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25 September 2001 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 25 September 2001 was a Tuesday.
- Irish Chart Song in 2001
- The Irish chart song for 2001 was “It Wasn't Me” by Shaggy ft. RikRok.
- 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 September is Libra.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 25 September 2001 fell in the Year of the Snake.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for September is Sapphire.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 25 September 2001 was First Quarter.
On this day: 25 September
- 1981 Belize joins the United Nations.
- 1987 Fijian Governor-General Penaia Ganilau is overthrown in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.
- 1992 NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion.
- 1997 NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-86 to the Mir space station.
- 2003 The 8.3 Mw Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
Famous people born on 25 September
- Bella Ramsey, English actor (born 2003)
- Michael Douglas, American actor and producer (born 1944)
- Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress (born 1969)
- Will Smith, American actor, producer, and rapper (born 1968)
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Events of 2001 in Ireland
A selection from Wikipedia's '2001 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.
- 7 June – Voters rejected the Treaty of Nice in a referendum.
- 26 June – Two Old Master paintings from the Alfred Beit collection were stolen from Russborough House.
- 8 August – The first Irish transmission of the Australian soap opera Neighbours was shown on Network 2.
Life in Ireland in 2001
Taoiseach
Bertie Ahern
Petrol (per litre)
€0.86/L
Loaf of Bread
€1.00
Average House
€200,000
Weekly Wage
€295
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Famous Faces Born in the 2000s
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Troy Parrott4 February 2002FootballerView their day →Kate O'Connor12 December 2000AthleteView their day →Evan Ferguson19 October 2004FootballerView their day →Rhasidat Adeleke29 August 2002AthleteView their day →Adam Idah11 February 2001FootballerView their day →Amybeth McNulty7 November 2001ActressView their day →James Abankwah16 January 2004FootballerView their day →Sophie O'Sullivan23 December 2001AthleteView their day →Sources: Wikidata and Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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