Editing 2001 (section)

===June===
* [[June 1]]
** Crown Prince [[Dipendra of Nepal]] kills his father, the king, his mother and other members of the royal family with an assault rifle and then shoots himself in the [[Nepalese royal massacre]]. Dipendra is recognized as King of Nepal while in a coma.<ref name=":4" />{{Rp|pages=72–73}}
** [[Dolphinarium discotheque massacre]]: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 people, mostly teenagers, in the Dolphinarium disco in [[Tel Aviv]], Israel.<ref>{{cite news |last=Fisher |first=Ian |date=29 January 2006 |title=In Hamas's Overt Hatred, Many Israelis See Hope |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/international/middleeast/29israel.html |access-date=2022-11-20 |archive-date=November 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111022312/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/international/middleeast/29israel.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[June 4]] – [[Gyanendra of Nepal|Gyanendra]] ascends the throne of Nepal on the death of his nephew, Dipendra.<ref name="massacre">{{cite news |date=2 June 2001 |title=Nepal mourns slain king |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1366170.stm |url-status=live |access-date=31 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107091236/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1366170.stm |archive-date=7 January 2009}}</ref>
[[File:Allison Flood Houston.jpg|thumb|[[Buffalo Bayou]] and [[White Oak Bayou]] at Main Street after Tropical Storm Allison hit Houston, Texas, U.S.]]
* [[June 5]] – [[Tropical Storm Allison]] hits the U.S. state of [[Texas]], severely flooding [[Houston]] and killing 23 people.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-06-05 |title=Remembering Tropical Storm Allison |url=https://www.noaa.gov/education/stories/remembering-tropical-storm-allison |access-date=2022-11-20 |website=www.noaa.gov |language=en |archive-date=November 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221120215448/https://www.noaa.gov/education/stories/remembering-tropical-storm-allison |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[June 7]]
** [[2001 United Kingdom general election]]: [[Tony Blair]] and the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] win a second landslide victory.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/06/08/uk.election.05/index.html|title=CNN.com - Blair celebrates historic poll win - June 8, 2001|website=CNN|access-date=April 11, 2022|archive-date=April 11, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220411105203/https://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/06/08/uk.election.05/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
** Former Argentinian president [[Carlos Menem]] is arrested on suspicion of illegal arms sales.<ref name="CNN-2001i">{{Cite web |date=2001-06-07 |title=Spokesman: Ex-Argentine president arrested |url=http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/06/07/menem.arrest.02/index.html |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=CNN |archive-date=November 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124021407/http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/06/07/menem.arrest.02/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[June 12]] – [[Aračinovo crisis]]: Albanian rebels violate a 24-hour cease fire with Macedonian soldiers.<ref name="CNN-2001c">{{Cite web |date=2001-06-12 |title=Rebels breach Macedonia truce |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/06/12/macedonia.fighting/index.html |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=CNN |archive-date=November 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124161738/http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/06/12/macedonia.fighting/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[June 15]] – Declaration to establish the [[Shanghai Cooperation Organisation]] is signed.<ref name="SCO-2017">{{cite web|url=http://eng.sectsco.org/about_sco/|title=About SCO|publisher=Shanghai Cooperation Organisation|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171028182720/http://eng.sectsco.org/about_sco/|archive-date=28 October 2017|access-date=2017-06-09}}</ref>
* [[June 19]]
** Syria withdraws thousands of forces from a decades-long military presence in [[Beirut]], Lebanon.<ref>{{Cite news |last= |date=2001-06-20 |title=After Decades, Thousands of Syrian Troops Leave Beirut |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/20/world/after-decades-thousands-of-syrian-troops-leave-beirut.html |access-date=2022-11-24 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=November 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124021409/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/20/world/after-decades-thousands-of-syrian-troops-leave-beirut.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
** Germany enacts a program to compensate [[Holocaust survivors]] that were subject to slave labor.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2001-06-19 |title=Germany approves Nazi pay-out |url=http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/06/19/germany.slaves.1601/index.html?related |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=CNN |archive-date=November 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124021408/http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/06/19/germany.slaves.1601/index.html?related |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[June 21]] – The world's [[longest trains|longest train]] is run by BHP Iron Ore between Newman and Port Hedland in Western Australia (a distance of {{convert|275|km|mi|abbr=on|disp=or}}); the train consists of 682 loaded iron ore wagons and 8 [[GE AC6000CW]] locomotives, giving a gross weight of almost 100,000 tonnes and moves 82,262 tonnes of ore; the train is {{convert|7.353|km|mi|abbr=on}} long.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hamersley Freight Line |url=http://www.railway-technology.com/projects/hamersley-freight-line/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150512100443/http://www.railway-technology.com/projects/hamersley-freight-line/ |archive-date=12 May 2015 |access-date=2022-11-20 |work=Railway Technology}}</ref>
* [[June 23]] – An 8.4 {{M|w|link=y}} [[2001 southern Peru earthquake|southern Peru earthquake]] shakes coastal Peru with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of VIII (''Severe''). A destructive tsunami follows, leaving at least 77 people dead, and 2,687 others injured.<ref name="auto1" /><ref name="Keefer-2004">{{Cite journal |last1=Keefer |first1=David K. |last2=Moseley |first2=Michael E. |date=2004-07-27 |title=Southern Peru desert shattered by the great 2001 earthquake: Implications for paleoseismic and paleo-El Niño–Southern Oscillation records |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |language=en |volume=101 |issue=30 |pages=10878–10883 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0404320101 |issn=0027-8424 |pmc=491987 |pmid=15263069 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[June 25]] – [[Alkhan-Kala operation]]: Russian forces carry out a ''[[zachistka]]'' operation in Alkhan-Kala, [[Grozny]], Chechnya, during the [[Guerrilla phase of the Second Chechen War (2001)|Second Chechen War]]. Chechen warlord [[Arbi Barayev]] is killed.<ref name="BBC-2001b">{{Cite news |date=2001-06-25 |title=Russians kill Chechen warlord |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1406317.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120412152951/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1406317.stm |archive-date=April 12, 2012 |access-date=2022-11-24 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref>