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1. On January 15, 2001, what website was launched?
2. On March 2, 2001, the Taliban government of Afghanistan destroyed a historic site at Bumiyan, despite pleas from the international community. What religion is related to this site?
3. On April 1, 2001, a Chinese jet fighter collided with a U.S. EP-3 surveillance aircraft at which location?
4. On June 1, 2001, the royal family of what relatively peaceful country was massacred?
5. On August 2, 2001, the International Criminal Tribunal of Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) convicted Bosnian Serb General Radislav Krstić on the charge of genocide for his role in which massacre?
6. On September 11, 2001, four commercial planes were hijacked by Al-Qaeda. Two crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre in New York and one into the Pentagon. What was the flight number of the plane which crashed in Pennsylvania?
7. On October 7, 2001, the United States led a coalition of allied forces to invade which country?
8. On October 23, 2001, Apple Inc. introduced what product into the market?
9. On December 2, 2001, what trading company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy? At that time it was the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
10. What were the two major events related to China occurred in July and December 2001?
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