2000
*
January 1 - Millennium celebrations take place throughout
the world, even though the new millennium did not technically begin until January 1, 2001.
Y2K passes without the serious, widespread computer failures and malfunctions that many in the news media had predicted.
*
January 1 - The popular animation website
homestarrunner.com is launched.
*
January 3-10 -
Israel and
Syria hold inconclusive peace talks.
*
January 4 -
Alan Greenspan is nominated for a fourth term as U.S.
Federal Reserve Chairman.
*
January 5-8 - The
2000 al-Qaeda Summit was a meeting of several high-level al-Qaeda members, including two
9/11 American Airlines hijackers. It was held in
Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia.
*
January 10 -
America Online announces an agreement to buy
Time Warner for $162 billion. This is the largest-ever corporate merger.
*
January 11 - The armed wing of
Islamic Salvation Front concludes its negotiations with the government for an amnesty and disbands in
Algeria.
*
January 11 : The trawler
Solway Harvester sinks off the
Isle of Man.,
*
January 14 : A
United Nations tribunal sentences five
Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years, for the
1993 killing of over 100
Bosnian Muslims in a
Bosnian village.
*
January 14 - The
Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 11,792.98, a level never reached before nor since. The peak of the
Dot-com bubble.
*
January 16 - In
Sacramento, California, a commercial truck carrying evaporated milk is driven into the State Capitol building, killing the driver.
*
January 24 :
God's Army, a
Karen militia group led by twins
Johnny and Luther Htoo, take 700 hostages at a
Thai hospital near the
Burmese border.
*
January 30 -
St. Louis Rams defeat the
Tennessee Titans 23-16 to win the
Super Bowl XXXIV.
*
January 30 - Off the coast of
Côte d'Ivoire,
Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169. Within a day,
Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes off the California coast into the Pacific Ocean, killing 88.
*
January 31 - Dr.
Harold Shipman in sentenced to life in prison for the murder of at least 15 of his patients, out of 365 suspected victims.
*
Election 2000:
February 1 - Vice President
Al Gore wins the
New Hampshire Democratic primary.
George W. Bush wins the Republican primary.
Gary Bauer withdraws from the race
February 4, followed by
Steve Forbes,
February 10.
*
February 2 - Today was the first day since
August 28,
888 that all of the digits in the date were even.
*
February 4 - German
extortionist
Klaus-Peter Sabotta is
jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion, in connection with the
sabotage of German
railway lines.
*
February 6 -
Tarja Halonen is elected the first female president of
Finland.
*
February 6 -
Hillary Clinton enters the New York Senate race.
*
February 7 :
Stipe Mesic is elected president of
Croatia.
*
February 11 - Blast wounds dozens, kills none at a bank across from the NYSE on Wall Street. 1st of series of (11) terrorist attacks. 2/11/00 New York, 9/11/01 New York-DC, 5 and 7/11/02 New Delhi blasts, 4/11/03 attack targets Germans on vacation, 3/11/04 Madrid,Spain and also 7/7/05 in London
*
February 13 - The final original
Peanuts comic strip is published.
*
February 13 -
Mariah Carey scores her 15th chart topper with "
Thank God I Found You".
*
February 14 - The spacecraft
NEAR Shoemaker entered orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
*
February 17 -
Microsoft releases
Windows 2000.
*
March 1 - The
Constitution of Finland is rewritten.
*
March 2 -
Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of
UNMOVIC.
*
March 7 -
George W. Bush and
Al Gore emerge victorious in nationwide Republican and Democratic caucuses and primaries.
*
March 8 -
Tokyo train disaster.
*
March 9 - The
FBI arrests suspected purveyor of
art forgeries,
Ely Sakhai, in New York City.
*
March 10 - The
NASDAQ Composite Index reaches an all-time high of 5048. ([
1])
*
March 18 -
2000 Taiwanese presidential election:
Chen Shui-bian is elected
President of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
*
March 19 - President
Clinton arrives in
New Delhi for a state visit.
