London. 16 October – 26 players are sent off in Premier League and Football League matches on the same day – the most dismissals on the same day in 111 years of league football in England. 19 October – Tracey Emin exhibits My Bed at the Tate Gallery as one of the shortlisted works for the Turner Prize. 20 October – Sales of Rover cars are reported to have fallen by 30% this year. November 2 November – Ford Motor Company takes over Jaguar in a £1.6billion deal. 11 November – House of Lords Act 1999 removes most hereditary peers from the House of Lords. Those no longer sitting in the Lords are now eligible to vote in elections for the House of Commons. 12 November – Former glam rock singer Gary Glitter, 54, is jailed for four months at Bristol Crown Court for downloading child pornography. He is cleared at this hearing of having unlawful sex with a teenage fan 20 years ago, but will subsequently be charged in several countries for sexual offences involving minors, culminating in 2015 with a 16-year sentence imposed in the UK. 17 November – England qualify for the UEFA Euro 2000 football championship with a 2–1 aggregate win over Scotland in the qualifying playoff round. 25 November – At the Kensington and Chelsea by-election, Michael Portillo holds the seat for the Conservative Party. 30 November – BAE Systems formed by merger of British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems. December 10 December – Launch of the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton satellite. Information from the satellite is processed at the University of Leicester. 30 December – Former Beatle George Harrison, 56, suffers stab wounds after being attacked by an intruder at Friar Park, his mansion near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. 31 December – Millennium celebrations are held across the country including the official opening of the Millennium Dome and the unveiling of the London Eye in London. Undated Main construction work on Cardiff Bay Barrage completed. More than 20% of the UK population (over 12 million people) now have internet access. Publications Iain Banks' novel The Business. Lauren Child's children's book Clarice Bean, That's Me, first in the Clarice Bean series. Julia Donaldson's children's book The Gruffalo. Jamie Oliver's television tie-in cookbook The Naked Chef. Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel The Fifth Elephant. J. K. Rowling's children's fantasy novel Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Births