2000 - What happened in 2000 ?

January 2000

Wednesday 05:

The 1st day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit.

Saturday 08:

The Music City Miracle a play during the NFL playoffs.

Friday 14:

David Letterman undergoes quintuple heart bypass surgery.

Sunday 16:

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

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.

Monday 07:

Bahria University is established through the Presidential Ordinance No. V of 2000 of Government of Pakistan.

Monday 14:

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

Monday 21:

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

Tuesday 29:

A seven-year-old student opens fire on a six-year-old classmate at Buell Elementary school in Mount Morris Township, Michigan. http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/29/school.shooting.02/

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.

Friday 10:

The NASDAQ stock market index peaks at 5048.62, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.

Saturday 18:

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

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

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

Saturday 13:

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

Wednesday 24:

Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.

Sunday 28:

The volcano Mount Cameroon erupts.

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.

Friday 14:

George Speight, the principal instigator of the Fiji coup of 2000, was arrested with 369 of his followers and charged with treason.

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

Tuesday 08:

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

Wednesday 09:

A Piper Navajo and a Piper Seminole collide in mid-air over a housing development in Burlington, New Jersey, killing 11

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

Tuesday 05:

Tuvalu joins the United Nations.

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.

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

Thursday 02:

The first crew arrives at the International Space Station.

Saturday 11:

In Kaprun, Austria, 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.

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

Saturday 02:

The Smashing Pumpkins play their final gig.

Wednesday 13:

The Texas 7 escape from a Texas prison and go on a crime spree.

Tuesday 19:

The Leninist Guerrilla Units attack a party office of the far-right MHP in Istanbul, Turkey. One MHP member is killed and several wounded.

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.