25Jan THE DAY YESTERDAY ... Our website is thedaytoday.net ... or on Twitter https://twitter/thedaytotwit 2000 Jaguar launch new F1 car - Jacki Stewart stands down as chairman. 2001 General Motors Europe-wide strike, 40 000 protest at job losses 2001 Number of new cars built in the UK in the year 2000 was 1.63 mil 2002 Average amount of debt in the UK - £17000 2002 First heavy snow fell in the UK this year - 10cm in Scotland. 2003 NY drug pushers were selling Harry Potter ecstasy tablets. 2003 Prominent Chinese dissident Fang Jue was expelled to the US. 2003 Serena Williams won the Australian Open Tennis Tournement. 2004 NASAs Opportunity rover landed safely on Mars. 2004 The Chinese Year of the Monkey began. 2005 The last 4 UK citizens held as terrorists at Guantanamo Bay were released. 2005 Worlds most expensive haggis was served at the Albannach Bar, London, at £250 per portion. It contained an infusion of £15000/bottle malt whiskey. 2006 Disney bought Pixar Studios for $7.4 bil and Steve jobs (Apple) got a place on the Disney board of directors. 2006 Donald Trump began suing Timothy OBrian for $5 billion over his book Trumpnation. 2006 Google Online search engine agreed to the censorship imposed on its Chinese site. 2007 First public test of a non-lethal microwave ray device for crowd dispersal - made for the US military by Raytheon 2007 Macau ($6.95 bil) overtook Las Vegas ($6.5 bil) as the worlds biggest gambling market. 2007 The Chinese economy enjoyed its fourth consecutive year of 10% growth. 2008 A 17-night run by the Spice Girls at the Millennium Dome in London earned the band £50 mil. 2008 Jerome Kerviel disappeared after committing the biggest financial fraud in history - £3.7 bil at SocGen bank in Paris. 2009 Michelito Lagravere Peniche, 11-year-old Mexican bullfighter, killed 6 bulls in a single fight breaking the world record. 2009 Prime Minister Taro Aso of Japan decided the best way to beat the recession was to give £100 to every citizen over 18. 2009 The average UK house price fell by 15.9% or £20k last year, the biggest fall on record. 2010 Quentin Tarantinos World War II film Inglourious Basterds won top prize at Screen Actors Guild Awards in Hollywood. 2010 Saddam Husseins henchman Ali Hassan al-Majid (Chemical Ali) was hanged for ordering 1988 poison gas attack killing 5,000 Kurdish civilians 2011 Toyota was the worlds biggest carmaker for the 3rd year in a row with sales of 8.42 million vehicles, beating General Motors 8.39 million. 2011 US singer Bruno Mars had double chart success with number one single Grenade and number one album Doo-Wops and Hooligans. 2012 The UKs debt hit £1 trillion for the first time, the equivalent of £40,000 per household or £16,000 per person. 2013 Ant and Dec won the best presenter award for a 12th consecutive year at the National Television Awards (NTAs) in London. 2014 Nearly a million people unable to get a normal paid job who applied for sickness benefit were found fit for work, according to the Department for Work and Pensions.
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