The June 16, 2001 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♊. It was the 166 day of the year. President of the United States was George W. Bush.
If you were born on this day, you are 25 years old. Your last birthday was on the Tuesday, June 16, 2026, 9 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, June 16, 2027, in 355 days. You have lived for 9,140 days, or about 219,366 hours, or about 13,161,993 minutes, or about 789,719,580 seconds.
Date: 16 June 2001
By Thomas J. Lueck
Thomas Lueck
Federal Judge John J Lifland unseals finding that Justice Department official, indirectly identified as Alan Gershel, may have leaked confidential grand jury information on probe of Sen Robert Torricelli's 1996 fund-raising (S)
Date: 16 June 2001
By Celia W. Dugger (NYT)
Celia Dugger
Editor and two publishing executives of Nepal's largest daily newspaper are charged with sedition for printing article by Maoist rebel who calls royal massacre foreign-inspired conspiracy (S)
Date: 17 June 2001
Excerpts from recent crime books set in New York City: Bad News by Donald E Westlake, Hollowpoint by Rob Reuland, Murder Me Now: An Olivia Brown Mystery by Annette Meyers and Corpse de Ballet: A Nine Muses Mystery: Terpsichore by Ellen Pall (M)
Date: 17 June 2001
By Erik Eckholm
Erik Eckholm
AIDS epidemic in China's Henan province, which local officials have tried to cover up and have done little to relieve, reveals how government controls on information and political choice jeopardize people's most basic welfare, to which Chinese leaders claim to give a priority; China's most widespread human rights violations afflict country's poor masses most of all, endangering their physical as well as political welfare, and official silence about such bitter truths undermines public faith in political system itself; photo (M)
Date: 16 June 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Regulators investigate more admissions by SBC Communications that it filed false information with the FCC as it sought government approval to sell long-distance phone service in Kansas and Oklahoma (S)
Date: 16 June 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
McDonald's Corp expects that second-quarter profits will drop more than anticipated (S)
Date: 16 June 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Demand for International Rectifier Corp's computer chips weakens and fiscal fourth-quarter sales will fall short of forecasts (S)
Date: 16 June 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Demand for General Semiconductor's power-management components remains weak, second-quarter sales will be lower than first quarter's, and company expects 1 cent to 3 cents profit a share (S)
Date: 16 June 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Conseco, life insurance and finance company, will issue $400 million in senior notes in order to retire bank debt (S)
Date: 16 June 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Vlasic Foods International, leading US pickle fabricator, files bankruptcy plans under which shareholders would receive nothing and unsecured creditors little; Hicks, Muse Tate & Furst Inc's Pinnacle Foods will receive most liquidation proceeds (S)