At A Glance
13 September 2001 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 13 September 2001 was a Thursday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “Mambo No. 5” by Bob the Builder.
- 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 13 September is Virgo.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 13 September 2001 fell in the Year of the Snake.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for September is Sapphire.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 13 September 2001 was Waning Crescent.
On this day: 13 September
- 1989 Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
- 1993 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
- 2001 Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.
- 2007 The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
- 2007 The McLaren F1 team are found guilty of possessing confidential information from the Ferrari team, fined $100 million, and excluded from the constructors' championship standings.
Famous people born on 13 September
- Lili Reinhart, American actress (born 1996)
- Jean Smart, American actress (born 1951)
- Tyler Perry, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1969)
- Roald Dahl, British novelist, poet, and screenwriter (1916–1990)
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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