At A Glance

25 November 2001 at a glance

Day of the week
25 November 2001 was a Sunday.
UK Number One
The UK Number One single was “Have You Ever” by S Club 7.
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 25 November is Sagittarius.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 25 November 2001 fell in the Year of the Snake.
Birthstone
The birthstone for November is Topaz.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 25 November 2001 was Waxing Gibbous.

On this day: 25 November

  • 1984 Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
  • 1986 Iran–Contra affair: U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
  • 1986 The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf.
  • 1992 The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with effect from January 1, 1993.
  • 1999 A five-year-old Cuban boy, Elián González, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.

Famous people born on 25 November

  • John F. Kennedy Jr., American lawyer, journalist, and publisher (1960–1999)
  • Xabi Alonso, Spanish footballer (born 1981)
  • Christina Applegate, American actress (born 1971)
  • Joel Kinnaman, Swedish actor (born 1979)

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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