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29 January 2001 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 29 January 2001 was a Monday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “Rollin'” by Limp Bizkit.
- 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 29 January is Aquarius.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 29 January 2001 fell in the Year of the Snake.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for January is Garnet.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 29 January 2001 was Waxing Crescent.
On this day: 29 January
- 1996 President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.
- 2001 Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
- 2005 The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.
- 2008 An Egyptian court rules that people who do not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions, while not allowed to list any belief outside of those three, are still eligible to receive government identity documents.
- 2009 Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is removed from office following his conviction of several corruption charges, including solicitation of personal benefit in exchange for an appointment to the United States Senate as a replacement for then-U.S. president-elect Barack Obama.
Famous people born on 29 January
- Tom Selleck, American actor and businessman (born 1945)
- Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host, actress, and producer, founded Harpo Productions (born 1954)
- Katharine Ross, American actress and author (born 1940)
- William McKinley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States (1843–1901)
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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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