2000 - What happened in 2000 ?

January 2000

Saturday 08:

The Music City Miracle a play during the NFL playoffs.

Sunday 16:

In Sacramento, California a commercial truck carrying evaporated milk is driven into the state capitol building, killing the driver.

Wednesday 26:

XHTML 1.0 becomes a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendation.

Sunday 30:

In a dramatic finish to Super Bowl XXXIV, the St. Louis Rams defeat the Tennessee Titans, 23-16.

Monday 31:

An Alaska Airlines MD-83 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Malibu, California killing 131.

February 2000

Friday 04:

German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion in connection with sabotage of German railway lines.

Sunday 13:

The last original Peanuts comic strip appears in newspapers a day after Charles M. Schulz died.

Monday 14:

The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker entered orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.

Tuesday 15:

Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails.

Monday 21:

David Letterman returns to The Late Show over a month after having an emergency quintuple heart bypass surgery.

March 2000

Wednesday 01:

Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC.

Wednesday 08:

A collision between two Tokyo Metro trains kills 5 people.

Saturday 18:

2000 Taiwanese presidential election: Chen Shui-bian is elected President of the Republic of China.

Monday 20:

2000 – Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after a gun battle that leaves a Georgia sheriff's deputy dead.

Sunday 26:

Presidential elections are held in Russia, and Vladimir Putin is elected President.

April 2000

Monday 03:

United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.

Saturday 08:

A U.S. Marine Corps V-22 Osprey crashes during landing at Marana, Arizona killing 19.

Wednesday 19:

An Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 crashes near Davao International Airport, killing 131.

Saturday 22:

The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom.

May 2000

Tuesday 02:

Bill Clinton announces that GPS access equivalent to the U.S. military would be available for regular citizens.

Wednesday 03:

The sport of Geocaching begins with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS are posted on Usenet.

Friday 05:

Planets in the Solar System align

Friday 12:

The Tate Modern art gallery opens in London.

Saturday 13:

In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage.

June 2000

Thursday 01:

The multilateral Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is signed.

Tuesday 13:

President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, ruler of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.

Monday 19:

Datapoint, the company that commissioned the Intel 8008 microprocessor, sells its European operations and changes its name to Dynacore.

Wednesday 21:

Section 28 repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.

July 2000

Saturday 01:

Vermont's civil unions law goes into effect.

Sunday 02:

Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) after more than 70 years of continuous rule from the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI).

Saturday 08:

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth book in J.K. Rowling's hugely popular Harry Potter series, is published.

Monday 10:

EADS, the world's second largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.

Thursday 20:

The leaders of Salt Lake City's bid to win the 2002 Winter Olympics are indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, fraud, and racketeering.

August 2000

Sunday 06:

The Roman Catholic Church's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, under Prefect Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, publishes Dominus Iesus, notable for its lack of the filioque clause in the Latin text of the Nicene Creed.

Tuesday 08:

Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.

Saturday 12:

The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy exploded and sank in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.

Wednesday 23:

Nicaragua becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. This essentially deprecated the Buenos Aires Convention treaty, because as of this date, all members of the BA Convention were also signatories to Berne.

Sunday 27:

Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed.

September 2000

Wednesday 06:

In New York City, the United Nations Millennium Summit begins with more than 180 world leaders present.

Friday 08:

The Republic of Albania officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Albania.

Monday 11:

Activists protest against the World Economic Forum meeting in Melbourne, Australia.

Saturday 16:

Ukrainian journalist Georgiy Gongadze is last seen alive.

Thursday 28:

The Al-Aqsa Intifada begins after the visit of Ariel Sharon to the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

October 2000

Monday 02:

The science fiction TV-series Andromeda premiered, it ended on May 13, 2005.

Thursday 05:

Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milo?evi?.

Thursday 12:

In Aden, Yemen, the USS Cole is badly damaged by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crewmembers and wounding at least 39

Monday 16:

2000 - InuYasha debuts in Japan

Tuesday 31:

2000 - The last Multics machine was shut down.

November 2000

Tuesday 07:

Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first First Lady of the United States to win public office.

Tuesday 14:

Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of open source development.

Wednesday 15:

A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people

Tuesday 28:

The eighth drop fell from a funnel full of tar pitch in the University of Queensland pitch drop experiment

Thursday 30:

The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 came into force in the UK.

December 2000

Tuesday 12:

The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore, deciding the presidential election of 2000.

Thursday 14:

The Texas 7 rob a Radio Shack in Pearland, Texas. They stole police scanners that would be used in their following infamous heist.

Saturday 16:

NASA announces that there is an ocean beneath Jupiter moon Ganymede's icy surface.

Thursday 28:

U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.

Saturday 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.