September 2001

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Events

• September 4 - Google is awarded [U.S. Patent 6,285,999], for the PageRank search algorithm used in the Google search engine
• September 5 - Peru's attorney general files homicide charges against ex-President Alberto Fujimori
• September 6 - United States v. Microsoft: The United States Justice Department announces that it was no longer seeking to break-up software maker Microsoft and will instead seek a lesser antitrust penalty
• September 9 - Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan
• September 10 - Norwegian parliamentary election, 2001
• September 11 - The September 11, 2001 attacks occur in United States; almost 3,000 people are killed in the World Trade Center in New York City, The Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and on Flight 93, which crashed in rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
• September 14 - The Nintendo GameCube is released.
• September 17 - The New York Stock Exchange reopens following the terrorist attacks in New York.
• September 18 - The 2001 anthrax attacks commence as anthrax letters are mailed from Hamilton, New Jersey to ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the New York Post, and the National Enquirer.
• September 18 - Address of President Bush to a joint session of Congress on Thusrday night, September 20, 2001: Freedom at War with Fear.

Films

• September 14 - Hardball starring Keanu Reeves
• September 28 - Don't Say a Word starring Michael Douglas

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