Editing 2001 (section)

===December===
* December – [[Dasht-i-Leili massacre]]: Hundreds of Taliban prisoners are killed by the forces of [[Abdul Rashid Dostum]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gall |first=Carlotta |date=2002-05-01 |title=Study Hints at Mass Killing of the Taliban |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/01/world/study-hints-at-mass-killing-of-the-taliban.html |access-date=2022-11-24 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202170819/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/01/world/study-hints-at-mass-killing-of-the-taliban.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 1]]
** The [[International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty]] produces a report on [[responsibility to protect]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2001-12-01 |title=The Responsibility to Protect: Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, 2001 |url=https://www.globalr2p.org/resources/the-responsibility-to-protect-report-of-the-international-commission-on-intervention-and-state-sovereignty-2001/ |access-date=2022-11-20 |website=Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect |archive-date=November 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221120061309/https://www.globalr2p.org/resources/the-responsibility-to-protect-report-of-the-international-commission-on-intervention-and-state-sovereignty-2001/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
** A series of [[Ben Yehuda Street bombings#2001 (11 killed)|bombings]] in [[Zion Square]] are carried out by Hamas. Ten people are killed and hundreds more are injured.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 1, 2001 |title=Terror strikes in Jerusalem kill 10 |url=http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/12/01/mideast/ |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=CNN |archive-date=November 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124072719/http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/12/01/mideast/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 2]]
** [[Enron]] files for [[Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code|Chapter 11 bankruptcy]] protection five days after [[Dynegy]] cancels a US$8.4&nbsp;billion buyout bid (to this point, the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history).<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Oppel |first1=Richard A. |last2=Sorkin |first2=Andrew Ross |date=2001-12-03 |title=Enron's Collapse: The Overview; Enron Corp. Files Largest U.S. Claim for Bankruptcy |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/03/business/enron-s-collapse-the-overview-enron-corp-files-largest-us-claim-for-bankruptcy.html |access-date=2022-11-20 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=November 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221120061312/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/03/business/enron-s-collapse-the-overview-enron-corp-files-largest-us-claim-for-bankruptcy.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Haifa bus 16 suicide bombing]]: A Hamas militant carries out a suicide bombing in [[Haifa]], Israel, killing 15 people.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 2, 2001 |title=Bus blast kills at least 16 in Haifa, Israel |url=http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/12/02/haifa.attack/ |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=CNN |archive-date=November 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124072718/http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/12/02/haifa.attack/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 3]] – The [[Segway]], a self-balancing [[personal transporter]] invented by [[Dean Kamen]], is unveiled after months of public speculation and media hype<ref name="speculation"/> on the [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] morning program ''[[Good Morning America]]''.<ref name="auto4"/>
* [[December 5]] – [[2001 Sayyd Alma Kalay airstrike]]: An American airstrike mistakenly targets a friendly position, killing 11 people in a [[friendly fire]] incident.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2001-12-05 |title=Three U.S. Troops Killed by Stray Bomb |url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=80352&page=1 |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=ABC News |language=en |archive-date=November 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124161737/https://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=80352&page=1 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 6]] – [[Fall of Kandahar]]: The Taliban surrenders in [[Kandahar]], its final stronghold.<ref name=":3" />{{Rp|page=42}}
* [[December 8]] – An ebola outbreak is confirmed in Gabon.<ref name="auto2"/>
* [[December 11]] – China joins the World Trade Organization.<ref name=":15" />
* [[December 13]]
** [[2001 Indian Parliament attack]]: Nine people and five terrorists are killed in a terrorist attack in [[New Delhi]], leading to the [[2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff]].<ref name="Embassy of India-2001">{{cite web |url=http://www.indianembassy.org/new/parliament_dec_13_01.htm |title=Terrorist Attack on the Parliament of India |date=2001-12-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611152203/http://www.indianembassy.org/new/parliament_dec_13_01.htm |archive-date=2010-06-11 |publisher=Embassy of India – Washington DC |access-date=2018-12-12 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all}}</ref>
** U.S. President George W. Bush announces the American withdrawal from the 1972 [[Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Remarks Announcing the United States Withdrawal From the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty |url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-announcing-the-united-states-withdrawal-from-the-anti-ballistic-missile-treaty |access-date=2022-11-20 |website=www.presidency.ucsb.edu |archive-date=November 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221120061323/https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-announcing-the-united-states-withdrawal-from-the-anti-ballistic-missile-treaty |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Sirajuddin of Perlis]] becomes the [[Yang di-Pertuan Agong]], the&nbsp;[[constitutional monarch]]&nbsp;and&nbsp;[[head of state]]&nbsp;of&nbsp;Malaysia.