08Nov THE DAY YESTERDAY ... Our website is thedaytoday.net ... or on Twitter https://twitter/thedaytotwit 2000 Canadian Margaret Atwood wins Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin 2000 First First Lady to become a Senator, Hilary Clinton in New York. 2000 Huge South Korean conglomerate Daewoo officially became bankrupt. 2000 US TV calls the presidential race a dead heat - recounts ordered. 2001 Jordans King Abdullah gave his backing to Afghan air strikes. 2001 MTV Music Awards held in Frankfurt. 2001 Scottish First Minister Henry McLeish resigned in expenses row. 2001 US dropped two daisy cutter 15k lb bombs on Afghans. 2002 Gibraltar referendum of 18k decided to remain British by 99% to 1 2002 Japans whalers began a 5 month cruise to kill 400 antarctic minke 2003 Rolling Stones played one-off Hong Kong concert in aid of SARS. 2003 Search for Miss Digital World commenced at missdigitalworld 2003 Total lunar eclipse - best viewing East US, Europe, S.America,Afica 2004 Cheerleaders were at more risk from injury than footballers, 25k pa were hospitalised. 2004 Chris Ollerenshaw (Snipe Inn Manchester) paid £15k for a Vulcan bomber on ebay 2005 CBS and NBC agreed a deal with DirectTV for viewers to watch ad-free TV for 99c a program. 2005 Chinese president Hu Jintao began a 3 day state visit to UK accommodated at Buckingham Palace. 2005 Lamborghini opened its first dealership in China (Shanghai), prices start at $180k. 2006 Democrats took over the House of Representatives in mid-term elections. 2006 Ex Sandanista revolutionary leader Daniel Ortega became president of Nicaragua for the second time. 2006 The Armed Forces Act was passed and 300 WWI soldiers executed for cowardice were pardoned. 2007 Average fuel prices went over the pound to 101p up more than 17 % from around 86p a year ago. 2007 Screens froze at 3.50pm. and the London Stock Exchange suffered its first technology breakdown in 7 years. 2008 The exhibit One Life: The Mask of Lincoln opened at the National Portrait Gallery in downtown Washington 2008 The US unemployment rate soared to a 14-year high of 10 million (6.5%). 2009 The 200th British soldier was been killed in hostile action in Afghanistan, in an explosion in Helmand Province. 2009 The USS New York warship, built with steel salvaged from the World Trade Center, was commissioned in Manhattan. 2009 US unemployment went over 10%, the highest for 26 years, about 7.3 million lost their jobs since the recession started 2 years ago. 2010 The last Lamboughini Murciélago petrol V12 supercar, Number 4099, came off the Sant’Agata production line. 2010 The Queen began an official presence on Facebook when a British Monarchy page launched on the internet-based social networking site. 2011 A jury found Dr Conrad Murray guilty of the manslaughter of superstar Michael Jackson, who died of an anaesthetic overdose in 2009. 2011 Asteroid 2005 YU55, 400 metres diameter, passed between the Earth and the Moon, the closest the asteroid has been in 200 years. 2012 Voters in Puerto Rico supported a non-binding referendum to become a full US state (the 51st); newly re-elected President Barack Obama said he will respect the vote. 2013 The UKs newest, and 2nd largest, deep-sea container port opened on the north bank of the Thames. London Gateway was built by the Dubai-owned company DP World at a cost of £1.5billion.
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