{{yearbox| in?= | cp=20th century| c=21st century | cf=22nd century | yp1=1997 | yp2=1998 | yp3=1999 | year=2000 | ya1=2001 | ya2=2002 | ya3=2003 | dp3=1970s | dp2=1980s | dp1=1990s | d=2000s | dn1=2010s | dn2=2020s | dn3=2030s | }} {{C21YearInTopic}} ''This article is about the year 2000. For other uses of 2000, see 2000_(number) or 2000_(breakdancing_move).'' '''2000''' '''(MM)''' is a Leap_year_starting_on_Saturday of the Gregorian_calendar. Popular culture also holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st_century and the 3rd_millennium. By strict interpretation of the Gregorian Calendar, however, this distinction falls to the year 2001. This is due to the fact that the first century began with the year 1, and there does not exist a year zero. The first century (or first 100 years AD) was from January 1, in the year one (1 AD) through December 31, in the year one-hundred (100 AD). The second century began on January 1, in the year one-hundred and one (101 AD). The year 2000 is 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. ==Events== ===January=== *January_1 - Millennium celebrations take place throughout the world. Y2K passes without the serious, widespread computer failures and malfunctions that had been predicted. *January_5-January_8 - The 2000_al-Qaida_Summit *January_6 - The last remaining Pyrenean_Ibex is found dead. *January_10 - America_On-line announces an agreement to buy Time_Warner for $162 billion. This is the largest-ever corporate merger.{{noMention}} *January_11 - the armed wing of Islamic_Salvation_Front concludes its negotiations with the government for an amnesty and disbands in Algeria.{{noMention}} *January_11 - The trawler Solway Harvester sinks off the Isle_of_Man.{{noMention}} *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.{{noMention}} *January_16 - In Sacramento,_California a commercial truck carrying evaporated milk is driven into the state capitol building killing the driver.{{noMention}} *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. {{noMention}} *January_30 - St._Louis_Rams 23 defeat the Tennessee_Titans 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 murder of at least 15 of his patients out of 365 suspected victims. ===February=== * 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. * 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. ===March=== *March_1 - The Constitution_of_Finland is rewritten. *March_2 - Hans_Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC. *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. (http://dynamic.nasdaq.com/dynamic/IndexChart.asp?symbol=IXIC&desc;=NASDAQ+Composite&sec;=nasdaq&site;=nasdaq&months;=84) *March_18 - 2000 Taiwanese presidential election: Chen_Shui-bian is elected President_of_the_Republic_of_China (Taiwan). *March_20 - Jamil_Abdullah_Al-Amin, a former Black Panther, is captured after gun battle that left a sheriff's deputy dead. *March_21 - Pope_John_Paul_II began the first office visit by a Roman_Catholic Pontiff to Israel. *March_21 - US_Supreme_Court ruled the goverment 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 elected President. *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=== Image:Elián_González_Breaking_News_Photography.GIF in Miami.]] * 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 - Tuanku_Syed_Putra_ibni_Almarhum_Syed_Hassan_Jamalullail, Raja of Perlis 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_18 - Boo.com collapses due to lack of funds after six months. * May_25 - Israel withdraws IDF troops from southern Lebanon after 22 years. * May_28 - The Volcano Mount_Cameroon erupts. ===June=== *June_1 - Mark_Mendlan, professional wrestler known by his ring name "Kid_Gorgeous," is killed while wrestling at a show in New_Hampshire. *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. ===July=== Image:Concorde_crash.jpg shortly before the fatal crash on July 25.]] * July_2 - France beat Italy 2-1 to win the 2000_European_Football_Championship with a Golden_goal. * July_2 - Presidential election of Mexico. Vicente_Fox wins the Presidency as candidate of the rightist PAN (National Action Party). * July_10 - In southern Nigeria, a leaking petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging Gasoline * July_10 - Death of Denis_O_Conor_Donn, died 10th July 2000, aged 88; succeded by his son, Desmond as The O_Connor_Donn * July_18 - Alex_Salmond resigns as the leader of the Scottish_National_Party * July_25 - A Concorde carrying Air_France_Flight_4590 crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 5 on the ground. ===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_14 - The first comic of Megatokyo goes online. This Webcomic will later become one of the most popular comics on the web (in terms of page views) and spawn numerous imitators. * 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_5 - Tuvalu joins the United Nations. * September_6 - In New_York_City, the United_Nations_Millennium_Summit begins with