Future World Events 2000s/Archive2

October

• Federal officials announce the first anthrax attack in the U.S.
• The United States invades Afghanistan, with participation from other nations participating in Operation Enduring Freedom.
• The 2001 anthrax attacks continue as contaminated letters are mailed from Princeton, New Jersey, to U.S. Senators Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont.
• U.S. president George W. Bush signs the USA PATRIOT Act into law.

September

• Almost 3,000 are killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City, The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and in rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania after American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 crash into the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in New York City, American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93 crashes into a grassland in Pennsylvania.
• The New York Stock Exchange reopens following the attacks in New York.
• The 2001 anthrax attacks commence as letters containing anthrax spores are mailed from Princeton, New Jersey to ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the New York Post, and the National Enquirer.

July

• The 27th G8 summit takes place in Genoa, Italy.

June

• An earthquake with 7.9 on the Richter scale, hits the south of Peru.

February

• Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon wins election as Prime Minister of Israel.

January

• George W. Bush succeeds Bill Clinton; becoming the 43rd President of the United States.
• An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, killing more than 12,000.
• The Japanese Empire goes on a conquest, invading Korea, Taiwan and Eastern China