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1.1 January

• January 1 - Introduction of Euro banknotes and coins in the European Union
• January 5 - Charles Bishop, a 15 year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a Tampa, Florida building, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack.
• January 9 - Linda Perham MP initiates her historic debate on autism in the Palace of Westminster in Autism Awareness Year in the UK.
• January 9 - The British Prime Minister Tony Blair answers the first ever question on autism in Prime Minister's Question Time.
• January 9 - The United States Department of Justice announces it is going to pursue a criminal investigation of Enron
• January 10 - Enrique Bolaños began his five-year term as President of the Republic of Nicaragua.
• January 13 - President George W. Bush faints after choking on a pretzel
• January 16 - A student shoots 6 people at the Appalachian School of Law . Three of those shot die
• January 16 - John Ashcroft announces that American Taliban member John Walker Lindh would be tried in the United States.
• January 16 - The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the remaining Taliban
• January 17 - Eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people
• January 18 - A Canadian Pacific Railway train carrying anhydrous ammonia derails outside of Minot, North Dakota, killing one man and calling into question the maintenance of CP track and the policy of voice-tracking used by Clear Channel Communications.
• January 22 - AOL Time Warner brings a federal suit against Microsoft seeking damages. The suit alleges that the market for AOL's Netscape Navigator Internet browser was harmed when Microsoft started to give away a competing browser
• January 22 - Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in American history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
• January 24 - Enron hearings begin and terrorist suspect John Walker Lindh's hearing begins.
• January 24 - The Department of Justice indicts Robert Nicholas Angleton of Houston, Texas on conspiring to murder his wife, Doris Angleton, along with his brother Roger. Robert also gets weapons-related charges.
• January 27 - Several explosions at a military dump in Lagos, Nigeria kills more than 1,000.
• January 30 - Slobodan Milosevic accuses the United Nations war crimes tribunal of an "evil and hostile attack" against him.

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