17Nov THE DAY YESTERDAY ... Our website is thedaytoday.net ... or on Twitter https://twitter/thedaytotwit 2000 } ...... and the USAs new president is still unknown. 2000 All Saints were named Best Pop Act at the MTV Music Awards. 2000 The 21st BBC Children in Need Appeal broadcast, raised £12.5 mil 2001 Collection of JRR Tolkien documents auctioned for £58k. 2001 US bombs the last Taleban stronghold in Northern Afghanistan. 2002 Bahrain appointed 6 women and a Jew to its parliament. 2002 Latest Harry Potter movie took $29m in its first day in the US. 2003 Poor turnout caused Serbian elections to fail for the 3rd time. 2003 Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club band was named the best album of all time by Rolling Stone magazine. 2004 Abercrombie & Fitch paid $40mil class action discrimination lawsuit. 2004 First conviction for Spanish Mar 11 train bombs was a Spaniard aged 16 2005 Crimestoppers launched the UKs most wanted criminals website mostwanted-uk.org . 2005 Pink Floyd and The Who were new entries into the UK Music Hall of Fame. 2005 UKs most prolific spammer Peter Francis-Macrae, known as weasleboy, was jailed for 6 years. 2006 Britain donated 30 Green Goddess fire engines to Sierra Leone as it recovered from a decade of civil war. 2006 Casino Royale became the first Bond film to be given approval in China for general release. 2007 Boston Jail re-opened after a 5 year $150 mil renovation as The Liberty Hotel, rooms cost from $319 to $5,500 per night. 2007 The CEO and 4 directors of mortgage bank Northern Rock resigned amid the global credit crisis. 2008 Hero by the X Factor finalists took the top spot in the Singles Chart. 2008 The number of foreign students enrolled in U.S. colleges surged 7% last year to 623,805, an all-time high. 2008 Three people were stabbed during the Urban Music Awards at the O2 arena. 2009 Elvis Presleys barber of more than 20 years, Homer Gill Gilleland, sold a few strands of the singers hair for £1055 at auction. 2009 John Surtees (75) ex world racing champion became the first person to drive a car through the Channel service tunnel, an electric Ginetta G50EV. 2009 Manchester Victoria, Clapham Junction and Crewe were the worst of 10 rail stations getting a £50 million re-vamp. 2010 Levels of e-mail spam fell by 50% since August 2010 explained by the arrests of those behind spam-sending botnets. 2010 The Early Learning Centre toy shop chain ditched the pig from its HappyLand Goosefeather Farm toy set after it upset some Jews and Muslims. 2011 At the UK premiere of the last Twilight Saga - Breaking Dawn: Part 1 in London tonight were the stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. 2011 UK unemployment rose to 2.62million, its highest since 1994, including over 1 million 16-24 year olds (20%). 2012 The BBCs annual Children in Need appeal raised £26,757,446 after Friday evenings telethon, beating the 2011 total by more than £400,000. 2013 Usain Bolt was named male World Athlete of the Year for a fifth time; fellow Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce took the womens award. The awards ceremony took place in Monaco.
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