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Death Row Records founder Suge Knight is released from prison after serving five years of a nine-year sentence.
As July 2001 comes to an end, let’s look back on the month’s top three most popular stories, as decided by you, the viewers:
3. July 18, 2001
Michael Bloomberg campaigns for Mayor:
In a public ceremony, New York investor Larry Silverstein purchases the World Trade Center complex for $3.22 billion on a 99-year lease, to expire in the year 2100.
Silverstein is a doting, personal owner; he famously breakfasts at Windows on the World each and every morning.
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A new Studio Ghibli film, Spirited Away, premieres in Japan.
Napster was ordered to shut down in February, but took almost five months to comply.
A Hamas suicide bomber kills six people and wounds 100 at the HaSharon Mall in Netanya, Israel.
The Israeli government responds with its first airstrikes on Gaza since 1967, killing at least 12 Palestinians and wounding 90.
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