2000 This page is about the year 2000. See 2000 AD for the UK comic book, Number 2000 for other uses. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar), and also: The International Year for a Culture of Peace. The World Mathematical Year. 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 5-8 - The 2000 al-Qaida Summit 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 trawler Solway Harvester sinks off the Isle of Man. January 14 - A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village. January 16 - In Sacramento, California a commercial truck carrying evaporated milk is driven into the state capitol building killing the driver. February February 6 - Tarja Halonen is elected the first Finnish female president. February 13 - Final original Peanuts comic strip is published. February 29 - This leap year day is the last in a turn of the century year until February 29, 2400. 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. March March 1 - the Constitution of Finland is rewritten March 1 - Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC 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. May 18 - Boo.com collapses due to lack of funds after six months March 20 - Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther, is captured after gun battle that left a sheriff's deputy dead March 26 - Presidential elections in Russia, Vladimir Putin elected President. March 03 - America's Cup 2000 Won by Team New Zealand. Prada Challenge 2000 lost 0-5 in a best of 9 races. April April 1 - Japanese prime minister Obuchi Keizo suffers a stroke and falls into a coma. April 3 - Microsoft antitrust case: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors April 5 - Mori Yoshiro 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 Hirohito, Emperor of Japan. 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 - Computer pioneer Datapoint Corporation files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. May 12 - The Tate Modern opens in London. May 25 - Israel withdraws IDF troops from southern Lebanon after 22 years. June June 10 - The New Jersey Devils def the Dallas Stars 4 games to 2 to win the Stanley Cup in 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, 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 July 2 - France beat Italy 2-1 at the final of the 2000 European Football Championship. July 10 - In southern Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging gasoline July 18 - Alex Salmond resigns as the leader of the Scottish National Party July 25 - A Concorde supersonic passenger jet crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 5 on the ground. August August 8 - Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor. August 12 - Russian Submarine Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea. All 118 men aboard die. September 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 15- The 2000 Summer Olympics are opened in Sydney, Australia. September 28 - Ariel Sharon leads several hundred armed Israelis in a visit to the Temple Mount, provoking an increase in Palestinian civil disorder which developed into the Al-Aqsa_Intifada. September 29 - HMP Maze Prison in Northern Ireland is closed. October October 4 - President Slobodan Milosevic 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 22 – Mainichi Shinbun exposes Japanese archeologist Shinichi Fujimura as a fraud. October 31 - Singapore Airlines Flight 6 collides with the construction equipment in the Chiang Kai Shek International Airport - 83 dead. October 31 - The last Multics machine is shut down. 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 16 - Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting US President to visit Vietnam 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 December 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 the police scanners they stole in their ensuing heist. December 24 - The Texas 7 robs 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. Unknown Date Limited reintroduction of routinely armed police in the UK for the first time since 1936. Mexico - Vicente Fox becomes the first opposition President to take power since Francisco I. Madero in 1911. He wins the Presidency as candidate of the rightist PAN (National Action Party). Births May 20 - Leo Blair, son of the Rt Hon Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Cherie Booth QC. Deaths January-April January 19 - Bettino Craxi, 65, Italian prime minister (1983-1987) January 19 - Hedy Lamarr, actress February 9 - Beau Jack, 78, boxer February 11 - Roger Vadim, 72, French movie director February 12 - Charles M. Schulz, 77, creator of the Peanuts comic strip February 12 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins, 70, American rock musician February 12 - Tom Landry, American football coach April 6 - Habib Bourguiba, president of Tunisia (1957-1997) April 14 - Wilf Mannion, 81, English footballer (b. 1918) April 16 - Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, Raja of Perlis and former 3rd Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia. April 25 - David Merrick, producer April 29 - Phạm Văn Ðồng, Prime Minister of North Vietnam from 1954 through 1976, and was Prime Minister of reunified Vietnam from 1976 until he retired in 1986 (b. 1906) May-August May 14 - Obuchi Keizo, Japanese prime minister May 19 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut May 20 - Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist (b. 1922) May 21 - Sir John Gielgud, 96, British actor May 21 - Barbara Cartland, romance novel author May 27 - Maurice Richard, hockey player (b. 1921) June 10 - Hafez al-Assad, president of Syria (1971-2000) June 18 - Nancy Marchand, actress (The Sopranos) (b. 1928) July 1 - Walter Matthau, American actor July 30 - Bertil Karlberg, Swedish politician August 5 - Sir Alec Guinness, British actor August 25 - Carl Barks, illustrator of Donald Duck September-December September 2 - Elvera Sanchez, Puertorican dancer September 20 - Gherman Titov, Cosmonaut September 25 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (born 1913) September 28 - Pierre Trudeau, prime minister of Canada (1968-1979 and 1980-1984) October 11 - Donald Dewar, First Minister of the Scottish Parliament October 27 - Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929) October 30 - Steve Allen, comedian, composer, talk show host, author November 11 - Hugh Paddick, British actor December 31 - Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, Extreme settler leader (shot in battle) Computing The New Year, people, companies, countries and much of the world was fearing the worst, planes falling out of the sky, electricity grids and essential services collapsing. What people feared was not the apocalypse but the Y2K bug - a computer problem that many feared would result in many computers not recognising the new year. The more important problem for computer-related companies this year, however, was the dotcom collapse that started in February and lasted well into 2001. Nobel Prizes Physics - Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, Jack Kilby Chemistry - Alan J Heeger, Alan G MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa Medicine - Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, Eric R. 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