The August 11, 2001 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♌. It was the 222 day of the year. President of the United States was George W. Bush.
If you were born on this day, you are 24 years old. Your last birthday was on the Monday, August 11, 2025, 327 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, August 11, 2026, in 37 days. You have lived for 9,093 days, or about 218,237 hours, or about 13,094,276 minutes, or about 785,656,560 seconds.
Date: 11 August 2001
By Ginger Thompson (NYT)
Ginger NYT
Robert Rivard, editor of San Antonio Express-News, denounces acquittal of two Mexican suspects in murder of Philip True, correspondent for newspaper who was found dead after disappearing during 100-mile hike in state of Jalisco (S)
Date: 12 August 2001
By William Safire
William Safire
William Safire On Language column reviews several new language books available this summer: How We Talk: American Regional English Today by Alan Metcalf, US News & World Report Stylebook edited by Robert Grover, Watchwords by Mark Davidson, Deciding Usage: Evidence and Interpretation by J Stephen Sherwin, Copy-Editing and Headline Handbook by Barbara G Ellis, Families as We Are: Conversations From Around the World by Perdita Huston and Shakespeare's Noise by Kenneth Gross, as well as free 12-volume Century Dictionary available on Web (M)
Date: 11 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Performance Food Group will buy Fresh Express for $290 million, Performance's third acquisition in 2001 (S)
Date: 11 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ford Motor Co will merge North American operations of its Aston Martin, Jaguar and Land Rover brands in effort to raise sales of luxury vehicles (S)
Date: 11 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products will create new company out of its Dictaphone subsidiary and give shares to creditors (S)
Date: 11 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Singapore's economy shrinks at annual 10.7 percent in second quarter from the first, greater than initial estimates (S)
Date: 11 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Germany's Hesse stock market investigates Deutsche Bank for possible manipulation of stock price of Deutsche Telekom (S)
Date: 11 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
United Airlines parent UAL Corp expects $270 million gain from sale of its stake in travel reservation company Galileo International Inc, which Cendant Corp has proposed buying for $3.5 billion (S)
Date: 11 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Liberty Media Corp is split off from AT&T, giving it more freedom to raise capital and invest in cable television systems (S)
Date: 11 August 2001
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An article by The Associated Press yesterday about a Los Angeles County judge's rejection of a $3 billion damage award in a smoker's lawsuit against Philip Morris referred incorrectly to the offer of $100 million that replaced it. The sum was proposed by the judge himself, not offered by Philip Morris