*
March 20 -
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown), a former
Black Panther, is captured after a gun battle in
Atlanta, Georgia, that left a sheriff's deputy dead.
*
March 21 - Kronos by
Psycho le cemu.
*
March 21 -
Pope John Paul II begins the first official visit by a
Roman Catholic pontiff to
Israel.
*
March 21 - The
U.S. Supreme Court rules the government lacks authority to regulate
tobacco as an
addictive drug, throwing out the
Clinton administration's main anti-smoking
initiative.
*
March 26 - Presidential elections in
Russia:
Vladimir Putin is elected President.
*
March 26- Seattle's
Kingdome implodes to make way for
Qwest Field.
*
March 26 -
American Beauty wins for
Best Picture at the
Academy Awards.
*
March 30 -
America's Cup 2000 retained by
Team New Zealand near
Auckland.
Prada Challenge 2000 lost 0-5 in a "best-of-9".
*
April 1 -
Japanese prime minister
Keizo Obuchi suffers a
stroke and falls into a
coma.
*
April 3 -
United States v. Microsoft:
Microsoft is ruled to have violated
United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
*
April 5 -
Yoshiro Mori replaces Keizo Obuchi as prime minister of
Japan.
*
April 7 - Attack submarine
ex-Trepang completes being
recycled.
*
April 16 -
Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah,
Sultan of
Selangor, dies after a reign of 55 years. He was the longest reigning
monarch in the world since the death of Prince
Franz Joseph II of
Liechtenstein.
*
April 17 -
Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin becomes
Raja of
Perlis.
*
April 22 - In a predawn raid, federal agents seize six-year old
Elián González from his relatives' home in
Miami, Florida and fly him to his
Cuban father in
Washington, DC, ending one of the most publicized custody battles in US history.
*
April 25 - The State of
Vermont passes HB847, legalizing
Civil Unions for same-sex couples.
*
May 3 - A rare
conjunction occurs on the
New Moon, including all seven of the traditional
celestial bodies known from
ancient times up until
1781 with the discovery of
Uranus. The
May 2000 conjunction consisted of: the
Sun and
Moon,
Mercury,
Venus,
Mars,
Jupiter, and
Saturn.
*
May 3 - Computer pioneer
Datapoint Corporation files for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
*
May 12 - The
Tate Modern opens in
London.
*
May 13 - In
Enschede, a heavy
fireworks explosion kills 20 and leaves an entire neighborhood in ruins.
*
May 14 -
Keizo Obuchi, the former
Prime Minister of Japan dies of the
stroke which left him in a
coma.
*
May 18 -
Boo.com collapses due to lack of funds after six months.
*
May 23 - The Official release date for
The Marshall Mathers LP, Eminem's second solo album.
*
May 25 - Israel withdraws IDF troops from southern
Lebanon after 22 years, ending the
South Lebanon conflict.
*
May 28 - The
volcano Mount Cameroon erupts.
*
June 7 :
U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson orders the breakup of
Microsoft Corp.
*
June 10 : The
New Jersey Devils defeat the
Dallas Stars 4 games to 2 to win the
2000 Stanley Cup Finals.
*
June 10 : The
2000 European Football Championship begins, hosted jointly by
Belgium and the
Netherlands.
*
June 21 :
Section 28, a law preventing the promotion of
homosexuality, is repealed by the
Scottish Parliament.
*
June 23 - The Palace Backpackers Hostel fire in
Childers, Queensland,
Australia, kills 15 people.
*
June 30 - During a
Pearl Jam concert at the
Roskilde Festival near
Copenhagen, 9 die and 26 are injured in the crowd.
*
June 30 - Demolition of the old
Bullring Shopping Centre in
Birmingham,
UK begins.
*
July 2 -
France beat
Italy 2-1 to win the
2000 European Football Championship with a
golden goal.
