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WPP Group sends its official takeover proposal for Tempus Group, British media buying concern, to Tempus's shareholders, as rival bidder, Havas Advertising, considers its options (S)
Strict standards for arsenic in drinking water, suspended by the Bush administration, were justified, experts have concluded. Page A20.
Scientists now wonder if overfishing of prized shark species is letting unwanted killers like bull sharks, implicated in several recent attacks, thrive as never before; commercial fishermen contend that fishing curbs are leaving sharks free to prey on bathers; if both sides are right, it is possible that federal rules and commercial fishing practices are interracting in unexpected ways to create new dangers in coastal waters; scientists and federal agencies are preparing to study potential risk; photo of bull shark; drawings of some heavily fished sharks; chart shows shark attacks (M)
With truce talks tentatively set for today, Palestinians and Israelis did not wait for dawn to resume their all-but-declared war. Two Israeli soldiers were slain by Palestinian snipers near the checkpoint separating the Palestinian town of Tulkarm from Israel, and soon Israeli tanks were ringing Jenin, also in the West Bank, shelling Palestinian positions outside the town.
Corus Group, Europe's third-largest steel maker, reports net loss excluding one-time items of 195 million pounds ($285 million), compared with loss of 72 million pounds a year earlier; does not expect turnaround until 2002; photos (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 5, 2001, covering September 11, 2001.
Maxwell
Juvenile
Various Artists
Alicia Keys
*NSYNC
2001Mackenzie Aladjem, American actress[†]
Mackenzie Aladjem is an American actress. She co-starred in the Showtime series Nurse Jackie as the title character's daughter, Fiona Peyton, for which she won a Young Artist Award. She also appeared in the soap opera All My Children as Miranda Montgomery from 2010 to 2011.
2001Joseph Fahnbulleh, Liberian-American sprinter[†]
Joseph Fahnbulleh is a Liberian-American sprinter. An Olympic finalist, Fahnbulleh is a double NCAA champion and finished fourth at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in the 200 meters race.
2001Harrison Graham, Australian rugby league player[†]
Harrison Graham is an Australian rugby league footballer who plays as a hooker for the Dolphins in the National Rugby League (NRL).
2001Nicholas Robertson, American ice hockey player[†]
Nicholas "Nick" Robertson is an American professional ice hockey left winger for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected 53rd overall by the Maple Leafs in the 2019 NHL entry draft. He made his NHL debut with the Maple Leafs during the 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs, where he had 1 goal in 4 games. He is the younger brother of Dallas Stars winger Jason Robertson.
2001Alice Stewart Trillin, American author and educator (born 1938)[†]
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 about her experience and became known for her work with cancer patients. Alice Trillin is a recurring subject in Calvin Trillin's writings, including his 2006 book titled About Alice. She ultimately died from heart failure related to the radiation therapy that her cancer was treated with.
2001Casualties of the September 11 attacks: see Category:Victims of the September 11 attacks[†]
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 victims. Thousands more were injured, and long-term health effects have arisen as a consequence of the attacks. New York City took the brunt of the death toll when the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan were attacked, with an estimated 1,700 victims from the North Tower and around a thousand from the South Tower. Two hundred miles southwest in Arlington County, Virginia, another 125 were killed in the Pentagon. The remaining 265 fatalities included the 92 passengers and crew of American Airlines Flight 11, the 65 aboard United Airlines Flight 175, the 64 aboard American Airlines Flight 77 and the 44 aboard United Airlines Flight 93. The attack on the World Trade Center's North Tower alone made the September 11 attacks the deadliest act of terrorism in human history.
2001The September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated terrorist 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.[†]
Al-Qaeda, also known as The Base, is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate. Its membership is mostly composed of Arabs but also includes people from other ethnic groups. Al-Qaeda has mounted attacks on civilian, economic and military targets of the U.S. and its allies; such as the 1998 US embassy bombings, the USS Cole bombing, and the September 11 attacks.
In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]