known as the al-Qassam Brigades. It has …
A Hamas-affiliated Islamist militant blew himself up outside a nightclub in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 21 people, most of
The 2001 Bangladesh–India border skirmishes were a series of armed clashes between India and Bangladesh in April 2001. The clashes took place between troops of the Bangladesh Rifle…
India and Bangladesh began a six-day conflict over their disputed border, which ended in a stalemate
The Dos Palmas kidnappings was a hostage crisis in southern Philippines that began with the seizing of twenty hostages from the affluent Dos Palmas Resort on a private island in Ho…
Twenty tourists were kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf militants in Palawan, Philippines, triggering a hostage crisis that lasted
Tropical Storm Allison was a tropical cyclone that devastated southeast Texas in June 2001. An arguable example of the "brown ocean effect", Allison lasted unusually long for a Jun…
Tropical Storm Allison, the costliest Atlantic tropical cyclone that was never a hurricane, made landfall in Texas, caus
Timothy James McVeigh was an American domestic terrorist who masterminded and perpetrated the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995. The bombing itself killed 167 or 168 people, …
Timothy McVeigh, detonator of a truck bomb in front of the Oklahoma federal building, was executed by lethal injection f
The Tesco bomb campaign was an attempted extortion against the British supermarket chain Tesco which started in Bournemouth, England, in August 2000 and led to one of the largest a…
Robert Edward Dyer was sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment for conducting a six-month-long letter-bomb campaign against
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is a Eurasian political, economic and international security organisation of ten member states. It focuses on political, economic, secur…
Leaders of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
The 2001 World Aquatics Championships or the 9th FINA World Swimming Championships were held in Fukuoka, Japan between 16 July and 29 July 2001.
At the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, Australian Ian Thorpe became the first swimmer to win six gold…
Carlo Giuliani was an Italian anti-globalization protester who was shot dead while attacking a Carabinieri van with a fire extinguisher, by an officer who was inside the van, durin…
Twenty-three-year-old Italian anti-globalist Carlo Giuliani was shot dead by a police officer while protesting outside…
Diah Permata Megawati Setiawati Sukarnoputri is an Indonesian politician who served as the fifth president of Indonesia from 2001 to 2004 and the eighth vice president under Presid…
Megawati Sukarnoputri was sworn in (pictured) as the first female president of Indonesia following her predecessor's…