Timeline June 2001

Events in June 2001 12

• 1912 – 2001 John Lee Hooker Blues singer and guitarist Mississippi-born bluesman whose hypnotic, one-chord boogie from Detroit made him a hero to British rock bands and a star again in his seventies.
• 1914 – 2001 Tove Jansson Creator of Moomins Author and artist who created the Moomins, a globally recognized Finnish cultural icon.
• 1915 – 2001 Anthony Quinn (1915-2001) Died 3 June 2001, aged 86 Quinn was a Mexican-American actor with a career of more than sixty years, winning two supporting Oscars and best known for the title role in Zorba the Greek. He also appeared in La Strada, Lawrence of Arabia and Lust for Life. He was a sculptor and painter as well.
• 1924 – 2001 Chet Atkins (1924-2001) Died 30 June 2001, aged 77 Atkins was a guitarist and record producer whose fingerpicking technique made him one of the most admired players in country music. As an executive at RCA in Nashville he helped shape the smooth Nashville sound. He won 14 Grammy Awards.
• 1924 – 2001 Carroll O'Connor (1924-2001) Died 21 June 2001, aged 76 O'Connor played the bigoted working-class Archie Bunker in the sitcom All in the Family, one of the most watched and debated US television shows of the 1970s. He later starred in the drama In the Heat of the Night. He won four Emmy Awards.
• 1925 – 2001 Jack Lemmon (1925-2001) Died 27 June 2001, aged 76 Lemmon was an actor equally at home in comedy and drama, winning Oscars for Mister Roberts and Save the Tiger. He starred in Some Like It Hot, The Apartment and The Odd Couple, often for the director Billy Wilder and in a long partnership with Walter Matthau. He was known for playing harried everymen.
• 1968 – 2001 Timothy McVeigh (1968-2001) Died 11 June 2001, aged 33 McVeigh was a former US Army soldier who bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 168 people in the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in US history. Driven by anti-government anger after the Waco siege, he was convicted on federal charges. He was executed by lethal injection at Terre Haute, Indiana.
• 2001 French Open 2001 Men: Gustavo Kuerten · Women: Jennifer Capriati
• 2001 Nepalese royal massacre Crown prince kills most of the royal family On 1 June 2001 Crown Prince Dipendra shot dead King Birendra, Queen Aishwarya and other relatives at a palace dinner in Kathmandu before turning a gun on himself. He was briefly proclaimed king while comatose, then died. Birendra's brother Gyanendra took the throne amid public disbelief.
• 2001 Labour wins a second landslide in the United Kingdom Tony Blair returned with a large majority The UK general election of 7 June 2001 returned Tony Blair's Labour government with a majority of 167, on the lowest turnout since 1918. The Conservatives under William Hague made almost no gains, and Hague resigned as leader. It was the first time Labour had won two consecutive full terms.
• 2001 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation founded Six states form a regional security bloc China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan founded the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation on 15 June 2001, building on an earlier border-security grouping. It focused on counter-terrorism, security and regional influence. It later expanded to include India and Pakistan.
• 2001 John Lee Hooker dies Los Altos, California Dies in his sleep, aged 88.