The August 31, 2001 was a Friday under the star sign of ♍. It was the 242 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 Sunday, August 31, 2025, 298 days ago. Your next birthday is on Monday, August 31, 2026, in 66 days. You have lived for 9,064 days, or about 217,548 hours, or about 13,052,926 minutes, or about 783,175,560 seconds.
Date: 31 August 2001
By Brian Lavery (NYT)
Brian NYT
Ireland's Independent News and Media is expected to revive its attempt to buy Fairfax, Australia's main newspaper group, once changes in Australia's regulations on foreign ownership of media companies are completed; any new attempt would go through Independent's 41 percent stake in APN News and Media or its Wilson & Horton subsidiary (S)
Date: 01 September 2001
By Erik Eckholm
Erik Eckholm
Eleven mine officials and four Nandan County, China, political leaders are arrested in probe of July flooding at tin mine in which 81 workers drowned and of attempted cover-up; mine officials are charged with mismanagement, illegal extraction, chaotic digging and illegal blasting; disaster attracted wide attention because of role of unusually dogged Chinese newspaper reporters in drawing lurid picture of local kingpin Li Dongming, reporting he got rich running mines with backing of armed gang and government officials he bribed; more arrests are expected (M)
Date: 31 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Citigroup severs ties with 3,622 independent brokers who arranged loans for Associates First Capital, consumer finance company acquired by Citigroup that has been accused of predatory lending practices (S)
Date: 01 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
SouthTrust Corp will buy Bank of Tidewater for $67.8 million in stock (S)
Date: 01 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
PrimeSource Corp is in talks to buy Fuji Photo Film Co for $63.6 million (S)
Date: 01 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Corinthan Colleges Inc shares fall $13.50, to $39.35, after company forecasts fiscal first-quarter earnings will be at low end of analyst estimates (S)
Date: 01 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Caxton Associates, leading investor in American Medical Security Group, calls for company to be sold or undergo change in management; Bruce Kovner, whoc controlls Caxton, says American Medical shares are undervalued (S)
Date: 01 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
PolyOne Corp, maker of rubber compounds, is closing three plants in US and Canada and eliminating at least 77 jobs (S)
Date: 01 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Westvaco Corp, which has agreed to merge with Mead Corp, will take $26 million pretax charge in its fiscal fourth quarter to close paper mill in Tyrone, Pa, which employs 265 workers (S)
Date: 01 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Maytag Corp sells its commercial-cooking business, G S Blodgett, to Middleby Corp for $95 million in cash and notes, less than Maytag paid for it four years ago (S)