*
July 2 -
Vicente Fox is elected President of
Mexico, as candidate of the rightist PAN (National Action Party).
*
July 8 :
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is released.
*
July 10 - In southern
Nigeria, a leaking petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging
gasoline.
*
July 10 -
Bashar al-Assad is confirmed as Syria's leader in a national referendum.
*
July 11-25 : Israel's prime minister
Ehud Barak and PLO head
Yasser Arafat meet at Camp David, but fail to reach an agreement.
*
July 18 -
Alex Salmond resigns as the leader of the
Scottish National Party.
*
July 18 - U.S. Senator
Paul Coverdell of Georgia dies.
*
July 21-
23 : G-8 Nations hold 26th Annual Summit. Issues include AIDS, the 'digital divide', and halving world poverty by
2015.
*
July 25 - A
Concorde carrying
Air France Flight 4590 crashes just after takeoff from
Paris, killing all 109 aboard and 5 on the ground.
*
July 30 - Venezuela's president
Hugo Chávez is reelected with 59% of the vote.
*
August 1 - The
Santa Cruz Operation announced that it will sell its Server Software and Services Divisions, as well as
UnixWare and
OpenServer technologies, to
Caldera Systems, Inc.
*
August 8 -
Confederate submarine
H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.
*
August 12 : The
Russian submarine Kursk sinks in the
Barents Sea, resulting in the deaths of all 118 men on board.
*
August 14 -
Tsar Nicholas II and several members of his family are canonized by the synod of the
Russian Orthodox Church.
*
August 25 - the
Emulex hoax -
wire services publish fraudulent bad news about
Emulex.
*
August 27 - The
Ostankino Tower in
Moscow catches fire - three people are killed.
*
September 2 - The
Essendon Football Club wins its 16th
AFL premiership.
*
September 5 -
Tuvalu joins the
United Nations.
*
September 6 - In
Paragould, Arkansas,
Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart is
stillborn to Scott Stewart and Lisa Bartlett.
Breanna Lynn's stillbirth is notable for being the first
stillbirth to be resolved by means of the
Kleihauer-Betke test.
*
September 6 - The last wholly
Swedish-owned arms manufacturer,
Bofors, is sold to American arms manufacturer
United Defense.
*
September 6 - World leaders attend
Millennium Summit at the UN Headquarters.
*
September 7–
14 - The
UK fuel protests take place, with refineries blockaded, and supply to the country's network of petrol stations halted.
*
September 8 -
Albania officially joins the
World Trade Organization.
*
September 14-
Microsoft releases
Windows Me.
*
September 15 - The
2000 Summer Olympics open in
Sydney,
Australia.
*
September 16 -
Ukrainian journalist
Georgiy Gongadze is last seen alive; this day is taken as the commemoration date of his death.
*
September 16 - Peru's president
Alberto Fujimori calls for new elections in which he will not run.
*
September 24 - The
American Family Association begins lobbying the
U.S. Congress to eradicate the
National Endowment for the Arts for funding the controversial book
One of the Guys by
Robert Clark Young.
*
September 26 -
Anti-globalization protests in
Prague (some 15,000 protesters) turn violent during the
IMF and
World Bank summits.
*
September 26 - The Greek ferry
Express Samina sinks off the coast of the island of
Paros. Eighty of the over 500 passengers lose their lives.
*
September 28 -
Ariel Sharon visits the
Temple Mount, protected by a several-hundred-strong Israeli police force. Palestinian riots erupt, leading into a full-fledged armed uprising (called the
Al-Aqsa Intifada by the sympathizers and the
Oslo War by the opponents).
*
September 29 - The
Long Kesh prison in Northern Ireland is closed.
*
October 2 Radiohead's 'difficult 4th album,
Kid A, utilises the Internet as a marketing tool and tops the album charts on both sides of the Atlantic.
