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2001 in the United Kingdom

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2001 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 2001 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

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Events

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January

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February

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March

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  • 4 March – A car bomb explodes outside the BBC's main news centre at White City, west London, seriously injuring a London Underground worker. The Real IRA are suspected of being behind the attack.[9]
  • 8 March – The wreckage of Donald Campbell's speedboat Bluebird K7 is raised from the bottom of Coniston Water in Cumbria, 34 years after Campbell was killed in an attempt to break the world water speed record.
  • 15 March – Donald Campbell's body is recovered from Lake Coniston, 34 years after he died in an attempt to break the land water speed record.
  • 17 March – Eden Project opens to the public near St Austell, Cornwall; conceived by Tim Smit with design by Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners.
  • 18 March – Claire Marsh (aged 18) becomes the youngest woman in Britain to be convicted of rape after pinning down a woman who was raped by a pair of teenagers in west London. She is sentenced to seven years in prison, while her accomplices (aged 15 and 18) are jailed for five years.[10]

April

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  • 5 April – Perry Wacker, a Dutch lorry driver, is jailed for 14 years for the manslaughter of 58 Chinese illegal immigrants who were found suffocated in his lorry at Dover ferry port in June last year.[11]
  • 15 April – Manchester United win the FA Premier League title for the third season in succession, and the seventh time in nine seasons.[12]
  • 23 April
  • 29 April – Census of population in the United Kingdom.

May

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June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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Undated

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Publications

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Births

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Lily Laight
Freya Allan

Deaths

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January

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Auberon Waugh
Margaret Scriven

February

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Barbara Noble
Stan Cullis

March

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Ninette de Valois

April

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Jean Anderson
Ian Campbell, 12th Duke of Argyll

May

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Douglas Adams
Tony Ashton

June

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Tom Burns

July

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Molly Lamont

August

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Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford
Ken Tyrrell

September

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Hilde Holger

October

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Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone
Linden Travers

November

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William Reid
George Harrison

December

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Stuart Adamson
Mary Hardwick

See also

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References

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