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2001-12-13 |title=Malaysia's king sworn in |language=en-GB |work=BBC |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1707855.stm |access-date=2022-11-20 |archive-date=November 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221120215438/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1707855.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 15]] – The [[Leaning Tower of Pisa]] is reopened to the public after 12 years of reconstruction.<ref name="auto21"/>
* [[December 17]] – [[Battle of Tora Bora]]: American forces take [[Tora Bora]], a cave complex and the headquarters of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden escapes during the battle and goes into hiding.<ref name="Kerry-2009">{{Cite report |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CPRT-111SPRT53709/html/CPRT-111SPRT53709.htm |title=Rota Bora Revisited: How We Failed to Get bin Laden and Why It Matters Today |last=Kerry |first=John F. |date=2009-11-30 |author-link=John Kerry |access-date=2022-11-24 |archive-date=November 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221120161725/https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CPRT-111SPRT53709/html/CPRT-111SPRT53709.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[December 19]] – A record-high [[Atmospheric pressure|barometric pressure]] of 1085.6 [[Pascal (unit)|hPa]] (32.06 [[Inch of mercury|inHg]]) is recorded at [[Tosontsengel, Zavkhan]], Mongolia.<ref name="ASU1">{{cite web |title=World: Highest Sea Level Air Pressure Above 750 meters |url=http://wmo.asu.edu/highest-sea-lvl-air-pressure-above-700m |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013225735/http://wmo.asu.edu/highest-sea-lvl-air-pressure-above-700m |archive-date=13 October 2012 |publisher=Arizona State University}}</ref>
* [[December 21]] – President [[Fernando de la Rúa]] of Argentina resigns in response to the [[December 2001 riots in Argentina|riots]] against Argentina's [[1998–2002 Argentine great depression|economic crisis]].<ref name="Krauss-2001">{{Cite news |last=Krauss |first=Clifford |date=2001-12-21 |title=Argentine Leader, His Nation Frayed, Abruptly Resigns |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/21/world/argentine-leader-his-nation-frayed-abruptly-resigns.html |access-date=2022-11-24 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=November 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124072723/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/21/world/argentine-leader-his-nation-frayed-abruptly-resigns.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:North-Korea spy-vessel 2.jpg|thumb|A&nbsp;[[ZPU]]-2&nbsp;anti-aircraft gun that was mounted on the North Korean vessel sunk in the Battle of Amami-Ōshima]]
* [[December 22]]
** [[Battle of Amami-Ōshima]]: A [[Japan Coast Guard]] ship and an armed North Korean vessel engage in conflict near the Japanese island of [[Amami Ōshima]], in the [[East China Sea]]. The encounter ends in the sinking of the North Korean vessel that is later determined to have been a [[Spy ship|spy craft]] by the Japanese authorities.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0XPQ/is_2002_Oct_7/ai_94075498|title=Japan announces sunken boat was N. Korean spy ship|website=BNET|date=7 October 2002|access-date=13 June 2018|archive-date=August 31, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110831154904/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0XPQ/is_2002_Oct_7/ai_94075498/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/asia-pacific/1727867.stm|title=Japan says 'spy ship' fired rockets|date=25 December 2001|website=BBC News|access-date=29 January 2009|archive-date=June 25, 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040625144527/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/asia-pacific/1727867.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[Burhanuddin Rabbani]], political leader of the Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President [[Hamid Karzai]].<ref name=":3" />{{Rp|page=43}}<ref name="Gall-2002">{{Cite news |last=Gall |first=Carlotta |date=20 June 2002 |title=A Buoyant Karzai is Sworn In as Afghanistan's Leader |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/20/world/a-buoyant-karzai-is-sworn-in-as-afghanistan-s-leader.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100228162323/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/20/world/a-buoyant-karzai-is-sworn-in-as-afghanistan-s-leader.html |archive-date=28 February 2010}}</ref>
* [[December 24]] – The [[Constitution of the Comoros]] is [[2001 Comorian constitutional referendum|amended]], creating a federal government with a rotating presidency and granting increased autonomy to the three island administrations.<ref name="auto15"/>
* [[December 27]]
** China is granted permanent [[Most favoured nation|normal trade]] status with the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |title=President Grants Permanent Trade Status to China |url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/12/20011227-2.html |access-date=2022-11-20 |website=georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov |archive-date=September 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927180553/https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/12/20011227-2.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
** [[Tropical Storm Vamei]] forms within 1.5 degrees of the [[equator]]. No other tropical cyclone in recorded history has come as close to the equator.<ref name="nps">{{cite web |author1=C.P. Chang |author2=Ching-Hwang Liu |author3=Hung-Chi Kuo |year=2003 |title=Typhoon Vamei: An Equatorial Tropical Cyclone Formation |url=http://www.weather.nps.navy.mil/cpchang/papers/vamei/vamei.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120723011520/http://www.weather.nps.navy.mil/cpchang/papers/vamei/vamei.htm |archive-date=23 July 2012 |publisher=Naval Postgraduate School Department of Meteorology}}</ref>