*
October 2 Today Show is expanded to three hours in length(7:00"10:00 a.m. EST/PST; 6:00"9:00 a.m. Central Time/Mountain Time)
*
October 5 - President
Slobodan Milošević leaves office after widespread demonstrations throughout
Serbia and the withdrawal of Russian support.
*
October 11 - 250 million gallons of coal sludge spill in
Martin County, Kentucky. Considered a greater environmental disaster than the
Exxon Valdez oil spill.
*
October 12 - In
Aden,
Yemen, the
USS Cole is badly damaged by two
suicide bombers, who placed a small boat laden with
explosives along-side the
United States Navy destroyer, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
*
October 18 -
Rage Against the Machine breaks up after years of tension and struggle amongst band members.
*
October 21 15
Arab leaders convene in
Cairo,
Egypt, for their first summit in four years; the
Libyan delegation walks out, angry over signs the summit will stop short of calling for breaking ties with
Israel.
*
October 22 –
Mainichi Shinbun exposes Japanese archeologist
Shinichi Fujimura as a fraud; Japanese archaeologists had based their treatises on his findings.
*
October 23 :
Madeleine Albright holds talks with North Korean dictator
Kim Jong Il.
*
October 26 -
Pakistani authorities announce that their police have found an apparently ancient mummy of a
Persian princess in the province of
Balochistan.
Iran, Pakistan and the
Taliban all claim the mummy until Pakistan announces it is a forgery on
April 17,
2001 *
October 26 - Sony's entertainment console, the
PlayStation 2, is released in North America.
*
October 31 -
Singapore Airlines Flight 006 collides with construction equipment in the
Chiang Kai Shek International Airport - 83 dead.
* November -
Iraq disarmament crisis:
Iraq rejects new U.N. Security Council weapons inspections proposals
*
November 3 - Widespread
flooding throughout
England and
Wales after days of heavy rain
*
November 7 -
U.S. presidential election, 2000:
Republican challenger
George W. Bush defeats
Democrat Vice President
Al Gore, but the final outcome is not known for over a month because of disputed votes in
Florida.
*
November 7 - A criminal gang raids the
Millennium Dome to steal The
Millennium Star diamond, but police surveillance catches them in the act.
*
November 7 -
Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the
United States Senate, becoming the first
First Lady of the United States to win public office.
*
November 11 -
Kaprun disaster,
Austria, where 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.
*
November 13 -
Richard C. Duncan presents his paper, "The Peak Of World Oil Production And The Road To The Olduvai Gorge", on the
Olduvai theory (about the collapse of the
industrial civilization), at the
Summit 2000 Pardee Keynote Symposia of the
Geological Society of America).
*
November 14 -
Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of
open source development, creating a stable
Mozilla web browser upon which it is based.
*
November 15 - A new State called
Jharkhand is formed, carving out the South
Chhota Nagpur area from
Bihar in
India.
*
November 16 -
Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting US President to visit
Vietnam.
*
November 17 - A catastrophic
landslide in Log pod Mangartom,
Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions of
SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophies in
Slovenia in the past 100 years.
*
November 17 -
Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of
Peru.
*
November 27 -
Canada - Parliamentary elections -
Jean Chrétien re-elected as Prime Minister, as the Liberal Party increases majority in House of Commons.
*
November 28 -
Ukrainian politician
Oleksander Moroz touches off the
Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing
President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the
murder of journalist
Georgiy Gongadze.
*
December 1 -
President Vicente Fox takes office.
*
December 1 -
Miss World Pageant held in London's
Millennium Dome.
Priyanka Chopra wins the title.
*
December 5 - Joseph Piscopo of
Chicago,
Illinois marries Peangjai Onsee of
Udon Thani,
Thailand, in
Las Vegas,
Nevada.
*
December 11 - The
U.S. Supreme Court, in the case of
Bush vs. Gore, stops the
Florida presidential recount, effectively giving the state, and the
U.S. Presidency, to
George W. Bush.
