At A Glance

20 April 2001 at a glance

Day of the week
20 April 2001 was a Friday.
UK Number One
The UK Number One single was “What Took You So Long?” by Emma Bunton.
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 20 April is Taurus.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 20 April 2001 fell in the Year of the Snake.
Birthstone
The birthstone for April is Diamond.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 20 April 2001 was Waning Crescent.

On this day: 20 April

  • 1972 Apollo program: The Apollo 16 Lunar Module Orion, commanded by John Young and piloted by Charles Duke, lands on the Moon.
  • 1985 University of California, Riverside 1985 laboratory raid: Animal Liberation Front rescues 467 animals being tested in a lab at University of California, Riverside in Riverside, California, causing $700,000 in damages to the laboratory, in advocacy for animal rights.
  • 2008 Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300, becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
  • 2020 For the first time in history, oil prices drop below zero, an effect of the 2020 Russia-Saudi Arabia oil price war.
  • 2023 SpaceX's Starship rocket, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, launches for the first time. It explodes four minutes into flight.

Famous people born on 20 April

  • Alexander Zverev, German tennis player (born 1997)
  • Jessica Lange, American actress (born 1949)
  • Andy Serkis, English actor and director (born 1964)
  • Napoleon III, French politician, 1st President of France, Emperor of French Second Empire (1808–1873)

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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.
More events of 2001 →Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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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