At A Glance

11 February 2001 at a glance

Day of the week
11 February 2001 was a Sunday.
UK Number One
The UK Number One single was “Whole Again” by Atomic Kitten.
Top Film of 2001
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2001 was Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
Star sign
The star sign for 11 February is Aquarius.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 11 February 2001 fell in the Year of the Snake.
Birthstone
The birthstone for February is Amethyst.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 11 February 2001 was Waning Gibbous.

On this day: 11 February

  • 1997 Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
  • 1997 The far-right extremist Hungarian National Front introduces the day of honor, a neo-nazi and neo-fascist annual gathering in Budapest
  • 1999 Pluto crosses Neptune's orbit, ending a nearly 20-year period when it was closer to the Sun than the gas giant; Pluto is not expected to interact with Neptune's orbit again until 2231.
  • 2000 Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-99 to conduct the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
  • 2001 A Dutch programmer launches the Anna Kournikova virus infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star.

Famous people born on 11 February

  • Jennifer Aniston, American actress and producer (born 1969)
  • Damian Lewis, English actor (born 1971)
  • Burt Reynolds, American actor and director (1936–2018)
  • Carey Lowell, American actress (born 1961)

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Events of 2001 in the United Kingdom

A selection from Wikipedia's '2001 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

  • 19 February – Foot and mouth crisis begins.
  • 7 June – General Election: Labour Party attains a second successive landslide election victory. Among the new entrants to parliament is 34-year-old future Conservative prime minister David Cameron, who retains the Witney seat in Oxfordshire for the Conservative Party.
  • 4 August – Oxford United move into their new 12,500-seat Kassam Stadium near the city's Blackbird Leys estate. Work on the stadium had started in 1996 but halted the following year due to the club's financial problems.

Life in 2001

Prime Minister

Tony Blair

Monarch

Elizabeth II

Pint of Beer

£1.90

Loaf of Bread

74p

Average House

£97,135

Weekly Wage

£483.00

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Famous Faces Born in the 2000s

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