more than 180 world leaders present. * September_6 - The last wholly Swedish-owned arms manufacturer, Bofors, is sold to American arms manufacturer United_Defense * 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_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. * 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_28 - Ariel_Sharon leads several hundred armed Israelis in a visit to the Temple Mount. Palestinian civil disorder increases into the Al-Aqsa_Intifada. * September_29 - The Long Kesh prison in Northern Ireland is closed. ===October=== * October_2 NBC Today_Show expanded it to three hours (7:00–10:00 A.M. Eastern Time/Pacific Time; 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_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_26 - Pakistani authorities announce that their police have found an apparently ancient mummy of a persian princess in the province of Baluchistan. Iran, Pakistan and the Taliban all claim the mummy until Pakistan announces it is a forgery in April_17 2001 * October_31 - Singapore_Airlines_Flight_006 collides with construction equipment in the Chiang_Kai_Shek_International_Airport - 83 dead. * October_31 - The last Jeremy clone has shut down. ===November=== Image:ElectoralCollege2000-Large-BushRed-GoreBlue.png *November - Iraq_disarmament_crisis: Iraq rejects new U.N. Security Council weapons inspections proposals *November_1 - Yugoslavia's new democratic government joined the United_Nations after eight years of U.N. ostracism under former strongman Slobodan_Milosevic. *November_3 - Widespread Flooding throughout England and Wales after days of heavy rain *November_4 - President_Clinton vetoed a bill that would have criminalized the leaking of government secrets. *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 version 6.0 is launched following two years of Open_source development creating a stable Mozilla Web_browser upon which it is based *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 - Mexico - Vicente_Fox becomes the first opposition President to take office since Francisco_I._Madero in 1911. He wins the Presidency as candidate of the rightist PAN (National Action Party). * 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. ===Unknown Date=== * Limited reintroduction of routinely armed police in the UK for the first time since 1936. * Scientists at University_of_Szeged's laboratory were first in the world to produce Artificial_heredity_material. * Millie_I._Webb elected president of Mothers_Against_Drunk_Driving. ==Births== *February_23 - Max_&_Sam_Christy, American actors *March_15- Amy_and_Emily_Walton, English actresses *April_25 - Jacob_&_Joshua_Rips, American actors *October_6 - Amanda Pace, American actress *October_20 - Cooper and Oliver_Guynes, American actors *November_8 - Madison and Marissa_Poer, actresses ==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_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) ===April=== *April_6 - Habib_Bourguiba, President_of_Tunisia (b. 1903) *April_16 - Tuanku_Syed_Putra_ibni_Almarhum_Syed_Hassan_Jamalullail, 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_27 - Maurice_Richard, Canadian hockey player (b. 1921) ===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 (b. 1928) * June_21 - Alan_Hovhaness, American composer (b. 1911) ===July=== * July_1 - Walter_Matthau, American actor (b. 1920) * July_7 - James_C._Quayle, American newspaper publisher (b. 1921) * July_11 - Robert_Runcie, Archbishop_of_Canterbury (b. 1921) * July_14 - Meredith_MacRae, American actress (b. 1944) ===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_21 - Daniel_Lisulo, Zambian politican (b. 1930) *August_25 - Carl_Barks, American cartoonist (b. 1901) ===September=== * September_2 - Elvera_Sanchez, dancer (b. 1905) * September_16 - Georgiy_Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969) * 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_4 - Michael Smith, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932) *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_28 - Liane_Haid, Austrian actress (b. 1895) ===December=== * December_6 - Werner_Klemperer, German actor (b. 1920) * December_23 - Noor_Jehan, Indian and Pakistani actress (b. 1926 or 1929) * 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 ==Templeton_Prize== {{commonscat|2000}} * Freeman_Dyson * Af:2000 Ar:2000 An:2000 Ast:2000 Bg:2000 Zh-min-nan:2000_nî Be:2000 Bs:2000 Ca:2000 Cv:2000 Cs:2000 Cy:2000 Da:2000 De:2000 Et:2000 El:2000 Als:2000 Es:2000 Eo:2000 Eu:2000 Fo:2000 Fr:2000 Fy:2000 Ga:2000 Gl:2000 Ko:2000년 Hi:२००० Hr:2000 Io:2000 Id:2000 Ia:2000 Is:2000 It:2000 He:2000 Kn:೨೦೦೦ Ka:2000 Csb:2000 Kw:2000 Ku:2000 La:2000 Lt:2000 Lb:2000 Li:2000 Hu:2000 Mk:2000 Mi:2000 Ms:2000 Nl:2000 Nds:2000 Ja:2000年 No:2000 Nn:2000 Os:2000 Pl:2000 Pt:2000 Ro:2000 Ru:2000 Sq:2000 Sh:2000 Scn:2000 Simple:2000 Sk:2000 Sl:2000 Sr:2000 Fi:2000 Sv:2000 Tl:2000 Tt:2000 Te:2000 Th:พ.ศ._2543 Vi:2000 Tr:2000 Uk:2000 Wa:2000 Zh:2000年