2001 George W. Bush is sworn into office as President of the United States. The NEAR Shoemaker touches down on 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid. The Taliban destroys the Bamiyan Buddhas. Russian space station Mir falls into the Pacific Ocean near Fiji. The first space tourist, American Dennis Tito, lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The worlds longest train, 7.353 kilometres long, is run on 4 ft 8½ in broad gauge between Newman and Port Hedland in Western Australia. A 60-wagon train derailment in a tunnel sparks a fire that lasts days and virtually shuts down downtown Baltimore. 2,997 die in the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and in rural Pennsylvania. Letters containing anthrax, mailed to ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the New York Post and the National Enquirer, kill 5. The United States invades Afghanistan with participation from other nations. Marike de Klerk, ex-wife of F.W. de Klerk, is murdered in her flat in Bloubergrant. And the first of seventeen ex Class 7E3 dual cab electric locomotives re-enter service, rebuilt by Spoornet to a single cab and reclassified to Class 7E4.
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