April 2001 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December
Events
- April 1
- An EP-3E United States Navy spyplane collides with a Chinese People's Liberation Army fighter jet. (See Hainan Island incident)
- Former president of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on charges of war crimes.
- The first legal same-sex marriage in the Netherlands is celebrated.
- April fool's day! :)
- April 7 - An M-17 helicopter crashes into mountain in south of Hanoi, Vietnam killing 16. The flight was carrying United States armed forces personnel searching for MIAs from Vietnam War
- April 11 - The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, People's Republic of China after a collision with an F-8 fighter is released.
- April 15 - Easter day (not again until 2063).
- April 20 - The anti-globalization movement holds a People's Summit and large protest marches, some of which are forcibly put down by police, against the FTAA summit in Quebec City, Quebec
- April 21 12th Annual Thunder Over Louisville is held in Louisville, Kentucky.
- April 22 - Gentry Underwood and Michelle Stevens are married in Carmel Valley, CA
- April 23 - Intel introduces the Pentium 4 Processor.
- April 30:
- Dennis Tito, the first 'space tourist' in space lifts off in a Russian rocket heading for the International Space Station.
- Chandra Levy, a former intern to California Congressman Gary Condit, is last seen in Washington, DC.
Films
- April 6 - Along Came a Spider starring Morgan Freeman
- April 11 - Joe Dirt starring David Spade
- April 20 - Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
- April 20 - Freddy Got Fingered
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