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''This article is about the year 2000. For other uses of 2000, see
2000 (number) or
2000 (breakdancing Move) .''
('''
MM ''') is 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
21st Century and the
3rd 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, 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). (However, in any case the placing of AD 1 is off by up to seven years, and January 1 is an arbitrary choice for New Year's Day, thereby making 1st January 2001 just as random a selection. 1-1-2000 is in any case the day all the digits rolled over.)
The year 2000 was also marked as:
See also
Wikipedia's Almanac of events for this year.
- January 1 - Millennium celebrations take place throughout The World . Y2K passes without the serious, widespread computer failures and malfunctions that had been predicted.
- January 3-10 : Israel and Syria hold inconclusive peace talks.
- 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 Flight 77 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 .
- 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 Bosnian Muslims in a Bosnian village.
- 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.
- 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.
shortly before the fatal crash on July 25.]]
- 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 Milošević .
- November 3 - Widespread Flood ing 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.
- 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 - Federal Parliamentary Elections in Canada - Jean Chrétien is 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 .
- 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 )
- 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 )