*
December 13 - The
Texas 7 escape from their prison unit in
Kenedy, Texas, and start a crime spree.
*
December 14 - The Texas 7 rob a
Radio Shack in
Pearland, Texas. They would use in their ensuing heist the police scanners they stole there.
*
December 24 - The Texas 7 rob a sports store in
Irving, Texas. Police officer
Aubrey Hawkins is shot dead.
*
December 28 - U.S.
retail giant
Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
*
December 30 -
Rizal Day Bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in
Metro Manila,
Philippines, within a span of a few hours killing 22 and injuring about a hundred.
*
March 15 -
Amy and Emily Walton, English actresses
*
September 6 -
Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, notable American stillborn baby girl
*
June 3 -
Sarah Rose De la rosaJanuary
*
January 2 -
Patrick O'Brian, English writer (b.
1914)
*
January 15 -
Fran Ryan, American actress (b.
1916)
*
January 15 -
Željko Ražnatović, Serbian mobster and paramilitary leader (b.
1952)
*
January 19 -
Bettino Craxi,
Prime Minister of Italy (b.
1934)
*
January 19 -
Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (b.
1913)
February
*
February 9 -
Beau Jack, American boxer (b.
1921)
*
February 10 -
Jim Varney, American actor noted for his character,
Ernest P. Worrell. (b.
1949)
*
February 11 -
Roger Vadim, French film director (b.
1928)
*
February 12 -
Jalacy "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins, American musician (b.
1929)
*
February 12 -
Tom Landry, American football coach (b.
1924)
*
February 12 -
Charles M. Schulz, American comic strip artist (b.
1921)
*
February 23 - Sir
Stanley Matthews, English footballer (b.
1915)
March
*
March 3 -
Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (b.
1904)
April
*
April 6 -
Habib Bourguiba,
President of Tunisia (b.
1903)
*
April 16 -
Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah, King of Malaysia (b.
1920)
*
April 25 -
David Merrick, American stage producer (b.
1911)
*
April 29 -
Phạm Văn Ð"ng,
Prime Minister of Vietnam (b.
1906)
May
*
May 11 -
Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (b.
1907)
*
May 12 -
Adam Petty, American race car driver (b.
1980)
*
May 14 -
Keizo Obuchi,
Prime Minister of Japan (b.
1937)
*
May 17 -
Donald Coggan,
Archbishop of Canterbury (b.
1909)
*
May 19 -
Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut {b.
1933)
*
May 20 -
Edward Bernds, American director (b.
1905)
*
May 20 -
Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist (b.
1922)
*
May 21 - Dame
Barbara Cartland, English novelist (b.
1901)
*
May 21 - Sir
John Gielgud, English actor (b.
1904)
*
May 21 -
Mark R. Hughes, American enterpreneur and founder of
Herbalife (b.
1956)
*
May 27 -
Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (b.
1921)
*
May 31 -
John Coolidge, son of American President
Calvin Coolidge (b.
1906)
June
*
June 10 -
Hafez al-Assad,
President of Syria (b.
1930)
*
June 14 -
Robert Trent Jones, English-born golf course designer (b.
1906)
*
June 16 -
Empress Kōjun of Japan (b.
1903)
*
June 17 -
Brian Statham, English cricketer (b.
1930)
*
June 18 -
Nancy Marchand, American actress who starred in
The Sopranos (b.
1928)
*
June 21 -
Alan Hovhaness, American composer (b.
1911)
July
*
July 1 -
Walter Matthau, American actor (b.
1920)
*
July 2 -
Joey Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (b.
1952)
*
July 7 -
James C. Quayle, American newspaper publisher (b.
1921)
*
July 7 -
Kenny Irwin, NASCAR driver (b.
1969)
*
July 10 -
Denis O'Conor Don,
O'Conor Don*
July 11 -
Robert Runcie,
Archbishop of Canterbury (b.
