At A Glance
14 November 2001 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 14 November 2001 was a Wednesday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “Queen of My Heart” by Westlife.
- 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 14 November is Scorpio.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 14 November 2001 fell in the Year of the Snake.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for November is Topaz.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 14 November 2001 was New Moon.
On this day: 14 November
- 1995 A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.
- 2001 War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.
- 2001 A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes a remote part of the Tibetan Plateau. It has the longest known surface rupture recorded on land (~400 km) and is the best documented example of a supershear earthquake.
- 2003 Astronomers discover Sedna, a distant trans-Neptunian dwarf planet.
- 2008 The first G-20 economic summit opens in Washington, D.C.
Famous people born on 14 November
- Charles III, King of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms (born 1948)
- Travis Barker, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (born 1975)
- Josh Duhamel, American model and actor (born 1972)
- Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India (1889–1964)
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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