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| 1 | 2003 | - 17 Feb 2003—17 Feb 2003: Start of Congestion Charge for traffic entering central London
- 10 Aug 2003—10 Aug 2003: Temperatures reach record high of 101 F (38.3 C) in Kent
- 24 Oct 2003—24 Oct 2003: Last commercial flight of Concorde
- 22 Nov 2003—22 Nov 2003: England wins Rugby World Cup in nail-biting final in Australia - first northern
hemisphere team to do this
- 13 Dec 2003—13 Dec 2003: Saddam Hussein captured near his home town of Tikrit (executed 30 Dec 2006)
- 26 Dec 2003—26 Dec 2003: Queen Mary 2 arrives in Southampton from the builder's yard in France 2004
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| 2 | 2004 | - 29 Mar 2004—29 Mar 2004: Ireland becomes first country in the world to ban smoking in public places
- 29 Mar 2004—29 Mar 2004: Alistair Cooke dies at the age of 95 - until four weeks previously, and since
1946, he had broadcast his regular 'Letter from America' on BBC radio
- 1 May 2004—1 May 2004: Enlargement of the European Union to include 25 members by the entry of 10
new states: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary,
Slovenia, Malta, Cyprus
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| 3 | 2005 | - 16 Feb 2005—16 Feb 2005: Kyoto Protocol on climate change came into force
- 18 Feb 2005—18 Feb 2005: Ban on hunting with dogs came into force in England & Wales (had already
been a similar law for about two years in Scotland)
- 6 Jul 2005—6 Jul 2005: London chosen as venue for the 2012 Olympic Games
- 7 Jul 2005—7 Jul 2005: Suicide bombers attack London for the first time
- 28 Jul 2005—28 Jul 2005: IRA declare an end to their 'armed struggle'
- 12 Sep 2005—12 Sep 2005: England regain the 'Ashes' after a gripping Test series (but are whitewashed 5-0
in the return series in Australia 2007)
- 9 Dec 2005—9 Dec 2005: Last Routemaster bus runs on regular service in London
- 11 Dec 2005—11 Dec 2005: Explosions at the Buncefield Oil Depot in Hemel Hempstead
- 21 Dec 2005—21 Dec 2005: Same-sex civil partnerships begin
- famously, on this day, between Elton John and David Furnish
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| 4 | 2006 | - 1 Mar 2006—1 Mar 2006: Welsh Assembly Building opened by the Queen
- 26 Mar 2006—26 Mar 2006: Prohibition of smoking in enclosed public places in Scotland
- 21 Apr 2006—21 Apr 2006: 80th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II
- 21 Aug 2006—21 Aug 2006: UK postage rates start to be measured by size as well as by weight
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| 5 | 2007 | - 1 Jan 2007—1 Jan 2007: Further enlargement of the European Union to include Bulgaria and Romania
- 19 Feb 2007—19 Feb 2007: Extension of Congestion Charge zone for London, westwards
- 8 May 2007—8 May 2007: A Northern Ireland Executive formed under the leadership of Ian Paisley (DUP)
and Martin McGuinness (Sinn Fein)
- 1 Jul 2007—1 Jul 2007: Prohibition of smoking in enclosed public places in England (thus completing
cover of the entire UK)
- 14 Nov 2007—14 Nov 2007: First rail service direct from St Pancras to France (replacing that from Waterloo)
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