1921)
*
July 14 -
Meredith MacRae, American actress (b.
1944)
*
July 29 -
René Favaloro, Argentinian cardiologist who created the technique for coronary bypass surgery (b.
1923)
August
*
August 5 - Sir
Alec Guinness, English actor and writer (b.
1914)
*
August 6 - Sir
Robin Day, British political broadcaster (b.
1923)
*
August 9 -
John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1920)
*
August 12 -
Loretta Young, American actress (b.
1913)
*
August 21 -
Daniel Lisulo, Zambian politician (b.
1930)
*
August 25 -
Carl Barks, American cartoonist (b.
1901)
September
*
September 2 -
Elvera Sanchez, American dancer (b.
1905)
*
September 6 -
Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, notable American stillborn baby girl (b. 2000)
*
September 16 -
Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (b.
1969)
*
September 17 -
Nicole Reinhart, American cyclist (b.
1976)
*
September 19 -
Anthony Robert Klitz, British artist (b
1917)
*
September 20 -
Gherman Titov, Soviet cosmonaut (b.
1935)
*
September 23 -
Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican
Major League Baseball player (b.
1947)
*
September 25 -
R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b.
1913)
*
September 26 -
Carl Sigman, American songwriter (b.
1909)
*
September 28 -
Pierre Trudeau,
Prime Minister of Canada (b.
1919)
October
*
October 3 -
Benjamin Orr, the Cars bassist and singer (b.
1947)
*
October 4 -
Michael Smith, English-born chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1932)
*
October 5 -
Mireille Johnston, French/American cook, author, scholar and television presenter (b.
1935)
*
October 9 -
Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the
Victoria Cross (b.
1918)
*
October 11 -
Donald Dewar, Scottish politician (b.
1937)
*
October 15 -
Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1912)
*
October 21 -
Reginald Kray, leading figure in
organised crime in
London,
UK (b.
1933).
*
October 27 -
Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (b.
1929)
*
October 30 -
Steve Allen, American comedian, composer, talk show host, and author (b.
1921)
November
*
November 7 -
C Subramaniam, Indian politician (b.
1910)
*
November 11 -
Hugh Paddick, British actor (b.
1915)
*
November 22 -
Sir Cyril Astley Clarke, British physician, geneticist and entomologist, former President of the Royal College of Physicians (b.
1907)
*
November 27 -
Damilola Taylor, Murder victim (b.
1989)
*
November 28 -
Liane Haid, Austrian actress (b.
1895)
December
*
December 6 -
Werner Klemperer, German actor (b.
1920)
*
December 18 -
Kirsty MacColl, British singer-songwriter (b.
1959)
*
December 23 -
Noor Jehan, Pakistani actress and singer (b.
1926)
*
December 31 - Rabbi
Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, Israeli settler leader (b.
1966)
*
Physics -
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov,
Herbert Kroemer,
Jack Kilby*
Chemistry -
Alan J. Heeger,
Alan MacDiarmid,
Hideki Shirakawa*
Physiology or Medicine -
Arvid Carlsson,
Paul Greengard,
Eric R. Kandel*
Literature -
Gao Xingjian*
Peace -
Kim Dae Jung*
Economics -
James Heckman,
Daniel McFadden*The
Late Night with Conan O'Brien sketch "In the Year 2000", as the name implies, refers to the year 2000. (For further information on "In the Year 2000", see
Sketches from Late Night with Conan O'Brien)
*In the
Japanese
anime Neon Genesis Evangelion, The cataclysmic event Second Impact occurs, destroying over half the world's population on September 13, 2000.
*The
action game Syphon Filter takes place in this year.
*
Not From Space radio play is set during the year 2000.
*Joanna Dark, the antagonist of the
Perfect Dark series, is born this year.
* The game
The House of the Dead 2 is set in this year.
*The 2005 film,
Fun with Dick and Jane is set in this year.
*
Freeman Dyson*
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