September 2001

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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.
- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld held a press conference to announce that the U.S. Defense Department cannot track $2.3 Trillion (1)in transactions.
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 in Japan.
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 20 - Address of President Bush to a joint session of Congress: Freedom at War with Fear.

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