31Jul THE DAY YESTERDAY ... Our website is thedaytoday.net ... or on Twitter https://twitter/thedaytotwit 2000 Ontario students set solar powered cars distance record, 7043km. 2000 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez re-elected for a sixth term. 2001 Worldwide alert code red computer virus - set for 1am tomorrow 2002 BMW recalled 38000 minis for a gear selection problem. 2002 Only surviving Double Eagle $20 coin sold for $7.5 million. 2003 British tourists caught by over 30 forest fires in France. 2003 Felix Baumgartner first to fly across the channel in an unpowered flight with fixed wings (Buzz Lightyear type) strapped to him. 2004 62k pupils were excluded from school during the summer term. 2004 Nicolas Cage (40) married 20 yr old former waitress Alice Kim. 2005 G-string sales were down 20% in favour of something more comfortable. 2005 Kimi Raikonnen won the Hungarian F1 GP in a McLaren. 2006 An underground bunker for 200k people in Shanghai was completed. 2006 The cost of illegal entry into the UK was £150 a head. 2007 After 38 years, 300k personnel and 763 dead the British Army Operation Banner in Northern Ireland ended. 2007 Gordon Brown was in America talking to Pres Bush on his first visit as Prime Minister. 2008 Amateur hacker Gary McKinnon was extradited from the UK to the US charged with sabotaging Pentagon defence systems.
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