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This article is about the year 2000. For other uses of 2000, see 2000 (number) or 2000 (breakdancing move).

2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. In the Chinese Calendar it is the Year of the Dragon and in the western astrological calendar it is the year of Leo, the Lion. Popular culture also holds the year 2000, as the first year of the twenty first century and the third millennium. By strict interpretation of the Gregorian Calendar, however, this distinction falls to the year 2001. This is because the first century began with the year 1 (there was no year zero), the first century (or first 100 years AD) was from January 1, in the year one (AD 1) through December 31, in the year one-hundred (AD 100). The second century began on January 1, in the year one-hundred and one (101 AD). (The selection of AD 1 may be up to seven years from Jesus' birth, and January 1 is a historical choice for New Year's Day. 2000-01-01 is the day all the digits "rolled over".)

The year 2000 was also marked as:

• The International Year for a Culture of Peace.
• The World Mathematical Year.

See also Wikipedia's almanac of events for this year.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 2 Births 3 Deaths 3.1 January 3.2 February 3.3 March 3.4 April 3.5 May 3.6 June 3.7 July 3.8 August 3.9 September 3.10 October 3.11 November 3.12 December 4 Nobel prizes 5 Fictional references to the year 6 Templeton Prize 7 External links

Events

January

• January 1 - Millennium celebrations take place throughout the world, even though the new millennium will not officially 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 Federal Reserve Chairman.
• January 5-January 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 On-line 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.^{Confirmation needed}
• January 11 : The trawler Solway Harvester sinks off the Isle of Man.^{Confirmation needed}, Winnie is born
• January 14 : A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Bosnian Muslims in a Bosnian village.^{Confirmation needed}
• January 14 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 11,792.98, a level never reached before or 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, Karen militia group led by twins Johnny and Luther Htoo, take 700 hostages at a Thai hospital near the Burmese border. ^{Confirmation needed}
• January 30 - St. Louis Rams defeat the Tennessee Titans 23-16 to win the Super Bowl XXXIV. 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 murder of at least 15 of his patients out of 365 suspected victims.

February

• Election 2000: On February 1 Vice President Al Gore wins the New Hampshire Democratic primaries. 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 sabotage of German railway lines.
• February 6 - Tarja Halonen is elected the first Finnish female president. 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 - Final original Peanuts comic strip is published.
• 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

• 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 - 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, a former Black Panther, is captured after gun battle 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. Supreme Court rules the government lacked 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. Seattle's Kingdome implodes to make way for Qwest Field. American Beauty wins best picture in 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

• 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 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

• 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.
• May 28 - The volcano Mount Cameroon erupts.

June

• June 7 : U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson of the 4th circuit ordered 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 - Palace Backpackers Hostel fire in Childers, Queensland, Australia, kills 15 people.
• June 30 - During a set of the band Pearl Jam 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

• July 2 - France beat Italy 2-1 to win the 2000 European Football Championship with a golden goal. Presidential election of Mexico. Vicente Fox wins the Presidency 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. 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. Georgia Senator Paul Coverdell 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

• 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 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

• 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. The last wholly Swedish-owned arms manufacturer, Bofors, is sold to American arms manufacturer United Defense. 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 are opened in Sydney, Australia.
• September 16 - Ukrainian journalist Georgiy Gongadze is last seen alive; this day is taken as the commemoration date of his death. 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) turned violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
• September 26 - The Greek ferry Express Samina sinks off the coast of the island of Paros. 80 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

• 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 NBC's Today Show was 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 broke up after years of tension and struggle amongst band members.
• October 21 15 Arab leaders convened in Cairo, Egypt, for their first summit in four years; the Libyan delegation walked out, angry over signs the summit would 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 of his findings.
• October 23 : Madeleine Albright holds talks with North Korean dictator Kim Jung 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 in April 17 2001 - Sony's entertainment console the PlayStation 2 was released in North America on this date.
• October 31 - Singapore Airlines Flight 006 collides with construction equipment in the Chiang Kai Shek International Airport - 83 dead.

November

• 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 - 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 was formed carving out South Chhota Nagpur area from Bihar in India
• November 16 - Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting US President to visit Vietnam
• November 17 - Catastrophical 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 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

• December 1 - President Vicente Fox took office.
• December 1 - Miss World pageant held in London's Millennium Dome. Priyanka Chopra wins the title.
• 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.

Births

• March 15 - Amy and Emily Walton, English actresses
• September 6 - Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, notable American stillborn baby girl

Deaths

January

• January 2 - Patrick O'Brian, English writer (b. 1914)
• January 15 - Fran Ryan, American actress (b. 1916)
• 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 Ðồng, 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 9 - John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
• August 12 - Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913)
• August 21 - Daniel Lisulo, Zambian politican (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 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 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 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)

Nobel prizes

• Physics - Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, Jack Kilby
• Chemistry - Alan J Heeger, Alan G 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

Fictional references to the year

• 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.

Templeton Prize

• Freeman Dyson

External links

• 2000 Coin Pictures