06Aug THE DAY YESTERDAY ... Our website is thedaytoday.net ... or on Twitter https://twitter/thedaytotwit 2000 Anti-nuclear protest at Aldermaston to mark Hiroshima Day. 2000 Earthquake 270 miles from Tokyo (R7.3). 2001 Centrica bought credit card Goldfish for £85 mil from HFC Bank. 2001 Code red computer virus mutated to include trojan horse. 2001 In Afghanistan 8 sentenced to death for spreading Christianity. 2002 European Championship Athletics started in Munich. 2003 David Beckham scored his first goal for his new team Real Madrid. 2003 Explosion in Jakartas Marriott Hotel killed 14 and injured 150. 2004 Pair of rovers on Mars stopped after double their expected life. 2004 Portuguese transvestite called Nadia won Big Brother 5 TV show. 2005 Heart of Gold Rose was judged best in show at International Rose Trial in Belfast 2005 Unification Church Of Seoul married 4600 (approx.) couples in 1 mass wedding. 2006 The 30th annual Edinburgh Festival started with a cavalcade of its 3000 entrants thru the capital. 2006 The Hungarian F1 GP was won by Jenson Button in a Honda - his first win after 113 F1GP starts. 2007 The worst monsoon floods in living memory killed more than 1,200 people and displaced 19 million across South Asia. 2007 Timbalands The Way I Are was the no1 single after ending Rihannas Umbrella 10-week run at the top. 2008 Eleven people were charged in the US with the theft of 40 million credit card details in the biggest ever case of identity fraud. 2008 The `US team arrived at Beijing Airport with their faces covered by black respiratory masks as smog protectors.
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