Unix Timestamp: 1001030400
Friday, September 21. 2001, 12:00:00 AM UTC

White English teenager Ross Parker stabbed to death in racially motivated attack by a gang of Muslim Asians in Peterborough, England. Racial tensions in the area had been raised following the September 11th attacks//www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-146572/Teenager-killed-vicious-knife-gang.html//www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/local/murdered_ross_parker_remembered_10_years_on_1_3077380

In Toulouse, France, the AZote Fertilisant chemical factory explodes, killing 29 and seriously wounding over 2,500.

The AZF fertiliser factory in Toulouse, France, explodes, killing 31 and injuring over 2000. Later, a terrorist group take up the name AZF when threatening to bomb French railways.