12Nov THE DAY YESTERDAY ... Our website is thedaytoday.net ... or on Twitter https://twitter/thedaytotwit 2000 } ...... and the USAs new president is still unknown. 2000 Australian state of Queensland legalises witchcraft, by one vote. 2000 Ski cable car fire inside a tunnel at Mt Kitzsteinhorn, 170 dead. 2000 Teletubbies (Telepuziki) invade Russia, RTR to show 365 episodes. 2001 A300 Airbus crashed in NY Suburb, 255 on board died. 2001 Advent calendars went on sale in London, NY & Singapore at £500k 2001 Harry Potter film preview broke UK records for first day (£3.4m) 2002 Vodafone half year profits up 41% to £4.25 billion. 2003 Gun that killed outlaw Jesse James sold at $350,000 in California 2004 PM Tony Blair was in the White House talking to Pres George Bush. 2004 The 50th edition of Guinness World Records (2005) published. 2004 The inaugural awards in the UK Music Hall of Fame were U2, Madonna, Bob Marley, the Beatles and Elvis Presley 2005 British Standards Institue decided fountain pens were too dangerous for under 14s. 2005 Paris banned public meetings to prevent more immigrant riots. 2006 Most reliable cars in the US were Honda Fit, Toyota Yaris and Honda Civic Hybrid; least reliable Chevrolet Cobalt. 2006 Sony PlayStation 3 sold out on its launch day, only 100k were available due a production problem. 2007 Stagehands at theatres on Broadway in New York were on strike, shutting down more than 20 plays. 2007 The Lewis Hamilton and McLaren branded range of Scalextric sets helped the toy makers sales to rise 37%. 2008 Prince Charles spent his 60th birthday at a comedy show with John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson, Bill Bailey and many others. 2008 The number of UK home sales fell to a 30-year low according to the (RICS). 2009 About 600k gamers were cut off from Microsofts online gaming service - Xbox Live - for modifying their consoles to play pirated games. 2009 Flight Lieutenant Kirsty Moore from Lincolnshire became the first female pilot in the Red Arrows aerobatic team. 2009 Joe Cada became World Series Poker Champion at the age of 21, from Shelby Township, Mich., he won $8.5 million. 2010 Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson were in Leicester Suare for the premiere of the premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. 2010 The first mosque in the arctic circle opened in Inuvik, in Canadas Northwest Territories, where of the 3200 population 80 are Muslim. 2011 Professional card player Pius Heinz of Germany went home $8.72m richer after winning the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, it started in July with 7000 contestants. 2011 Thousands of couples across China got married on what they called Super Singles Day, 11.11.11; November 11th is Bachelors Day, this year more so. 2012 Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber both won three prizes at this years MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs) in Frankfurt. 2013 Jennifer Lawrence, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Hemsworth and Ellie Goulding were at Hunger Games: Catching Fire UK premiere held in London Leicester Sqaure.
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