At A Glance
7 November 2000 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 7 November 2000 was a Tuesday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “My Love” by Westlife.
- Top Film of 2000
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2000 was Mission: Impossible 2.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 7 November is Scorpio.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 7 November 2000 fell in the Year of the Dragon.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for November is Topaz.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 7 November 2000 was Waxing Gibbous.
On this day: 7 November
- 1994 WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, launches the world's first internet radio broadcast.
- 1996 NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
- 2000 The controversial US presidential election is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case, electing George W. Bush as the 43rd President of the United States.
- 2000 The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
- 2004 Iraq War: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day state of emergency as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
Famous people born on 7 November
- Marie Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (1867–1934)
- Gervonta Davis, American boxer (born 1994)
- Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (1879–1940)
- Joni Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1943)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2000 in the United Kingdom
A selection from Wikipedia's '2000 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.
- 4 May – London mayoral election: Ken Livingstone, standing as an independent, becomes the first directly elected Mayor of London defeating Steve Norris, the Conservative Party candidate in second place; and Frank Dobson, the Labour Party candidate in third place.
- 12 May – The Tate Modern art museum is opened to the public in London.
- 10 June – The much-anticipated Millennium Bridge across the Thames in London opens to the public, but has to close after it starts swaying.
Life in 2000
Prime Minister
Tony Blair
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Pint of Beer
£1.80
Loaf of Bread
72p
Average House
£89,597
Weekly Wage
£458.00
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Famous Faces Born in the 2000s
Well-known people born in the same decade as you, not on your birthday.
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